Youtube comments of Traveller (@traveller23e).

  1. This video misses out on one very important fact: Trains, fundamentally, are not like planes. Yes, they are both modes of transport. Yes, it's good when both are cheap. But the difference is that planes are not mass transit systems like trains are. The number of people who commute by plane is negligible, and the mode of transit in general is very badly suited for that task. Trains however are mass transit, or at least can be. Although long distance trains can be compared to flying, regional trains cannot, and here's where my worry is: typically, the most profitable part of the railway system is the high-speed service. It's not clear from the video and I don't know from elsewhere what the pricing looks like for companies to operate on the rail infrastructure, but for the most part it won't make sense for companies to operate the regional trains that are really the important ones when it comes to public benefit and environmental impact. In Italy we've already begun to see this. Over the last few years Trenitalia has been announcing all sorts of great high-speed routes at a fairly low price (e.g. Milano to Paris), but at the same time they've been quietly deemphasizing regional trains. Italo has been operating as a competitor to Milano, and that's great, but most of the country has no competitor to bring the price down on regional trips. Those are held down I believe through government funding, however in many places lines are closed or service so bad as to be unusable. Additionally, the more the government thinks of trains as a commercial sector rather than a public service to be funded and directed for the good of the people, the worse off I think we'll be. That's the kind of thinking that got Britain its privatized network, and we saw where that got them. Actually, that's a good point- How come Britain's privatization mess not make it into this video? It would seem like a prime example of what happens if you rush towards deregulation on a public service. Additionally, as others have pointed out, privatizing and then allowing companies to swoop in and make their for-profit booking sites to take advantage of the confusion is a terrible solution to the problem. At present, if I need to take a train from Italy to Austria, I have a grand total of two booking sites to look at. If I need to get to Germany, make that three. Rather than making it a healthy half-dozen and then capitalizing on the resulting mess, why don't we, and I know this is gunna come across as a huge breakthrough of an idea, just make a site and app for booking trains across the EU, funded as a service by the EU? I know you mentioned countries don't like publishing their schedules, but if that's an insurmountable issue your proposed app won't have the timetables for ex-national/quasi-still-national operators anyway. It really doesn't make much sense to me as an argument for nationalisation. All in all, it really doesn't strike me as one of your better videos, I'm afraid. It feels like you got convinced it was a good thing and then were bound and determined to prove that point. Honestly I think this is a step backwards from a sustainable future where anyone can take the train to where they need to go, but let's be honest if our government is anything to judge by they're well and truly sold on the idea that electric cars are the future. It really makes me sick.
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  2.  @nobleradical2158  To be fair to the Microsoft community, it's an ancient and time-honored tradition. As soon as you boot up your new Windows device, you fire up IE (or now Edge) and execute the one voluntary Bing search that computer will ever see in order to download a halfway decent browser.
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  3. Honestly the owner was responsible from what you say. At the end of the day, for live code not to crash the people at the top either need to understand it or they need to have hired a team of actual experts. If it's one programmer at a time in the company, the owner and the programmer need to be one and the same.
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  4. Honestly it would probably be the fairest thing in order to avoid giving any of the other major tech companies a major advantage. GPL that sucker.
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  5. They always do...
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  6.  @doublepinger  If the company's entry-level position has high requirements such as multiple years of experience, they shouldn't advertise as entry-level. People with those requirements aren't going to bother to look at a job labelled that way.
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  7.  @MentourNow  I would say it is aviation-related, since it strongly effects the airport experience for the passengers and thus the traffic patterns. Much like hypothetically scaling up security making it a much longer and more complicated process would be related. Great video by the way, thank you.
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  8.  @MadMathMike  when you have discrete versioning with decently long development cycles having an unprotected master is bad enough, but when merging to master sends it straight to production it's just begging for disaster.
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  9.  @MrViki60  Being realistic, none of these generative AI companies make sense. The results are not great and are slow and energy-intensive to compute. Now regarding a non-profit getting lots of donations and then switching to for-profit without even any significant IP being freely licensed...if that's not a bait-and-switch I don't know what is. I hate Musk's guts but I'm on his side in coming down on Altman and OpenAI like a ton of bricks. Granted, what really needs to happen is the definition of non-profit needs to be fixed. A good start would be to require non-profits to publish all their IP under liberal or copyleft licenses (their choice) save for IP related to branding.
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  10.  @SilverSpade_  To be fair to Edge though, you don't actually need to open it for Microsoft to collect your data. By default if you type in the start menu search bar in Win10 it'll upload your search letter by letter and give you various Bing suggestions it hopes you like. When I tried to disable it, I found you could disable viewing the results by default but there wasn't a way do disable the search from being carried out in the first place. Nor is it easy to find information about exactly what Microsoft does with that data. I doubt they just throw it away, but that's just my prejudice. There may now be a setting to turn off the automatic searches completely as I last looked around a year ago, but honestly I doubt it.
