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As a programmer I don't really agree with this article as I was practically working remote even when I was in the office, but I also can't deny that my knees have been getting progressively more achy. Likely because I am sitting for longer periods than if I were in the office. And sporadic back pain, but I also sleep on my stomach and that puts all kinds of strain and compression on joints over time.

I guess can see that a switch to WFH for non-tech employees could be stressful, but honestly I'm way less stressed than when going into the office.

Also I have no idea how the researchers came up with the 10-15 years that working from home has aged our bodies. Maybe that is talking about people that were previously used to walking around more in the office?

I have so many iffy IoT devices I've been trying to pick apart the firmware for years now. this may be a game changer for me.

I'm kinda surprised people here aren't as excited for this as I am.

The article mainly talks about bringing new people to their platform, but another factor for most of these companies is all that juicy new viewer habit data they can harvest.

Dunno if it's my ADHD or what, but I've been using subtitles ever since streaming became a thing. And even more so after I had a kid. I basically cannot hear without subtitles.

In my experience, most single person only interviews are done by someone who is probably not capable of giving a good enough explanation. And multi round interviews with several current employees would require a lot of extra work they simply don't have time for.

This also gives the current employer the benefit of doing nothing preemptively. It puts the onus on the employee to go through all this extra effort just to get the match. I'm sure plenty of employees take it too but shouldn't.

Elon is acting like the weird kid in school who accidentally did something that kinda made him popular and thought he could do it over and over but everyone just got tired of it after the first couple times

I see a ton of people talk about how difficult blender is/was to use, but what I found funny is some of those same people use VIM..

Blender took me almost the exact same amount of time to learn as 3ds, but honestly once I got used to blender, I actually find 3ds harder and more confusing to use and actually changed a bunch of keybindings to more closely match blender.

My kid definitely liked it. I love anything CG so I'm extremely interested want to watch again knowing blender was 100% used.

But you overlooked the part that makes this complicated and sparks this whole debate. It's free to get and free to modify, but can you sell what you modified.

Yeah the analogy I use is "Feel free to use my garage and tools any time you like, just don't take my stuff and sell it"

Unclear about "don't use my tools for monetery gain"

I think a lot of people get confused about that. There are hundreds (probably more) of paid software that offers it's source code up. You can use it to learn from or make improvements if you want but must pay if you want to actually use it.

One example is I was recently messing around with Space Engineers code. Keen software gives opens it up but doesn't mean you can just download the code and get the game for free

This argument has been going on for a while, but apparently exploded recently.

Im so conflicted about this. I feel like my left brain is fighting my right brain. Or mom and dad are fighting again.

On one hand, I have been a huge blender fan for over a decade and personally would give away anything I developed for it. Even if it were high quality. I am all for this way of doing it. Kind of forcing a level playing field no matter if you are AAA studio or some broke but talented college student making 3d models.

On the other hand I totally get how those add-on devs feel being officially told "Thanks for all your hard work, but if someone takes your add-on and gives it away, it's fine." - These add-on devs can charge users to download the add-on, not for the add-on. I used to believe it wasnt right to charge for the ability to download a 'free' add-on, but after seeing how high quality some of the addons are, I completely feel they deserve some compensation for improving blender even more.

Basically, I don't even know what's right anymore.

It is if you take into account the fact that the people buying one for a product are most likely going to buy more for other products too.

The very few people I know with them have 5 or more. That adds up. Especially considering you could just modify one to handle any number of products.

Whenever I see those pointless uses of IoT, I pretty much just think of the SkyMall catalog. Lots of neat things that nobody will ever really use.

The term is 'cold calling' and it's a pretty standard thing for most sales people to do. It sucks and it takes a lot of effort but it does pay off sometimes.

The tricky part for freelancers doing this is that most developers don't have that sales type mentality. It has worked for me in the past but it's definitely something I've recognized at not being good at

I have a paid account and only use protonmail for business and personal emails and use Gmail for anything else. 95% of the emails I get are junk anyway so I just try to separate that even more.

