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The workplace experiment in the United Kingdom has reached its halfway point after three months and some of the firms even plan on making the change permanent. Thursday is the new Friday
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okay, and how about impact on ... productivity, on extent of creative innovation in a context where competition is a factor ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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This was the UK. Creative innovation and competition weren’t factors. 
TTFN - Kent
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Reminds me of the quip about Canada: How could a country that could have had American technology, French culture, and British government end up with British technology, French government, and American culture?
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I work 3 days per week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I achieve more than my cow-orkers during their 5-days work week. At better quality, of course.
And, btw, the work quality delivered by some guy proud of his 70-hours-work-week is ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Hi Bernard, I am certain that your high-quality productivity is not constrained by time ! 
But. assuming mere mortals are at work, I think other dynamics might apply. And, I think \work-group size can have a critical effect on complexity of coordination and productivity.
Then, there's leadership, and the extent to which peers are in synch with goals, and style conventions.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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the issue I see making large scale is issue that the other day becomes a weekend day. On small scale, individuals benifit getting activites done that not possible on the weekend, or low traffic during week day.
consider a long haircut, fully booked on weekend or outside work hours. but got firday off, easy to book.
or getting things delivered
but if those people also working 4 day, well
unless this covered mixed work, some Mon-Thu, others Tue-Fir, and so on. but that also flawed because unless work picked up by someone else, instead of expecting next business day tomorrow, could be waiting 2/3 days.
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IMO any "4 day week" article that doesn't clarify if they're talking about 4x8h or 4x9h ("working fewer hours but hopefully with more productivity") or 4x10h ("long weekends are magic") is too vague to actually be useful.
I'd be willing to try either of the former (or 9/80) to see if it works, I'm not interested in the latter at all. Prior experience indicates that even well rested on a Monday I can't maintain full productivity into the 10th hour; and most of the time the reduced free time on work nights isn't worth a gaining a three day weekend for me.
Obligatory Dilbert[^]
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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The company lifted its previous restrictions on uploading real human faces after building new detection and response techniques meant to prevent misuse. Pics and it didn't happen
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and response techniques meant to prevent misuse.
Yeah, right...
Like Google's "do no evil" or Facebook's "your data is private"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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At I/O 2022 in May, Google announced a new tool to streamline the process of removing Search results that contain your contact and other personal identifiable information (PII), and it’s now starting to go live. Fuhgeddaboudit
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And they are really going to delete it... yeah, right.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. "Hush hush, keep it down now, voices carry"
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I would like to see if it really manages to understand Mickey O'Neil[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can now run systemd inside of your WSL distros, empowering you to do more with your Linux workflows on your Windows machine. I'm assuming this is a good thing? (or at least a thing?)
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Except the fine print reads:
Quote: First make sure you have these pre-requisites:
- Are using a Windows 11 build or higher
No Microsoft, I'm not updating my machines to Windows 11.
Because you won't let me.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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With all eyes on Windows 11 and its first feature update, now available for download, you would be excused for thinking that Windows 10 is now a thing of the past. You thought you were safe, did you?
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Someone asked me why I set AllowUnsafeBlocks to true in the Meziantou.DotNet.CodingStandard package "Everybody's taking the chance"
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I don't know why, but xkcd: Dependency[^] came to mind...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The examples given don't really describe anything that I find useful... *sigh*
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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That's because real world use cases are interfacing with C/C++ APIs or trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of code in a hot loop.
Any examples of either would also be one or more of: Trivial, Contrived for the sake of demonstrating the feature, or Opaque to 99.9% of readers.
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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The first emoticon was posted to a Carnegie Mellon University message board on September 19, 1982. :-|
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Nostalgia... circa 1974 a colleague of mine celebrated the arrival of CRT terminals with a whole 96 character set by creating a byte-oriented character.
//
oo /
^^====
/\/\ The cute thing was the terminals had an underscore cursor that blinked alternately with the character, so you could make him wag his tail.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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(★‿★)
and only took windows 35 to add feature into to quick search thing O.O
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