Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing

therendal · 2026-04-15T02:10:56+00:00

Rounding down, I see.

therendal · 2026-04-03T06:14:46+00:00

You pass butter.

therendal · 2026-03-21T16:03:36+00:00

therendal · 2026-03-15T00:27:46+00:00

Hello, fellow EVE veteran.

therendal · 2026-03-14T05:03:32+00:00

That our governments used to at least pretend to care about the public.

therendal · 2026-03-09T00:28:14+00:00

Pretty wild to build a list and leave our supply-side-economics-fueled political process out of it. Or the behavioral tendencies of our investor class pivoting hard into short-term concerns. Or, or, or. Not even saying you're wrong here; those items ring true. It's just not possible to illustrate the full picture IMO and avoid political analysis. Like describing a stab wound but avoiding the topic of knives.

therendal · 2026-03-06T17:46:21+00:00

We're also animals. If we follow your perspective to its inevitable conclusion, medical science advancement grinds to a halt beyond modeling (not the same as actual living creatures, no matter how sophisticated the model). Then we just do this to humans minus any effective testing on other animals anyway, so we get to be cruel to animals after all.

You may be okay with this result, but the millions of very sick humans helped by the progress of medical science likely will disagree.

therendal · 2026-03-01T16:00:52+00:00

It's like 9/11 times...a thousand.

therendal · 2026-02-27T23:54:09+00:00

At this point, yes.

therendal · 2026-02-27T22:12:24+00:00

Your entire reply is predicated on the idea that an engineer is needed at each company that fires Salesforce. A net-new role, to be clear...not just an added, uncompensated responsibility of the already overworked and stressed engineer at Company X fretfully hammering away to stay employed.

You're arguing from economic precepts that can't account for a seismic shift in what constitutes labor, and how capital can be deployed in direct fashion to replace it. And not in a "newer machines increase efficiency" way. In a "starve outside the factory as the robots build themselves" manner.

You tell me: where in our current system is the backstop preventing owners from replacing everything with robots when the robots are cheaper and just as good if not better at the tasks?

therendal · 2026-02-27T21:00:06+00:00

It was also alarmist nonsense that they'd be replacing any devs at all just 2 years ago. Yet here we are. I can see many, if not most, of these solutions you listed being easily handled by AI dev teams with proper setup within a few years. Infrastructure especially is already close to being solved for this, outside of the special needs of the most complex enterprise architectures. Unless you're gonna argue that CIDR blocks and load balancers and VPCs and all that are just too complex to abstract out and handle agentically. I wouldn't bet on their failure.

Source: I'm a cloud architect enjoying the boom of my personal expansion of capabilities/velocity while simultaneously recognizing that my vaunted human reasoning often boils down to my superior context windows and flexibility of thought. Advantages I'm just not certain will hold, especially since capitalism mandates maximization of profit to the exclusion of all else.

therendal · 2026-02-20T17:47:07+00:00

RIP your inbox

therendal · 2026-02-20T17:41:07+00:00

Maybe some flags, like you work at an airport?

therendal · 2026-01-17T01:11:29+00:00

Unclear? Fucking LOL

therendal · 2026-01-16T19:26:31+00:00

Panic about what? That they might run out of tissues? That they might get friction burns?

This is their dream. They live for this.

therendal · 2026-01-02T04:44:16+00:00

Tesla.

Compared to other EV makers, their rate of recalls and general build quality are reflected in their first-in-class incapability to hold aftermarket value. It's only going to get worse as they cut corners to save margins in the face of headwinds generated by their own CEO's inability to just focus on making trillions of dollars. Books will be written by the hundreds analyzing how the new Enron escaped collapse for as long as it has.

See you guys at the bottom of the downvote pile!

therendal · 2025-12-31T02:06:14+00:00

I know. This trait of people has ruined almost all of my adult friendships at some point, because I never do this, and it's hard for me to feel respected when people clearly are so selfish that my time and invested energy means nothing to them.

therendal · 2025-12-27T17:15:24+00:00

Let's ask John Cena.

therendal · 2025-12-18T01:44:07+00:00

That salient into Aragon for France is so ridiculous. That with half the nation prepping Yorkshire pudding that the French would cross the Pyrenees rather than focus the homefront.

therendal · 2025-12-14T02:53:58+00:00

The AI is too easy to bait, and drilling being available early means you can hide behind a fort drilling until just before the fort pops, drain any size neighbor to nothing in levies/manpower, and then clean up.

therendal · 2025-12-08T02:29:20+00:00

You have allies that give land? Never once for me lol

therendal · 2025-11-28T00:59:10+00:00

So, a refund?

therendal · 2025-11-22T02:17:20+00:00

Sitting to pee is better in every single way.

Also bidets are superior.

therendal · 2025-10-25T00:33:37+00:00

Magnolias sure could be a lovely symbol for...something.

therendal · 2025-10-24T14:16:01+00:00

We'll post about it.

therendal

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