The way this article is written feels very selfish with a distinct lack of empathy for how so called introverts might have felt in a similar position
Thing like this feel especially disingenuous
> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.
These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week
Because the fields are there for humans, in the packet itself it’s a 32bit integer, and you can’t just arbitrarily make the src/dest fields in the packet bigger— it stops being IPv4 then.
Robots aren’t performing science, they’re doing one half of one step of the scientific method: collecting data in an experiment. It’s humans doing all the rest.
CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB/some rando are all different, independent, situations; as a reasonable adult I have decided that some of them are acceptable, some of them are not.
I think thres’s also been a large sea change in the thinking that happens in finding the reason for anomalous behavior. Nowadays remote compromise is one of the first things on my mind when troubleshooting but, back in the 90s it was much lower on the list. I think the tooling would have been there to find it easy, but I think getting in the mindset where it needs to be found would be harder.
The important part of a flying machine wasn’t the machine itself, but the engine to run the machine itself. We’ve had flying machine designs for centuries but it only took 27 years after the Otto engine was invented to put one in the air.
Thing like this feel especially disingenuous
> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.
These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week