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 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: Embar…

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Voo
Apr 20, 2024 20:59
@nvoigt I'm not a doctor, but very obviously you are neither.
But looking up some authoritative sources*:

- shingles can take up to four weeks to completely heal
- "You can only spread the infection to other people while the rash oozes fluid"
- "People with shingles cannot spread the virus before the blisters appear or after the rash scabs over."
- Ergo there is quite a long time where you still have shingles but are _not_ infectuous.

Sources:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/shingles/
https://www.cdc.gov/shingles/about/transmission.html
 

 Discussion on question by Asish: Mana…

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Voo
Sep 23, 2023 23:31
@coppereyecat Most of the layoffs that I've seen were a direct consequence of enormous hiring sprees during covid (because most management is incapable of planning more than a year ahead if that). E.g. microsoft had 163k employees in 2019 and reached 221k in 2022. And even then they fired what? 10k people last time around?
 

 Discussion on answer by Gh0stFish: Cr…

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Voo
Sep 20, 2023 08:47
@Steve The cost of one PC over its lifetime is a fraction of the energy cost that PC will cause mining, that's true for hobbyists just as much as for large operations (if anything it's worse for hobbyists, because standard PCs are not well optimized for this kind of thing). Sure you'd also have other costs associated with the business, but ignoring one of the major cost factors is just silly.
Voo
Sep 20, 2023 08:47
@Steve Electricity cost is the major factor for crypto mining though - much, much more relevant than the initial hardware costs. So that would certainly be on the mind of any miner. Whether that has an influence on the court I would not know.
 

 Discussion on question by Lilla: Trad…

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Voo
Sep 17, 2023 04:48
@Lilla Both of those things are very different from a normal employee (hell EOR companies exist exactly because it's complicated). But yes, having employees working full-time in a country where you don't have any legal representation is very convoluted at least in Europe. We even have to be careful if people work several months of the year abroad, to make sure we stay within the law. Although that's for outside-of-europe situations with employees, there could be special rules as long as both are inside the EU.
Voo
Sep 17, 2023 04:48
Just to dampen your hopes, as someone who had to deal with these things in the past: (Almost) no company is going to go through the hassle of all the regulatory burdens that come with an employee working full-time in a country they have no office in for a standard hire. It's horribly complicated and might not even be possible if you spend the majority of the time there.
 

 Discussion on answer by Gabe Sechan: …

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Voo
Jul 10, 2023 11:25
@Gabe I'd love to hear in what situation knowing the difference between closed and open hashing or how it is implemented was relevant (relevant enough to roll out your own no less, because otherwise it doesn't matter). Surely not in your average business application where you simply use the implementation provided by the standard library. I mean I know all of that stuff, but even when I worked on compilers that wasn't relevant.
 

 Discussion on answer by Avery: Does a…

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Voo
May 19, 2023 18:35
@Graffito So just to understand your idea: The Egyptian records were falsified and then modern archeologists when carbon dating the material inside the pyramids (which against your initial claim did exist) went to great lengths to exclude any material that was older?
 

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Feb 16, 2023 08:58
@TheDemonLord What people tend to forget is that it's a small, small world. If you plan to continue working in the same area doing something like this has a high chance to backfire in the future as matt freake so nicely demonstrates.

Even if you want to argue that it's a "legally grey area", getting yourself into a morally and legally dubious situation with clear downside just out of pettiness is just stupid (understandable yes, but still stupid).
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe Strazzere…

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Voo
Oct 6, 2022 19:38
What happens when the employee that is unofficially on vacation has an accident while nominally on clock? This seems an insurance hazard, but nothing I ever had to worry about in the US so I don't know.
 

 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: As a …

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Voo
Oct 6, 2022 19:37
@OldNick So if a manager in the UK tells an employee to go home an hour early (because there's no more work left to do and they'd just be sitting around) and the employee takes them up on it, they're committing fraud? That seems strange to me (but if the hour is fine, then where's that arbitrary cutoff point where it becomes fraud and the employee has to disobey their manager?)
 

