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I have an undergrad degree is astrophysics. So I’m by no means an expert. But I remember a professor saying “the universe isn’t big, the speed of light is slow.”
I guess the two statements mean the same things. But it’s true. Unless we can find a way to travel faster than light (which still seems physically impossible) then yes, the universe is a very big place. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
> You're very naive if you think that NASA pays better than private companies.
Engineers want to work at NASA. Period. Ask one and see if they don't say yes. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
No. Read again. Or read my other post. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Yeah, I know, but that's how it be. There isn't really a simple way to describe it so someone gets it intuitively because it requires thinking in more than 3 dimensional space. You could get into the balls on a rubber sheet analogy, but it falls apart when you try to visualize that to the photon or whatever, the path it takes is still straight.
I'm not a physicist or a teacher either, so I'm probably not the best person to describe it in sufficient detail to enable people to understand it better. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
is portaling not faster than light travel? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
I argue this horrendous take is why you will never work for NASA or any engineering field where failure due to a lowball estimate means complete loss of the mission at hand and/or catastrophe | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
cryogenic thawing has not been shown to work on anything bigger than a hamster | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
My best comprehension is that because light has to be seen to travel at the speed of light, regardless of your reference frame, when you start to travel at an appreciable fraction of it, your perception of everything else slows down so that light still seems to be moving as fast as it always does | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Mememememememememe | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Yes. But in my post - as in u/tRfalcore ‘s - that is not a requirement. I merely use it as an additional example. Again: Re-read, or read my other post for clarification on where we are misunderstanding each other. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
It has a thermal nuclear generator on board, thing will chug along until it gives way. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Linux users tend to get angry and I don't want to be told to sit down and *ssh* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Video recording is so much more easier and practicsl | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Seems like you have a good comprehension of it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Wasn't at all trying to throw shade on your answer! It's just such a crazy concept | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
So it's never going to be perfectly accurate, but it is important for both a sense of scale, and for distances. Light Years as a measurement aren't entirely accurate due to a myriad of factors. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Lol so now you admit it can't happen unless some aliens just happen to have mirrors | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
How do you setup the mirror without ftl | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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It is. There are still several desktop environments that haven’t moved to Wayland. There are also multiple other Unix distros that don’t ship Wayland but *do* ship X (BSD, for example, hasn’t started the transition). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Testing recent (not yet released) xserver and drivers directly from git.
It's designed for people who like to help testing the current development (finding bugs) on various hardware in some isolated environment, w/o damaging the OS-provided X11 installation. Also makes it easy to switch individual componets to specific git revisions (eg for identifying points of regressions) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
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How do they track mouse jigglers?? Asking for a friend | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
If I had to guess I’m sure they can find a report of total active time, or “available” in teams and if it’s like 100% or really higher than the majority they probably start looking into it. AKA I have no fucking clue | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
So I have a wireless mouse that has the “jiggle “ function . Is this detectable ?
I’m at a decent company that have no issues with my work. But i do use this mouse at home occasionally . | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Outside tools can detect whether a jiggle is human or machine made.
Seems unintuitive but this is the same way checkbox CAPTCHAs work. Human mouse movements are erratic and very difficult to emulate with a program. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Very easily. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
They can’t if it’s one like [this](https://youtu.be/MWMO6uNTKTo?si=pATQuD7LgE19rlu7) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
What if the work is getting done? What are you supposed to do? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Yes. The point is that if they own your computer, it's pretty trivial to detect if your mouse is just being "jiggled" and windows aren't being opened, closed, typed on, etc.
What you'll do by using these is cause the end of WFH, and show the fucking boomers that they were right not to trust us with it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Ah ok. Makes sense. Thx | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
More work Obviously | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Wonder how much money they spend on detection. Do you think it's actually cost effective for the company? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Any device intended to imitate a human, but not a human, is going to behave in ways that will make it easy to detect. I remember reading an article once about a cop who had found hundreds of radar detectors in a few days - he sat by the side of the road with his radar gun off. Every once in a while he would turn it on when traffic was light, and then he would pull over anyone whose break lights came on. His hit rate was about 95%. You just have to think outside the box to find things like mouse jigglers.
