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Despite initially promising workers that they could continue to work from home where applicable following the mandate set out by the pandemic, Dell is now turning back on its decision and asking workers to return to the office. Oh, and remember: next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
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Dell is not the only one in that.
And what many of those managers don't check is... breaking your own word / promises is not the best you might do.
Workers that have changed their way of living (i.e. terminating cheap / good rented flats, selling a second car that might not be needed when WFH...), they are going to be pissed off like hell because "new" purchases got way more expensive in the meanwhile.
ADD: In other words, there might be workers that say "go and yourself"... I probably would say it.
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modified 16-May-23 7:35am.
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Quote: Acknowledging that the news may leave some workers struggling to find suitable provisions, such as childcare, the request is being made on an “as soon as you can arrange it” basis (via The Register (opens in new tab)).
Translation: They're starting with a soft mandate to allow unhappy employees to find new jobs and quit so they don't have to sack them and pay severance.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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"Some of us" do not have a WFH option and never did even at the height of the pandemic.
Needless to say, "some of us" have absolutely no sympathy for the little snowflakes whining about going to the office. Harsh? Not even a little... Policies change based on circumstance - it's called reality.
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Frankly, if I had to work from home, I'd probably quit. I tried it when I had COVID and absolutely hated it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Dell's promise that employees could WFH presumably led some employees to make financial decisions, e.g. moving to a cheaper place outside commuting distance, selling the second car, etc. I can understand and sympathize with their anger when Dell went back on its word.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's life. Businesses are no different than individuals or any other group of people (including governments). Situations change. All of us should have learned this concept before we left middle school.
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Three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules have agreed to pay $615,000 in penalties to New York and other states, New York's attorney general said Wednesday. See this is why I send vials of my blood to websites where I make comments. It's not "weird" -- it's proof of identity.
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Article wrote: Three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules have agreed to pay $615,000 peanuts in penalties to New York and other states a bunch of naive morons, New York's attorney general one of the morons said Wednesday. Seriously? a third of 615k for that? The owners must be ROFLING so hard...
Next time please make them write 100 times "I won't do it again" in a blackboard. Maybe that's more efficient.
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A well-known computer brand has disabled the printers of customers using ink cartridges from rival companies. Millions of customers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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And that's another reason I will never buy another HP product if I can avoid it, even with renouncing as an option.
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A key committee of lawmakers in the European Parliament have approved a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence regulation — making it closer to becoming law. ChatGPT, are you going to take over the world? "I am a tool created to serve humans, not to harm them." Well that seems pretty trustworthy.
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i mean what exactly can chatgpt do ? Its just some python script........
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I don't fear chatGPT... I fear the army of brainless monkeys that copy the code it regurgitates and paste into an application that might reach me or my relatives in direct or indirect way without testing it first beyond "it compiles, nice".
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Nelek wrote: I fear the army of brainless monkeys that copy the code it regurgitates and paste into an application that might reach me or my relatives in direct or indirect way without testing it first beyond "it compiles, nice".
FTFY
Brainless monkeys aren't limited to ChatGPT users!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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true, but I didn't want to abandon the topic of ChatGPT
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Hearing loss affects about 48 million Americans and 430 million people worldwide, with those numbers expected to grow as populations age.
More than 90 percent of individuals affected have sensorineural hearing loss, caused by damage to the inner ear and the destruction of the hair cells responsible for relaying sounds to the brain. Researchers move closer to gene therapy solution for hearing loss
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Someone stuck Rogaine on a Q-tip?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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AI is one of the deepest platform shifts ever, says Google’s CEO, and he’s not worried about being first. Bard, how can I be evasive yet optimistic with underlying caution in all responses?
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Bear with me, instead of starting with how JavaScript ecosystem is weird, I'm going to start with why the JavaScript ecosystem is weird. Seems like JavaScript is perpetually in a state of "it's actually good now."
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Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. ChatGPT responds: "The brain is a complex organ and has many mechanisms for thought and communication, and the loss of one specific skill does not necessarily mean the loss of others."
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And you've posted this one twice.
(I blame the "666" at the end of the Twitter URL.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had a lot of struggles posting the news. I fixed it for the newsletter, I think. I'll check the Insider Forum now.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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One of the telling tweets in that thread is the unfortunate truth that for many people, Chat GPT does a better job of writing than they do. What does that say about our ability to teach people to think?
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In the not-so-distant past, everyone in the UK or the US who graduated from primary school (grade school for USians) knew the three Rs, including grammar and spelling. That basic education has in many schools been replaced with other subjects. This says more about the priorities of "educational experts" than about the ability to teach.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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