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  11. Mine was recently bought and is now just the software division if you will, but it's pretty clear we're headed that way. A particular favorite of mine among recurring themes is the lack of documentation regarding anything (including basic and common procedures) in a business context that provides devops. It's hard to configure a customer's installation if you have no f'ing clue how and the only people who do know are busy fixing the urgent issues at another customer because the higher-ups insist on biting off more than we can chew.
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  12.  @waterbloom1213  The problem isn't that they want to operate as a business, if Altman wants to take his money and found a startup that's perfectly fine. The problem is people have donated money thinking the organisation wasn't going to profit off of it and now the organisation has turned around and decided that it will after all.
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  13.  @neeljavia2965  True, but the civilian risk is what worries me.
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  14.  @TheFLAMEXD  Internet culture truly is about combining the worst parts of every age in a human's lifetime.
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  15.  @sirtra  Presumably one that's sick of Microsoft's BS and no longer trusts them.
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  16. Ah yes, the obligatory "must say GNU/Linux" comment. I use Arch btw
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  17.  @XDarkGreyX  Same. It also frustratingly based on a false premise that paying for something means buying it. Genz here, I'm never gunna own a house but that doesn't mean I don't pay for it every month lol
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  18. linux is looking mighty attractive
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  19.  @gigamoment  But as a non-profit competing with for-profit companies shouldn't really be the goal, I could see allowing non-profits become governmental services but allowing them to become for-profit seems like a bait-and-switch for the people who donated.
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  20. I used to work in an enterprise project (10% recent, the rest legacy, you know the type). Sometimes when we'd have an urgent bug come through a colleague and I would look at it together, he would always read up the logfiles to see if he thought any other errors (there were always a lot) could be related. Meanwhile I would look at the code starting at the reported line of the error and try to work out from that how it was theoretically possible for such an error to occur. We made a good team and often found additional issues we otherwise would have missed.
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  21.  @theyellowarchitect4504  What was the rest spent on? Other software projects like core libraries and stuff?
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  22.  @mgh7634  Arguably Windows is the default system because people are taught from a young age how to use a Windows computer, and most workplaces use Windows. There's nothing inherently better about it, and I would argue a lot of recent UI changes from Microsoft have made things worse. For the record I just checked and Libre Office Writer does support saving documents as .docx, either in the 2007 or the 2010-365 format.
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  23. I recently pirated an album from an artist I like because the only ways he would let me pay required signing up for spotify, itunes, or equivalent services none of which amount to me paying him 10€ or whatever and getting a folder of mp3s.
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  24.  @ToniVucic  How can it tell?
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  25. Not if the software runs exclusively on someone else's server.
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  26.  @Davebsuk  Seriously though, electric cars are fine for certain niche applications, but are not sustainable in the slightest as transportation for the masses. I.e. most people should not be allowed to drive going forward.
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  27. Worse than waterfall. Waterfall implies there's a plan (which probably went fatally wrong a year ago). Scrum means the managers have no plan, just a bunch of desires that need to be fulfilled this instant.
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  28. it's such an insufficient explanation, a null pointer dereference is a symptom not the root cause.
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  29. I so wish US politics would gather more depth, as it is voting is an affair so oversimplified as to be terrible for gauging how the government is doing. It's honestly pretty similar to how duopolies don't have to worry too much about pissing off their customers.
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  30.  @KeithOlson  Interesting that he came back though to fix the mess he'd made. I wonder if there was some personal tie.
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  31.  @uclajd  A good union sets standard minimum wages for various kinds of roles and rules regarding work conditions, as well as making themselves reachable if there's a problem. If the management of the company has a problem with that, that's on them.
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  32.  @Davebsuk  The thing is, at present the vast majority of people in western nations live in cities (I'm not sure about global statistics, but I believe this goes for most other places as well) , and any decent city shouldn't require residents to have cars. Heck, a good city should discourage car use to improve the living standards in the city. If you don't need all that noise, confusion, and danger, might as well get rid of it. A lot of pedestrians, dozens of bikes, and a bus (or better yet, tram) passing every couple minutes is way nicer to live in than hundreds of vehicles to navigate around, which when not in use either end up parked on the street or in dedicated parking lots (meaning you have to dedicate a ridiculous amount of terrain for for storing rolling cages for moving people as inefficiently as possible). There are definitely places (every American suburb, I'm looking at you) where this isn't really feasible at present in large part because they've intentionally designed their city to make them a heaven for cars and no one else, and I really wish in places like those they'd invest in infill and mixed zoning to make their cities more livable in the absence of a car. In a way they've made things as difficult as possible for themselves when it comes to transitioning to be sustainable.
