The shitty salesman who won't leave your stoop is harassment. Religious evangalists who keep coming to your door after you tell them to stop is harassment.
When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.
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When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.
You don't have some God-given right to demand the undivided attention of a stranger. That is literally the behavior of a 5-year old. Grow up.
I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some grand experience of human life.
But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. We don't have decent public transit and there are very few jobs within walking distance of most residential areas. Those jobs that do exist don't pay a living wage because pegging minimum wage to inflation or even the poverty line is "communism" and an "attack on businesses".
Our problems with car fatalities is really only one small symptom of the ongoing collapse of American society.
Or maybe this is just how young people think when given access to this type of information.
CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend a couple of hours learning about your CI caches when you can just download and build the same pinned static library a billion times? The server you're downloading from is (of course) someone else's problem and you don't care about wasting their resources either. The power you're burning by running CI for there hours instead of one is also someone else's problem. Compute time? Someone else's problem. Cloud costs? You bet it's someone else's problem.
Sure, some things you don't want to cache. I always do a 100% clean build when cutting a release or merging to master. But for intermediate commits on a feature branch? Literally no reason not to cache builds the exact same way you do on your local machine.
The absolute hardest part (for me) about learning a language is listening comprehension. I can read, write, and speak French at a reasonable level, but I've never been able to understand a native speaker. It would take a lot of work and exposure to bring my mastery up to the level of my second-year written French. A large part of that is because spoken French is a hot mess compared to the written form, but I digress.
A written language without a spoken form is a lot easier to grok. Especially programming languages and their limited grammar. But I think there's more to it than that. One of the reasons I find it trivial to learn programming languages is that code is code is code, no matter which flavor of sugar you shovel on top. The language is simply an abstraction for a logical construct. Skilled programmers work on that logical construct directly, and the language is nothing more than a means to an end.
Also there's the fact that the written word is intransient. You have time to pause and search your memory or dictionary for a word. A spoken language requires extensive training to literally rewire your brain. You can't stop to ponder a word because it's gone before you can reconstruct a word from sounds. There's a very good reason that our brains have hardware to turn sounds into linguistic tokens. It's just too much processing to do at a conscious level at any reasonable speed.
We definitely would not have Electron and that's a world I want to live in.
Right, because it's fucking ridiculous to expect a driver to fumble through menus while driving.
The ultra-rich get tax loopholes and the rest of us have to make up for it with increased taxes and decreased government services.
It is an investment vehicle, not a functional currency. For most people you can't use it as a currency if you tried.
It's maybe not a literary masterpiece and it's suspiciously similar to The Martian if you squint. But not many books can get me laughing out loud the second or third time through.
It's a really fun read and I find the aliens particularly compelling in a way that most Sci-Fi doesn't get right.
I also don't play any games that require a rootkit, so..
No matter how secure your browser setup is, Google is tracking you. By filling their trackers with garbage, there's less that can personally identify you as an individual
And yes, that's absolute peanuts for any business. But in my view, spending almost $1k annually for a GitLab server for a team of ten is ridiculous.
We could accomplish exactly the same thing on-prem with hardware we already own. It would take a couple of engineer-hours per year. As long as it's under 40 hours of maintenance per year, we come out day ahead. And over the last two years, I've had to spend a total of maybe 10 hours with hands on this box.
I just don't get the thinking that leads businesses to put unnecessary crap in the cloud. Just save your money, on-prem is cheaper for pretty much everyone not doing a saas or less than a few hundred employees
They're a common pack-in item with low- and high-end clamp meters.
We go from a society where only a very few people are literate in math to one where everyone has a literal supercomputer at all times. What do you think that would do for math literacy in a society? Would everyone suddenly went to learn algebra and calculus? Or would the vast majority of people use the easy machine and accept its answers without question or understanding?
Admitting that there might be another way and that it might be much better would be admitting the unthinkable cruelty of the status quo.
Second because the second order effects of reverting American society to Victorian slums would be incredibly bad for the economy and your tax burden.
Because somehow a plurality of Americans seem to have been convinced by the guy stealing all their money that it's someone else's fault and you should stone them to death instead.
Because letting large portions of the population starve to death slowly is just a bad thing in general?
Because it would be good for everyone including you.
Because you'd wish that someone else wasn't a smug asshole with an "I got mine" attitude and gave you help when you need it.
They abandoned forms and WPF, and UWP is getting much the same treatment.
Also there was the whole framework/standard/core fiasco
Kotlin is incredibly expressive and can get quite complicated. Java is a bit more brutally simple (and obviously more verbose).
As a C# dev primarily, I love Kotlin, and I've always hated Java despite it being the very first language I learned.
I wouldn't call Kotlin simple by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a very high-level language.
As a homelabber I can see the sense, but as the IT guy at a small company it doesn't sound like a great deal.
If I were in a situation where I needed some physical machines, didn't care how old they are, and budget was an issue, I'd just go to eBay. Just get something cheap and own it outright without some corporation sticking their nose into the process.
I imagine the market segment willing to accept old and refurbed servers, yet requires some SLA from the vendor is not terribly large. Almost all businesses would be better served by owning last generation servers outright or simply using AWS.
Then again, we are talking about an industry that's happy paying tens of thousands of dollars in AWS bills for an application that can reasonably run on a single server from 2016. So there's no inherent logic at play.
If you care at all about data leaks, there's literally no reason to not destroy decomissioned frives and a lot of very real potential risks in not destroying it.
It may be "nicer" to a hypothetical second user, but you don't care about them and new drives are dirt cheap anyway.