Sounds more like a personal frustration.
Rates are hiked to combat a high CPI. Housing costs, with the exception of home-related taxes, are not even included in the CPI.
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Rates are hiked to combat a high CPI. Housing costs, with the exception of home-related taxes, are not even included in the CPI.
Whilst I strongly agree SPAs are overused, let's take a moment to consider this sorry state of affairs. It's 2023 and when you ship some 50-200KB of executable code, you're in the red.
This is like 1/7th of a damn floppy disk, which I've lived through. Mobile apps are hundreds of MB in size, and we're supposed to compete with that using sticks and stones. Recently my Razor mouse had a driver update, it was 2GB in size. We learn about Unity on desktop, now able to render 17 trillion polygons per second yet we struggle to render some state and squares on the mobile web.
That's the real issue. Big parts of the mobile web are severely underpowered yet we still want to ship the "rich application" paradigm to them. Worse, without web standards offering anything remotely useful for this model.
That said, the idea that SPAs offer a superior experience that users are somehow demanding is bullshit when you consider how a typical SPA works. Consider a simple navigation action (route change) where the standard argument in favor of SPAs is that these are much faster compared to a traditional server-side page reload.
First, the SPA might need to load a new bundle, as tree shaking is the best practice where you lazily load per route code. This client code needs to be downloaded, parsed and executed, before anything even starts to happen. Next, the route-specific components mount. Many will require remote data, so at this point the page change may feel fast, it's useless and will remain useless until all remote network calls are resolved.
Compare this to a traditional, well-optimized MPA. You navigate to another route. The server will come back with ALL data/state resolved as well as all rendering (HTML) already done. And as this server response comes in, the browser is already working on the DOM layout/paint process, which is not true for a REST call. Plus, back/forward works reliably, scroll position works, memory leaks are no issue nor are stale tabs.
It's really debatable whether the SPA has the better experience or that users demand it. The point is to deliver meaningful content and interactions, that's the true value of whatever you are building. As such, I think the new wave of SSR/hybrid frameworks are a step in the right direction.
Drama is the product, not reality or any actual in-depth tech journalism.
Google got a wake-up call, but search will be just fine. Google controls search defaults on Android, iOS, Chrome on Windows, and Firefox. Not to mention on TVs, voice control, it's everywhere.
Google can launch a new product to billions of people with the press of a button, Microsoft...not so much. You could argue they can push it into Windows, but most people are on their phones these days. Microsoft has no serious presence in the consumer space anymore.
This is what will buy Google time to integrate a competing service, which I expect to be better as it sits on a lot more data.
Just kidding, I would absolutely recommend dumping Google stock.
When you deploy a tool as such, you're asking for it.
Still, it's an interesting question from the user's perspective. Reminds me of the downside of lazily-loaded images on the web. Whilst designed to help people with data constraints, it can have surprising side effects. The anecdote that comes to mind was a rural town in India where inhabitants would visit a particular place for internet access. They'd open a few URLs and just let it download, could take some 20 mins. Next, they'd return to their home to actually look at the pages they downloaded.
This usage pattern doesn't work with lazily loaded images, it forces them to scroll and wait beginning to end on every single URL.
I'll drink it regardless, as many as I want. I'll pretend the negatives don't exist which by means of placebo is true in my "lived experience".
Denial is an undervalued life skill. When somebody declares a complicated problem, you simply decide "no it isn't" and then you move on.
At times it comes across as peaceful, but in a very creepy way. 100% ideological consistency where the ideology is nothing of substance, just unhinged online-only performative virtue signaling. Every once in a while a reply gives a minor pushback after which the account is immediately circled and stomped on.
As for migrating followers, I hear that it's glitchy, people typically lose a portion of their followers when migrating.
They've build tools to find out who plays/streams this game and then spam the chat. They bully people to unfollow said players. They post game spoilers everywhere on social media. They report Mastodon users playing the game, demanding a ban. And when the mod does not comply, they circle and attack the mod. The mod...whom specifically managed a LGBTQ+ instance.
The game is now antisemitic too, because it contains some ancient horn artifact?
There is no end to their sadism and pettiness. And when the damage is done, they'll high five each other and consider it another win for the humanitarian cause.
They're evil and disturbed.
