Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.

Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work.

There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come in for two or three days to catch up with everbody once a fortnight, once a month, etc.

It helps to have a wider PoV perhaps.

Virtually all the "hybrid" companies I've seen have 2/3 day in-office, 3/2 day remote schedules for office work. That doesn't necessarily apply to say, the employees working loading docks and shipping, but a couple days a month feels different enough to justify its own term.

This is from 2025: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-microsoft-makes-its-bil...

Copilot and AI are not on the list anymore.

I doubt it's useful to draw conclusions in today's world. The chart is almost two years old.

Is Bing now called "Copilot" too?

I don't understand why they name everything Copilot now, it's the most confusing thing in the world. Copilot AI, Copilot 365 Copilot. GitHub Copilot makes the most sense I think because it's Copilot AI but for coding.

Or "Watson". I lose track.

Copilot .NET Core, not to be confused with Copilot Core, and Microsoft Core Copilot Plus.

Not so helpful, it's too out of date

That's 2 years old?

Played this a few months back. In terms of value, it felt right up there with the Orange Box.

The one glaring problem the game has is double-tapping movement keys to dodge. Kills your fingers and you can’t ignore it because dodging seems to be the primary mode of skill expression beside weapon choice and aim.

To be fair, they may have just wrecked the CS lootbox economy permanently.

It was getting out of control when tiktok "investment guides" were instructing people who don't even play the game to start buying CS skins to make a profit.

They need to keep wrecking it. Skins should just be fixed cost items.

Disagreed. Games like Fortnite and League of Legends went down this road and ended up at even more unfathomable $500 microtransactions. The only issue with skin trading is that people will take it more seriously than it is, which is a problem with all cosmetic systems.

There are huge gambling cultures around skins. All kinds of theft and scamming. There is no "only issue". There are tons of issues

Nah. Digital items should be transferable, similar to physical gacha like Pokemon cards.

That doesn't mean they should be reliable speculation vehicles. AFAIK Valve hasn't interfered with the gifting of digital items, only sales.

Java’s cardinal sin was not owning the OS like Microsoft’s C# to force end-users to update the framework. Oracle really didn’t understand what they were sitting on with their Ubuntu competitor Solaris.

This has no longer been the case for C# for 10 years since the release of .NET Core and (now) .NET. The runtime is no longer bundled with the OS.

This is only true for older .NET Framework applications.

Isn’t it post installation still updated via Windows Update as they said (force end-users to update the framework)?

Only patches, it doesn't automatically install new major versions

Why does this work while nitter doesn’t?

This is a hosted instance of nitter, the reason why nearly all nitter instances died is because "guest" accounts got removed, so now you need tons of real twitter/x accounts instead of just generating thousands of "guest" accounts.

In previous years, I could have excused such shoddy journalism. In the age of LLMs that can do the work for you, it’s inexcusable that the author didn’t pick 3-5 sample strong economies from the past to judge today by.

A user cannot downvote a comment that’s directly in reply to their own.

It was likely other user(s) who downvoted a comment that they perceived as low-effort and adding little to the discussion, which I could easily see if the entire comment was something like “Such as?”

I see, thanks. FWIW I was succinct because I didn't think a comment to the effect of "I prefer to let AI do my thinking for me" merited a substantive response. I was (and still am) also genuinely curious what these 3-5 examples were. South Korean chaebols? Roman latifundia? Perhaps we'll never know

I mean... You could always ChatGPT it yourself, could you not? Your ability to find information around this doesn't appear to be hampered by anything other than your imagination.

I would be curious as to what your prompt ends up being (and the reply obviously) if you choose to do so.

I think my prompt and the response I get would be likely to just reflect my own biases (leftist, anti-monopoly etc), which IMO wouldn't add any more to the discussion than did my own annoyance at being downvoted, lol. I think history is so full of examples of top-heavy economies succumbing to stagnation and collapse, it almost doesn't bear mentioning any. Likewise, I think that someone with opposite opinions could get an opposite answer from a sycophantic LLM, and both of us hiding behind LLMs merely obfuscates the debate.

That is to say, I was hoping to get an elaboration of the implicit critique in the comment I originally replied to, since that person seemed so upset that they must have had a profound disagreement with the premise in the article, rather than just being upset that the author didn't seem to have used AI. I suspect they don't want to reply because they know any examples of "strong economies" where the gains were monopolized by a few key players can be easily countered with the story of how those economies subsequently entered a terminal decline, and/or relied on state subsidies to survive. It would also be self-defeating for me to consult AI since I disdain that person's apparent sentiment that we should always default to LLMs instead of having human discussions, considering evidence on our own and reaching our own conclusions.

For anyone out of the loop, Edwards was caught in an infidelity scandal and his candidacy collapsed. OP didn’t do such a bad job with IT that the campaign failed lol

> OP didn’t do such a bad job with IT that the campaign failed lol

Some non-tech people tend to think of IT folks as jack of all trades with the ability to fix their faulty printer all the way to hacking email accounts for fun/profit.

I'm sure few of them would have believed that their IT team could have prevented the scandal by some fast & serious typing on the keyboard a.k.a hacking for regular folks :)

infidelity, paternity, staffer scandal

Yeah, I undersold it. Cheating on your wife is one thing. Worse if she has cancer. Worse if you deny it. Worse if you try to fake the DNA test and pretend the baby isn’t yours. Worse if you used campaign funds to cover it up. His career is definitely over.

> infidelity scandal

Seems quaint these days.

Had a professor use this but it was student-led. We had to run it through ourselves and change our stuff enough to get a high enough mark to pass TurnItIn. Avoided the false allegations problems at least.

Isn't this more or less what the Microsoft Long-Term Support (LTS) versus Short-Term Support (STS) is meant to do? LTS only receives critical updates but eschews all experimental/beta features. STS gets everything for the people that couldn't care less if their app gets hacked (e.g. apps like calculators, sandboxed internal tools, etc).

I know Ubuntu and others do the same but I don't know what they call their STS equivalent.

Depends which Microsoft products you're referring to. If you're talking about .NET versions, MS explicitly says "The only difference is the length of support."