It seems most people care more about spam filters and search functionality than security. Which is kind of a downfall of protonmail because it probably will never have high adoption because if you want good search and spam filters then it means your emails need to be scanned by the servers.

Most people have multiple email accounts anyway, so why not use protonmail for the important emails and another service for junk account signups and everything else?

The title made produce a rare, audible 'whaaat?' when i read it. But looking more, I don't believe it's as simple as they literally own all of RadioShack now. I think it would be a terrible idea for them to do that this late in the stage.

I'm curious though. What's the root domain going to be if this one is lite? Being a .io I'd like to think it will be an api site or something?

Hah I do the exact same thing. Actually, out of spite I go to foxnews ;-)

I don't know much about it but they have 8.5k stars on github so it seems fairly popular.

Initially I actually thought his working directory was swordfish.. I'd make a terrible hacker.

I was kinda more thinking the other person kicked a garbage can or chair and it banged the authors knee or something. Had similar happen at a start up years ago and seems more plausible than being attacked.

If he were attacked like I think he wanted it to sound then a lawsuit would probably get him the money he wanted

The vagueness of that part reminded me of a time I worked at a small startup several years ago, and the owner got angry about something and kicked a chair which partly hit a couple of us. The damage was pretty mild but one of us did get banged in the knee so he limped slightly for a couple days.

I can only really imagine something similar happened in this case too

Ive been looking for more 'technical skeptic' posts about cash-grab cryptos, so this author better post more articles like this.

Got tired of hearing about some new amazing, world changing crypto coming out and then spending hours researching only to end up with a bad taste in my mouth. Both for the community and the tech itself.

I think a lot of people, me included, play on both sides of this fence too often. Where we shun companies that host this content, but will also blame them for restricting freedom of speech if they remove it.

I definitely see both sides to this argument, but how extreme does a website have to be in order for it to be OK by everyone for companies to remove the content? If it were my company, I wouldn't want to be associated with content like this either. So if it's lose-lose either way, I would probably do the same thing as these companies.

Totally agree. It was years ago when I found their blog post about hexagonal grid generation and it was the most informative one I had seen anywhere. Still is today. Plus the interactive parts give the sections so much more meaning.

I often find myself reading posts on their site just for the heck of it.

I definitely agree. And for some reason your comment reminded me of something a sales guy who used to work for a fairly large online company told me. He said the way they see it, is that it's similar to a company sending out kiosks to a bunch of different stores to offer samples. They aren't really trying to make a ton of sales at those kiosks, they are mainly after the demographic info about the customers who seemed most interested, and the stores they got the most hits at.

While I see what he was getting at, I think it is a somewhat weak analogy because if those kiosk people were like online ads, then on top of just keeping track of visible statistics like age, race, gender, etc. They would be also snooping around your purse or wallet, tracking where you came from, car you drive, etc. and then bundling all that data from all the kiosks to sell to some other company for marketing purposes.

I never really felt like arguing back with him because he's a sales person and I'm terrible at that, but it really didn't surprise me too much that they would think its just as innocuous as the Pepperidge Farm guy offering cheese samples at a grocery store.

Oh yeah, I definitely know people do. There wouldn't be so much advertising out there if visitors didn't click them.

I'm just generally a little overly suspicious about ads because they can be 'phishy'. That and, like others have commented already, the ads i see are for things I recently bought so I have no need to buy them again soon.

It seems so strange to me that there is such an ever increasing push to get people to click ads when I can't tell you a single person I know that ever actually clicks one on purpose. If I see an ad for something I just search it instead because I don't trust ads..

Except for one time years ago when I saw an ad on my own site for a drawing tablet and getting my account suspended for cheating even though I actually bought the tablet. Decided then I'm never gonna do ads on any of my sites.

I think the advertisers care more about about manipulating companies to buy ads than actually increasing that companies sales.