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The productivity in office suits certain work styles that are people heavy. The argument for and against remote work isn't as dependent on the productivity time as people think. Sure, some people are unproductive for periods between 9am - 5pm. Most people are not. That's why those times work. I am myself very productive during those times but only for analytical work. When I need to code, I have to be home with ANC earphones and get lost in the iterations (assuming I'm not stuck somewhere).

The whole idiocy around 5 days a week 9-5 is because people think you have to be in office all that time. People can and do take random half days, hours off to go to the dentist or the doctor or to the post office or whatever the fuck. That's how it has always been. There are very few jobs that require you to literally never fuck off if there's nothing going on. Work adjusts around you if you're a productive person. Some of us can get stuck with shitty bosses and everyone empathizes with that, but for the vast majority of folks, the boss absolutely does not give a flying fuck about when you come in as long as he knows you're disciplined.

What are you accomplishing daily at 6-9 am when most people aren't logged in? I know there's like a lot of individual work but when do you work with other people? Do you just work less efficiently during the day you mean?

There is no widespread condemnation of ahmaddiyas anywhere outside muslim nations. Whoever the fuck his group's first leader was is irrelevant. They may worship a false prophet, they may worship a stone, they could worship an imaginary alien race. I have a bias against a sick nation that views an entire religion as outcasts. In 2023. It is absurd. No wonder the nation is absolutely dying economically.

Yes, India has many faults but a long policy of offering refuge. They had refugee crises when the greeks were marching to their lands as well and had to resolve it. Of course, some recent decisions to favour hindu refugees is discriminative but it both fits the govt agenda and has some amount of logic in that there's wayyyy too much terrorist activity in the region. I still don't agree with it. But they also accepted the tibetans after the chinese drove them out and they accepted the zorastrians after the persians drove them out.

What bias? I never even mentioned the other Muslim nations. What concern is it of theirs that Abdus existed? His own land disowning him is to their utter and ever lasting shame. This is of the order of the castration of Turing. The neighbouring nation that Pakistan always fights with would’ve gladly accepted him if he’d wanted to switch.

So they say but tons of adults get glasses only later in life. I’ve been using computers since I was maybe 12 years old (very early 2000s). I finally had to get glasses when I was 25. Even then it was just a -0.50 correction. It deteriorated further after that.

They disowned their one Nobel laureate and maybe one of the greatest minds of his generation because of his Islam being different from their Islam. That place is a failed nation. Thank fuck for the internet so the people aren’t insulated from the outside world.

Yes. Not a bank.

Lol how stupid are these people. Just make a bank that only lends then.

It isn't just finance and economics, although I totally agree with you that they're especially bad. The forum has become too wide in scope and started attracting the usual online idiot horde that dominates all other sites already.

You can see this even in tech. Most of the commenters have been handed incredibly powerful database / IDE / computation tools which makes them think they're very smart to be playing around with it. What they don't realize is high level tools are not meant for people who want to understand the tooling. They are meant for users of the tools whose task is something else entirely. So you get folks who don't understand how a simple race condition would occur or something else very obvious to folks who have done a bit of low level programming, but they will hold forth on mutexes and locks as though they invented them.

These people haven't lived in NYC. Even at 10 pm, I'd prefer a cab. I had to travel at 8.30 pm from lower east the other day and I was keeping my heart in my throat for some reason. Not that every ride is like that but some of them make a few of my hairs go gray with all the rowdy elements and fucking hyper autistic crazy people on it.

It’s not the mobile OS so much as the fact that I want something I can troubleshoot easily and isn’t hidden behind several layers of UX. KeePass satisfies that. I just shared my mom’s database file with me on Drive so I can also access it in case of issues. If not, I’d need a service that can support like family sharing and shit and they may ask for extra money. This is easier and more secure since my mom has no idea how to share things from Drive so she won’t even do it by mistake.

The auto fill part is relatively straightforward to us but it takes a while to get used to for the previous generation. In fact, despite showing her how to create new entries, she spent the last 2 years still writing it down in her Google Keep notes app. Had to spend a non trivial amount of time transferring them over this holiday.

My mom cannot understand how to use auto fill etc, but what I did was to set up a KeePass database file for her on her google drive and just sync it up on every device. She refuses to use anything but an android and she acquiesced to an iPad when I told her android tablets are still catching up. So I just found the most common service - google - and put everything on it. She now knows to open it and expose the password as well as create new entries. She still can’t copy paste or handle the generator.

My dad does not give a flying fuck however many times you tell him and just writes it down in a notebook. He just doesn’t care despite much of the family wealth residing mostly in his accounts.

I’d trust them more. They’re likely behind the same security barrier as the rest of Google’s / Apple’s services. They’re probably getting attacked all day every day and holding up so I’d imagine they’re way more robust than most smaller companies.

There are no closed form solutions to uncomputable problems. You can encode them in math. You can also encode them in a program. The result is the same.

In fact, the absolute limit of computability is so interesting that people have explored it in the abstract sense. For reference, see busy beaver numbers on Wikipedia or Scott aaronson’s awesome essay on finding the bigger number.