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> The government doesn't have any incentive stopping crime, it just relies on the good will of policemen and their limited resources. If people complain because there is too much crime, they just have one more reason to increase taxes and do nothing.

This made me laugh out loud, so I guess you managed your objective (I'm referring to your nick)

Interestingly this also works in reverse, namely macOS is a downgrade if you are used to Windows 10.

> That is, any sort of astonishing improvements is often a sign of the original version being crappy, so it's also a red flag even if it's ultimately the good news.

How is it a red flag? I don't quite understand your comment.

> Assuming that allowing people to consume a substance freely will increase the consumption of that substance is absurd?

Not necessarily absurd. However that's not what you're responding to, which was a point about addiction increasing or being incentivised.

I don't think I need to point out that addiction is not the same as usage

> A great many higher earning software developers (HN's usual market) are in the same position

Once you start taking family commitments, salary requirements, type of company etc into consideration, the pool of available jobs is certainly reduced.

If there is a positive from Covid, I'd hope is the acceptance of full remote work as an option or at most token office presence (e.g. Once every other week)

FWIW, my question about job switching was very much tongue in cheek as by now I'm not that bothered but the first few weeks were a massive productivity sink, more so than the usual when one starts in a new company with a different stack, etc...

Interestingly the suggestion among the refuseniks is:

Just use your own device, nobody will be the wiser

I'm forced to use a Mac at work. What should I do? look for another job?

i guess it's getting a lot of load, it took a very long time for me to load up, like run a terraform init, plan and apply long ...

> I can assure you that no engineer could win a race against either one

You could turn that around and say that no F1 driver could design a car that would win in aero dominated F1 (mid 70s? onwards).

The car dominates in modern F1, you need look no further than the current Mercs.

Sure a good driver can outdrive the car but do you honestly think that Hamilton would've won in 2015's McLaren?

Seems that if you register with google Oauth the username is always Alex ... or at least for the two of us

I guess it depends on your domain, language, type of question, etc .. but in my experience you get a good amount of correct answers in SO, buy clearly YMMV.

I do find answers that are marked as correct that are no longer the best answer, what i find less of is obviously wrong answers marked as correct

>That seems contradictory to me.

Not necessarily, it could mean that the people that need to get tested aren't all getting tested.

A Transatlantic crossing took around ~ 100 hours, whereas a plane takes ~ 7 hours. So, we are talking about an order of magnitude improvement.

It's hardly the same thing with a supersonic airliner, which just reduces the time in roughly half.

> This is a bit offensive against saas and mobile apps and has a wrong vision that software is easy and hardware is hard.

A large amount (the majority?) of software isn't hard.

The hard part is getting the requirements

> Depending on your perspective, every expenditure and experience that money can buy, can be viewed as wasteful and harming the environment. For someone with no access to water, a long shower feels very wasteful.

You seem to be searching for a binary answer to something that most people would agree is a gradient. A long shower is not even in the same ballpark as a private supersonic jet, you clearly know this.

> If we don't actively come out of this dogma and not embark on some ground breaking technology, our lives won't change at all.

It's not an either/or proposition

I guess everybody has different experiences, but by and large, the subreddits I frequent are reasonable enough

Most people at my previous place did squash merge on pr completion and we cherry picked quite successfully, so I'd be interested to know how you get to:

> Squashing also turns cherry picked commits into merge conflicts.

From experience of working with new CI/CD systems where one doesn't quite understand what's failing due to ... reasons.

It's really quite easy to get into the 50s or close to 100 commits in a branch, which can lead to a horrendously messy history.

There are also people that like to commit before the try something locally and their branches are effectively a mess.

All of the above is magnified in a monorepo environment, where you might have thousands of commits a day against master if it weren't for enforcement policies that force a squash.

There is the idea of having an emergency fund, which given its nature, should be stored in an instant access savings accounts.

This is money for when you lose your job for instance

Your appetite for risks and circumstances determine how big it should be (a good rule of thumb is six months worth of salary) but there are countless stories of people trying to be clever with their emergency funds and storing them in ETFs or riskier investments only to find that when the need comes, their fund is not enough and get in financial distress.

FWIW, given how long people take to graduate from university in Spain, 25-30 is a more accurate measure of young working people that say 18-30.

As for a real job, well, let's say that in Spain, it's complicated

Massive Caveat: I've not lived in Spain for over 20 years though I have friends and family

> what is the meaning of "too late"?

I take it to mean for the human race to continue its existence in roughly the same way we've become accustomed over the past century or so (though the time frame will vary according to people, I suppose.

>maybe some amebas will evolve into something more peaceful that the savages we have become.

that could well be the case or we might be in this situation in a few billion years

why not both?

I should've mentioned the Kindle as I have one of the ad supported one, but I'm not aware of any other examples

it's an interesting point you make, but perhaps companies should make these trade offs transparent.

You can get the version that phones home or you can pay extra for the version that doesn't.

I suppose the problem is that they'd make this transparent and there would likely be a bit of backlash ... thank goodness that regulatory agencies have our best interests at heart /s

I'm sure there is a joke there somewhere as to how it was meant for them not us

To be fair, a rewrite from scratch can be justified in many situations, e.g. out of support stack that is hard to hire for or a change of direction where a lot of bespoke code was written and now a one size fits all is used, thus leaving a lot of redundant and interlinked code.

Rarely are those potential reasons actually weighted up against the full cost of the rewrite

Do you work in the US or UK?

I read your original post as working in the UK for an American company, but now I'm not so sure

This reminds me of the old mechanic's trick of providing an overinflated quote to do work that they didn't really want to do.

for a fiver you are on :)

I get where you are coming from

I find it odd that you consider Windows and PowerShell a niche, when it seems to have been enthusiastically embraced by the community