7zip is another program that might be at risk.

Think about an offer you can't refuse.

At least my district allows the phones to be around so long as they stay in bags in do-not-disturb and do not come out during the day. Enough for potential emergencies and allowing to coordinate pickup better (the nearest bus stop is about 4 miles out across some pretty pedestrian hostile roads, so still needs to be picked up).

It really depends.

Sometimes, it's a shorthand with concrete meaning.

Sometimes, it may have concrete meaning, but is not really any shorter than plain language, and there's a sort of elitism associated with it.

With the examples given though, this is the 'need words to say nothing' jargon. Often there's some compelling reason why the speaker *should* respond or really *wants* to speak, but either has nothing they can say or else has nothing they *should* say. Executives commonly say this. At my work there's currently some executives very excitedly spewing out all sorts of hollow buzzwords and pretending we all should feel like something concrete is happening.

It's basically a year to a year and a half off people's life expectancies, from the heat alone.

Although this is not trivial, the antivaxxer movement will likely chop 10-15 years off life expectancies and greatly reduce quality of life for much of the remainder, same again for the expected massive reduction in air quality that will result from modern political movements, and the absurd puritanical movement in the US will likely chop another 10-15 years off the life expectancies of women.

These are, therefore, substantially more significant, although politically impossible to deal with right now.

I fully expect that, if current trends prevail, by 2040, life expectancies will resemble those of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

I suppose if you *know* you will get exposed, then you could have a window where you could be in a state of inflammation, get infected, and come out the other side with a durable immune response and discontinue.

Problem being that if you don't know when you'll have been infected, hard to say when it stops. As we saw with COVID-19, it can be a *long* time of active pandemic to try to get through. I guess if this, hypothetically, worked as promised you get to get treated, then have something like a 'COVID party' like they used to do with kids and chicken pox to be more confident about getting infected...

Attending work for 2 days means I pay £190 per week to work, with no recompense from the company. Because there's a decent amount of holiday time, my wages have only dropped £9000 per year from last year. If I needed to attend 5 days a week, I would have to leave the only job that I have ever held that actually made any functional effort to handle my disabilities. In other words, if I lost this job, I would not be capable of functionally working in any job at all, simply because most companes don't give a damn about disabilities. Legally, however, I would be deemed "capable of work". As such, I would have no wages and no benefits. Once my money ran out, I'd be on the streets. There is simply no viable alternative.

If a business guy thinks adding to the homeless is the best way to improve work morale, then maybe he's not a business guy that holds any opinion of value. He may well be listened to, which will cause a LOT of problems for a LOT of people and WILL increase unemployent and, in countries with failing industry, increase the homelessness of people who are far more competent than him, but that does not make his opinion valuable, merely incredibly stupid and sickeningly naive.

That's fine if it's something actually important, or even 'officially' important. However the vast majority of the time was just the manager wanting to ramble about whatever they were thinking on such important subjects as the new boat they got.

Note the 'for days'. This doesn't sound too promising.

Sounds like they would achieve this by making people 'pre-sick' by having their immune system in a sustained inflammatory state, for a while. This points to both an inability to keep it going, and likely not a very pleasant experience for the relatively short while it is effective. You'd have to know within a few days when you are *going* to get exposed to a virus..

Practically speaking, any pandemic will be bouncing around long enough for this likely to be unsafe to keep going. Even if you did ship out doses, the inconsistency of usage will prevent you from squashing it in a short order.

I remember before COVID, I had this manager that would for whatever reason or another hold an hour long meeting most days.

Now it was pretty much universally a waste of time like many meetings, but at least usually I sit on my laptop doing real work even as I'm in the conference room. Not ideal, but workable. However with this manager, the first sentence in every meeting was "ok everyone, laptops closed, phones in pockets". The manager felt it a sign of unforgivable disrespect to look at any screen while the manager talked about whatever stupid thing they were thinking that day.

At least COVID does seem to have killed off conference room meetings for me, even if I'm in the office sometime.

I am signed up for my employer's 'optional' AI subscriptions and have even enabled it so they can see that my environment is touching the LLM.

However, the more I tried to use it, the less confident I have become in it being a particularly good help.So I get the suggestions and make my employer thing I'm a good little LLM user, but pretty much discard the suggestions. For some very very boilerplate stuff, it can help, but even for tasks today that I thought "oh, this is boilerplate, the LLM can whip this up no problem", it totally botched it.

So while the hiring managers say "we need LLM use by our employees because they are more productive", they end up getting lied to by those of use that are told you'll be laid off if you aren't using LLM. The fact that they can't tell except by taking our word for it speaks volumes to me..

Speaking as someone who works with a large python codebase and everyone prepares for the annoyance of migrating when we decide to support another python release, it's kind of the opposite.

Every python release breaks backwards compatibility in a few ways. This is why people run old versions, this is why a number of pypi modules get abandoned as python revs.

There's broad agreement in the organization over time that python was ultimately not the best choice. It might have been pretty good, if not for the core and ecosystem changing things and driving a non-trivial amount of our effort to just be on a treadmill.

Particularly aggravating because we have users demanding python 3.6, 3.9, 3.12, 3.13, all at the same time so we have to curate things with a broad level of compatibility. It took *forever* before the users stopped demanding python 2.7.

See, that only deactivates it. I would like to remove it so that nothing can reactivate it.

Just build the refining plant close to Washington DC because there's enough hot air getting around there for it to work.