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  33. Yeah, I don't hate technologies so much as I distrust them. Most are made so that some company can get as much money as possible from minimal effort; I wish software copyright were like book copyright or something, so that every project would be required to provide users with the source so that 1) it was more transparent and 2) terrible code in widely-used programs could be publicly humiliated (discouraging companies from rushing devs).
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  34.  @spaceguy.x  A lot of other countries have standard taxi rates, if you inform yourself with the local legislation ahead of time you can normally tell scamming drivers to screw themselves or report them. However that isn't to say that taxis are cheap, in my country for instance a taxi to an airport is generally more expensive than a normal fare and in my city specifically it's a full 25 or 30 times the cost of taking the bus.
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  35.  @rkvkydqf  We do need companies to run the servers though :( I wish there were government-run programs controlling servers used for major services; maybe youtube could be replaced with a government-run backend exposing APIs any frontend could talk to, and then users could use whatever to view stuff. Or potentially a similar thing, but where users had to pay a small fee to keep their videos up or something so that it wouldn't just be a massive governmental money sink with nothing to pay for it.
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  36. Sounds like practicing medicine without a license to me
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  37. Always does, just takes a while. Proprietary is for immediate results, open source is for something you can rely on long-term.
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  38.  @opposite342  I guess that explains why windows and android have become so bound and determined that thou shalt not view the file hierarchy.
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  39.  @extragoogleaccount6061  if the requirement is "higher", most of them can. The freight rail industry has decided not to compete with trucks for anything other than stuff that is neither urgent or value-dense, and they have continuously put off maintenance and reduced double track to single track as well as lowering speeds in order to cut costs (this sounds rather ill-advised, and that's because it is). So if they improved the systems on those lines they could certainly increase the speeds somewhat, even if they weren't necessarily suitable for real high-speed rail.
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  40.  @jimw7916  I feel like we should start insisting on "macOS/Unix" for now on too... (I use Arch btw)
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  41.  @Jupa  Though the fact that a business with the goal of making money can be classed as a non-profit is a problem in and of itself.
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  42. ngl I would've written "haahahaha good one, Dave" (Dave being a low-ranking employee with a sense of humor) underneath it in order to discredit it as a rule. If the managers aren't gunna claim responsibility for it, there's no reason to take it seriously.
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  43. ehh, it depends...embedded system programmers often have extremely short memories yet somehow they still get by.
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  44. I'm a cross between the minimalist and the introvert. I'm not actually that introverted, but I definitely have the socially-awkward part of the equation...as for the minimalist, I'm pretty pessimistic about a lot of these tech corporations, recently moved to Arch Linux on my personal laptop and am now trying to learn C and C++ so I can move away from the Microsoft ecosystem (currently I'm C#). I hate web programming and generally prefer offline services, however I do own a smart phone as a result of the fact that I needed to be able to deal with SFA technologies involving more than an SMS. It'd be pretty cool to become the jaded old guy though, gotta say.
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  45. ​ @DajuSar  Codd's 12 commandments (of which there are 13 using zero-based indexing, so make of that what you will) are essentially a set of requirements Codd decided upon for a database system to be considered "relational". That was in the 70s, I don't feel like summarizing wikipedia but my impression is it's more a historical note than anything else (no standards were ever formed from on it as far as I can tell). DBMS = database management system CAP = Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance. Also called Brewer's theorem, the idea is if you have a partitioned system with unreliable communications between them at some point you have to choose between consistency and availability.
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  46. Yup. Programmer here, the only place my name ever ends up is on my personal side-projects.
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  47. That's the same strategy Microsoft uses for the help sections in Windows Settings. It's annoying (not least because it always opens a Bing search in Edge, not just a hyperlink to the page in your default browser) but not a huge problem all the way up til the time the problem you're trying to solve has to do with internet connectivity. Ask me how I know.
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  48.  @thesaltybeard1793  If you accidentally make eye contact, say hi!
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  49.  @Gatitasecsii  Do you shop for those groceries in private stores? How is going on a bus different from going to the park where there are other people? Depressingly enough (as it implies a fear of society), ÖBB has some new night trains that basically have a sliding cover around each bunk. Unfortunately as far as I could tell from the publicity those bunks do not fold up as has long been standard on night trains and the lack of proper seated accommodations is probably rather uncomfortable. I travel fairly frequently on public transit, if you happen to hit it off with the people around you you'll have good company the whole way, if not you can usually just ignore one another.
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  50.  @a_makarov  I've had many a nice chat with some little old lady on a bench, but sitting down next to a woman my age there's a good chance she'll give me a dirty look and get up and leave. Not 100% by any means, but certainly enough it's discouraging.
