We adopted a hybrid model. I'm in a technical role and most of my team is all very far away from me (1200 km). Some are in my local office however, but I don't really work with them. Thus, I promptly ignored the emails encouraging us to return
Travel to my office is 35 mins; 45 to an hour in winter. No thanks. I do exceptional work, get my shit done, mentor juniors, and was hired on covid. You can drag me back to office kicking and screaming.
I'll go if there is a reason for me to go: in-person client workshop? I'm there and I'm there early. Big wigs are in town and want to meet the team? I'm first in line to shake hands. Im not, however, returning to the office for the wonderful conversation at the urinal. I don't project manage or people manage. Give me your garnliest technical issues, and I'll lead a small team to complete them, but I'm not signing timesheets or pushing corporate messages so I don't need to rub elbows with people.
Now if you'll excuse, the basement isopods are getting lonely
I said what I said.
I don't give a shit if it's mother Theresa slobbing my job, as long as I get their number and they're game to do it again.
Call me bb.
I'm with you. I used to use a lot more parentheses, but the break is cleaner. I opt for en dashes, though, because I find too em dashes to be too long. That could just be a MSWord preference because I don't distinguish on other platforms.
I'm working on it, but a lot of my issues stem from repetitive motion injuries.
Crossing the street in Vietnam is the weirdest experience: you just slowly shuffle out, and this literal sea of mopeds parts around you like a school of fish around a shark
You relatives say hello, Mr. crabs
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Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was nowhere near as physical as mine was.
Now I get to be a desk jockey, and it's fucking sweet. Gonna milk it, because I put my hours in.
In my case, it's the combo of way, way to much walking in work boots and then later doing a lot of sitting. gotta shorten up those hip flexor, bae
I showered every day, but it didn't help much. Didn't help that the camp shower were effectively just someone spraying you with a high powered squirt bottle on the mist setting. 1000 psi, all mist.
This is the most accurate thing ever. I'm pretty sure I still have dirt in some of the creases of skin, and I haven't been in the field for 3 years
This is a brilliant comment - thanks for the laugh
How do they brute force their way to a better algorithm? Just trial and error? How do they check outcomes to determine that their new model is good?
I don't expect you to answer those musings - you've been more than patient with me.
Honestly, I'm a tree hugger, and the fact that we aren't going for nuclear simply because of smear campaigns and changes in public opinion is insanity. We already treat some mining wastes in perpetuity, or plan to have them entombed for the rest of time - how is nuclear waste any different?
Honestly, all of this is really interesting. It's a whole side of humanity that I very much do NOT think about or follow. I previously spent the last decade much, much, too busy stomping through the forest, so I really didn't follow anything during that time. A new game or phone came out? sure, cool, I might look that up. When I finally emerged from the fens, sodden and fly-bitten, I was very much out of the loop, despite the algorithm trying to cram articles about NFTs, crypto etc., down my throat. I actually tend to avoid tech stuff because it's too much of a learning curve at this point. I get the fundamentals, but beyond that I don't dig in.
I agree with you on the bubble - it depends on the size. I guess my original take is how could it actually get bigger than it is? I just don't see how it can scale beyond begin in phones or used in basic data analysis/like another google. The AIs can definitely get more advanced, sure, but with that should come some sort of efficiency. We're also seemingly on the cusp of quantum computing, which I imagine would reduce power requirements.
Meanwhile (and not to detract from the environmental concerns AI could pose) we have very, very real and very, very large environmental concerns that need addressing. Millions of cubic metres of sulphur are sitting in stockpiles in northern Alberta, and threatening the Athabasca river. That's not even close to the top of the list of things we need to focus on before we can get out in front of the damage AI can cause.
We're in a real mess.
If you want a ride, and enjoy metal, listen to the album "Kentucky" by Panopticon - tons of sound bites in it talking about how things were in the mining industry not very long ago.
If you don't like metal, just look up the term 'Breaker Boys' or 'Oyster Shuckers' to get a sampling of the things we now take for granted.
wow, that's a relevant user name if ever saw one lmao.
If I ended up single again at my age, I don't think I would try again. Not due to difficulty, but just apathy. Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt. I'm my own human now, doing my own stuff.
It would definitely suck to be single again, and I'd mourn what I lost, but there's more to life