Work from home advice: Get an air quality monitor. Pay attention to CO2 levels. If CO2 levels get high, open a window for 15 minutes. Your thinking will be clearer and you'll be more awake. If your job allows expensing of office supplies, see if they'll expense it.
That stuff was like mystery magic to me when I came across it years ago.
When I finally understood what it was for, I don't think I've ever had a greater rush of righteous indignation in my life.
They did this to people for *DECADES*.
C proposal:
const integer type declarations when initialized with an integer or arithmetic constant expression shall behave as if they were declared with the constexpr storage class and usable as an integer constant expression.
It's time to fix this nonsense.
If a luxury brand like Porsche realizes that buyers don't actually want complex and unsafe touchscreens, perhaps the rest of the car industry can too
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If EVERYONE had the same COVID protections used for billionaires at the Word Economic Forum—state-of-the-art ventilation and same day PCR testing prior to entry, we could significantly reduce the risks of COVID and Long COVID.
We are third class passengers on the Titanic.
German security & energy policy blunders are caused not only by corruption. #Germany also faces an acute crisis of competence. The structure & culture of 🇩🇪 political parties have created a self-sustaining mediocracy that threatens our national & collective European security. 1/3
What I mean is, sometimes it's really useful to admit we just are trying to accomplish tough things. Asking how we can support our teams who NEED the time and space to work through that, it's often a much more tractable lever than trying to change the inherent nature of the work
In my early twenties, I heard @cindygallop give the advice: "Figure out what you want to do, where you want to do it, and who you want to do it with."
I didn't know any of the answers at the time. The people I know who are most fulfilled by their work have figured this out.
As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.
How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.
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