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  51. "Jury of peers" is about to become a really important bit of the legal system
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  52. Depending on the testing it might be way worse than just an hour break mid-test. I've had situations where I had 10-20 minutes of configuration and then had to start the tests over every time my IP address changed, and my IP address would be randomly assigned every time I signed into the VPN, and the VPN connection would fall whenever I lost internet access. Combine this with using my phone hotspot as my main internet connection, and a forced lunch break would add probably an hour or more to the test duration.
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  53.  @nickolliver3021  Who's paying you for these comments?
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  54.  @quademasters249  The downside of course is then you end up with a system unable to receive security updates, which could easily be more dangerous than it was back in the day due to the fact everything is built with a "we can fix it later" philosophy.
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  55.  @somethings-random-things  But that's taking it so it's not piracy. You should break in and copy the data onto your own servers, that's proper piracy. Oh and put a little personalised skull and crossbones sticker on the server on your way out.
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  56. Stallman (along with the FSF) has a way of making himself come across as dislikeable and borderline extremist (the list of linux distros the FSF recommends springs to mind), but in the end he's usually right. I do wish they'd get over the whole Linux naming thing though.
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  57.  @Fatih_M177  lol don't worry, I'm in my mid twenties and people have been calling me old for years. I figure it's a sort of life philosophy
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  58.  @hashflame  I've seen countless EULA prominently featuring the words "This software is licensed not sold." Don't get me wrong, I hate the amount of companies using software as a service models but if you're going to fight against something you have to at least use semireasonable arguments. Just repeating demonstrably incorrect catchphrases isn't gunna cut it. I would love for companies claiming copyright on published software to have to publish the source and build instructions along with other rules ensuring anyone who purchased a right to use software could also maintain it after the company went out of business. It is absurd that lifetime licenses are no longer valid when still used by the original purchasers. A lot of my views on what software-related rights would look like in a perfect world are considered extreme by many. But none of that makes the phrase "If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing" any better.
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  59. But the thing is, management isn't paid to make the company long-term profitable or stable, management is paid to get the highest short-term return on investment. It's all about the stock market.
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  60. Sadly it looks like Microsoft is planning to go that route with Windows, but that's a story for another day.
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  61.  @etbadaboum  High-speed lines in many countries are built without any level crossings to prevent this issue. But again, that's actual high-speed (above 200 km/h)
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  62.  @recklessroges  ironic considering xz and gzip
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  63.  @MostachoIrregular  It really doesn't cost much to run basic HTML static webpages or with a little JS, and ultimately that's basically what I'm looking for from the internet for the most part, so yea maybe I would consider a monthly bill calculated based on sites visited and requests made to each.
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  64. Agile so often means "we don't have any standard operating procedures so no one knows how to do a lot of really basic and fairly routine things, and we also don't bother to document anything"
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  65. Thank you...also, there's not much you can really find out from a company's website. As a programmer, I usually don't give a shit if they're selling aircraft or video games, I care about what languages and technologies they use and what kind of organisation and management they have.
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  66. How did it end up? My experience with rewrites is that usually no one ends up happy due to extended timelines and architectures people aren't satisfied with (and that's without the potential issue of lots of undocumented business rules).
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  67. As a programmer, I know that no matter how hard you might try, it is in practice impossible to plan the optimal outcome for all possible scenarios in a system with any level of complexity. At some point the human in the system will act in a way you didn't expect, or the computer will kill one of the processes, or a server developed by a different team will return a web response you didn't expect. It's not always a matter of assuming something will never happen, it's just as often or more often that something just never occurs to anyone as a possibility. And yes, there are plenty of software houses that rush stuff to market, there's plenty of code that assumes a computer's clock time won't be set to before the Unix epoch and just figure if it's an issue the code can be patched, but when it comes to systems with a high importance such as these, that require a lot of certification and so on, it's probably best to assume the mistakes weren't made intentionally to cut costs unless such a motivation and deliberate decision can be proven.
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  68. My first thought when I heard that was "Nah, she's probably just German" and then just a few seconds later she stated that was her hypothesis as well 🤣
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  69.  @agh0x01  Though technically the console is also graphical in a way, just much more limited as it's restricted to outputting characters (albeit in a font of your choice, and these days usually with colour).
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  70. Honestly a hardware-level pushbutton that needed to be held down during transfer of the new firmware would be fine. Obviously the system would need to be set up to detect partial firmware transfer so it didn't overwrite anything if you didn't hold the button down long enough, but that's about it.
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  71. Honestly a low-maintenance linux distro is a pretty good substitute these days, if you don't have the specific requirement to run Windows (e.g. for work). Hell, I even installed SimCity 3000 Unlimited a few months ago and it still runs great.