For a mouse jiggler - does it indicate you are working for hours straight without a bathroom break? Does it keep working while your schedule shows you are in a conference room? Does it show a consistent level of activity, no slow and fast periods? Does it jiggle the mouse at regular intervals? Does it keep jiggling the mouse if I call you and am talking to you on the phone? How about statutory holidays and weekends and company barbecues? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
I agreed to do actual work/labor for 8hrs… not 2-3hr then and sit around and milk the day away. Cheating the clock and not holding my end of the deal sounds something like Trump would do. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Yes, all evil is caused by people of a certain age and all people of that age are evil🙄. Keep pushing your bigotry.
Why is reddit so knee-jerk liberal on so many issues but so hateful and bigoted against old people? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
check my work, not the color of my Teams icon | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
No don’t tell anyone! You never know what can come back to bite you. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
> Generally you want workers at around 80-90% engaged. Less than that is inefficient, but more than that leads to burnout, and there isnt any flex available to handle emergencies.
That does seem about right. Everywhere I've worked for the last few years has seemed to constantly been a crisis, frustratingly. If I came in Monday and found someone had cloned my engineers (because ramp-up time is a thing, so has to be clones), I could keep a team 3x the size busy immediately. Fairly certain we could scale to 10x without running out of work (but we'd need more seniors and prep time).
Edit: Absurdly, my best recent employer was Amazon. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Sounds like you have a low skill/value job then. I’m a software developer and I might not touch my mouse for an hour at times, because I’m planning my work. Doesn’t mean I’m not working, and my value contribution isn’t determined by the minutes of work I put in. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
it’s a really lazy form of management, as a boss you should be able to know whether or not your team is performing well, not solely based on “you were staring at your screen for X amount of hours, that is 2% less than we need” kinda bs.
I remember way back in the day, I had this shitty job where they measured how successful you were based on the amount of time you were on the phone with the customer. Which is just terrible, because it’s basically incentivizing you to just drag out phone calls forever as opposed to helping them quickly. So yeah, just shitty management who isn’t good at their jobs that rely on computers to tell them if someone is “working hard” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
“Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior,” - unless you are opening credit cards for customers without their knowledge or consent! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
You know how you don't have to select a bunch of pictures with Re-Capcha? Same tech. The page has been tracking your mouse from the moment it loaded, to assess your humanness. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Oh you mean like how corporations cheat on their taxes, or cheat the political process by bribing politicians for favorable legislation, or cheat efforts of achieving more equitable pay by receiving 200x the average worker's salary (and climbing by the year) then laying off swathes of employees due to "budget cuts"?
...I'm honestly just surprised you got any words out with your mouth so full of boot. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
But you won’t be compensated for the additional work you’re doing. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Not to much 1984? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Random tends to form patterns, because it's still based on an algorithm or equation.
[This](https://i.imgur.com/7i6nhzd.png) appears completely random, but over time it becomes [this](https://i.imgur.com/W7BP7rc.png). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
You’re best worker might be so good they spend 1/4 of their time fucking if and still outperform everyone. You aren’t entitled to that other 25%; if you try to get it they’ll leave or set an easier work pace.
Give work that of most employees can do in normal business hours without burning out. You put those falling short on performance review. If you start seeing signs of burnout and people consistently working late, you hire more people. At all times you look for ways to make the job easier and let the employee have a little of that slack, and some of the money saved. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
A month or so ago, our boss basically said 'unofficially go the rest of the day off', my coworker asked how he should code that on his timecard. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
I must be some sort of freak... I love getting my work done quickly and efficiently. I am happy to ask for more if I'm done since I can help out as whole to everyone else by picking up back burner work.
I *need* to be engaged, so having nothing to do... I hate that 😵 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Removed makes my skin crawl. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Every company has their exceptions, that’s for sure. The one I worked for had requirements like not being allowed to use custom statuses, only available/in a meeting/away (would switch after 5 mins of no input and if it ever got above 15 mins away it was counted against you) and the requirement that each employee was only allowed one device. It was very “big brother”. Badge ins were tracked each day to the minute, and badge outs were required for each employee. We also showed a mandatory “everything you do is tracked on your work device and you should have zero expectation of privacy with any systems (outside of business need) you’re using at the workplace” warning when signing in as well. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
It wouldn't be a solution. Detecting the mouse movements is only one out of dozens or hundreds of ways you can be tracked remotely by work. CPU utilization/memory usage, active programs in the process scheduler, disk I/O, remote screen viewing, network traffic/packet inspection, random webcam photos, etc.
