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Comment RTO is disproportionately a big company phenomenon (Score 1) 163

I work in a central business district, in the office most days of the week. People being back even 3 days a week, and especially 4 or 5, seems like something you see in big companies, with tech and finance being the strongest sectors - the ones that have deeds or long-term leases for a whole building or several floors of one. Small and medium businesses have been far more likely to either give up the office or downsize it. It's a distinction between being stuck in a long lease and trying to make the most of it versus having a shorter lease that you can eliminate to cut your fixed costs without losing employees.

Comment Re:Never got RGB PC lighting (Score 1) 119

The lights can be useful in limited ways. A backlight can be nice in the dark, like on a MacBook. My Kinesis keyboard can blink or change colors when you hold down the function key, which can be helpful in knowing it's pressed (I suspect you can set up similar for other modifiers like Control or Command, but haven't really played around with that yet). The more elaborate effects do seem like they would be annoying and distracting for work or focused gaming, though.

Comment Re:Simple solution (Score 1) 216

Right-to-work laws also have nothing to do with at-will status, which is the default in most places regardless of whether a right-to-work law (union opt-out) is in place, and can be superseded either by a collective or individual contract specifying other terms for ending employment. The only connection that either one has to non-competes is that in many states (check with your local lawyer), at-will employment is not adequate consideration for a non-compete and/or non-solicit, though it may become such after a certain duration.

Comment Re:There's a point to it (Score 2) 274

I have dysgraphia. When I took college C++ back in...I think it was the spring of 2004, I typed up my exams in Microsoft Word, or maybe it was WordPad, at the university testing center, as I did with all of my other exams. This was by arrangement with the disability services office pursuant to directions from my physician.

Comment Re:Wrong Question (Score 1) 359

As far as Unix applications are concerned, macOS is one of the BSDs; it's a certified, trademark UNIX 03 system that (to simplify greatly) can be thought of as FreeBSD running on a Mach microkernel with a NeXT-derived front end. A lot of common free software is already out there on Homebrew and MacPorts. So most of the porting work is done if your software will run on BSD, though Mac users usually prefer a native graphical interface to X11. Of course, binary compatibility with Linux would be even better.

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