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  72.  @thederpykrafter  Part of what makes Stallman annoying is that he's often correct. IMHO though his annoyingness has really harmed his own movement, which is a real shame. Just think what could happen if the FSF were lead by a charismatic public figure for a few years. That said, the FSF's doggedness has sometimes gotten in the way of their own ideals I think. This is seen for example in the fact that they do not consider an OS (or distro) free if it allows the user to install unfree software from their package manager or equivalent.
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  73.  @alexeynezhdanov2362  As a C# dev...no you don't. I routinely have trouble where I can't find anyone on my team who knows whether the performance of a LINQ statement will be better written one way over another, for example. In that environment, performance almost never comes up in consideration, it's all about how clear and maintainable the code is, and if it follows a set of arbitrary style guidelines that are defined vaguely enough no one can agree on (or even really cares) what they mean. Java's the same way...and when you add in front-end web development and consider a lot of backend stuff is written on the assumption that microservices or other tech magic will do all the optimization you need (I mean, to be fair most of the time is spent executing web calls anyway), that's a sizeable chunk of the industry that doesn't require any low-level knowledge for better or for worse.
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  74. But if you do do anything serious, please for the love of all things dear at least consider keeping the DB out of the ecosystem you're in. Failure to do so could lead to impossibly high costs if/when you decide you'd rather like to change providers.
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  75. I'm a software developer and it's maddening to me the extent to which some of my colleagues trust chat GPT. They'll use it as a source of documentation, as a code generator, to look through logs...I genuinely don't get why since there are more reliable ways to do all these operations. They'll sometimes even use chat gpt to generate code and then just copy-paste that into the program without taking the time to understand what it does. The other day too I had to sit through half an hour of watching a colleague use chat GPT to summarize data that really could have been done faster with a regex and a calculator or spreadsheet program.
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  76. I just wish they weren't exporting that passion.
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  77. To be fair, I feel like much of Haskell's difficulty arises from its distance from imperative languages the majority of programmers are used to. Well, that and the relative lack of ide support.
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  78. It's a classic in software jobs
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  79. I wish they would be forced to publish their source when starting any legal proceedings of that kind.
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  80.  @Chazzvc  That's fantastic if you can convince a government to make business pay taxes in any substantial quantity.
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  81.  @lam0bot  tbh I don't know much about the linux foundation, care to elaborate?
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  82.  @Korporaal1  Also to say: maybe try to spend some more time with loved ones in everyday life.
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  83.  @carltone  My reply was in response to a comment regarding, and I quote, "almost(?) every language". My point was precisely that various commonly-used languages today are designed specifically to hide the exact implementation going on under the hood, I believe in an attempt to facilitate and encourage keeping "cleaner" codebases.
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  84. So...correct answer is "I'd quit because I'm not working for a company that puts me in that sort of situation"?
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  85.  @DrZaius3141  The question the video is answering is not "is Jerusalem more jewish or muslim" nor "should Jerusalem be more jewish or muslim", but simply "who controlled Jerusalem the longest, and which religions were they predominantly?" In your football comparison, that's like asking who's been the best for the most years, which is a completely different question from who's better at football.
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  86.  @ShaferHart  Honestly I wish there were a way to just move to another platform...youtube has a natural monopoly on the vast majority of content on it. An interesting thing to note though is that this isn't an inevitable result of a free video service, as a counterexample take a look at the number of porn sites with different operating models etc which for many channels contain the same content.
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  87. Probably because of the laws in greenland. You know, little clauses regarding not destroying the environment and stuff.
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  88. why tf would they set the clocks in the building ahead? Sure it lets you bully your employees into starting their shift early, but then they'll clock off early too so it fucks with everything for no reason
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  89. To be honest I now try to minimise abstraction for the sake of abstraction. If a piece of your logic is naturally separate absolutely put it in a separate class, but that class probably doesn't need an interface and factory/manager classes to initialise it.
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  90. Also even if they did always produce valid code it would be essentially equivalent to constantly taking the first result on stack overflow. It might _work_, but you're likely to be misusing libraries and leaking memory all over the place.
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  91.  @jdrissel  Is there a reason such a fake attic would communicate with the house? Or would such a burgler bring a saw of some kind to cut through the plywood of the roof underneath?
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  92.  @anon_148  if it randomly stops booting that sounds like either 1) you have some kind of auto-updater and it updated in a problematic way without your being aware (pick a stable distro, and if you are really worried have auto updates off and update manually instead) 2) you accidentally messed something up (make absolutely sure to know what you're doing when you use root or sudo) or 3) a hardware issue (e.g. hard drive failed).
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  93.  @puntoycoma47  Basically a clever algorithm in the IDE (either integrated or provided by a separate engine via some plugin system) that looks at the code and detects some set of errors and warnings. The limitation is that the algorithm is only as clever as the amount of effort put into creating it and can be limited by language design, so for example a lot of them have poor or nonexistant null-dereference checks, but they do tend to be good at finding obvious issues as well as (usually) figuring out whether or not the program will even compile.
