I mean, yeah? Basically everyone who could work from home in April 2020 was forced to do so, regardless of whether they or their employer wanted them to. Now there's more of a mix.
Still some interesting nuggets in the report and article, though:
StatCan found that dual-income couples who make among the most money in the country were nine times more likely to work from home between April 2020 and June 2021 than couples who both work and who are in the bottom 10 per cent of Canada’s earnings distributions.
It's one of those situations where it seems obvious that a lot of lower-paying jobs require manual labour that can't be done remotely, but the discrepancy still feels really large.
I’ve read this book multiple times, so I think I’ve got a good understanding of it and the spark joy concept still gets me. Basically, it makes you think something must make you soooo happy you only want that thing.
Well I can say that she at least doesn't particularly understand the concept.
This article is basically "I hate the book and the method, I don't understand half of very well, it works super well and I highly recommend it" which is pretty funny, if not exactly well presented.
DRM in many games doesn't work on Linux. In some cases, like games that use EAC, this is technically just a checkbox at build time where they decide not to support Linux.
There are also some weird libraries and low-level interfaces that refuse to even work through wine/proton, but that's pretty rare nowadays. You have to be actively trying to find something that won't work at all on Linux.
Just other reasons, I burnt out on reading a bit at the end of last year. I have a stack at my bedside where the easiest read by a long shot is Fellowship of the Ring, so I think I just jammed up with a few too many "hard" books and I need to reset a bit.
I'm actually impressed by how approachable Earth Transformed has been so far. It has a few gritty details but it doesn't feel like I need to bang my head against it at all.
Been slowly working on The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan. And by slowly I mean I just finished the first chapter after 4 days of reading. Really interesting look at climate change beyond the scope of the modern climate crisis. I was worried it was going to downplay the trouble we're in, but if anything it's the opposite so far. An awful lot of mass extinction events look like our climate projections.
... And since I've clearly been struggling to read much lately I started working through the Laid-back Camp manga to kick my brain into a different gear. Good ol' comfy goofiness.
I picked up Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and have been doing runs now and then. I played the original when it first came out and couldn't get into it; the years of development seem to have done it a lot of good, feels much more playable than I remember.
For your first case while evacuation and such, there are alternatives and you shouldn’t need full internet access for situations like that. (obviously this isn’t the case right now)
People absolutely need internet access in evacuation situations. They need information to know where it's safe to go, where they can get help, what routes are still open, whether it's safe to return home, whether their home still exists... in some cases the only communication methods are either internet-based or literally flying a plane in, there aren't even roads to some communities that need to be evacuated. There is way too much information people need to be able to rely on local communication methods like radio.
And that's really one of the only other options in these situations. The fibre line (pretty much singular, because the cost to run fibre over thousands of kilometers is enormous) going through the NWT was destroyed in the fires as a fire was approaching Yellowknife. Cell towers can literally melt from the heat of some of these fires. Ground infrastructure is vulnerable to all of the climate disasters our world is currently facing. And that's ignoring it getting destroyed by actively hostile actors like in Ukraine.
Do Starlink and Musk suck? Absolutely. Fuck them. But satellite internet is increasingly showing itself to be a necessity, and to think otherwise really underestimates the size of our world and the vulnerability of our infrastructure. We need better management of it, but we definitely need it.
Shit, that picture outside Edmonton is hardly even distant, there are a bunch of communities in northern Alberta and BC that don't even have roads going to them because they're too far away.
There are actual use cases for satellite internet. I heard from an evacuee from the Northwest Territories in Canada here that he was basically only able to get updates on what was happening—i.e. what roads weren't on fire and where evacuation centers were—because of a couple of people with starlinks. There are huge areas up there with little to no internet infrastructure, and this summer much of that was damaged in the fires.
Ground infrastructure is expensive to run out to extreme rural areas, and it's also vulnerable in different ways from satellite infrastructure. In the US, yeah, it's dense enough that ISPs mostly need to get their shit together, but there are very large areas where running a cable has a lot of problems.
I'm not sure that's quite right in the sense that entropy is still meaningful on the level of individual particles—phenomena like proton decay, for example. But yeah, fundamentally it's an emergent property from the way energy works, and on a grand scale that tendency is a way to view time.
I wish I had a link, I think acollierastro talked about it briefly in one of her videos but I think it was a sidebar on something else so I have no idea which one. It was just one of those things where I heard the statement and it clicked on some weird intuitive level.
I probably used "chaotic" inaccurately, but entropy strives towards maximum disorder in that there is energy holding things together and that energy won't hold forever. The big bang was basically a big explosion where a whole lot of order was imposed on the universe, for example by forming particles, and since then there's this general trend towards things falling apart. Energy can be used to fuse a particle, but left alone that particle will eventually fall apart, even if it's not moving. That's entropy. So time is that quantity where, given enough of it, things fall apart.
Does that make sense? I have no idea if I'm explaining it properly, my physics background is super scattered.
A definition I saw recently that I like is that time is the direction of entropy. You follow time one direction and you get the big bang where everything is chaotic and happening, and in the other direction you get the heat death of the universe, where everything has settled into a base state and nothing's happening.
Yep, not usually safe to reuse your prints or put them in heat or get them wet, but for a single batch of cookies the risk of a 3d printed cookie cutter is pretty minimal.
Shit. I used to use most of these apps when my life was more degoogled, but even now I like the gallery a hell of a lot more than other options I've found. Guess it's an opportunity to see what else is out there.
Hmm, thats a bit different than what the other guy said but by and large is in line with my original concerns. Definitely wasn't going to use any batteries in this, I'm very familiar with batteries dying in the cold, I have plenty of outdoor plugs.
Thanks for the advice, this gives me a pretty good idea of the problems and possible solutions.
And what about if I want the power and controller outside? I know they'll need to be protected from moisture and such, but I'd prefer if the only thing I need to get through a wall is a wireless signal.
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I mean, yeah? Basically everyone who could work from home in April 2020 was forced to do so, regardless of whether they or their employer wanted them to. Now there's more of a mix.
Still some interesting nuggets in the report and article, though:
It's one of those situations where it seems obvious that a lot of lower-paying jobs require manual labour that can't be done remotely, but the discrepancy still feels really large.