I was unaware that my headphone experience as impaired in some way.

I exclusively use non Apple headphones and I have no issues. I had AirPods for a while and I don’t remember them being better.

They have nifty apple-only features, like you can hold them close to the iPhone and they'll pop up and pair with a neat UI.

It's mostly gimicky, but it does give the user the impression that the apple Air pods are higher quality because they have all these things thought out. In actuality, Apple just made it so they're the only ones who can do that.

I suspect that CVE inflation has poisoned the minds of many developers.

A db driver may have an issue with unsanitized user input when run against SQLite, but you only use it with oracle and sanitize input anyway, but that shows up as a 9.1 critical deployment blocker for corporate employees.

Unexploitable CVEs with inflated ratings make using any open source software a pain in the butt at BigCo.

Old does not mean vulnerable.

The unintended side effect of this is that HR coaches you to be as vague as possible in responses. I can’t give real feedback because some feedback may seem dissimilar to other feedback and look like discrimination if you blur your eyes.

So everyone gets the same form letter.

McDonald’s is a franchise. Franchise owners bear the burden of employee and goods costs.

Franchise owner also bear the burden of franchise fees, which pay for these exorbitant executive compensation packages.

And they've been complaining for decades at this point that corporate is failing them. Not enough new products, bad business and advertising strategies, store renos, the list goes on.

The burger flipper making a lot more money is doing a lot more for their franchisee's than the executives are as of late.

The exec comp is a rounding error compared to the other costs of the business.

No open App Store is a non starter.

Oof, yeah. Why do I want this if I can't run code on it? Useless.

They have an open BLE based protocol, you can display whatever you want on the screen.

https://github.com/even-realities

I am not seeing anything mentioning that via this link.

There is a big README panel saying:

> We have now released a demo source code to show how you can build your own application (iOS/Android) to interact with G1 glasses.

> More interfaces and features will also be open soon to give you better control of the hardware.

With a link to the demo app just below that with a detailed explanation of the protocol and currently available features.

Well that was awfully blind of me! Apologies!

Seems to be. There’s little chance this was written by a human.

There's little chance this was even seen by a human.

You may be underestimating how many people work at Microsoft on documentation and course related material.

Isn't it 0? I've heard MS outsourced all of their development documentation work. And personal everyday experience, I'd say it shows.

Many with trade offs. I recommend the pocketbook 4. You can disable recommendations easily, and the unit mounts as a disk so you can read and write books as if it were an SD card.

No internet required. No sync software required. It’s quite nice!

I really liked my PocketBook InkPad Lite. After the one-time firmware update, I put it into airplane mode permanently, and always just updated DRM-free books on by plugging it in as USB Storage, and `rsync`-ing `~/doc/` to it.

The update script was pretty much this (on a laptop set up not to automatically mount removable filesystems):

    #!/bin/sh -x
    DeviceMountPoint="/media/pocketbook"
    mount "$DeviceMountPoint" || exit 1
    cd ~/doc || exit 1
    rsync -crltv . "${DeviceMountPoint}/."
    Status=$?
    umount "$DeviceMountPoint"
    exit $Status

And the `/etc/fstab` entry was something like:

    /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB-FS_PocketBook_MYSERIALNUMBER-0:0 /media/pocketbook vfat user,noauto 0 0

Ditto. It's also significantly lighter weight than competing readers (at least when I bought mine), has physical buttons, has color models, and has really good battery life possibly because it runs a custom Linux instead of Android.

What’s the point of this? If you begin to think about how terrible RTO + sitting in a sea of 200 people is, you’ll drive yourself mad.

The people in charge want you to idle chat more and churn out work less. Why fight it.

Why do anything at all? If I value autonomy, I optimize for it. I will say this though. Our leadership's recent push for RTO ( and they openly said 'market changed' suggesting they think they can get away with it ) made us immediately looking for the doors.

They want to optimize for chatter, they won't have stuff done. And some stuff needs being done.

Nothing needs to get done. You are not your company. If they want to pay you to stare at the wall for 8 hours a day, that’s your job.

Hubris? The offshore team submitting 2000 line nonsense PRs from AI is reality.

We’re living it. We see it every day. The business leaders cannot be convinced that this isn’t making less skilled developers more productive.

Worth noting that there are business leaders who see high LOC and number of commits as metrics of good programmers. To them the 2000 LOC commits from offshore are proof that it's working. Sadly the proof that it's not will show in their sales and customer satisfaction if they keep producing their product long enough. For too long the business model in tech has been to get bought out so this doesn't often matter to business.