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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
james_s:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on April 14, 2020, 07:13:24 pm ---There's a drive-in theater about a five minute drive from my house. It's currently closed. I would have thought the owners would close the snack bar but keep the theater open, but that's not the case--the whole operation is closed for the duration. I don't know if this was a choice on the part of the owners, or a government mandate. Even with the snack bar closed, people tend to get out of their cars and mingle, so perhaps this had some affect on the decision to close.
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That seems like a poor choice on somebody's part. It would not be difficult to mandate staying in one's car unless absolutely needed such as for restroom use and have an attendant to sanitize the facilities after each use. Many of the risks can be mitigated.
2N3055:
--- Quote from: mansaxel on April 14, 2020, 08:17:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on April 14, 2020, 06:42:17 pm ---Mikrotik has large subset of Cisco functions, and 100% of all the functions you would ever need in small business and home environment.
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I work in enterprise settings, with several 100Gbit links close to full at times. Another ball game.
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on April 14, 2020, 06:42:17 pm ---
Catalyst 9600 Series switches are a bit too much for my home network.. ^-^
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Mine too, so am only upgrading from 4948 to 4500X, to get 10GigE for a few select links, to servers and between switches... :-DD
On-topic question; what would be an established level where you'd upgrade a PNI to another provider? In normal times, that is. We're not normal now. I seem to recall 70% of capacity measured as 5 minute average being a common threshold in Sweden, and I've been told not every market think they can afford that.
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Unless you have SLA, it's slippery slope...
In my country, there are guidelines from national communications authorities, but generic contracts with providers are vague.. Unless you pay for SLA..
Muttley Snickers:
For those in Australia waiting on parcels and regular mail there might be a delay for 5-7 days longer than normal. I just received an electricity account which is due to be paid in a couple of days, normally they give you couple of weeks to pay but this letter was posted exactly two weeks ago.
https://www.auspost.com.au/about-us/news-media/important-updates/coronavirus
rdl:
I just found out yesterday that because of the virus, the US Tax Return filing deadline was changed from April 15 to July 15. I guess I need to get out from under my rock more often.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 14, 2020, 03:07:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 14, 2020, 03:46:09 am ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 13, 2020, 03:27:18 pm ---Over here they are allowing a limited number of people inside shops to adhere to governments rules. Works pretty well and it is enforced legally. The same can work for gyms, etc. And don't forget: people who work from home can create their own schedule. They are no longer bound to a '9 to 5' rythm. From a biological standpoint there is no rule which says humans (like to) work best from 9 to 5.
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Most people do not work from home and will not in the future. Things aren't going to be that radially different. Yes some business will realise work form home isn't that bad and will move a bit in that direction. But I'm willing to bet that in a few years time when this has all blown over, the world will on average look and work very little different to what it did 3 months ago.
Do you have kids?If not then you likely won't understand why a lot of the daily/weekly routines exist.
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I have kids for over 2 decades. The youngest is getting on-line lessons. I've also been working from home for nearly a decade. The only reason to adhere to a strict schedule is when people really need to work together on the same item at the same time. Now think hard of where that is really really true. In the end the answer is likely meetings and team sports.
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No, it's getting kids ready, dropping them off at school, picking them up from school, getting them to swimming and soccer and *insert other events here*, lunch is roughly midday, dinner roughly the same time every night, meals need to be prepared etc etc. Regular life routines, regular as clockwork for the majority of people.
As for the likes of gyms, majority of people don't like to go at random hours, or hours dictated by some social time scheduling guidelines. They want to go to their favorite class with their favorite instructors at the most convenient times to them. Before work, lunch time break, after work etc.
Same for say movies, most people are not going to want to go at say 10am on a workday on their own, they want to go at times that fit their schedule like saturday/sunday mornings or afternoons with their family, or Thursday which is release day, or Friday night with their friends or partner.
People will want to get back to this routine as soon as possible, and the longer they aren't allowed to do that the more pissed of people are going to be. They don't want a "new normal" and will not accept it in the long term, you'll see.
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