I’m not sure if these fires are correlated with the staff reductions in BLM. In the interview with a resident she doesn’t mention anything about that, just that last year was very wet which provided a lot of fuel and this hot dry spring has turned it into a tinder box.

BLM provides fire lookout services that were severely cut. They also perform prescribed burns, which they no longer have staff and budget for, which would have reduced the dry grass.

This is an amazing explanation and I am going to keep it on hand for future use. In the first sentence causal is typoed as casual

And "However, the two variables would be correlated if the causal arrow were reversed" is missing "also", almost suggesting that the article gets it wrong and the two variables are not correlated because of the placement of the causal arrow...

Thanks for your kind words! And thanks for reporting the typo (now fixed).

Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess

I hate to say it but you are right. It might be finally time to cut the gcord

Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!

> Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!

It looks like we found a high executive using company money to buy a product no one wants to use.

It's easy to promote Teams if your secretary is handling it for you and you don't need to suffer yourself.

The other possibility: Microsoft started an astroturfing campaign on HN.

Then you must not be using it.

Teams network connectivity is a plain joke. If you use suspend, or frequently change network, the thing will just never reconnect, even though you have VPN alive and all network applications perfectly running.

And the thing is just absurbdly sluggish, only display blurred grey lines instead of text in a meager attempt to look snappy.

I don’t believe you.

I would never accuse Teams of being fast.

Doesn’t seem to matter if I have an i9, a macbook m4 or a threadripper.

satire is dead for when it comes home we look her in the face and cannot recognize her.

I only use Teams for meetings and the calendar, and the occasional chat during a meeting. I find it totally fine and I don't really think about it much one way or the other. For reference I have a 2021 M1 Max with 64 GB.

Probably all managers and engineers working on Teams have similar copious amounts of memory and powerful CPUs on their devices and hardly use their own product. That would explain a lot

It honestly wasn't much different on my 2018 i5 Mini with 32 GB.

Maybe what sucks here is the experience of running it on Windows. Or maybe it sucks for large meetings? But I never have Teams meetings with > 40 people at this company.

I had a teams meeting yesterday and the entire UI disappeared so I couldn't unmute the mic. Shortcut didn't work either.

Months back I was in a meeting and the dial tone just started sounding like someone was calling me.

I face bugs like this often. It's a pos.

Now try to be connected to 3 different Teams instances at the same time.

I thought this was sarcastic

I was like are we using the same teams app?

Username checks out?

> It does everything I want.

Does it not start on your chosen platform or just not exist?

>It works great.

When it is online, I agree with things asides from the "fast" part, actually. But many companies have a secondary service for async comms/chat when being Teams cannot be online, and compared to Slack.

Honestly can't tell if this is not sarcasm/rage bait.

Teams that has 3 different UI frameworks on every platform (but your best bet is the web)? With the Microsoft login that tends to loop forever redirecting to God knows where?

It's incomparable to telegram.

Pretty sure gait analysis is as good as facial recognition. Maybe wearing shoes with weird heights would confuse it

Or put a tack in the bottom of your foot so walking is painful as hell.

Love the last bit. Lack of accountability for corporations is a problem. That plus stiff penalties for executives or individuals using facial recognition without consent should put a stop to it pretty quickly.

Of all the silly things I’ve seen Europe do over the last 20 years, getting rid of nuclear plants has to be one of the strangest. Sure, we all want solar but it’s not there yet. Hidden forces here would not be a surprise.

Well, lets not forget that Europe was downwind of the worst nuclear accident in world history. https://radioactivity.eu.com/articles/nuclearenergy/chernoby...

That sort of event doesn't fade away quickly and definitely influenced energy policy that persists to this day. Thankfully the tide is turning due to safer designs.

Constantly? Some people can take a break in the morning and review a few PR’s and some in the afternoon. No one needs to drop what they’re doing.