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WFH, it's a religion for some people. I personally absolutely must have my in-person work, but I understand the desires.

My whiteboard and the sticky notes it holds outperform JIRA all the time - 100% uptime, clear and obvious process flows, haven't needed a service ticket ever.

Same, so many "root@localhost" or "admin@atlassian.com" sign-ups purely because I've seen automated marketing systems get setup and understand how easy it is to flag a flow as "Oh yeah they're about to buy something, give the source $" before confirming an action.

Modern C++ has many tricks to get memory and thread safety pinned down, but in my experience the new capabilities are entirely subsumed by old code. If Bjarne wants C++ to be a language worth choosing, we need some options to remove all of the footguns from before c++11, and remove the redundancies with partially-well-done new features to yield a single-well-done way of handling memory and multithreading.

If Bjarne put something akin to Rust's Editions in C++, and regularly removed poor designs, then yes C++ would be pretty close to Rust for new projects.

That's hilarious, I switched to linux for gaming and use windows because customers need their products written for windows machines! Even things like League through wine play so much more smoothly without input latency when run atop a linux kernel.

> Consequently, I'd bet that there's a lot of people doing shit like this

You're absolutely right, and our world problems are

1) not perpetuating poor life decisions (someone else made a mistake, we helped them but want to make sure they are safe/aware enough to avoid it the 2nd time)

2) coming up with parallel constructions of how we know so much damn crap about the universe without colleagues discovering we cheated by helping others and hearing their stories in detail. A personal favorite of mine is "I guessed and got lucky!" (deciding which vendor to go with and I know 2 of them are pure evil b/c of helping their customers)

Is iTunes completely dead now? I remember when that switched, I had a ton of music but made the early investment to never touch the new Music app because the icon color sucked. I'm guessing internally a project called "Music" attracts little talent and apple considers it a good place for new employees to grow, yielding mediocre results. To this day I use Vox for music I care about and SiriusXM in the car (avoiding the phone entirely) for music I don't care about.

Good design is always hard to find, my personal solution would be a drop-down with the title: "fnurbification" and the options "Enabled" and "Disabled". More systems ought to be built like this, ambiguity is a black check for later economic loss.

This is absolutely me - I write code because I find it fun and it solves my problems, and then I have more fun solving other peoples problems, and omg wow they pay me for it! The vicious cycle won't end until I run out of things to build or (more likely) the new things to build are no longer fun.

This has been my approach for the last 10 years: I live to make adversisers pay out the nose for my attention, then I don't buy products. I'll fill out surveys, invent names as long as the terms are vague enough to allow it, and do anything in my power to give large data-miners as much information to choke on as possible.

I personally think the best way to fix online advertising is to make it so expensive that door-to-door salesman suddenly make financial sense.

Programmer Tastes fluctuate around while society recalls older tastes from movies/sitcoms/books; the net result is a passive positive-reinforcement feedback loop from prior art. Psychology has an entire branch studying these sorts of reality -> views -> reality -> views effect chains.

I'm convinced the brutalist, utilitarian designs originate with those of us who spend the most time close to their machines and originate from the needs of the _system_ before the needs of the _users_. As you move closer to end users there'll be more visual flair and ergonomic attention will move from favoring system ergonomics to favoring human ergonomics.

I bought an Elantra in the last year, and it's self-driving capabilities (lane tracking + cruise control) are an order of magnitude more responsive than a friend's Tesla. So my reason is quality, but it means I leave behind giant screens and pay about 10% more for fuel than my friend did last year (we ran the numbers last weekend - $910 vs $980 for 2022).

I actually began paying for twitter just to be a metric; if twitter throws advertisers out and becomes a paid-only social network I think it will pave the way for a less toxic internet with fewer perverse incentives. I wish you could give them more than $11 without having to resort to buying dummy ad-space.

Damn I was about to get one (have been thinking about PCIe accelerators) a few months ago. It sucks that we now have to predict future company decisions before buying their products, the only good side effect is more people will build instead of buy. But it's terribly inconvenient.

Related thought: I've hoped that digital rights licensing would someday be improved similar to today's stock markets. The government authorizes a broker to setup a market and sell signed licenses (JSON snippets signed by the broker's key, who cares how it's implemented) for eg "1 person viewership of MOVIE_NAME", "1 room viewership of MOVIE_NAME".

Sellers place limit orders, buyers do the same and/or buy/sell at the current market price. There, you've solved the financing problem in a way that's compatible with every distribution mechanism, including existing piracy platforms. Yes there's an honor system problem, but that's exactly the level of enforcement companies have now.