 Discussion on answer by Kilisi: Is it…

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Voo
Apr 28, 2022 12:04
@Philip Say there was an accident and the OP got compensation for that? Do you really think that they should also hand over that compensation to the company?

If not, what is the distinction that means you think one compensation should be handled completely differently to the other?

(Because again - and this seems to be the crux of the matter - we are *not* talking about discounts here)
Voo
Apr 27, 2022 19:17
@kilsi Either everybody else is wrong or the fact that you can't explain why two compensations must be handled completely different might be the real source of the problem.
Voo
Apr 27, 2022 19:17
@Kilisi Compensation is not the same as a discount (neither ethically nor legally). Also why would compensation for a paper cut be different than compensation for a broken leg? Or in general (if that's not what you meant) why is compensation for different things a different situation?
Voo
Apr 27, 2022 19:17
@kilisi To clarify your point in my mind: If the OP was injured during the journey and was compensated for that, would you also say that money would belong to the company?
 

 Discussion on answer by Weather Vane:…

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Voo
Jan 4, 2022 15:49
@WeatherVane But surely if there's a ton of counter examples (including from legitimate vendors based in the EU) your interpretation of the directive couldn't be correct
Voo
Jan 4, 2022 15:49
@WeatherVane I have lots of devices that bear a CE mark as well as a different certification marks (say UL). So in practice nobody seems to mind. And I don't see why this would be a problem, as long as the two standards aren't contradictory. Would be costly and cumbersome having to cast two different cases if you're selling internationally.
 

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Voo
Jan 3, 2022 12:06
@Pelgriminal Some things that might be helpful: Networking is king. Go talk (or write mails) to your professors from your degree (they know lots of people in the industry and if they recommend you that's a great foot in the door). Same goes for your colleagues that graduated with you. Go to programmer meetups and talk with people there. See about programming contests organised by companies in the area. See if people who do coding dojos or the like need another teacher/helper. Depending where you are not everything might exist, but these are all relatively common.
 

 Discussion on answer by Keith Morriso…

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Voo
Nov 24, 2021 23:18
@bob1 The opinions seem to differ widely but this person here apparently manages to hold walnuts for up to 3 years in shell under cool, dry conditions. Not sure how the dry/cool requirements compare to the requirements for grain though. Insects and mice are presumably a problem for both.
 

 Discussion on answer by nobody: Why a…

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Voo
Nov 16, 2021 17:48
(And yes I also had to copy a 40 char long random passphrase by eye from my smartphone due to.. reasons, so yeah that can be a lot of fun)
Voo
Nov 16, 2021 17:45
@Ant The comparison shouldn't be between 4 word passphrases and "password of length 30 with ~50 charachters to choose from" but between 4 word passphrases and a maybe 8 or 9 characters long random password, because the latter is already quite hard to remember for most people.

Obviously if you can use a password manager that 30 character long password isn't a problem and definitely more secure no argument there. But that manager still requires you to have a reasonably secure password (and hopefully 2FA) to access your stored passwords where this becomes relevant again.
 

 Discussion on question by CSDUG: Why …

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Voo
Oct 8, 2021 14:34
@WoJ You can have reward cards in Germany and Austria as well (and I'd be surprised if this wasn't true for most other European countries). They are as common as in the US or the UK though. Also my french gf at the time definitely had a mastercard credit card. Whether you by default have to pay at the end of the billing period (which is what I think you mean with "deferred debit"?) or can chose when and how much to pay doesn't change the nature of it being a credit card. But yes it's definitely weird to have more than 4-5 cards to me too.
 

