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Batteries have an environmental impact too. I am no expert, but I can see why researchers are trying to find alternatives.

Well, I can see your point of view, after all computer science has been used for a lot of sinister things in our time. However, science is a neutral thing on itself, how we use it makes the difference.

A great example are corporate social media vs the fediverse. While we can all see the good a social media platforms can offer, they way corporate social media have been shaped introduces a lot of problems. Given the circumstances I may argue they were a necessary step, but it's definitely time for change, and a lot of people (including us right now) are working hard for that change.

Social Computing as field would study this change, how people made decisions, and how it influenced both their lives and the society we live in. It involves asking questions like: How the fediverse came to be? How the transition could have been faster? Or, How it can be used for the greater good?

Of course, these questions can be shaped in an exploitative way like: How the evolution of the fediverse could stopped or slowed down? How the fediverse could be exploited for the gain of the few? etc...

In the end, I believe the question is who is more powerful, a few people with a lot of money, or a lot of people with little money? Right now the few seem to have the upper hand, but if the access to resources is the only difference, then I believe that we can be optimistic as science and technology have always been about doing more with less resources.

I feel pretty much the same way... Do you feel more lonely than before your excitement run out?

Stremio with the local files extension? Not exactly a video player, but if you want to watch movies and TV shows, it will get the job done.

You guys have options? In Greece only concerta, Ritalin and Strattera are approved...

I know the struggle, I hope you can find a combination that works for you 🙏

I have serious sleep issues so I heavily really on my alarm app, I need features like:

1. wake-up captcha
2. wake-up time randomising
3. the ability to load a playlist, or play a podcast episode
4. sleep tracking

The last year I noticed a lot of frontier research was being done by Chinese teams, so I assumed the opposite. Thanks for educating me.

For context, I like working with people that I am on friendly terms (like go out for drinks Friday after work) and I have the privilege to be able to avoid work environments where that's not possible.

IMO I don't think it's about the words, but the meaning of what you say. You can say a coffee is hot, but say that about the new receptionist and you deserve jail time (sexual harassment is a serious issue). The worst things someone could say don't involve any "bad" words, like a male colleague turning to the only woman in the meeting after making a remark about motherhood.

Context is always important too, once I heard someone say "the motherfucker keeps pooping allover the place" referring to a service that was particularly nasty after an update (programmer lingo).

Personally, I hate passive aggression, I am autistic I just speak my mind, and I don't understand it when others don't.

I sometimes make arbitrary choices.

lol my union is literally named tech workers

However, every potential metric we devise appears woefully inadequate in assessing this holistic outcome. Whether it's pull requests, lines of code, user stories, story points, or ship dates, it seems that every metric can be manipulated or gamed. Ship dates may be advanced, but quality suffers; story points morph in size depending on the project, and lines of code can be bulked up with a test suite. Even pull requests can be sliced and diced to skew the numbers. It's a frustrating conundrum.

IMO software engineering is a creative field that requires a vast amount of knowledge, neither can be measured effectively. Let's just stop trying to optimize creativity...

For example, would you pay a 3x more productive designer 3x the fully loaded cost of the average designer? If 10x engineers truly exist, why do pay scales intra company not cover a 10x spectrum?