Of course you get down voted.So many delusional people on this forum that believe themselves to be experts in all domains because they get well paid to write javascript.
We will just forget that von Neumann advocated for nuclear first strike based on game theory.
Without irony, I actually find the South China Morning Post probably the most unbiased, straight on US news.
It also acts as a filter for important US events since they aren't motivated to put out 24/7 bullshit like US based news.
Major US news organizations, be it right or left leaning are just complete trash. Not much higher standards than the National Enquirer at the grocery check out line.
I can't blame the news organizations though since news/politics have become a type of dominate team sport for entertainment in the US in the last decade. Really only second in popularity to the NFL.
Having lived in Hong Kong for a significant portion of my life, I have a soft spot for the SCMP. However it is owned by Alibaba now, so effectively an arm of the CCP.
Use it wisely to bias western propaganda with eastern.
I think part of the problem is that people have the wrong mental models currently.
I am a non-software engineer and I fully expect someday to be a professional "vibe coder". It will be within a domain though and not a generalist like a real software engineer.
I think "vibe coding" in this context will have a type of relationship to software engineering the way excel has a relationship to the professional mathematician.
The knocks on "vibe coding" by software engineers are like a mathematician shitting on Excel for not being able to do symbolic manipulation.
It is not wrong but missing the forest for the trees.
As if the measure of interesting is the attention of trash, click bait journalists.
To me, it is why most people and places have become increasingly dull and monotone over my lifetime.
It is like we have developed a society of dull, shitty stage actors, constantly trying to perform 24/7 but there is no audience other than all the other shitty stage actors.
They would certainly go for more than that. Ross didn't paint anything I find even remotely interesting but for $1k, I would buy 20 or 30 Bob Ross paintings right now and sit on them too.
I can't imagine them selling for much less than $20k a painting with a name that everyone knows.
I am full remote for a very small, non-software business but I think even for us we are probably losing productivity vs the office.
I think child care is a big driver but no one can come out and say this.
I am more productive remote but I wouldn't be if I was also baby sitting a 5 year old while working. A big reason I am more productive is living alone and not being distracted.
A company can't demand a remote worker pay for child care so the kid isn't at home like in an office.
I also think my increase in productivity doesn't offset the office slackers who are doing basically nothing at home. I think the office can squeeze some productivity out of the slackers while it is a lost cause remote.
In the aggregate, I think for most companies it has to be a net loss of productivity to be 100% remote.
While it is a huge increase in my general well being and happiness, the highly productive workers are going to be highly productive either way and not that much more productive remote. It is everyone else that causes remote to not work as well at the margin. Then if a competitor does RTO, the company almost has to hedge and RTO as well.
That is not at all what the comment you responded to said.
Rather, if you are of the mindset that you want to work the bare minimum to get by in life, then what constitutes the bare minimum is probably more when you're in an office.
To cast those who enjoy their work as having no meaningful life outside of work is small minded and jealous.
I think this is simple and has little to do with child care. I have 2 kids, fully remote, but otherwise worked office jobs (w/kids) prior to 2022.
Companies believe that in-person interactions lead to more productivity. And I think that's true for many companies and many workers. Anecdotally, lots of folks I know that commute into NYC feel that the distinct on-at-work and off(ish)-at-home is more productive for their work.
I have children. I work from home. I don't look after them at the same time. This is true for every parent in my company who works from home.
> A company can't demand a remote worker pay for child care so the kid isn't at home like in an office.
A company can't demand an in office worker pay for childcare either. But if they don't have arrangements, they can't come to work.
You seem to be implying that every parent who works from home is only doing so in order to secretly mind their kids and not pay childcare which is a very unfair and unrealistic generalisation.
He was basically a complete loser during his lifetime is my understanding.
I believe part of his clothing was because he was totally broke. A broke surrealist eccentric alcoholic who's music was largely rejected for being overly simplistic during his lifetime is the picture I get of him.
I don't think of him as a "complete loser" at all, not even close. Do losers have Picasso create the sets for their ballet composition (Parade)? How many "losers" have a homage of them painted by Salvador Dali? His friends included Debusy, Ravel, Poulenc, Man Ray, and the list goes on. Loser? He was a creative icon amongst creative icons.
Don't confuse eccentricity for being "a complete loser".
>In 1911, when he was in his mid-forties, Satie came to the notice of the musical public in general. That January Maurice Ravel played some early Satie works at a concert by the Société musicale indépendante, a forward-looking group set up by Ravel and others as a rival to the conservative Société nationale de musique.[44][n 8] Satie was suddenly seen as "the precursor and apostle of the musical revolution now taking place";[46] he became a focus for young composers. Debussy, having orchestrated the first and third Gymnopédies, conducted them in concert. The publisher Demets asked for new works from Satie, who was finally able to give up his cabaret work and devote himself to composition. Works such as the cycle Sports et divertissements (1914) were published in de luxe editions. The press began to write about Satie's music, and a leading pianist, Ricardo Viñes, took him up, giving celebrated first performances of some Satie pieces.
Doesn't sound like a "complete loser" to me.
I can tell you as a musician, that sometimes the music comes before all else, including feeding and clothing yourself, and even basic hygeine. It's an addiction like no other and if you really give your life to it, then nothing else really matters. That isn't being "a complete loser".
As if being wealthy or wearing the right clothes makes you "not a loser". Suggesting that Satie was "a loser" says more about you than it does about Satie. I guess I prefer not to judge the person he was by the same measures you do.
We will just forget that von Neumann advocated for nuclear first strike based on game theory.