dustinmoris

Disagree. Objectively speaking this is not how it works and never has worked in history. The winner takes it all, that's how it worked across the globe in all other territories across the world.

EDIT: Also this argument if completely flawed because Taiwan has no leg to stand on. The only reason why it existed the way it has for so long is because China has actually been nice and not exercised its power. If China was to move troops into Taiwan next week there would be no actual opposition apart from fake outrage in the West, same as what happened with Hong Kong. HK was always part of China historically and the West initially agreed a deal with China to be allowed to have a base there and as time has moved on they thought they could infiltrate from within HK to make the independent and make it a US proxy state, but China, just like Russia now probably, has remained firm to the original roots of HK and now re-exercised their right claim over it and as we have seen the West has done nothing abou tit because they know they 1. cannot and 2. have no real right.

Am I the only one who thinks that the reality of this crisis is a lot more nuanced than what Western media shows us?

Same as with Taiwan. It's an island off China and rebels flew there at some point and started to govern Taiwan as if it was theirs. China always insisted that Taiwan is part of China but because they never used military force to put an end to the game which those rebels played on that island it became harder for China to maintain the premise that Taiwan is in fact still part of China. Obviously the West has HUGE incentives to keep Taiwan seperate from China so will only portray one side of the story and the longer China was doing the objectively speaking right thing (not using force to exercise their right) the easier it is for the West to peddle the idea that Taiwan is in fact not part of China. It's almost like the West has been intelligently exploiting the good will of the East and I do feel like there is a lot of that going on between Ukraine and Russia as well.

Unfortunately there are no objective sources of news anymore and it's hard to really get a well balanced overview of the crisis. When I read on Wikipedia that for instance more than half of the Ukraine was not in favour of the Euromaiden protests, or other minor facts which shine a slightly different light on everything I am curious how much did the West contribute in stirring the crisis like we know they did in other countries in the world (Cuba, Middle East, Arab Spring, etc.)

> Instead it's there to get everyone on the same page.

How do you get everyone on the same page if you cannot ask questions?

This whole standup theatre is complete bullshit. It's true it's a waste of time. You say it's only meant to be a quick "status update" 10 minute meeting. What is the point of that if then asking questions is not allowed? If it is allowed then it's true though that for the majority of listeners it becomes a time sink.

The best performing teams I've worked on had no standups. They talked to each other when there was something to talk about and they only talked to the folks who were genuinely interested in the conversation.

Worth noting that YARP (or as someone has eloquently described it as PRAY) here was another Microsoft project which basically killed a previous open source project which did the same thing:

https://github.com/proxykit/ProxyKit

I am the first one to dislike all these product management tools, but if I had to pick one then I'd use https://shortcut.com (previously known as Clubhouse before the shitty Clubhouse came along).

I used it at a startup for two years and was so much better than anything else I used before.

Apple:

You can use Apple ID voluntarily to sync all your settings and data across macOS, iOS on iPhones, iOS on iPads, watchOS and Apple TV.

Microsoft:

We have no tablets, watches and not even a phone. You just have a PC and we force you to use a Microsoft account so you can sync all your data with our marketing and sales department and the government if need to be.

For the last few years I've been trying to change the billing address of my Microsoft and Office 365 account and it's still wrong. Microsoft account management is so feckin' stupid that I feel sorry for all Windows 11 users who will be forced to use it.

BTW before people come and try to tell me how to change my billing address, I know how to do it. I did it everywhere. It shows correctly everywhere on the websites, but as soon as Microsoft creates the PDF invoice that I need to send to my accountant it has the old address on it, despite it being updated EVERYWHERE. I gave up on it. I basically doctor the address myself and then take a screenshot of the pdf with the corrected address and send the image to my accountant so he stops annoying me that the billing address is wrong.

Prince Andrew has also just paid his victims cough a person he has never met.

I've not seen anyone drop dead around me and everyone who I know had been vaccinated including myself and my entire family.

Have you got any news links which you could add to your comment which support the claim that healthy football players and young children have been dropping dead after taking the vaccine?

Yes, it is okay.

Software developers are so severely in demand that you can reject a job on whatever you fancy because frankly you can. You have a unique opportunity to make your life as enjoyable as possible and whilst most people don't have the luck of having this much choice over their job happiness you happen to be one of the few privileged people who can so make use of it.

Secondly, I 100% understand where you come from.

I cannot work with Teams either.