In fact, especially for disadvantaged people merit is the dream maker.
What you can do is to offer a baseline equal chance, in the form of an accessible/affordable high quality public schooling system. It's one of the most sound investments any society can make.
Those that are able (capable, talented, willing) then have a fighting chance. Some will have to grind a little harder than others, but that's life. The point is that you get a chance to perform, and then you perform to your ability. You don't have to match the luckiest and most talented out there.
I myself was born in the lower working class, with no studying peers in my entire network, and dysfunctional parents. Yet, lucky to live in a country with a pretty decent public schooling system.
You know what shocked me most? How stupidly easy it is. The bar really is absurdly low. All I did was to consistently show up and pay attention in class. To take the education serious, which supposedly is a tall order nowadays.
Next, in my follow-up education I was advised to take the middle road, and to not aim too high. I dismissed the school director's advise and said that I will aim high. I'll simply cope by grinding through it. I'll study day and night if needed to match my superior peers.
Guess what? No such grinding was needed. Again I simply consistently showed up and paid attention, whilst my peers were drunk and couldn't bother to even show up. It was so stupendously easy that I could work so much on the side that I graduated debt-free.
If you don't do well on a test, do better. The world shouldn't give you an easier test because that's not the point of a test.
You know who scores well on test? Girls. Consistently better than boys. Why? They take the education more serious. They pay attention, ask questions, take notes, do their homework. Consistently and with discipline.
Sounds almost like...merit.
Depends on what you mean by starting point.
If my neighbor is genetically advantaged from the start to perform in a particular task then that may be "unfair", it's still best to let that person win. Dragging down top performers is the worst we can do nor should we boost non-performers in artificial ways.
If the unequal starting point is socio-economic, say a genius going to waste because they have no access to education, then I agree that this is bad. The solution is accessible/affordable schooling. Importantly though, that gives access, not outcomes. You still need to pass the test and prove (and improve) your capability.
I'll use the relatively non-controversial example of the Chinese. In Malaysia, they're a small minority of the population yet totally dominate business.
Why? Because they are extremely entrepreneurial, work crazy hours, and do this consistently up and down, from the tiny boutique in the streets to the multinational.
Why? I have no idea. But somehow its ingrained in their culture. I don't believe they have a special gene that uniquely benefits them. They're simply culturally centered around business and productivity.
On the opposite end there's the culture of apathy. To live by the day, accept one's state even if bad, and to make zero effort to improve it, even if opportunities present themselves.
These cultural differences very much exist and are plain to see and replicable, and lead to drastically different outcomes. But I guess simple truths are too controversial now, so let's go with the "systemic" nonsense.
Alright, Mr Gilbert, cloud engineer, microservices architect, UX person, whichever. What is your value to the company?
Well, I help to design a.....
No, your VALUE. As in, money. How much money do you make the company?
Errrr......
Another factor is that some (many) managers frankly have no idea what their employees do. Physical presence management is the coping strategy.
That being said, I do agree that in-person collaboration is richer and things can spontaneously be invented in ways virtual work will not allow for.
My advise: don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Coming in 2 days per week or so does have benefits, but there's also this other thing:
"It doesn’t matter where you work, as long as you get the work done."
I don't think everybody comprehends the consequences of this, which are not only positive. It's an open invitation to move your position to the lowest cost country that outputs quality that is acceptable. Flexibility goes both ways.
She's an ordinary girl. Privileged in every single way: wealthy, good looks, good brain. She's never showed even the tiniest sign of being uncomfortable in her body. Not in toys, clothing, choice of friends, just zero signals at all. She does not live in an environment that is in any way conservative or oppressive, nor religious.
You don't have to take this lack of signs from me, it's from her mother whom lived with her for 20 years in a row. The change comes out of the blue, is drastic, and closely aligns with her new environment and friends. So yes, social contagion is very much on the table if not the most likely factor. There's nothing controversial about social contagion as a mechanism, most people's behaviors and mindsets are drastically influenced by culture.
You seem to take my comment as judgmental, but it's coming from empathy. It's her choice and she'll live with the consequences, not me. But when there is an inexplainable spike in young girls changing body parts and making irreversible choices, and seemingly only in big city universities, then I have questions. Because I care about them, and I will never apologize for that.