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Bluetooth coffee mugs. I disliked Ember’s app, particularly on Mac, so I built a substitute for the menu bar. While expanding to knockoff mugs on Amazon, it was entertaining to see how bizarre and inefficient some BLE implementations were. Some write every second unnecessarily. Ember starts the heater during cooldown, even though they could do so closer to target temp and save 5-10% battery.

99% of humans can pass that captcha

I’ll gate keep a step further. Only writing the book counts. Everyone reading is only getting a fraction of the value. /s

Likewise. The ambient rooms and post-meeting summaries with ide files, links, and now todos/transcript is super useful! A company like Notion should buy them up. The only missing feature for me is browser participation or a Windows client, but most of my teammates are Mac.

Right? Any leader who thinks a block of people supporting his salary are blanket “toxic” needs to touch grass.

Can’t agree more. Mob programming alternatives to Zoom like Multi are also superior to in person because they generate summaries with files edited, branches, websites viewed so the junior / new employee can relax and focus on what’s important. If you aren’t actively sharing “how to work” tips with colleagues, particularly juniors, it’s your fault not an office’s. The whole point of being an engineer is to be clever and find solutions where others couldn’t to make the world a better place.

I’ll bite. Your first linked study does not say what you hope it does. In fact, it’s hopelessly lost and irrelevant. Here’s a passage that makes it clear “remote” is conflating multiple unrelated concepts and that the quantitative metrics are like Elon asking me to print out my code to determine “programs written per month”. A remote New Zealand vs Seattle worker is very different than a 1000 head site deeming two people organizationally distinct enough to plop in separate campuses.

We find that distant teammates impose negative externalities on the mentorship of teammates sitting together. These externalities can explain about a third of proxim- ity’s impact. Furthermore, before COVID-19, adding a new hire in another building reduces feedback among proximate teammates (who predate the new hire), while adding a new hire in the same building has no such impact. Teams’ attempts to ac- commodate distant teammates by, for example, moving in-person meetings online, have substantial negative externalities.7 Our findings indicate that additional mentorship has an opportunity cost: engi- neers who sit near all their teammates write fewer programs. Our difference-in- differences estimate suggests that proximity reduces programs written per month by 23 percent (p-value = 0.008), with similar effects on total lines of code and total files changed. The effects on output are present for both junior and senior engineers but are particularly pronounced for senior engineers, who do most of the mentoring.

Are you R&D or just D?

In Seattle, bananas are used for size measurements.

Sounds like a fit issue. I code all day. Recliner, couch, standing. Mac link at 5k emulation. Apple assigned me 21w, but I found it unusable. 36w put weight on outer cheekbones and was finally wearable. Removing the light seal and using some pads as spacers is how I use it now. Larger FOV. A bit weight and less cantilever

Don’t get it. So many reviewers have the tiniest of ide windows up, like on a 11” laptop. When I code in Vision Pro, I can set 5k resolution to the Mac link since my studio is hooked to a studio display. I’ll get over 100 readable lines, similar to a vertical 4k monitor.

That would be brilliant and an instant subscribe from a long time tower user

The only industry capitalized to support that is porn. So if it does happen, this is very bad news for us.

Apparently the overtime is too good or recruiting standard too low. Either way, this yelp review says: avoid Milwaukee because police would have a struggle figuring out basic who dun its.

This. The more you reorg the less confidence I have that management knows shit.