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I wouldn't say that it's just "some people on the left" - I dont want to place myself on either side of the fence but sky news are doing interviews with cross sections of Conservative / Labor / Swing voters and most of them think that this is Truss's fault.
You are correct that this has coincided with the dollar making gains against most other currencies, and the effects of the mini-budget may be difficult to dis-entangle from that, but from the people I've seen interviewed, most people agree that the mini-budget has at least made things worse for the pound. It's worth pointing out that the pound has fallen significantly against the euro too[0].
[0] - XE dotcom
I am someone who's worked in a few of these industries over the years, let me list a few examples of the kind of places where the answers you get to these questions won't indicate goodness or badness of the employer.
"Do developers in your organization have full admin rights on their own computer?" For security critical applications, often no. For obvious reasons. For payments software, the company may be compliance mandated to not give you full permissions either.
"Are developers free to choose and install the operating system?" For games. Especially PC games, no. If you're developing for windows, you'll develop on windows, often with VC++. (maybe if you're using Unity, you're CI pipeline will produce builds for you)
"How long does it take to run the CI for new merge requests?" In game development, it's not unheard of for a full release build to take an entire day. Games are complicated, often requiring a lot of libraries that are cached, but still need to be downloaded onto a fresh instance where a build will take place. This takes a long long time.
"How many different IT support organizations do you have. Where are they physically located?" Mastercard has its IT support organization located in the US. Even for it's UK offices. Tickets still get solved quickly even at awkward times in the morning for GMT employees.
In short, most of these are only applicable to web development outfits. There's nothing wrong with that, web dev jobs are the majority of jobs. But just be aware that this is baised towards that.
Kagi is in a whole other league. It's on par with, if not better than google search. I highly recommend it. When they introduce the paid tier I'm sure as hell going to subscribe to it. At this point I would trade my Netflix subscription for it.
Also isn't it pretty racist /sexist to suggest that just because your black or a woman, you won't be able to commute?
I don't think we should be so cynical as to just lie down and accept that some things are just too hard to get right
The generics problem isn't solved with the introduction of generics either. What they have introduced feels limiting in ways that will solve none of the problems that I have had to deal with by using large amounts of code replication to avoid having to use reflection.
I like go because it provides a good WebServer STL, besides that, for my next web project I'm going back to using C++ or Erlang.
- Crypto inherently holds no security benifits over traditional banking. Fortran has been used for decades because it has worked, and there has been little need for change.Fortran isn't a security hole in itself. In fact it has all of the same problems with private PIN access and MFA, PLUS all the downsides that come with malicious smart contracts. As far as personal security goes, crypto is much much worse.
- The immutable and public nature of smart contracts. Why should anything be immutable? What if something is done by mistake, or by fraud? The benefits of traditional banking is that at the end of the day, there is a human on the other side that can reverse things if stuff goes wrong.
- I see no benefit of the entire chain being public, just because I give someone my public key, because I spend money with them, or my employer needs to pay me, why should they be able to see EVERY transaction I have ever made?
- No human being that's able to reverse fraudulent or mistaken transactions
- Currency that's hardly more stable (probably less so) than the world's the least stable currencies
- A digital environment that's rife with fraud and a completely fresh and unknown attack surface due to the nature of smart contracts
- Sky high transaction costs. Meaning the poor (the unbanked) will may more for banking than the rich do. (like they do for furniture https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/...)
Can anyone explain to me how crypto is uniquely suited to solve this problem? I'm not in principal against crypto currencies existing, but more and more I just see people trying to apply it to problems that they think exist because "the financial system is over regulated" - without providing any argument for why regulation is causing the unfairness in the first place?
I have yet to see anyone define a single problem in the financial system that crypto is uniquely placed to solve (besides funding criminal activity and bypassing sanctions), that wouldn't be better solved from better competition between banks.
Not every country in the world has a banking sector that serves it's customers as badly as in the US.
I don't want to deal with the bugs that come with it. Every time I try to use it, it feels unstable. Mainly that manifests itself in problems when opening and closing and the lid of my laptop, or problems with controlling the fans
[ref] https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/DeviantArt-Protect-H...