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  • Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show

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  • I work at AWS (won't after this Friday since I got a remote job), and while I'm pretty low on the totem pole, internally it is very clear what is going on. Leadership is slowly phasing out non-proximate workers. Why? No one knows really, but our best guess is unofficial layoffs and upholding commercial real estate.

    It started with RTO 3 days a week for everyone except remote employees in May. Then in September basically all remote employees were forced to relocate to their team hub. This was as much of a shit show as you think. You were given 30 days to decide and 60 days to move. What people did was "decide" on the last day to move, and then drag their feet for the next 60. Then quit without notice as soon as they had another job lined up. Don't get me wrong the market is rough, but 90 days is enough to find a job if you have halfway decent connections and AWS on your resume. By now my team already lost half of our devs (3/6).

    More recently, in waves, they're forcing people to relocate to team hubs. Even teams who were historically spread out across the US. I'm from the west coast but my team is in Colorado and the second I caught wind of this I grinded my ass off and got another job. When I told my manager he was very understanding but frustrated at the situation. My two teammates were even more frustrated, and one of them is on the west coast too. My team could be one person soon.

    Didn't mean for this to turn into a rant, but Amazon is nuking teams left and right like this and it will catch up to them. As a whole things are breaking more often in AWS systems than usual, and our service is starting to show cracks. Our reliability is down hard because we had a collective 35 years of knowledge leave our org. Almost all of whom were the team expert.

  • Monthly rule

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  • Catch me loading up a new version of Super Smash Bros Melee every time I gotta save a timestamp.

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    Seriously, just use "they."

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  • For me, a native speaker, I've been confused maybe twice by the use of singular they, and all it took was a quick clarification to remedy. This is because it seems pretty rare in English to use a pronoun without some context surrounding it.

    If someone came to me and said, "they went to the store" my confusion would be due to a lack of context. Who are we even talking about in the first place? In that scenario gender neutral he, which is confusing for a myriad of other reasons and can lead to false assumptions, would be just as confusing.

    However in an exchange like, "where did this person go? They went to the store" or, "where did Alex and Bob go? They went to the store" the context provides whether they is singular or plural. Revisiting the first example with zero context, "they" would normally be replaced by a proper noun. This sets the required context and makes future uses of "they" make perfect sense.

    Whereas with gender neutral he I'd assume you knew the gender of who you were referring to. I grew up using they in the singular form constantly, and it's not like I was surrounded by queer culture, it's just a function of how English is spoken in some places even outside of the UK (I'm from California).

    I can definitely see it being confusing though if you were taught "proper" formal English. No one I've ever encountered speaks that way and it's largely reserved for academic works. Hell, should'nt've and wheredya might as well be in the dictionary by now.

  • Monthly rule

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  • The only universally correct date format is ISO.

  • Oh no ...

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  • The great thing about Linux DEs is that it doesn't matter if it's conventionally bad, it matters that it works for you. You could use the cubic alt tab animation and control your computer through seances for all anyone cares. As long as you can do what you want just send it and use what's best for you.

  • The Netherlands

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  • As someone who grew up somewhere super flat it really doesn't get to you because it's all you've ever known. However, now that I live somewhere with hills it drives me crazy when I visit home.

  • How can I set up custom addresses and routing for my LAN

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  • If you're primarily accessing it from a single computer, you can add entries in your /etc/hosts file on Linux/MacOS, or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts on Windows.

    Tutorial on how to do so.

    If you want it to be network wide you'll have to add a manual DNS entry to your router. Most routers do this automatically by device hostname, so if you set the hostname on your pi to pi.local it should just work.

    Tutorial on how to do so.

  • Microsoft and Alphabet results show Wall Street only cares about AI

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  • It's not quite blockchain. It is incredibly useful in a broad range of applications, and has genuinely changed how millions of people work. Sure it's not the magic bullet wall street thinks it is, but my work has been improved immensely through the use of generative AI. Especially with uniquely challenging software problems and niche questions.

    I think it'll be similar to VR. Extremely useful and interesting, but over-hyped and not going to penetrate our lives as much as most people think.

  • NVIDIA, AMD working on Arm-based PC chips to rival Qualcomm

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  • It is strictly due to power efficiency. ARM is insanely power efficient when put up against x86. Our phones run it, laptops are starting to run it (ever wonder why MacBooks have 20+ hour battery lives now?), hell AWS is switching their data centers to ARM because of the energy savings. It'll save the world a lot of energy since 10% of our electricity is used for computers.

    No one is forcing you to run out and buy an ARM system, and x86 is gonna be supported for a very long time. Software will be developed for both platforms in parallel as it's going to be at least a decade before it reaches dominance.

    Did you feel this was when we went from 32 to 64 bit computers? If so, we still write software for them even though many people, myself included, haven't used a 32 bit computer since the 2000s.

  • Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers

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  • I have it free through T-Mobile and still use my Plex server for any movies on Netflix because I can get 4k BluRay quality. Hell, you can even request that the torrent download start to end effectively letting you stream it. Make sure to only do that on healthy torrents though because it's awful for the health of smaller torrents.

  • No WiFi

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  • Because they don't understand it, and fearing something is much easier to do than to take second semester physics.

  • Marvel's Loki S2 Poster Likely Incorporated AI-Generated Stock Photo

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  • Clocks use IIII instead of IV most of the time. This is completely normal and not at all out of place

  • Returning to the office is 'wildly more expensive' today than in 2019—here's how much people are spending

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  • Hell, I'm looking at taking a $30k total compensation hit and jumping to a remote first organization. Given I'm trying to leave for many other reasons, but if they weren't remote first the decision would be much harder.

  • Does anyone recognize this shoe style and know where to get a new pair?

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  • No charges for Georgia State troopers who killed activist at Atlanta Public Safety Training Center site

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  • Current PC is too bad for Cities Skylines 2. Can anyone judge the PCPartPicker list I've put together?

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  • I think in this case AM4 is fine. I recommended it because OP mentioned the price was a bit much, and AM4 at the moment gets you a lot of value. Especially given they are someone who plays indie games primarily with some heavier games occasionally and isn't on all the latest AAA games. I'm actually very similar to them where I'll play the occasional AAA game, but I mainly stick to Minecraft and KSP (which is stupid CPU intensive). My R5 3600 was more than enough for this and my upgrade was 100% unnecessary, so the 5600X should last them quite a while. There is also a decent upgrade path from a 5600X to a 5800X3D or 5900X3D.

    We're starting to see gaps between generations get smaller as Moore's law fails, so I think parts are going to start lasting a bit longer now anyway. Hell, my 4970k lasted me almost 7 years, and my mom ran it in her work PC I built her for another 3 after that.

    I honestly don't think either path is a bad one, just up to them if they want to save some money or get a little bit more upgradability.

  • Current PC is too bad for Cities Skylines 2. Can anyone judge the PCPartPicker list I've put together?

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  • I'm going to preface this with this computer will last quite a while, but you won't have nearly as much of an upgrade path if you went with an AM5 platform (latest AMD CPU socket) on DDR5 (latest generation of RAM). With that said, your use case seems to be one that will not require keeping up with the latest games, so if you want to save some money this is what I would do.

    NOTE: Prices are from Amazon, you can likely find a few components cheaper elsewhere.

    CPU: You don't need an R5 7600. I was running an R5 3600 up until a few months ago and the only reason I upgraded was I found a 5800X3D for a good price. I'd go for an R5 5600X which is $60 cheaper than the 7600 and will be more than enough for City Skylines 2

    Motherboard: You can now get a B450DS3H board for that CPU for $40 cheaper

    RAM: You'll now be on DDR4. Get a 16GB kit of CL16 DDR4, will be about the same price as the DDR5 you have. May want to go for 32GB of RAM because sim games eat RAM, but ultimately up to you. You can always buy more down the road if needed as a 32GB kit is like $5 less than 2 16GB kits.

    Case: The no-name brand cases on Amazon are actually quite good. You can get a nice case for ~$50. Hell, I just found a Thermaltake Versa H18 for that price. Another $55 saved.

    GPU: I haven't kept up to date on GPUs, but I've heard good things about the 6700XT, and benchmarks look respectable for BG3 and City Skylines 2. You could likely get away with something a bit less powerful, but price to performance seems to side with the 6700XT.

    This brings the price down to $831. You could ditch the aftermarket cooler and get it under $800 as the 5600X comes with a cooler, but I'm never going to knock aftermarket coolers as they tend to be much quieter and less whiny than stock.

  • New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

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  • To be clear I wasn't trying to leap on, "haha Mexican immigrants can't speak English". I was pointing out proximity to a primarily Spanish speaking country is going to lead to a greater population whose native language is not English, and therefore less fluent English speakers.

    I grew up in an area of the US with tons of immigrants, most of whom learned Spanish before English. Going the other way I learned Spanish after learning English, and as such I probably have a less than 6th grade reading level in Spanish because it's not the language I learned from birth, nor the one I speak at home.

    I also specifically mentioned Mexican immigrants because the other country we border also has a primary language of English, which is why our northern border has better English literacy rates.

    It's a pretty easy correlation to make, and doesn't require a whole study to identify the trend. Spanish is also the second most spoken language in the country so naturally areas with low English literacy rates are likely to have higher populations speaking the second most spoken language in the country. Hell, if you look at a map of latinos in the US it's almost identical to the above map.

  • New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

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  • A cool guide about the world's meat consumption.

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  • So I'm not at all surprised the US is near the top in meat consumption. Our diets are very meat heavy, and I've recently been trying to cut back a bit. What I am surprised by is that Hong Kong consumes 33% more meat per capita than the US, and that the US is ranked 5 instead of 1 or 2.