In fact I'm a bit like you and actively try to avoid companies which use these softwares:

- SharePoint

- Teams

- Azure

- Azure DevOps

- Atlassian stuff

Oh no, now Epic will get upset because they won't be able to plug in an external USB 2.0 CC reader into an iPhone.

For me the top 3 health products are:

1. Water

2. Vegetables

3. Fruit

The only thing I have on "subscription" is water. We have pipes fixed in our house so that we can get water whenever we need it as part of our subscription with our water supplier.

self plug:

https://dusted.codes

I still don't understand why this is so hard to understand:

Developers can absolutely develop an app with whichever payment system they want and keep all the income to themselves. Develop a web app and do whatever you want. You integrate with whichever third party systems you want and provide the experience you think is best for your users and yourself. Anyone will be able to use your web app from an iPhone as much as they will be able to use it from a Desktop device.

However, if you actively choose to develop a native iOS app in order to integrate with Apple's native APIs in order to provide an experience which can be superior to a web app then it's not a far stretch to expect you to therefore integrate with Apple's native APIs across the board, including payments. I mean that is literally why you choose to develop a native app, because you want to provide EXTRA value to your users by making use of APIs which Apple invested in.

> On the other hand, consoles' hardware is nearly always subsidized by expected future software royalties

Legally that has no bearing on the matter though.

It should be this way anyway. Currently they pay little to no tax on all their European income. They don't even collect VAT which to me is a mystery how they can get away with it, because AFAIK it's already a law they should have to follow.

Actually Kubernetes is not complex.

The requirements of most software developers are complex. Running small self contained and isolated applications in a highly scalable manner which can scale automatically, where dead services get killed and replaced, where health checks, readiness and liveliness checks fully automate a lot of dev ops problems, where things can be load balanced publicly as well as privately in a private VPN and where complex ingress rules can be created to route traffic from one load balancer to different smaller load balancers which distribute traffic across different apps and with automatic SSL certificate management for public services via an ACME provider are VERY COMPLEX requirements.

If you want to run your stuff in such an advanced fashion then Kubernetes makes it EXTREMELY SIMPLE.

If you don't care about these things then don't complain about Kubernetes. Just run your shit on a single VM and deal with everything manually as and when you need it.

I have been Windows free for many years now, but because Windows and Microsoft are becoming increasingly user hostile I have also started to switch all my non-techie family members from Windows to macOS.

We have only one more Windows device left in our household and this year that one will get replaced as well.

This is the "new" Microsoft - so absolutely hostile and shit that I felt forced to convert everyone from my wife, to my grandmother to move from Windows to Apple and they all feel so happy and keep asking my why they never used Apple before. The integration with their iPhones and iPads is wonderful and the OS really gets out of their way and lets them do the things they care about the most. Things work and don't break.

Wow, which language did you find easier to learn than Go? HTML doesn't count.

> It seems like MS responds to the competition with quantity instead of actually building some quality packages and frameworks.

This! 100%! For many many years now. It's painful for all people involved (including the .NET community). Microsoft doesn't mind though, they love developing a shitload of competing frameworks, because once a framework hits version 3 or 4 where it starts to feel slightly mature then the internal incentives require the teams to dump the project and "invent" something new to stay relevant internally.

Azure and Azure DevOps falls into the same category. Straight from the Idiot department at Microsoft.

Why do you ask about iOS? How do you download Firefox in a Tesla? How do you download Firefox on a Nintendo Gameboy? Those are special devices which have special requirements. I wouldn't compare that to a computer.

On my laptop it's super easy. I opened Safari, went to the Firefox website, then downloaded it. At no point whatsoever did Apple bully me into not downloading Firefox.

I have been using Safari and Firefox for years. Never have I got a pop-up in Safari when I visited the Chrome website to tell me that I should stay on Safari. Strange, because you say that Apple has been doing this for years yet it has completely escaped me!

Also, never have I seen a pop-up in iOS to tell me to use Apple Maps when I opened or downloaded Google Maps. Again, very strange, because you are claiming that Apple is doing the same disgusting tactics as Microsoft, yet I have never felt as an iOS or macOS user to be bullied into using Apple Maps.

Uh yes? If you don’t make software then obviously you won’t make software for macOS either lol?

Those folks also us macOS, but that was not the poiI tried to make.

Agreed. BigQuery, Cloud Spanner and Firebase are unique products which no other cloud provider can match even in the slightest. I think these things are a pull factor into GCP and everything else can be easily replaced once people decided to just move everything into GCP.

I got sucked into GCP because GKE is (still) much more advanced than EKS or AKS and that alone was a pull factor for me, let alone the other services which I mentioned.