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  94. I have Arch on one machine, NixOS on another. They have fundamentally different use-cases. Arch is fantastic if you're decently good at configurations and have a single machine you frequently need to adjust settings on, especially thanks to its incredible docs. It also does a pretty good job of ensuring you don't end up with meaningless duplicate packages. However, if you want any kind of partitioning of program installation it starts to work against you, e.g. it's easy installing a program on the system but hard to install it for just one user. It's also hard to install multiple versions of stuff if you need that (not normally a problem but it could be). Additionally, in a fairly normal install it's more or less incompatible with Haskell development due to the fact that by default Arch uses dynamically linked libraries and Haskell revolves around statically linked ones (technically options for dynamic linking exist, but mileage may vary and to give an idea some related critical bugs have sat unfixed for years). I installed nixOS for the facility of operations with Haskell, and I can see how it would be great if you needed to install identical systems on multiple computers. It allows having packages installed only when you're in certain environments making it really easy for groups to share their build dependencies, however what's not mentioned in the video is that understanding how any of that works is very difficult due in large part to lack of clear guides and when there is documentation it tends to only cover one small part of the setup so it's up to you to figure out how the components work together. Additionally, if you're doing a lot of tweaks to your config firstly they take forever to test and secondly you'll quickly end up with lots of different versions of your machine each with its own set of binaries etc. Of course you can clean that up. The other thing is that although the versioning saves the state of your installed programs, it does not save the state of your homefiles which could easily include configs written by those same programs so it could be rolling back doesn't restore some data deleted or updated in the interim.
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  95.  @mlc4495  Yeah, or better yet have an EU office that coordinates the international services as well as providing a central booking service.
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  96. Just a note regarding dryers: I'm not sure how common they are in the US, but in Europe condensing dryers are very much a thing. These basically just use a heat pump to evaporate the water from the clothes and then condense the water into a tank that you empty when it's done. They're practical because you don't have to deal with either the same level of mold or potential hot-air exhaust ports, but they've also got to be way more efficient than any gas-powered alternative.
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  97. @@greenie3419 Though at what cost? As pointed out in the video, the for profit company will only do the parts immediately profitable, not the parts that are needed. And a for-profit company will always take a cut.
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  98. "Robot slave sees to humans' every need! This makes life easier and better for everyone!" lol nope, just increases alienation, decreases our control over the outcome, decreases demand for programmers without providing us with a clear role to transition to, and in reality only helps companies that can afford the 60.000 € subscription to devAI giving them an even greater competitive edge. That's assuming the AI rapidly becomes "perfect"...if not it'll be decades of companies starting a project with it, then hiring a bunch of devs to try and solve the critical bugs (potentially in an incomprehensible codebase) that are causing production user data to be leaked and stuff.
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  99. What sorts of questions do you ask?
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  100. Enjoy! Arch is nice, changing stuff is so easy :)
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  101. Honestly if you give me a cursed monolithic database and a bug description I'll be perfectly happy to hunt it down, but if you tell me I have to hurry up and finish this driver testing and also write to the client about such-and-such and review this code for you and update our software on this other client's server and there's no documentation for anything and the only people who understand the system are perpetually too busy to help and it's all high priority, I'm looking for another job. (Not that I'm bitter about my current employer or anything.)
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  102. I used to have a job I loved, and yes it was exactly that for me too. Well, and I really liked my team.
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  103.  @jan_harald  The GNU project might try to sue the original or current devs, but I suspect that several of the more aggressive companies are absolutely going to sue regardless. It's a chance to make an example of someone who dares to fuck up around them.
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  104.  @Gatitasecsii  The trouble is that public transit flourishes when it is faster than the alternatives. Bike paths and pedestrian zones are fantastic but if your cybertruck is blocking the tram then it is an issue. Regarding your last sentence, funny you should say that. I was recently on a train delayed by close to two hours after someone decided the road wasn't really closed while the train was coming through. Anyway, thanks for the nice response and have a good evening. Or whatever time it is wherever you are.
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  105. Why did you switch?
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  106. Not to mention how there's always the risk that your library will somehow end up patented by a major company despite your best efforts to try to avoid that from happening
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  107. to be fair, C89 and C99 are a lot simpler than some of the more recent versions. Just do be sure your macros are doing what you think they're doing.
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  108.  @vilian9185  computer programmer here, I wish I could find a corporation that would let me use Linux...
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  109.  @Irontygre  Dare I ask what European minimalist is? My city is mostly baroque now thanks to an earthquake a few centuries back, though a lot of construction seems to have halted sometime around 1900. I guess that's when the money ran out.
