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At least now they're not exceeding their bandwidth cap ;)

If you're able to share, I'm curious what you mean by "Apple RTO policy has only gotten stupider"? Isn't it still 3 days in-office (or 4 days for some teams)?

One possible reason is that Apple wants to build more fintech products that they still need a banking partner for, and don't want to launch anything new with Goldman since they know the partnership hasn't worked out. So it may just be easier to start the process to find a new partner so you don't slow down product launches.

Source: pure speculation

Easily one of the most useful and versatile Mac apps out there.

Given how personally you've taken that off-hand comment, I'm more inclined to believe the OP than your reply.

IANAL so I don't fully understand the legal merits of this case. That said between Nuvia and Rivos it seems like the pattern is pretty clear: if you want to eventually try to do your own chip design startup, don't work at Apple.

It's not grandstanding, I only brought up social life because someone mentioned social isolation from remote work. That is a real problem and I can empathize with it, but the solution isn't forcing RTO on co-workers to force them to hang out with you.

Not everyone is a single tech employee who lives alone. Some (in fact, many) people have a social life outside the office where not going to an office doesn't result in eternal solitude.

My point is that there are many other, more fulfilling ways to get human company than forcing your co-workers to commute to the office everyday. Besides, for the many people who live with a family/kids/partner, WFH lets them spend even more time with them. The solution for people whose only source of social interaction is the office is to develop a social life outside of the office, not to force everyone else into RTO.

But some people need to be around other people more or less all the time to be happy.

That's fine, but no one is obligated to spend time with them. They need to be more convincing or charismatic then to get people to spend more time with them. "If you don't endure a commute to spend time with me, I won't be happy" won't cut it.

For me the most magical moment of my career was when I started working remotely permanently.

Just wondering, have you told your friends that you notice this about them? If so what was their reaction like?

There are too many companies offering fully remote for it to be even worth interviewing for a non-remote job. At this point I'll happily accept 10-15% lower total compensation if it means fully remote.

Is C++ slow even if you don't use any language features that add runtime overhead, e.g. runtime exceptions?

I was also skeptical but I'm increasingly becoming convinced it may be worth $3,500 as well.

One thing I'd note is I think people are over-estimating how quickly the price will come down, especially if the initial demand is strong. I don't think there will be a version of Vision Pro (or Vision Air?) that is $2k or less for at least another few years. Maybe the 2nd gen of Vision Pro will come down in price by a few hundred dollars, but again maybe not if the demand is strong even at $3,500.

If everyone is living a life of leisure

Isn't that the sign of a good economy then?

Can you please explain the subtle difference in more detail? Do you mean something like people having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet?

Yup I agree, there's always the possibility of things turning south. I guess I just have more subjective confidence in the American economy than it sounds like you do.

Do you mind clarifying - do you mean 4 incomes for the same number of people? i.e. are you or people you know taking multiple jobs, is that what "4 incomes" means?

The original post was about the US stock market, but I guess should have still clarified that I was talking about a US recession. I don't follow the Europe economy as closely

You conviniently left out all the good parts of the economy: unemployment is at all-time lows, inflation is down (but still not at 2%), consumer spending is at an all-time high.

We obviously could still have a recession in the future but (a) we're not in one right now and (b) the economy has done much, much better than people were expecting this time last year.

Hybrid is the worst of both worlds. You need to still live close to an office and commute 3x a week, but then you also need to have a proper office/desk at your own home for the remaining 2 days. I'd rather just go in to the office everyday and optimize my living situation for commuting, or (much much preferred) just work remotely every day with occassional company-wide meetups.

Personally, I wouldn't even interview with a company that was hybrid, even if that's unfortunately becoming more and more common.

virtually every study of happiness shows a correlation to healthy relationships in your life

These studies never make sense because there's no way to objectively measure happiness, especially not in a way where you can compare two people's self-reported levels of "happiness". The word happiness itself is already is an over-loaded term that everyone has their own definition of. (At best you can measure proxy outcomes like measuring health based on relationships, but there are so many confounding variables it's hard to narrow it down.)

Is "good feelings" just a euphemism for sex here?

But a lot of the demo videos showed people sitting alone wearing the headset, which is even more isolating than both of the above.

If you install yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) it has a feature that can completely disable spaces switching animations - but it does require partially disabling SIP (worth it for yabai, IMO).

The point is that if you view them as anything other than an economic relationship, you'll be emotionally spurned by layoffs like this article alludes to. Also, the economic relationship is between that of employee and employer, not as much about relationships between co-workers.

Yes, every part of the economy is indirectly connected. Profits are also democratised via income and capital gains tax, even if it's not at a high enough level that people feel good about.

The main one that's pretty much impossible to find an alternative to is YouTube (if you're into watching videos on the Internet). Tons of creators/channels only upload their content on YouTube and nowhere else.

Probably because they pretty consistently had the highest total compensation packages for engineers.