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  1. Re:Distributed can work, does save time on Remote Work Works, a New Google Study Finds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "But that cost savings is more than overwhelmed by the increased costs of delayed communication, decrease in communication fidelity, and lost opportunities for communication"

    As I'm sitting 3000+ miles away from my companys central office, I have to disagree.

    I travel back to the central office a few times a year and my productivity (quantitatively) actually goes down while back in the office. It's too easy for my boss to walk into my office and derail me with a "quick" question or estimating a project, etc.

    Whereas when I'm n+ miles away, these derailments are scheduled and known, mostly, ahead of time. Thus allowing me to plan my productivity around it.

    Also, when I'm back in the central office, I communicate with my co-workers/clients EXACTLY the same way I do when I'm n+ miles away. Zoom, GTM, Hangouts, Slack, Skype, w/e.

    I typically work when I want to, although I gravitate around 9 - 5 eastern, regardless of where I am in the world. This allows me some personal freedom and a hard schedule for clients that don't need to know I'm where ever I am.

  2. It's beyond the end of March and I'm happily using Inbox.

    This whole EOL for Inbox better of been an April fools joke.

  3. Re:Wait a minute... on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    How?

  4. Re:You would (probably) be surprised on Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Permission to use content you create and share: You own the content you create and share on Facebook and the other Facebook Products you use, and nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content.

    https://www.facebook.com/terms...

    I hate facebook as much as the next guy, but the OP is a bit misinformed, or facebook has updated their terms

  5. Re:Actual Link to Register Article on All Intel Chips Open To New 'Spoiler' Non-Spectre Attack (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    And what should've been the summary:

    The researchers – Saad Islam, Ahmad Moghimi, Ida Bruhns, Moritz Krebbel, Berk Gulmezoglu, Thomas Eisenbarth and Berk Sunar – have found that "a weakness in the address speculation of Intel’s proprietary implementation of the memory subsystem" reveals memory layout data, making other attacks like Rowhammer much easier to carry out.

    The researchers also examined Arm and AMD processor cores, but found they did not exhibit similar behavior.

    "We have discovered a novel microarchitectural leakage which reveals critical information about physical page mappings to user space processes," the researchers explain.

    "The leakage can be exploited by a limited set of instructions, which is visible in all Intel generations starting from the 1st generation of Intel Core processors, independent of the OS and also works from within virtual machines and sandboxed environments."

    Also, in before f**k JavaScript. The researchers just chose to use this has a means to demonstrate the weakness in Intel processors, not a weakness in JS.

  6. Slashdot too. I'm sitting high and mighty with an "Excellent" karma rating. Whatever that means.

  7. Re:Exploited on Some Uber, Lyft Drivers To Get Stock in IPOs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    *Reads news article detailing how increasing productivity might result in a bonus*

    *Increases productivity*

    *waits*

    *waits*

    *waits* ....

    *waits*

    *get's an extra $100 in the mail with a sticker that says "Good Job!"*

  8. Re:More RAM waste for benchmark "wins" on Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I back this up.

    Pi-Hole regularly blocks between 60 - 80% of my internet traffic with daily browsing, and down to about 40 - 50% when I'm working.

    It definitely increases browsing speed, page performance, resource usage, etc

  9. Re:$11,500 a pop on Google Launches New .dev TLD (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    $11,500 + $12/year

    New business model: Let's come up with new TLD's to force companies to buy their namesake in this new TLD to prevent squatters or miscommunication/disinformation!

  10. Re:Wtf is wrong with developers on The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I've seen a few open source projects with a roadmap and the new upcoming/requested features and a donate button next to each one. Once a feature hits a threshold, they start developing it.

    It's a decent model, I'd be curious how GitHub etc helps to maintain this environment though. I imagine GitHub will turn into a kickstarter-esque platform for open source.

  11. Re:and the USPS on Amazon Quietly Confirms It Is Competing With UPS and FedEx (businessinsider.nl) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, applaud Amazon for figuring out how to exploit the working class directly. GJ.

  12. Re:Uber valuation is insanity on 'The Fundamental Problem With Silicon Valley's Favorite Growth Strategy' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll call you an Uber for Fyre Festival

  13. Re:Props when deserved on Gmail is Now Blocking 100 Million Extra Spam Messages Every Day With AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Clarification, 6 years, but it feels like a decade.

