Japan has vehicle weight taxes, which directly incentivizes what you observed there.

Every once in a while I get an email about a ten plus year old bug finally getting fixed in some open source project. If it's a good bug accurately describing a real thing, there's no reason to throw that work away rather than just marking it lower priority.

> If it's a good bug accurately describing a real thing, there's no reason to throw that work away rather than just marking it lower priority.

Perhaps. But the triage to separate the "good bugs accurately describing real things" from the chaff isn't free either.

Storage is cheap, database indexes work. Just add a `TimesChecked` counter to your bug tracker.

Now when considering priorities, consider not just impact and age, but also times checked.

It's less expensive than going and deleting stuff. Unless you're automating deletions? In which case... I don't think I can continue this discussion.

In what world is adding a custom field to a bug tracker and maintaining it cheaper than anything? If someone proves out this workflow and releases a bug tracker that has the functionality built in then I'll consider adopting it, but I'm certainly not going to be the first.

Wild.

Okay, keep deleting bug tickets.

We already have a TimesChecked counter:

If (status != Active) { /* timesChecked > 0 */ }

Unfortunately, not everyone has quite the same natural flexibility you describe. "Shift worker syndrome" has been known for decades, though a fortunate subset of people just seem immune.

Yes. Isn't that obvious? Everyone has different natural sleep patterns, some have later cronotypes. Meetings set too early in the day for your body's preferred time to be asleep will result in having to wake up with an alarm to attend them.

My team moved our daily standup later in the day to accommodate my delayed sleep phase and it's been extremely helpful to getting a full night's uninterrupted sleep.

> The paradox is that the monthly cost of a unit will quickly exceed the value of whatever is stored there unless the items have sentimental value or are very expensive.

Sometimes, the best place to store something... is the store.

Out of complete curiosity, did you ever attempt to run the server software in Wine?

If it happens to work well in the server use case it might be very interesting.

Yes, I tried- I was (and, am) a bit of a FOSS zealot, though a slightly more pragmatic one.

We made heavy use of performance features inside Windows such as IO Completion Ports, and we probed Windows itself for information about our processes to make something similar to a prometheus exporter. Because we leaned heavily into the ecosystem, with usage of named pipes for logging and crash collection; Wine simply couldn't do those things, and of course predictable performance was extremely important. (skipped frames cost avatar lives!)

Wine was not working for the gameserver, it wasn't even working for the comparatively simple backend service executables- because we had the same philosophy, sadly.

So? How is a game fully running on Proton not a native game?

Wine's version of the Windows API isn't conceptually different from any other cross-platform technology here. You could make a similar purity argument against using the Unity engine since most of its games end up being primarily on Windows too.

> If you're a C-level at a Fortune 50 company, some massive percentage of your personal assets, if they're invested in the stock market or private equity, are in commercial real estate. > There's no mystery here. People with assets want those assets to remain valuable, and act directly to reinforce it. This is why we don't let athletes bet on their own games.

Wouldn't Leadership's financial incentive be stronger to increase the value of the company rather than "the whole commercial real estate market" that a single company only has a small effect on?

WeWork seems like an obvious exception - but Adam Newmann was self-dealing by renting his own real estate out to his own company. It was a hugely perverse incentive, and I suspect most boards aren't so captured by things like that.

> Wouldn't Leadership's financial incentive be stronger to increase the value of the company rather than "the whole commercial real estate market" that a single company only has a small effect on?

Yes, but those are not necessarily conflicting values. As you say, I wouldn't expect them to crash their companies, but... If it's approximately neutral or RTO has only a mild negative effect they may do it anyway, or they may be boneheads and do it despite a negative effect on the company itself because they do not believe in the negative effect.

Also it's very clear that our oligarchs are not always thinking clearly, based on Twitter's spectacular implosion. People do make mistakes, especially in domains that are hard to evaluate.

Productivity growth may be slowing, but it is not "down" in general. It's the highest it's ever been.

Is there a specific reason to believe Amazon would have less productivity than the rest of the economy compared with before?

A night owl who feels pressured to wake at 7 or even 9am is a genuine tragedy.

I am extremely fortunate to have a career where I can sleep my natural hours of somewhere around 4:30 AM until after noon. But I had to fight for it, and set boundaries. I would encourage everyone with a late chronotype to seriously consider spending some time finding such work, as finally getting good sleep will be a major unlock for your life and happiness.

>A night owl who feels pressured to wake at 7 or even 9am is a genuine tragedy.

I'm very much a night owl. My whole childhood, I've been told by people that I can't choose to get out of bed late once I start working. Their message was clear: "Quit this lazy and childish behavior."

Nowadays, I sleep at 0:00-1:00 and get up at 7.30. I hate it. The world lacks empathy for us.