My moral compass has always been to pirate a product, then pay the studios/studio partners once I have a copy. It ensures I'm happy and the original authors get profit, at the detriment of intermediaries. Sometimes you can't pay the studios directly, so things like a Crunchyroll subscription covers my anime pirating, even though I could never use their product for watching anything.

Is it terribly evil? I'm not sure. But I do know it aligns incentives for me to buy stuff and for creators to create stuff.

time-series designs are generally better because they hold more information, and you can throw a view on top of them to present a nullable timestamp table if that's what's already been coded against. On the other hand once you go nullable it's difficult to figure out why the field was nulled after the fact.

I used a BlackBerry Q10 until 2020, and I wish the company had stuck to their own OS. There was no such thing as a loading bar, or a spinning wand, everything was just _there_. Communication happened in one place, app windows were in another. Battery life was a weekend long, over a hundred keyboard shortcuts (imagine the trouble ctrl+c ctrl+v-ing by tapping on any candybar phone now!). Having used the Q10 and currently using an iPhone 12, the Q10 was in a league all to itself. BlackBerry's android devices are a mess, but some of them have kept the hardware keyboard.

Headlines like this are grown by comments like this, it ticks KPI boxes that drive journalist pay. Your (our) attention is currently creating new years bonuses financed through ad revenue KPIs.

I'm a huge fan of SublimeText the editor, but not a huge fan of SublimeText the company behind it. The balancing act they did was sell licenses that are good for an entire major version (eg SublimeText 2, 3, etc.) that never expire. I'm comfortable enough to pay $50 for a good IDE major version even though I dislike the company's development direction (eg, I'm probably not going to buy SublimeText 4 because of the plugin chaos).

EDIT: "Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase" - looks like I'm a pirate then.

> the warnings signs

Sounds like it yeah.

That's amazing, if 5% of the entire world chose to die each year the average human lifespan would be 20

Also born in the 90s, I feel like we were the last generation to grow up with technology advanced enough to be useful/educational but not yet so heavily DRM-ed and Ad-optimized as to be effectively manipulative to us as children.

This made the era amazingly fruitful for growing new developers (biased view but this is the orange site); as another piece of anecdata I have a sister who was born just after 2000 and she's plagued by every type of social disorder known to the world.

She's expressed interest in doing things like running a linux OS, but her laptop's secure boot and lack of MBR support meant she had to learn to create an efi partition first! It was tough trying not to flood her with 2 decades of history while letting her explore.

Agreed, I'd like to see SBF prosecuted as much as anyone else, but I want it to be a legal trial. His statements should be accepted in the most generous possible light, and the case against him should be ironclad enough to hold. (Otherwise there isn't much point to the justice system existing at large).

I'm in the same boat, every agency I've donated to has turned into a google-powered ad-shilling-machine within a week. It makes it impossible to trust well-intending organizations.

Read TSiege's correction again, it wasn't a (bad numbers) 1000T planet being impacted by a 10T object, it was a 500T object (earth) being impacted by a 500T object (now also earth) and ejecting a 10T object (now moon) from the debris.

Without the event we'd have a planet even smaller than mars!

Existing as a single statistic: last 2 machines I built are running Arch.

I understand the angst, and that's why I don't engage with social platforms. The exception is when friends text me to go look at their posts, during which time I make sure to click every ad I see to increase cost to the organizations responsible for wasting my time.

My phone's camera stores photos on my phone and when its plugged in a python script syncs photos to my laptop and deletes non-starred phone photos older than 30 days.

Future generations will have a set of media ethics similar to the geneva convention to prevent wasting everyone's time; see https://www.nohello.com/ et al.

I'd be all in favor of ebooks as a first-class citizen, except we've been down this road before and we all know where it leads: Books with advertisements embedded in them, which would ruin reading for me.

The competence identified is how well the agency was able to rapidly determine trust in a new employee; there's no good way to determine trust before the person is cleared, and after they are cleared access to confidential information is assumed (otherwise you have a dead agency incapable of hiring new people).

The NSA has a responsibility to remove weaknesses from their ranks, mission accomplished. If the problem you see is "Well agencies ought never give new people access to state secrets" then you can't have any changes ever - it's a dead organization.

The other competency I see is that none of the documents, which are of course going to be used in court, are available to the general public. They proved a weakness without leaking any information to parties outside the intel community. They essentially demonstrated that even if they hire a complete moron, state secrets will not leave protected facilities.