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  110.  @uclajd  1) Yep, exactly. As compared to the companies that gang up and extort them for lower than market wages. Market wages in a free market tend to be lower precisely because there is such a high power gradient at the negotiating table in such a scenario. 2) I can't comment on that particular union, but do recall that both pilots in that crash had had sufficient resting time, but the first officer had trouble getting the sleep she needed and the reporting structure was not set up such that she could report that issue without consequence.
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  111.  @brothermine2292  presumably the fact that downwind there will be less water in the air so probably less rain.
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  112. I once had a recruiter call me up to offer me a 6-month internship during which time they would teach me how to use C# and even pay me with a third of the money I was already making as a full-stack dev in a terrible startup. I had 5 years C# experience.
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  113.  @honkhonk8009  except if I know anything about humans, it's that we hate thinking if we can avoid it. So it'll actually be the AI doing the thinking to tell us what "our" decisions need to be.
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  114.  @samuelboucher1454  in what ways in particular?
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  115. What happened?
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  116. The good news is that at the moment one programmer with the help of AI can do the work of 0,4.
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  117. fast code is what led the PR I'm reviewing to be stuck in the open stage for months as the dev responsible went from hastily patching one critical bug to the next after a poorly managed piece of development leading into a premature golive.
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  118. As a dev myself (though mostly not web), it's nice to sleep easy knowing that whatever happens to the company I work for won't really affect me, I get paid the same either way.
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  119.  @resyntax  Does it actually accelerate development? It just stops other companies from getting any ideas.
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  120.  @majahanson311  C# dev here, and I really wish they'd never introduced var (statically inferred type). Often times during a peer review when I see the result of a method assigned to a new variable of type var I end up having to call the dev who wrote it to ask what type that particular instance of var is.
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  121. I've enjoyed watching Salvini getting back-stabbed, front-stabbed, and side-stabbed all at once in the course of the last day or two...And that's before the lega even has to officially state their support of Meloni as prime minister. But yes, chances are they won't be able to get too far with their program, which I being more left-leaning am grateful for. They scare the shit outta me.
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  122. "Good ability to self-manage" and "able to keep deadlines" are another good combo
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  123. Yeah, no way is it going to be free. The major tech companies are the only ones in the world with the data that these things run on, and as long as governments allow them to capitalise on that they will. In years past a similar technology would be seized by governments around the world and development would continue at a governmental (likely military or intelligence) level, but in the present day it seems unlikely. it's honestly kinda ironic how much governments these days are willing to give up opportunities to gain either power or money, but I guess it goes to show who's backing the politicians running them.
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  124. haha too true
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  125. ​ @miguelpereira934  Although honestly road vehicle traffic should be greatly limited by the same logic, which I for one would not be at all opposed to.
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  126. I have a similar annoyance, though for me it regards Microsoft Windows.
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  127. oh yeah, VS is terrible that way, you make three similar changes and the next place you stick your mouse the entire screen is covered up with flashy suggesting that you can barely read the code. And just one touch of "tab" and you've accidentally broken stuff.
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  128.  @squarerootof2  I suspect that when Microsoft got rid of IE they did so by copying and pasting the critical parts the whole operating system relies upon to Edge, so I doubt you can remove it. Especially given how much Microsoft hates letting users actually do any configuration these days. I don't remember trying, but I'm pretty sure my Windows machine has edge on it still and I would have removed it right away if it were possible.
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  129. As an aside, please, please do not try to design your rail network in such a way as to imitate flying. The major stations in my country are run by a company that has decided they need to create "gates" restricting access to the platforms to people with tickets on trains that are about to leave, in the largest station they have a whole hall devoted to rental car companies (despite the station literally being in the centre of the city...) and yet they refuse to set up a waiting room or provide luggage lockers. It's an absolute embarrassment.
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  130. Good legacy code is wonderful. It never breaks, it gives you insight into a whole different world, and sometimes a chuckle when you find a comment that just says "TODO: fix this mystery bug" from 1996. I do however take complaint with a completely different class of code, originally written with the primary objective of time to market, designed by an architect in a rush and an unclear idea of the end goal, and programmed by people who were being clocked by the minute in their implementations of vague requirements. Those sorts of codebases tend to be atrocious, even if they follow MVVM or some other modern pattern to a t.
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  131. The other factor is that the designer of the Hindenburg wanted to use helium, but because the US had a virtual monopoly on that and wasn't trading it into Germany nowhere near enough could be obtained. Then his second plan was to use a helium outer layer with hydrogen inside, but even that was deemed impossible hence going with pure hydrogen at the end. It was certainly known at the time that hydrogen was a lot more dangerous, but the safer alternative just wasn't an option.
