Had no clue they were based in Tustin, always wondered what was in those buildings they are in.

We still don't even have regular common everyday use of flying cars yet, and they've been saying that was in the very near future for over 60 years now!

I agree.

For some, they've restructured to no longer pay for child care (upwards of $40K/year) and commute (upwards of $2000/year). It's not just "work in the office." It's "you've priced us out of the city and you don't pay us enough to support the commute and the cost of childcare."

For some, they've restructured to become more productive at home > office. Less distractions, and better work/life balance (e.g., working out, preparing food at home). Back-to-office brings up anxiety, and disrupts that new healthy flow-state.

For me, I like working in the office. I like the 20-30 min. commute time to prepare for work and wind down from work mentally. I also value the separation of work and home. I tend to overwork at home because it's always there. I also believe it's safer to work on certain projects in-office rather than at-home, for various reasons. I also understand I am in the minority.

So when companies say and do things like "we're not giving you raises/cost-of-living salary adjustments, and you need to come in to work or you're fired," it's hard to make sense of it. Because we know it's more about the company keeping its real estate than us being productive workers.

There are notable exceptions, for sure. This is a gross simplification of the work climate.

Like, Google's data? Or which OpenAI competitor are you thinking about?

Great, now you have to pay them to abuse it. Also, that sucks, I just started playing with it.

That’s not the way I learned it.

“Table 1 shows, different LEDs have different emission spectra: each with a very thin emission spectrum. LEDs only emit one color of light not because they have colored plastic over white light, but because they only emit light at a single wavelength.”

https://sites.tufts.edu/eeseniordesignhandbook/2015/leds-technology/#

Do people store things other than their registration and insurance in the glove box?

>I've been in IT for 30+ years.

Same here, and remote for over a decade, far before the pandemic.

These return-to-office policies are especially absurd in IT, as literally everything I do is logged.

Every line of code I check in, pull request I complete, comment I make in our item tracker, timestamps on when I log into servers, exactly what I'm doing on said servers, discussions in Teams and Slack, emails ... all day long, every day.

If they think I'm sitting around watching Netflix on the couch all day, they can simply look in our DevOps system and see all the lines of code I've comitted.

Makes no sense.

I’ve worked at home for 12 years. I’d like to think my personal anecdotes and bias count for something here! /s

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Your response is fine..

But .. productivity and mental health suffers for many

I would say.... once a week is fine. And if others WANT to come in to the office 5 days a week. They can.

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They could have asked the ai and it would have told them.

just is the operative word.

Depending on how exactly it is done anywhere from 5 to 10 times as much.

Or in other words: Synthetic fuels are bullshit. They are incredibly wasteful in terms of energy and thus they are super expensive. They are a greenwashing solution to the problem that cars have become.

The actual solution to climate friendly mobility are less cars. We can't just electrify all cars on the planet. We need viable alternatives to cars like public transport, bicycle infrastructure and cities build for walkability.

City/State subsidies. Occupied buildings mean surrounding stores/eateries have business. Vacant buildings is not part of that agreement. Time is up for the COVID-induced pause on the contractual agreements.

This kind of tech will probably only be used in applications where more power is needed than electric could ever deliver.

There is no equivalent to a jet engine for electric planes, so you're forever limited to slow, long flights. To say nothing of military use. Fighter jets being the obvious case, but also tanks and such. There's no way you could ever power an Abrams with electricity.

Did they make it electric?

Thank Christ, for once my state isn't attached to one of these shitty bills

But why?

Workers coming into the office.... how does it affect borrowed money?

Banks dont care if the office space is occupied or not. You are not getting a lower interest rate by occupying to max capacity

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upload into the matrix immortality

Yes, the technology will improve to the point of that being achievable, but not in the next 7 years. Maybe 2050 ?

Good post. Your conscription has been delayed by 4 hours, comrade.