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In my supermarket they are mandatory. You get your fruit and you put them in a scale which prints out an sticker with the weight, pricing and barcode, which is what os scanned at checkout.

This would be all avoided if they had scales at checkout and the clerk used them (which would also reduce fraud) but of course is cheaper having way less staff.

No one takes siestas in a office job in Spain lol.

The job is more casual and friendly in America for sure. It can change between companies of course, but in general in Spain, there’s a lot more consulting firms and less product oriented companies. So more PWC and similar.

In general the biggest adjustament has been the tme offset. There’s 6h difference with most of the team, so I start late morning and end up late afternoon, which is a bit of a pain since you can really make effective use of the time. Since they are also all working when Im leaving, I very often have meetings or stuff making the day even longer, sometimes even late night, which sucks.

We did have the windows open, and the put some fans, but still was quite unbereable. Especially because of all the computers. We did have a lot of fights with the company for this, as spanish law dictates a maximum temp for a working space. Some days, when it was over 40ºC inside, it was like an oven (literally it was better to go outside below a tree or something), we ended up walking out of the office, fuck that shit.

Before the pandemic, my old company allowed us to remote work on occasion, but it was rare. With the pandemic we started to work from home regularly and it was a game changer. Little bit after the pandemic they forced us to go back to the office (also, in summer, in spain, to a office with broken AC), so I changed jobs.

Best decision I ever had. The company I work for now is US based, so obviously its remote only for me. There’s a big culture shift, both from being American and for being remote focused, but I think its fantastic. Never have been as productive in my life.

There’s a great difference between companies allowing remote and being remote oriented as well. Management has to fully buy into it and promote using remote tools, otherwise it won’t work.

Can’t believe this article doesn’t mention shaders. Node based programs to generate textures or the final shaders are everywhere, on all engines or render software. Unless you are writing very, very, very specific shaders, you can almost always solve it with a node flow and it pretty much is the norm.

Things that are highly parallelized and computation focused are the best for flow based programming, and shaders are probably the best example of that.

Not the best design for a stamp, but its nice to see him recognized. I highly recommend the March graphic novel (its sold either as a single book or three separate volumes), which he helped write. It’s a very good overview of the civil rights movement, and touches on some of the things that are usually skipped.

The hate for mods is quite insane. I can understand that there were some instances of power abuse and people should be critical of those, but I dont think the widespread hate they get. It’s a lot of work that people don’t realize, and people hating them just because polls for closing or taking action dont turn out exactly they wanted (and, if politics is any indication, probably many of them didnt even vote), to a protest in which, as normal users, they dont have to do anything… its all insane to me.