Someone could add an approximation range syntax if they derived their own fuzzy dates specification. I've been considering the problem of fuzzy dates for a project idea. Maybe something like "..<" could join the first and last days of an approximate range, like "156X..<1585-12-25", which would be equivalent to "156X..1584-12-25", to say anywhere from 1560 to 1584. Depending how much information you want to encode you can imagine other extensions like showing the most confident guess. At that point it would be simpler to create tables to encode the available information.
I work 7-hour days, but I might work 2 or 3 hours during that time. A lot of the time I find the work unbearable and can only bring myself to do it in short intervals. When the task is interesting, involves my skills, and I'm making progress, I can work for hours with almost no breaks. It really is an emotional thing. I won't force myself to do anything that is really painful because it ruins my mood for the whole day. At the same time I feel guilty of days I get little or nothing done and I feel trapped by the time constraint of the work day, even though I work from home. I would really like to make a deal where I work independent of a work day, with no set hours and no expectations, and not feel like I'm on call all day, so I can do things other than work through the day and not feel like I'm cheating.
work from home has been great for me in that I can compress work into non 9-5 bursts.
instead of slacking trough 8hours per day with an effective 2-3 hours of work for 5 days I take the 1 day(and/or night) were I work full concentration until exhausted (with small breaks) and take next day "off" (I'm connected still reachable in communication tools) to do personal stuff, side projects, watch TV, exercise, or just chores.
My overall productivity and mood are much better than when I was working from the office, but I'm afraid it's soon coming to an end unless I find a new job that's Ok with being remote.
I do have daily standups toward the end of the day, and I just report the progress for the task at hand so far. I haven't told anyone that this is how I work but I don't bother to cook up the commit dates either.
it's not like I commit multiple times every single day, sometimes I'm working the conceptual design of the solution, doing some manual tests, finding representative datasets / test cases.
That's a rather blanket statement. Depends on the work! I have certainly had paid employment where I frequently just sat down at 8am, programmed and programmed, realised about 3pm that I hadn't eaten yet, and stopped for a break. It would never happen in the office, but it happened quite regularly early on in the pandemic-induced WFH (thanks to me happening to be on the right project to allow it).
> Depends on the work! I have certainly had paid employment where I frequently just sat down at 8am, programmed and programmed, realised about 3pm that I hadn't eaten yet, and stopped for a break
Yup this happens to me as well, though some small breaks for fetching water/coffee might be included. Also in the office. I guess ensuring that employees know what to do and like what they do is a much better approach than staring over the back and making mean comments when slacking.
Approximation for the ASKAP images with help from Wolfram Alpha, .83 spheres is 10.4 steradians, so 903*70 billion is 63.21 trillion pixels, at ~1.65e-13 steradians/pixel, though there may be overlap in the images, unsure.
Approximation for HUDF is 38.44 million pixels, covering 11 square arcminutes (from Wikipedia) which is 9.308e-7 steradians at ~2.75e-14 steradians/pixels, so the HUDF is about an order of magnitude higher resolution.
The only thing that gets me is that unlike EI, CERB is not taxed up front, so many low-income Canadians claiming it are going to owe taxes on it next year. I would rather it be taxed up front or tax-free for the recipients. People are really going to struggle when it comes back on them.
About the original 4-month term (with 2 additional months at 0.15% tax, $12000 works out to $1800 to pay back):
"A recipient who earns the maximum benefit of $8,000 will have to repay $1,200 at tax time."
I think it's better to have more cashflow during the pandemic and pay the taxes later. Taxes can also be payed in installments. Obviously, all this doesn't matter if someone is not good at managing cashflow.
This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I imagined this was to cut down on users who sign up with throwaway accounts to get free books. What gets me is you can buy $10 prepaid credit cards and sign up repeatedly anyway, spending your $10 elsewhere. Completely opposed to the practise, however, when it enrols you in automatic payments which you have to opt out of before your free trial expires.
Have you tested this? Prepaid cards usually don't support subscriptions, which is a way of avoiding that. (I work with handling online payments, and tried this before, but it failed for my test-case)
It refers to the generation of electricity. "National Grid" implies that, since that is the name of the system of wires that carries electricity throughout the UK. But only if you have the necessary context.
