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Daytripper is level 1. Outsourcing your job to China is level 2.
Something just clicked in my head. Start up idea!
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There used to be variations on this that tied to your smart phone or watch. I don't recall if this is currently supported by iOS. But I got a Symbian phone shortly before working at a place where you had to keep your desktop locked at all times. There was an app that would lock your desktop on loss of Bluetooth connection at that time BT range was for all practical purposes less than 30 feet.
Did it care if there was activity on your machine? I always worry about the system failing with these sorts of things.
Someone broke one of the APIs it depended on as I recall. But I know Apple was talking about providing something similar circa apple watch v2.
I thought I really needed that sort of functionality but I think the fact that I haven't been bothered to try to figure it out says that I don't really need it.
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See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor... We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.
I feel that it's easier just to have clear tasks with deadlines, using decent project management software like say Asana, Monday, or whatever. If they're meeting the deadlines and the work is good, why bother wasting time being big bro and treating them like a child? Why not just go by results? (you can check commits as well, and CI not going off will at least tell you nothing is broken)
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See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor... We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.
That's me in 2003 connecting to the university Unix servers and using command line ICQ and IRC clients during work hours.
Now I use RDP to do the same with telegram (there is no not-shitty CLI telegram client)
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To not embarrass everybody else who are also doing it, not least your boss.
Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own. Are people's managers actually saying to them, "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you"? I've never had that experience, and is why I'm asking about it.
Of course it completely depends on your work situation and the relationship with your manager, as well as how socially acceptable it is in your organization. I think lots of the people doing it had slacked off in high school and college and gotten away with it.
Your relationship with your work and your time is probably much healthier, so I wouldn’t start screwing around during work hours now.
If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…
Why do nothing, when you could instead get a second (remote) job and then make 200% salary by doing your second job during your first job's working hours?
Do modern notebooks still have vibration sensors? I think old ones had them in the hard drives, to protect them from damage. But SSDs wouldn't need that anymore. In any case, I wonder if detecting vibrations and recognizing the boss via machine learning wouldn't be more elegant.
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I feel that it's easier just to have clear tasks with deadlines, using decent project management software like say Asana, Monday, or whatever. If they're meeting the deadlines and the work is good, why bother wasting time being big bro and treating them like a child? Why not just go by results? (you can check commits as well, and CI not going off will at least tell you nothing is broken)
If you work in an environment where you're expected to be busy at all times even without much to do - well.. things like this come in handy.
Nice. Should really use BLE though so you don't need the receiver - nRF52 or ESP32 are the best options.
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Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own. Are people's managers actually saying to them, "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you"? I've never had that experience, and is why I'm asking about it.
If you don’t enjoy your job, then it might be better to get done what is expected of you and enjoy the rest of the time you have to spend butt-in-chair doing something else, instead of intentionally piling more unenjoyable work on your platter. Especially if the manager isn’t technical: just don’t tell them you’re done and spend that time doing something else. Of course it completely depends on your work situation an…