A lot of companies will have security/monitoring software installed and running as a background process on the computer. A lot of those will give them complete remote control. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Right? I used to do 90% of my work either in-browser or in the adobe suite. My activity reports were always empty because my job was content creation not to sit on teams chats. Still got hours cut tho!!! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
We once had a KPI on how many negative customer surveys we coached staff on. A new manager refused to understand that no negative surveys coming in was a good thing and would threaten our bonuses (that were rigged to never trigger anyway) due to our low numbers. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
I’m going to assume these employees were fired just for simulating online activity but not for poor performance. So, that would mean that they were able to get all of their assignments done in a timely manner and weren’t holding anyone back with repeated missed deadlines.
And the main takeaway was that they needed to be fired? No one thought “maybe the money and time spent on software created for spying on our employees is a waste of company resources”?
I expect nothing less from Wells Fargo, a company that can’t go a single year without some outrageous multi million dollar lawsuit. Spectacular decision making skills. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
God the nightmare of bug hunting and/or upgrading that code ... I would say the company deserves it, but it doesn't affect the company, just some other poor schlub. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Set quiet hours in the app, my friend. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Why are employees allowed to install apps on work laptops? Why are they allowed to RDP into a work laptop? Most sane companies won't allow any of that.
I just wrote a VBA program in excel that presses the Alt key every 5 minutes to keep the laptop from sleeping. But that was just to keep the virtual desktop from going to sleep and ending my session for over night programs I have to run. I literally have a work use case for needing MouseWiggler.exe. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Why plug the mouse jiggle into the PC, just plug it into a wall wort USB charger as it only needs power.
Most companies will not allow employees to RDP onto the work equipment. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
In my country IT can't do these things without a formal process being started. It can only be used to support managing a difficult employee it can't be used as justification in of itself. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
I stopped using my whiteboards when I was warned at my last company about my "performance" by someone in HR. Slow, steady, and short-sighted solutions are visibly better to bean counters. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Find more work. The idea is you're being paid for X hours a day regardless of completion rate as long as it hits some minimum *but* there's no max. In my engineering job I charge to different contract numbers even though I'm salaried. If I finish one thing but don't have anything else for that number, or certain ones aren't open yet according to policy I don't get paid. Period. Use PTO we're trained. If I still charge because it's not my fault I'm done and I'd like a full paycheck, then I get fired.
USGOV DCMA (defense contract management agency) auditing works just like this Wells Fargo case. If you're observed without fingers on the keyboard the auditor can write you down as not working if they're making rounds. My job requires a lot of thinking, then programming or deriving, wth am I supposed to do? In reality everyone rides the line trying to give and take if needed like not clocking extra time because something is still due (also against policy to work if OT isn't approved and you're at 80 hrs). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
So record a days worth of real mouse movements and play those back. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
If the desired output can be done in half the time then they can reduce headcount by half or double work load....shouldn't be this hard to understand. If your contract is just for work produced then thats great but most people are contracted for time spent working. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Work done in unit of time is how productivity is measured though. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
That assumes that it's a perfect equation. Workload is not an exact science. There has to be flexibility built in to the system. Also, you don't want to burn out your resources running them 100% constantly. Having flexibility allows things not to go to shit when someone is out sick, vacations are taken, etc.
So many reasons to not treat it like an exact science. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
A LOT of the technical guys set their status as perma DND because people barrage them with questions. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
You are in my company but there has to be some sensible agreement that the work allocated is reasonable and correct. We don't pay overtime but if you work late you get an extra days leave (no matter how long you have been asked to work, 1 hour extra gets you a whole day of leave) and you must take all of your leave so we have a basically empty office in the last month of the year lol. Some of my team purposefully work longer hours Mon/Thursday so they can go on the piss all day Friday after lunch. Its considered really bad form for projects to need to be worked on outside of contracted hours if it happens too often managers will be picked up on it as it means the project plans were bad.
