Linux wouldn't be zero. There's still a cost involved in installing the OS, even if it's miniscule and automatable. You can bet your life that laptop manufacturers are going to charge you for it.
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In fact, the only people who use windows are finance people, HR, etc
Fossil fuels are the easiest and most effective way of powering transport at the moment (and pretty much the only game in town for air travel). Doesn’t mean they aren’t a massive problem.
I’ve yet to read any kind of optimistic sci-fi that operates in a capitalist society. The two most obvious (Star Trek and the Culture) both envision a post-scarcity society enabled by technology so advanced it might as well be magic.
I’d be curious to know what percentage of people are still writing windows clients. I suspect there’s a lot of legacy code still out there, but it’s clearly not the future
Otherwise, carry on.
The difference is that artists used to be able to earn a decent living from selling their art.
Today, artists (unless they are actually producing physical artifacts) are expected to give their work away for free (or for so little as to be pointless).
But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy some really great TV and ignore the reality dreck. You can have a beer with friends or enjoy a wine with a meal without being an alcoholic.
And you can go for a run without feeling the need to look down on people who don’t want to do ultras.
If you want to build a shed, go to your local hardware store and buy a kit set.
If you want to build a skyscraper, get an architect, some engineers and a competent building company.
I don’t disagree.
Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the main character had the audacity to suggest the US wasn’t the freedom-est country in the world?
The rest of the world just nodded and said “yeah, we know”.
Most countries aren’t purely socialist in the same way the US isn’t purely capitalist.
Who would want to live in a purely socialist society? Probably very few people.
Who would want to live in a social democratic society? Most of the developed world.
Btw, I have this amazing bridge for sale….
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2022/03/new-zealand-ran...
In fact, after 20 years writing software with various companies, the only ones that didn’t have code older than 10 years were the startups.
But even then, that doesn’t matter. If you’re code is really complex, you’re going to struggle to come back to it in 6 months, never mind 6 years.
Code should be as complex as it needs to be and no more. Write with maintainability in mind.
Asking how you can get into gamedev is kinda like asking how can you be a professional musician. Sure, you need to know and like music as a base, but becoming a concert pianist, a jazz drummer, a metal guitarist or a hip hop mc are very different paths.
Similarly, there’s a big difference between working on Elden Ring vs a small indie or even one of the millions of match 3 mobile games.
Performance critical code like game engines, etc used to avoid exceptions like the plague. Not entirely surprised to find that’s still the case.
MHLs make it more likely that you will be involved in an accident, but also more likely that you will survive said accident.
It’s a trade off between risk and consequences. If I’m given the choice of getting slapped in the face on a coin toss or playing Russian roulette, I’m going to choose a 50% chance of a slap vs a 16% chance of death.
And honestly, the whole argument that less people will cycle if they have to wear a helmet is colossally dumb. Only an idiot would drive without a seat belt these days, but they also faced resistance when they were first enforced. People just get used it.
Also, NZ has MHLs and cycling is going up.
Not really. People fear change. Engineers at Meta almost certainly have good pay, work with people they like, have a generally comfortable life.
Wikipedia - Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples
By what measure are Maori not indigenous to NZ? If another group arrived first, they certainly didn't stay, and even by your own measure of "time of inhabitation", Maori have been here the longest (at least 350 years before Europeans).
You mean apart from this link that specifically talks about use tradition harvesting practices and local knowledge to find the kōura to study?
https://niwa.co.nz/our-science/freshwater/research-projects/...
> Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand
Completely untrue. They are absolutely indigenous to NZ.
I'm so tired of this stupid myth being brought up again and again. Yes, Maori arrived in NZ. They were the first people to do so. They are the indigenous people of NZ.
Unless you want to argue that to be "indigenous", you literally need to have evolved in that place, which is a nonsense argument as far as humans are concerned.
Look at Australia for example. The indigenous people figured out thousands of years ago how to manage native bush.
I'm not saying we should replace science with traditional knowledge. But indigenous practices are absolutely worthy of study, and can guide science.
Possibly. Generally, I'd only involve HR as a last resort. Go to them for guidance, certainly, but in terms of dealing with an employee, I prefer to talk to them directly.
> [abuse of sick leave]
Completely agree that it's a delicate situation and you need to be very careful, or (in some countries depending on employment law) you could be open to a claim of wrongful dismissal.
All of which is why I don't expect an AI to take over people management roles any time soon.
Either way, a good manager can work with the employee to get a good outcome for both parties.
At that point, you need to talk to the employee and figure out a solution.
I'll take a system with 70% coverage that's focused on the really complex pieces over a system with 99% coverage that's mostly checking that "person.Name" returns the name.
Your engineers should know where be dragons in the code and unit testing appropriately.
I would have thought this is pretty standard. You've just described the testing pyramid.