podgib's comments

> or equivalent Dall-e image generation

Copilot on windows and android can do Dall-E image generation; I don't see why it wouldn't be able to on iOS

It would be hilarious if the European Commission forced Google to add a browser choice screen to Chrome OS like they did on Windows ;)

> Is it worth the price of mass daily commuting on the wealth and mental health of employees, and on the planet?

That's very context specific. In many cities, employees commuting by public transport to a central location, rather than all individually heating/cooling their houses, is a plus for the planet and wealth of employees. For many people (including me) it's also good for mental health.

> the cuts expected this month will be the first to affect tech departments, including engineers, which has surprised employees

Huh? The earlier layoffs definitely affected tech. I know of a bunch of former colleagues in engineering roles that were laid off in the first round. Sure, recruiting was affected more, which makes sense when hiring was reduced to almost zero, but this is very much not the first time engineers will be included in layoffs.

I was a tour guide in Oxford while I was doing my PhD there. This was always my favourite story to tell. It's a part of history that is simultaneously so foreign and yet so relatable today.

That's exactly what I did. I also switched to a new browser, email provider, and search engine. Haven't looked back since :)

Yeah, if my coworkers aren't in the office, then going to the office is just remote work with a commute.

Obviously forcing people that want to work remotely to come in isn't great either though. That's why I'm hoping that companies will choose one path or the other, and people can self-select into companies with their preferred working arrangement

Not at all. When looking for my current job, having some in-person time was one of my top criteria. I was initially trying to find something 100% on-site, but that proved pretty hard to find.

I'm currently doing in-office 2 days per week, which isn't great, but it's less draining than fully remote at least.

I'm hoping that over the next few years things will normalise into some companies being fully remote and some fully on-site, rather than everywhere being "hybrid" (ie. bad for everyone) now. If it stays as it is I can't see myself working in tech much longer.

As a side note, I've found many job boards that have a "remote" filter, but not many that allow you to filter for "no remote".

No, you can use a quest 2 to play HL: Alyx on your PC via Oculus Link or Air Link. In that case, all the rendering is happening on your PC, and the quest is just a display. The Quest 2 can't run HL: Alyx itself.

Tempted to give this a try instead of feedly, but I can't find anywhere that they say (a) how much premium costs, or (b) what the restrictions on the free plan are. All I can see is on the Sign Up page, there's a drop-down that says what you get if you try premium for 14 days - no mention of how much it costs after that, or what the limitations are without it.

I don't mind paying (I currently pay for feedly), but I'd like to know what I'm up for before signing up.

This is very place-dependent. In california where everybody is driving to work, you're probably right. But in many European cities where people would take public transport to work, and instead are heating entire homes all day instead of heating one office for hundreds of staff, the environmental effect of WFH is probably negative.

I get a lot more value out of my Economist subscription than my Netflix one.

For me it's mostly about ease of collaboration. I love hashing out math/design problems on a whiteboard. Even with good tools there's nothing that allows the same sort of natural, dynamic conversation. Meetings turn into a series of loosely connected speeches, especially when there's large numbers.

I also find that simple conversations take way longer, especially when there's disagreement.

Thirdly video calls are super draining.

It's also really difficult to get separation between work and life. I find myself doing home chores doing the day intertwined with work.

Unlike some commenter, the social aspect isn't that important to me, but there's definitely some camaraderie missing. In the office, I feel like part of a team that's working together to achieve something. At home I feel like one of a swarm of drones that occasionally communicate for information exchange. It's not very fulfilling.

Yeah that's true. In my case, though, my social life is almost back to normal, and I find working in cafes incredibly uncomfortable and distracting.

It's definitely been better since I've been able to get out and see friends, but I'm still itching to get back to the office.

I'm the opposite. I used to think working from home would be great, and that the office was fairly irrelevant given all my work was on a computer anyway.

Six months in, the main thing that this experience has taught me is that I never want to work a remote job. It's miserable.

Fair. I also find the collaboration tools clunky and annoying to use.

When judging it as a whole, I find it worse than judging individual components. For example, sheets on its own is a decent tool; sheets as part of the suite is dragged dow by the rest.

G-Suite

Google Slides makes me want to cry every time I have to use it. Google Docs isn't much better. They're poor web versions of office software from the 90s.

Google drive is a disaster of product. Uploading and finding files are both incredibly painful.

Google sheets is fine for simple stuff, and I get why people use it, but there's far better alternatives. For anything moderately complex it's a dog.

I can't stand the gmail interface, but I can at least see why some people prefer it. It's the one part of the suite that isn't far inferior to its competitors.

True, it wasn't done to solve the problem of the engine placement. It solved an entirely different problem. But it does show that the changing the landing gear whilst maintaining type commonality wasn't impossible.

Not really - they definitely could have extended the landing gear of the 737, as evidenced by the fact that they did exactly that for the 737 MAX 10. To handle the extra length they added telescoping landing gear that are about 10 inches longer than on the other variants

Not in economy. They're putting 9 across in the 787, which was designed for 8 across. Same as most airlines, but wouldn't call it comfy.