If staff can get allocated work done consistently in half a day then an incorrect amount of work has been allocated. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
I might need an hour to get one Qualify line right with all the testing and documentation but when it’s all said and done it’s one line! Out of thousands typically | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
In office at 8:50, leave at 3 cause traffic.
At home it’s like 7:47-5:05 | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
They definitely want people to quit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Absolutely. My boss knows my hours. Only time he checks my status is if I don't get back to him within the time frame he's used to. Set my Teams to 'offline' a couple weeks ago from the phone app and forgot to switch it back on my laptop when I logged back in, so it showed me offline for like 3 days. It wasn't an issue, though, because my boss knew I was online and working based on my normal routine. Didn't impact how frequently he messaged me at all. He also has a weird habit of somehow accidentally setting himself as 'out of office' for weeks at a time regardless of whether or not he was planning on being out, so I think he understands the struggle. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Classic Goodhart's law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
Yeah that was obviously written by someone who knows nothing about software development. But I'll forgive it because at least they have the right idea: track deliverables, not "time at the keyboard". | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Thank God the AI is programmed on Reddit data. We're all liars and bullshitters so the AI is unlikely to come up with a valid solution.
The AI is advising all managers be assigned no workers because productivity = mouse clicks / workers. The result is infinite productivity! We'll be heros! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
The worst one is it shows me away when I'm in a zoom meeting. I mean should I actually focus on the meeting or my teams icon?! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
I know someone who actually used to work at Wells Fargo that bought a mouse jiggler. They told me that their particular role was easy, so they could either work slowly for the sake of working 8 full hours *or* knock out their workload fast and jiggle the mouse. Wells never caught them because they did all their work and literally couldn’t do more work if they wanted to. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
80 column gang here. I’ll bill per line, sure! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Dude, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Every single line of code I write is like a perfect origami crane, a true work of art, an expression of awesomeness. My semicolons are just foreshadowing for another line of the great epic that is my code-prose.
/s
(In reality, 90% of my code is 💩, just like everyone else. They’re liars if they say otherwise!) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
But can the carpenter build *brown* houses? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Yeah, well, I can still outperform your LOCPH (Lines of Code Per Hour) by falling asleep on the keyboard with my cheekbone on the Enter key. Not to mention I'll wake up better rested than when I started, thus creating an infinitely accelerating productivity curve. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
My cat is fat, I just fed him, and I put catnip in between my keyboard keys.
Checkmate. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Every Redditor in every thread about this has trotted out this same whattaboutism. You guys should form a group together. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
They would. But using a jiggler is blatantly dishonest.
I'm sure plenty of WF employees are afk quite a bit. Just don't try to cheat with a trick. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
But using a mouse jiggler is ethical? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
I was able to hold for more. I got $700. Their first offer was $5. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Make it so I don't have to. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
It’s a useful statistic, unless you use it in management. Using it in management creates an incentive to inflate the number | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Good for you. I’d never ever use them after that scandal. When former employ the same thing, they clearly deserve some serious karmic payback. F them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Gotta appear offline on the phone teams app after hours. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
You clearly have never managed any actual employees | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
Sounds like there’s zero incentive to work any faster than the bare minimum then. Terrible for morale and productivity. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-16-06 |
I'm on the west coast, and most of my company is on the east coast. My phone is set to DND until 8 AM, other than my alarm clock.
I have had a few instances where someone called me after i didn't respond to teams quickly enough at 5:15 AM. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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I'm OK with it not working.
There are two ways of doing AI: the local way, that forces you to upgrade the hardware. And then there is the cloud way, that forces you to pay for a subscription.
I prefer upgrading the hardware and be free from recurring payments.
Apple Intelligence seems way, way better than Gemini or Copilot but it will come out in Beta. And it will stay in Beta for quite some time. So there's no FOMO. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
If it's anything like self driving cars, I'm not missing much | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
If it works like WWDC it's game over for everyone else. Not much for the technology itself, but because no one else can replicate the experience. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
That's always been so Apple. Never the first, but the masters of UX.
It's why I prefer iPhones. They just fucking work and I don't have to worry about it. Always getting security updates and Apple actually cares about user privacy. They have a whole massive division dedicated to it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-15-06 |
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