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I don't think it's a choice. If you don't believe something, no amount of trying to make yourself believe it is going to make it so. A whole lot of people raised in a religion who are now atheists can attest to the extreme mental turmoil trying to do so during the deconversion process can cause. You either believe, or don't believe in any given brand of supernatural unobservable phenomenon.

It has. I find it infantile and reflective of general millennial peter pan syndrome sensibilities, personally. (i'm a millennial fwiw) But clearly I'm in the minority.

I mean wtf is this. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/04/17/kubernetes-v1-30-relea...

You don't even need to do state mv anymore. They added the `moved` block a while ago. You can then delete it from the source after your apply at your leisure.

You can call yourself whatever you can get away with. There are a whole lot of people out there that have never slung anything but React-flavored JS being called developers and being paid to do it. The industry needs these technicians too, I guess.

During an evaluation I found a bug in their library. I went to their Slack, posted about it, and they gave a workaround in 15 minutes, created an issue in 30, and had a bugfix PR ready the next day. Pretty impressed with their team.

Excited to get to use it at some point.

>It's sort of a shame because we end up with these tools that are designed to inhibit and take away user agency rather than extend and advance it.

People have asked for this. Let me explain.

Incentives are important. They are what drive economic behavior. Companies tend to produce what the market incentivizes. The demand side of the market has shown an unwillingness to directly pay for much of consumer internet technology. Thus it has been produced in such a way as to monetize it in other ways. Ads, data aggregation and reselling, but mostly ads. Very few people are going to paid products that perform better and give users agency, thus incentivizing the market to continue to delivering what it is now, since that appears to be what users want.

Reminds me of Vigil. https://github.com/munificent/vigil

The primitive sadism underpinning the carceral system in this country is shameful.

Not only is it not dead, it has been intentionally and painstakingly reconstructed over the past ~150 years.

Have also seen them. They all have the same name with numbers at the end. Also getting a lot of "sorry we can't service your request responses" this past half hour or so.

You neglected to tell us what exactly it is you're talking about...

You people are actually going to turn me into a ludditic hermit with this shit. I do not want to install random corpo spyware to do literally everything in my life!

Unfortunately what you've said is just not true.

We do have some power, but the system is absolutely intended to suppress the power of the masses. The senate as an institution, the cap on the number of reps in the house, the electoral college, representative rather than parliamentary legislature elections, dark money/super PACs/Citizen's United (and other things that look even closer to outright bribery) and first-past-the-post are ALL anti-democractic institutions intended to preserve the status quo for the already wealthy and powerful.

As for having more power than any other society? Delusional. There are far more democractic electoral systems.

I've done some stuff in Node, Python, Java, Scala, R, TypeScript and some other stuff I'm sure, as well. But every time I'm on a project like that I just slog through, constantly reminded of what I'm missing. At this point I'm sure it's something like a "lingua franca" effect, but the point remains that I pine for comfy C# when I'm not using it.

I will say I did quite like working with Scala the language, despite the rather uncomfy Java ecosystem/tooling. Probably the only direction I'd want to go to leave C#/.NET as my primary tools would be towards Scala/F#/Haskell/Clojure/Erlang, etc. but the market for those is comparatively tiny.

Probably should have paid him triple the salary to be the best engineer you ever worked with then.

Yup. These kinds of tangentially related ad-posts on HN make me actively hostile to whatever it is they're selling.

https://use.expensify.com/blog/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-hire-n... this article again, but in HN comment form this time. yawn

It's way ahead has been for some time. I saw it nearly 13 years ago in my internship and have done primarily .NET stuff in the interim. It's only gotten better with age, dotnet core and new features.

There are gaps - data ecosystem is dominated by Java/Scala/Python. Numerical computing is dominated by Python (used to be R!). Microsoft has a decent story in their own ecosystem for the former. Their work on more numerical data types, generic math, and more are what I think is the start of bringing numerical computing to dotnet.

Can't wait to see what the next 13 years hold.

Also recommend checking out Azure Logic Apps' Google Sheets integration. It's been a few years since I've used it but I built some pretty nifty quick and dirty tools on top of Sheets, Logic Apps, and Azure Functions for back office app work at my last company.

Personally I love the AI tools. The summary tool is what got me converted from the trial to a paying user.

Quality is there for the most part, IME, but I definitely agree that their local features need a LOT of work.

FWIW I'm a customer and had never read about it on HN until this post. I learned about it from a private Discord programmer community.

Because then insurance companies wouldn't be able to skim ~20% off the top of the system. A lot of people who own stock in those insurance companies would be very upset.

Would almost certainly be better. Incentives drive almost all economic behavior. The way in which our institutions repeatedly fail to align incentives with the well being of society is tragic and astounding.

Expanding legal immigration is a political impossibility at the moment. We'll have a lot of near slave-wage bodies for the worst jobs around though.

I understand, I just don't care. It's the economic elites who don't seem to understand that they need a next generation to exploit and that the proletariat cannot be squeezed indefinitely. Eventually we look around and say "fuck this, I'm not wrenching sentience from the void to live in this morass".

In the industrialized world, the fertility rate is almost universally below replacement rate, and has been for a long time. So, as boomers are retiring, there are not as many people replacing them.

Unfortunately this is the answer.

The bean counters do not give a shit about your experience or value. They just need warm bodies. They know the friction of leaving a company is high so they'll intentionally make you feel like a sucker until you finally quit, getting more years and months out of you for a lower rate than you deserve. When you finally do leave, they'll pat themselves on the back for retaining you for so long at a depressed wage.

>of some sort of rotten problem

Agree. Out of control neo-feudal lords taking up all the slack out of every system they can get their tendrils into in the name of efficiency, thus endangering us all in order to extract as much profit as possible out of our entire economic system.

The "other side"'s solution tends to be to further deregulate industry and the economy, and to empower and lower the tax burden of these neo-feudal lords, all while pointing at gays, trans-folk, and immigrants as if they are the reason people can't afford rent and bridges are falling down.

He's always been fundamentally a salesman. Hopping on the hype trains lets him sell more.

Great idea but how will the bean counters and schmoozers get their multi-million dollar bonuses if they can't force engineers to do 5 jobs while paying them for 1? Will never work.