  14. Props when deserved on Gmail is Now Blocking 100 Million Extra Spam Messages Every Day With AI (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Use gmail for work for decade+, spam has certainly never been a problem.

    Although, it does seem to be a bit aggressive sometimes.

  15. Re:Put your hatred aside, and think on Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I believe the real fear of NK is that these nuclear developments will be exported either purposefully or "accidentally" to radical groups.

    Not that NK will launch a first strike itself, but will provide the means for other groups to initiate global carnage.

  16. Re:More like jacked up prices alter supply/demand on Apple Says Profits Were Flat, Citing Slump In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is an aspirational product. It has to be expensive or it wouldn't be so desirable.

    Nearly a billion people have iPhones, if you think it's an aspirational product then you're just not paying attention.

    How long do you think it will take before what s/he wrote sinks in...

    I'll help... Why do you think nearly a billion people have iPhones?

  17. Re:What problem is being addressed? on All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters Could Lead To a Faster, More Secure Global Quantum Internet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nah. Your quantum endpoint is the man in the middle. I'm talking about the specific case where you have no authentication, remember?

    Wouldn't the act of just using quantum communication BE the act of authentication? I don't think quantum communication works in a "http" mode

  18. Re:60 billion / 450,000 on Apple Spent $60B on 9,000 American Suppliers in 2018, Supporting 450,000 Jobs (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ha! That's 60$ billion TOTAL COST, not just labor.

    I'd say 2 - 3/5ths of that is going towards labor.

    So anywhere between $50 - $80k

  19. Interesting on Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    It would be very interesting if they could collect samples of this ice and compare it to Earth's.

    It's been believed that water came here via comets, I wonder if those are the same comets that made up those "pure ice" rings

  20. All of this is because Trump's ego doesn't let him admit he is anywhere near in the wrong.

    https://assets.donaldjtrump.co...

    "It's an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-
    10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year
    after year."

    Trump cannot admit that he cannot get Mexico to pay for it.
    Trump cannot admit that in reality, we, Americans, will be paying for it.

    Trump literally cannot accept the reality that he himself has created.

    If you still support Trump in this matter, you are also the problem.
    If you still support Trump in this matter, then you are giving a screaming 3 year old exactly what he wants. What do you think will happen when that 3 year old wants something else?

  21. EXPORT IT on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Living overseas, I cannot find American Cheese or a decent Cheddar ANYWHERE!

    Send all that Land o Lakes American and Cabot Cheddar Cheese overseas! I need to show these locals how Americans get fat (and what good, stick-to-your-ribs mac-n-cheese is)!

  22. Re:Is There Any Chance Of Sentient Beings? on Astronomers Discover 13 New Fast Radio Bursts From Deep Space (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This sounds more akin to a neutron star spinning on an axis - especially "the repeater".

    Who's to say this isn't just another type of neutron star to add to the list of pulsars and magnetars.

    But the notion of sentient origin is always fascinating. I'm glad we observe this slice of time

  23. Re:How accurate were their past lists? on Ars Technica's 2019 'Deathwatch' List Includes Essential and 'Facebook Management' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you continue with your baseball reference, you're right a .500 average is not exactly stellar, its amazing.

  24. Re:There's no such country as Kurdistan on Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government (kurdistan24.net) · · Score: 2

    Quite literally... In this case, two people, british and french, who really had no clue as to what they were doing, have been shaping the world for almost a century. (source)

  25. Re: Curious how they tell legitimate from illegiti on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ^ This.

    If all I need to do is send a XHR request for a few to hundreds of KB to render what is required, why reload the page and all the dependencies and images (let's ignore caching for argument sake). Sure, the front-load of a few MB for the whole application is a few seconds, but the rest of your experience is immediate and responsive.

    Don't you wait for Photoshop, Word, Outlook, whatever-game-you-play etc to finish loading before you start using it?

    This idea works well for pages where I will be visiting for hours on end, Inbox (stb gmail...), work websites, music, calendars, forums, whatever. The catch being the developers need to know how garbage collection works.

    And then in that case, you take control of the back button so it doesn't break the experience.