 Discussion on answer by Doc: Is there…

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Voo
Oct 8, 2021 04:13
@jkej What makes you think that everyone is questioned when entering the US? (the automatic kiosks were already mentioned so clearly this is objectively false) Most of the times I simply hand over my passport and get wished a pleasant time and that's it. On the other hand I have been asked where I'm staying both in China and South Korea by border control agents.
Voo
Oct 8, 2021 04:13
@jkej To what countries have you flown (land borders are often more relaxed, but then the same is true for the US) where you didn't have to talk to a border control agent of kinds? I've traveled a lot and that's virtually the same everywhere (obviously there are things like the Schengen area, so "country" isn't really the right granularity here).
 

 Discussion on answer by Matthew Gaise…

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Voo
Aug 18, 2021 15:54
@Mars In my experience tech is pretty tightly knit, so I usually know someone who knows someone ;-) If that doesn't work looking at the website and the company history I find usually gives me a feel if I'd fit in. But yes it can be more of a guess - and in most cases overdressing will be a safer choice than underdressing.
Voo
Aug 18, 2021 15:54
@Mars Really depends on company culture in my experience. If you turn up in suit and tie for an interview with your average tech startup that would probably count against you, because quite often the company self imagine is specifically to get away from all those stuffy suit business people. I'd always try to get a feel for that beforehand.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Siegel:…

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Voo
Aug 10, 2021 09:36
@Eugene I'd say by definition everyone in an armed resistance to overthrow the government is breaking the law.
Whether anyone could enforce it, is the question ;-) (well not really, despite all the 2nd amendment nut cases there's no way a violent uprising could work in the US)
 

 WebAuthn as a password replacement

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Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:19
thanks for the explanation :thumbsup:
Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:18
Fair enough - as long as the standard is flexible enough to also allow tokens and not just biometrics I can see the use case for standardizing.
Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:13
But we're not talking about manually generated passwords, but a password manager and auto generating passwords.
So what are the advantages compared to that? Because we already have those.
Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:12
which my password manager also does ^^"
Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:11
Which if you autogenerate the passwords -as you do with pw managers - is no difference at all.
Voo
Aug 6, 2021 21:10
So you wouldn't use biometrics to sign into the cache, but a password? But then I don't see the difference to a simple password manager that autogenerates complex passwords anymore?
 

 Discussion on answer by o.m.: Why doe…

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Jul 27, 2021 00:46
@Heinzi But Brexiters absolutely did want a hard customs and regulatory border. Or are you saying they wanted to accept judgment by the CJEU as well as following EU regulations? Because not doing so means you want hard borders.
 

 Discussion on answer by Strader: Cowo…

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Voo
Jul 22, 2021 19:15
@wsdookadr Sure that's your preference.

But the question is it "unprofessional/suspicious to hand small amounts of money to a colleague in an office setting" has been quite clearly answered: -18 votes for yes and over two hundred for no.
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Voo
Jul 22, 2021 17:39
@wsdookadr So instead of asking a coworker **standing right next to you**, you'd have gone to a different floor? You don't see why the former would be vastly more convenient and not imply any devious behavior?
Given that you yourself also wouldn't have scammed the other person out of money, why assume that they would've done so?

But yes it definitely is more convenient for you to not worry about this stuff. And as you've already noticed other people have picked up on your behavior and also give you very little curtesy.
Voo
Jul 22, 2021 17:11
@wsdookadr So you're saying you think (mind you without any shred of evidence!) that people making a good salary would go to such lengths of ruining their reputation (not like these things stay secret for long) to scam you personally out of around ten euro? Because that has never once happened to me and sounds like insane behavior. Just out of curiosity: If you borrowed 10 euro from your colleague would your first thought be "great I just made 10 euro, I'll never give those back!". If not, why do you think others would have it?
Voo
Jul 22, 2021 17:11
@wsdookadr How you go from "borrow colleague lunch money" to "gift policies" is a mystery to me. (Also all those policies I've ever known had limits to exclude trivial things for good reason) Also no, what I'm saying is that being unpopular with your colleagues is not a great way to improve your career chances at any company I've ever known (it might also explain why you think that good will is in short supply while lots of other people don't seem to have that experience - something you might want to think about).
Voo
Jul 22, 2021 17:11
@wsdookadr How is being considered uncongenial the "most cautious" approach? You're burning bridges with coworkers out of paranoia. You don't think that might have a negative impact on your career at that company?
 

