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I was just thinking: I would love to see the stats on new births in 9 months!
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Chris Maunder
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In fifteen years, they'll start calling them "coronnials".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... or the divorce stats in 3 months. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Funny story: Evidently after the Wuhan lockdown was lifted 80 couples immediately headed to Town Hall to file for divorce.
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Chris Maunder
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This could be a good thing to come out of COVID-19: an understanding by senior management that home working is effective, efficient, good for the worker, good for the planet ... and good for the bottom line, in that they don't need to supply (so much) expensive office space ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yep, the company I work for shelled out a freakton of money in the last years to expand its HQ space (they're moving from a hire-a-consultant company to a buy-a-product one so they need to accentrate more workers in the HQ).
And it's costing a lot due to Italian normative on offices (quality of air, temperature range, temperature differentials between areas, lighting, ergonomy, safety...). Home office would help a lot of commuters and cost them less, at least on the projects that allow that (if 10 people are working on the same unique prototype they have to share space and possibly specialized expensive tools or licenses).
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yeah - Herself can't do her job from home (unless she brings a couple of the clients home with her), but for "thought workers" it's a much better solution than an office / cube farm.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: "thought workers"
Is that as in "the boss thinks I'm working"?
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My wife's employer did not agree to allow home office during the quarantine - they have been refusing it to employees for years with bad excuses like that the IT infrastructure could not cope etc... and allowing it now due to the coronavirus would have meant that they lied all that time. So they sent everybody home unpaid and closed the plant *facepalm*. What a bunch of clowns...
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I have the opposite problem. Never had to work from home and today I'm on a test "work from home day". Maybe I should actually start!
I can see a trip the the tech store coming up soon. The equipment at home is ok for general use, but for serious work, hmm, think not.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Being a consultant my company workstation is a notebook - a freaking 8 core beast due to the requirements of the current project.
The prototype board, its programmer and the CANcase come from the company, just the latter costs several paychecks.
I use the company's equipment + one or two things I have in house due to availability and cost, some licenses are sold only to companies and cost several thousand euros (or hundreds of thousands in some cases).
Basically I provided my PC monitor to get the same 2-screen setup I use at work and just a bit more. My coworkers working on dSpace simulators (racks that cost in the range of the MILLION euros) are not that lucky, but the customers they work for are closed. I have a couple coworkers at home with whole car dashboards and several power supplies and oscilloscopes in the living room right now.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Here's an interesting article: Graph theory suggests COVID-19 might be a ‘small world’ after all | ZDNet
My pet, pet peeve is when people use the term "exponential" without knowing what it actually means. Something is "exponentially" bigger than something else is a particularly meaningless statement. The authors of this paper make note that the growth of infections over time is initially exponential then tapers to a power curve. The theory, to paraphrase, is we're not a homogeneous collection of perfectly spaced, single network cellular automaton.
Whoda thunk.
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Chris Maunder
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Quote: The theory, to paraphrase, is we're not a homogeneous collection of perfectly spaced, single network cellular automaton.
And practically we're not, luckily (but it isn't due to luck, after all).
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sigh, all this new research
... when there's already hundreds of youtube stop motion vids of mould on agar. (same thing or not?)
anyway it's getting interesting now; no not the virus or sick people, rather what's happening around it.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Chris Maunder wrote: we're not a homogeneous collection of perfectly spaced, single network cellular automaton.
Speak for yourself. 
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"We're all individuals!"
(voice yells out) "I'm not!"
Name that movie.
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Chris Maunder
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Minions. Don't care what the correct answer is, this seems apt. Or may be it was Rick from Rick and Morty but that's not a movie.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Nope.
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Chris Maunder
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Yes!
The grand prize of a 2-pack of toilet paper is yours.
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Chris Maunder
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