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@glyph My intuition is that companies with strict expense rules might end up spending MORE because people will feel like they want to work the system and spend as much as they’re allowed, whereas with a “here’s a company card, be a grown up about it” policy, people will spend more carefully.
Certainly I know that when I’ve been on a per diem I tend to spend way more than when it’s honor system. If you give me $40 per meal, I’m gonna look for a $40 lunch instead of a hot dog.
@jacob @glyph I once worked with a FIFO per diem system where we got to keep what we didn't spend. Easy forecasting for the company and a great deal for us (we always headed to the local supermarket after flying in, so a single day's per diem pretty easily covered a week's worth of food). Never seen that approach outside that particular "we really need people to volunteer for on-site shifts" scenario, though.
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@jacob @glyph I once worked with a FIFO per diem system where we got to keep what we didn't spend. Easy forecasting for the company and a great deal for us (we always headed to the local supermarket after flying in, so a single day's per diem pretty easily covered a week's worth of food). Never seen that approach outside that particular "we really need people to volunteer for on-site shifts" scenario, though.
@ancoghlan @glyph That’s actually really brilliant. Per diems are nice for budgeting and accounting because they make expenses predictable, and are nice for operations because they reduce paperwork (receipts and approvals), but they have that big downside of encouraging people to overspend. Letting folks keep the excess is a really great way to have your cake and eat it too.
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@ancoghlan @glyph That’s actually really brilliant. Per diems are nice for budgeting and accounting because they make expenses predictable, and are nice for operations because they reduce paperwork (receipts and approvals), but they have that big downside of encouraging people to overspend. Letting folks keep the excess is a really great way to have your cake and eat it too.
@jacob @ancoghlan almost everywhere within a business that you can budget in terms of “dollars” rather than in terms of “control freak self soothing behaviors on the part of management and finance”, you should do so
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@glyph My intuition is that companies with strict expense rules might end up spending MORE because people will feel like they want to work the system and spend as much as they’re allowed, whereas with a “here’s a company card, be a grown up about it” policy, people will spend more carefully.
Certainly I know that when I’ve been on a per diem I tend to spend way more than when it’s honor system. If you give me $40 per meal, I’m gonna look for a $40 lunch instead of a hot dog.
I remain a fan of Google's travel expense rules: employees get to bank 50% of what they save below a limit for a particular trip, and spend that (few questions asked) on going over limit on a future trip. Unsurprisingly, it tends to do a very good job at reducing largesse on trips that _should_ be cheap.
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@ancoghlan @glyph That’s actually really brilliant. Per diems are nice for budgeting and accounting because they make expenses predictable, and are nice for operations because they reduce paperwork (receipts and approvals), but they have that big downside of encouraging people to overspend. Letting folks keep the excess is a really great way to have your cake and eat it too.
@jacob @ancoghlan @glyph I remember hearing of a company that allowed employees to use some (reasonably large) percentage of unused per diem for future travel expenses, although I can't remember for the life of me where I heard this, so maybe it was just a fever dream.
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@glyph This. A wiki at *best* pushes responsibility for organizing information onto individual contributors who are not generally experts in organization.
That sometimes even works thanks to someone doing the thankless job of keeping internal docs up to date (it's worth, as an aside, reflecting on who does that work and at what cost to professional advancement).
Institutions *need* librarians, not to push system problems onto developers.
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@glyph I've believed this for a decade, and have been thinking about making a skills/career change into making it happen. Only downside is I know most companies will never hire for this (very important!) role. :(
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@glyph I've believed this for a decade, and have been thinking about making a skills/career change into making it happen. Only downside is I know most companies will never hire for this (very important!) role. :(
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph unfortunately, I doubt it. This seems like open-and-shut transformative (bad kind) to me.
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@glyph "Users can only read 4 words" - Google apparently???
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?
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@glyph inshallah
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@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?
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@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?
@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"
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@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"
I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast
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@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"
I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast
@codemonkeymike that's awesome. what is your support load like for that? how many people have successfully stuck with it, and how do you migrate their data?
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@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"
@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")
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@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")
@glyph Oh gods don't give them ideas!
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@brozu @fucinafibonacci @colpam @Paoletta1908 @IlCava @uz eh sì, il Milan strameritava di vincere col genoa ... Oggi non lo so
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@brozu @Lucatermite @colpam @Paoletta1908 @IlCava @uz stasera mi aspetto un risultato clamoroso
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@fucinafibonacci @Lucatermite @colpam @Paoletta1908 @IlCava @uz
Sembrerò pessimista, ma purtroppo alla fine i 2 punti in meno che avrebbe potuto avere il #Milan tra oggi (traversa all’ultimo minuto di #Brescianini) e 3 giorni fa (furbata di #Pavlovic) rimangono una quasi vittoria in più 🤷♂️
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@Lucatermite @colpam @brozu @Paoletta1908 @IlCava @uz il risultato del pomeriggio è ottimo: pareggio con l'ultima in classifica!
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today my mac prompted me to update my OS to Tahoe.
I don't like liquid glass, anything else worth having?
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@colpam @brozu @Paoletta1908 @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz hahaha ... allora non concentrarti anche staseraaaaa 😀 buon pomeriggio sventuraaaaaata 😀
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@Lucatermite @brozu @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz io mi sono concentrata sul pomeriggio e non è andata bene. Totalmente insoddisfatta. Bah. ⚫🔴 😩
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@brozu @fucinafibonacci @IlCava @uz concentriamoci su staseraaaa 😀 buon pomeriggio amici ⚫🔵😀