 Discussion on answer by Job_September…

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Jul 21, 2021 15:43
@Oliver I assume in your industry you don't require a three month onboarding before you can be productive? How long that process takes matters a great deal I imagine. (In bigger software projects 3 months is an optimistic estimate, so if I saw someone change every 6 months I'd need good answers for why - if you can be productive after 2-3 weeks, that's very different).
 

 Discussion on answer by Majenko: Usin…

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Voo
Jul 16, 2021 15:50
@supercat I have not the slightest idea what any of that rant has to do with the discussion about RVO at hand. Because I don't need blind faith to know that that optimization is actually very easy to implement and is implemented in virtually all current mainstream compilers.
Voo
Jul 16, 2021 07:04
@Majenko "It's C/C++. It does nothing for you", wait what? C/C++ are languages with some of the most advanced compilers around, they do amazing things at compile time MUCH more than Java. Literally every production C++ and C compiler has supported these kind of optimizations for decades at this point. The mention of C++17 is simply to point out that it's such an ubiquitous and essential optimization that even the standard requires it these days. That seems very much like an urban myth presumably based on sketchy vendor supplied ancient compilers.
Voo
Jul 16, 2021 07:04
"Returning String objects from functions by value instead of by reference". So the compiler really doesn't do RVO? (Clearly you only very rarely can return references and it seems very surprising that such a basic optimization isn't done, since it makes for rather ugly coding to avoid doing so).
 

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Voo
Jul 2, 2021 00:39
@Davor Obviously the whole thing has to do with policy. If the policy is "everybody has their own office which is not to be used by others" clearly you should expect this to be accepted. If you really worked for places that simply changed such things without heads-up or discussion and simply accept this as a matter of life.. goodness that sounds like an awful place to work at.
Voo
Jul 2, 2021 00:39
@Davor Having an american point of view on privacy is not the same as being american. But can you really not accept that there are companies that have different policies than the one you're used to?
Voo
Jul 2, 2021 00:39
@Davor A very American point of view about privacy. But again, this is simply a policy issue. Claiming some universal truth while getting told by other people that no such universal consensus exists is narrow-minded.
Voo
Jul 2, 2021 00:39
@Davor Completely normal at your company maybe. Here people prefer more personal workspaces instead of anonymous grey cubicles and decorate their desks with pictures of their loved ones or little mementos. Just taking someone else's space would definitely be frowned upon. This is simply a question of company policies.
 

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Voo
Jun 30, 2021 20:09
There is after all already a perfectly normal way for what to do when you're simply fatigued and tired without having burnout or anything else.

That's called a vacation.
Voo
Jun 30, 2021 20:06
@PasserBy That's not my argument at all. The point is that it's only an illness for the purpose of sick leave if it would be diagnosed as such by a doctor.
That we as a society agree that some illnesses are common and easy enough to diagnose yourself that you don't need the official note, doesn't change the fact that if you had a cold and went to the doctor you would get that written note.

If you just decided to take two weeks off because you thought you had broken a finger without getting a diagnosis and just splinted it up yourself, most workplaces wouldn't accept that either.
Voo
Jun 30, 2021 16:18
@PasserBy Again, the symptoms for a cold are well known and generally accepted (headaches, muscle aches, raised temperature,..). Because if you have those you will have an illness.

Someone being tired on the other hand is by itself simply not a generally accepted symptom for any mental disorder.

I'm not sure why you're arguing for people to self-diagnose mental health issues - this seems completely counter to your original point of people not taking mental health seriously. If mental health issues are a serious problem (they absolutely are!) then you should talk with a professional about …