I think most corporations use Java, probably "primarily" Java too.
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That sounds incredibly elitist and cringey. If I had a child earning six figures as a bartender I’d be very impressed, and even if they weren’t earning six figures but were enjoying life I’d be happy… And taking it from another perspective, I know people who’s parents would be disappointed their children are ‘lowly software engineers’ too. With that sort of attitude you can rarely win.
Edit: I saw a project recently written in C++ and they had subrepos in a `deps/` directory and then linked to those, so it was all manually managed. If I were to make a new project in C++ I think that's how I'd go too.
Id be interested what Grade 1 girls are carrying around that’s totalling 5kg - that’s three hardcover undergrad physics textbooks lol. And even if they do combine to 5kg, there’s no evidence it causes any harm to children!
If they do have health issues accommodations should be made of course! But the vast majority can carry a couple books.
I agree fighting obesity is not going to be solved by carrying books BUT I think this attitude towards coddling children is partly responsible, along with food as you mention which is also very important.
Edit: Just so this isn’t anecdotal points, here’s a survey that found no evidence backpacks cause issues in children https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/19/1241
I cannot remember a single person complaining about a heavy rucksack when I was in school a decade ago - by 13 we had CCF so had to go hiking with much heavier bags on the weekends. At 15.5 you can join the military schools and you’ll be carrying 25kg. This shouldn’t be a worry unless you’re physically disabled or something. Duke of Edinburgh involves hiking 13k a day with all your camping equipment and food at 12 years old over a weekend. Etc…
Edit: downvotes, any reason why? Or just HFT == Bad?
Also, this is a UX issue with the site, not an issue with the EU. The EU wants companies to outright ask permission to collect your data and sell it. I can't think of another organisation at that level so pro-individual against big tech, can you? If cookie clicking is an issue, use companies that don't collect your data.
Edit: Look at the US is doing on another HN front-page article https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bge3/dhs-uses-ai-tool-babe...
""" The EU states, “beverage containers that are single-use plastic products should only be allowed to be placed on the market if they fulfil specific product design requirements that significantly reduce the dispersal into the environment of beverage container caps and lids made of plastic.” Article 6 of the directive gives a more detailed insight. According to this article, caps and lids made out of plastic may be placed on the market only if the caps and lids remain attached to the containers during the products’ intended use stage. Tethered caps will become mandatory in the EU in July 2024. """
Why is this a thing? Because plastic lids are made of a harder plastic that doesn't degrade as quickly and is much less recycled than the bottles themselves. How prevalent is this? In the last 30 years 20 million bottle caps have been found on beaches alone in Europe during clean-up work. They are in the top 5 ocean trash items that ultimately kill wildlife. This is only a small snapshot of the ultimate number of bottle caps not recycled aside their bottles.
To fix this, the EU suggest tethering the lid to the bottle so they're less easily lost and more likely to be recycled properly. 20 companies are responsible for the majority of throwaway plastics in the world, so this change is required in only a few places but could have a large net-benefit. Ultimately this is something that can only come from top-down optimization - why? Because it increases costs for each bottle.
> This new bottle cap design requirement must have created a new economy for producing these bottle caps for all of the containers, someone profited.
Companies lost money from this and tried to lobby to avoid it by trying ideas first, and then tethering if those failed.
> There are massive problems around waste that no one there dares to approach, so they make these weird directives that just smell of corruption and incompetence.
Why can't we tackle the small and the large?
> Many cities, to avoid fines, provide separate containers, but in the end just throw everything on the same pile.
Depends on the city/country, but the primary issue with lids is wildlife harm in my opinion so this does fix that issue.
Edit: Maybe you're unaware of the term https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/sole-contractor, I was talking about a single person consulting, not a contract developer or whatever
Two solutions I have seen (thanks to the news):
1. Be being a world-class academic on a hot ML topic consulting to a huge tech company at a strategic level
2. Be the prime minister of a G8 country and consult for global investment firms
If you're a software engineer or even engineering leader at a startup/SME you're not going to find these contracts unless you're in the 0.001% of the market for a niche skill that's desperately in need.