> macOs.... doesn't run most programs people need (because the business world is still Windows oriented)

This is not only not true for many years anymore, it's even got so far that it's almost the opposite now. Most successful businesses nowadays are increasingly led by tech-savvy leaders, because otherwise they wouldn't be successful anymore, and those people make their own software now increasingly better on macOS than Windows for their own selfish reasons because they all run on MacBooks, iPhones and Apple Watches today.

Even Microsoft's own software ironically works MUCH better on macOS than Windows. Try Office on macOS and you'll be surprised how good it is compared to Windows :)

It's interesting how many people here rationalise the trash that Windows 11 is by thinking that Microsoft is purposefully trying things out for Windows 12 which will be much better again. As if Microsoft would actually produce trash on purpose and piss off lots of their remaining customers with some optimistic big picture in mind. Nah, the truth is they actually think it's a great OS which is really the scary thing in this entire thing. You'd think one day they'd manage to hire at least one good UX person from their competitors to clean up the trash Windows has been for years now but they keep thinking they can do it themselves with the same people who have already been doing the same trash for way too long.

> It honestly sounds like this is a conversation for your doctor, considering the possible heart thing

Yes, if I must get a third jab in order to be allowed to roam freely then I will probably ask my GP if I could get a different vaccine the next time. I had Moderna as my first two jabs and perhaps having the Johnson or Oxford is something to consider.

For all adults means everyone above 18. That seems rather extreme.

It is important to remember that initially we meant to protect the vulnerable. I still remember when several government ministers in their late 50s and people even in their 80s contracted COVID-19 and the majority of those were saying in TV interviews that they had luckily only mild symptoms. I remember when the chief medical officer was stressing that even though the virus can be deadly that the vast majority of people will experience no or very mild symptoms.

That was at the beginning of the pandemic. I contracted the virus like at the very start and I had indeed only mild symptoms. Almost a year later I received my very first shot as soon as I was eligible. I was very happy because people were saying that I could get COVID again and I simply didn't want to be unwell for a week again even if it was a mild illness to me. Then I got my second shot as well as soon as I could get it. I was convinced that after my natural infection that I had a very strong immune response, because I was knowingly exposed to COVID many times before I got my first vaccine jab and never felt ill again.

Now I have had: - Natural infection before vaccine: I had a very mild illness - 1st shot - 2nd shot - Many natural exposures to COVID which might have boosted my immune response.

I honestly don't feel very keen anymore on yet another jab. Mainly because when I got my first two jabs I had quite noticeable heart palpitations for a few days after and now I'm thinking why do I still need to keep getting more jabs if even when I didn't have a jab at all I was already strong enough to shake off the virus.

I do understand that we need to have a lot of immunity and I do believe that I have a lot of immunity without any further boosters. I'm certain that my natural immunity has given me the best protection from the beginning with the jabs acting as long lasting boosters.

Can someone explain to me why I should even entertain the idea of yet another booster. I feel like I'm ok to get infected with COVID-19 once every so often like with a cold or flu. We all have a baseline protection which we didn't have before. Now our illness should be mild for everyone, even the older and more vulnerable people.

We obviously don't know like 99.9% of the full story, but the fact that he had a long session with the COO one evening and then got fired the very next day in the morning is just plain evil and wrong. It's not how you treat a human. It's disrespectful to say the least. The employee went home feeling good, so the COO basically charmed him up the day before firing him in order to get out the last ounce of what they considered was worth getting out of this employee before discarding him. That's disgusting behaviour and I personally would never want to work with such a COO or company at all.

Now on the topic of swagger. I agree, it's important to know who you are and be comfortable to be that person. Every human contributes in their own way. Swagger doesn't mean ego or arrogance, to me swagger means you know your strengths and feel comfortable to play your role in your team/community/family/etc.

Some people are great critical thinkers, some are great motivators, jokers, conservatives and risk averse planners, etc.

You need all of them. Everyone has their own swagger. Some people are quiet and sit in the corner of a room and throw in a critical question at the right moment of a meeting which others might find annoying but in the end everyone knows it was good that it happened. Some talk a lot, walk into a room and make jokes and struggle to sometimes focus on the topic at hand but they lift up spirits and soften the mood when things get heated. Like there is really no perfect human being. You need all those different characters to contribute and it requires everyone to be accepting of the other person in order to really become a great team. This is how it works in strong families who go through thick and thin and this is how it works in great performing teams.

Know yourself and know your swagger!