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  132.  @loganleroy8622  By that same argument the US should also only have toll roads. There's a reason we don't use that system; communists will say it's because it's a terrible system that penalizes people with less money, capitalists will say it's because facilitating movement improves the economy. Either way I've never heard much argument for making people pay per trip made on a road, so it doesn't really make that much sense as an argument for privatised rail either. At some point everyone needs that slow train to get from the larger city to the small town where our grandmother's niece's friend's uncle lives, and if we were only willing to run it if the people who used it paid for it, it would cost the earth for a low-quality journey. Hence no one would take it. It's also worth noting that without the unprofitable last-mile transit there tends to be a lot less traffic into the larger high-speed transit, a fact that private companies tend to ignore (or maybe it's the tragedy of the commons and they hope someone else will cover the unprofitable trips).
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  133. apropos is also very useful. And never forget man.
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  134. They're not great when it comes to connecting to stations, and it makes the views worse from the train. Additionally, it is likely louder for the people on the train, and the safety aspects of having a lot of cars in close proximity to a rail line have to be considered. That said, if we took a few lanes of highway and turned them into train tracks I'd be all for it
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  135.  @EikePilt  Wow, dude really had to dress less like a programmer to get a job.
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  136.  henriquemarques6196  I use it on one of my machines, but yes I would definitely agree with your assessment. Regarding abstraction over abstraction, today in a code review I asked a colleague why he'd created a pointless interface rather than using his (newly-created) class directly. I'd already seen that was how the rest of the code was written so I wasn't going to make him remove it on the theory that consistent bad code can sometimes be better than inconsistent good code, but I was curious what he would say. The answer? "Well, it's just a sort of syntactic sugar". As a C# dev, (mostly) unneeded boilerplate is the bane of my life. It's like industry leaders got up one morning and thought, "adding features is too easy, let's make it so instead of making the change in one file you'll always need to make it in six files" smh
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  137.  @Set_Abominae  Though the source code is surely still out there somewhere, so if the demand is there I would be willing to bet it'll resurface.
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  138. It's long been a huge blindspot in American infrastructure planning, and sadly they have yet to make sense of it. Yet ironically they have no problem paying lots of money for roads everywhere to be built and maintained.
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  139.  @XDarkGreyX  To be fair though being a developer doesn't necessarily mean having advanced technical knowledge in any specific area. I find AlbertaTech's take on things (particularly in longer videos) to be overall well-informed and fairly accurate as far as I can tell (as a dev, not in the US). However it is worth noting that both channels are fundamentally tech news/opinion channels (+ some meme shorts) and therefore consideration should also be given to the quality of research that went into the videos. AlbertaTech went a lot more into breaking down the paper including pointing out its lack of scientific rigor with regards to how it was published and pointing out fairly obvious issues with the premise and conclusions, whereas Fireship basically just parroted the content at face value.
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  140. No, because that hasn't been an issue.
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  141. Same here, because I almost never use Javascript.
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  142.  @SlickRCBD  Not to mention maintenance, the price to buy the car, etc.
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  143. I've lived much of my life in houses with a limited electricity supply, and yeah it's really not that big a deal. Just when the circuit breaker trips you feel like a bit of a moron as you go to turn the washing machine off so you can finish drying your hair or using the oven.
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  144. IMO if a company is too big for the government to allow to fail, then the government should buy or otherwise nationalise it. If you're willing to bail it out you should at least be reaping the profits in the good times and it's a good way to keep the company from getting too anticonsumer.
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  145.  @voidvector  Ironic you mention Java, since it still doesn't have generics working properly in a lot of the more basic classes (methods just return object and stuff, so you lose the type checking). Also, in Java and C# things like lambda expressions keep things from being pure OOP. However, I would posit that that is not a bad thing; pure-OOP is 1) a concept revered by programming philosophers, without much intrinsic merit to the programmer, and 2) a concept people claim to try for yet don't really seem able to consider in concrete terms, sort of like Clean Code or Agile. (Note to clean coders: it's not that I dislike the concept, just it doesn't have any amount of objective measurability and can when unchecked lead to voodoo programming.) One thing I think would be interesting to see would be a language with fully-fledged support for multiple paradigms but with compiler directives forcing you to explicitly label sections as hybrid OOP/procedural or functional or whatever. It would be interesting to see how people react with having to make an explicit decision like that. Actually, I'd propose adding this feature to Powershell, as it could only make it better.
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  146.  @houstoneuler  Not sure where you live, but for what it's worth here in Italy if I sign into any government site at the time of sign-in the Italian governmental authentication system tells me exactly what personal info is being sent to that site/agency and allows me to opt out. That's orders of magnitude clearer than "cookies, possibly functional, for us an our partners" which is basically what most other sites provide.
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  147.  @darkwingscooter9637  Because 1) they are experts in the field and their research is peer-reviewed and 2) as anyone who doesn't live in a refrigerator can tell you, weather patterns in many areas have been changing in obvious ways which often include temperatures that didn't occur even just a decade or so ago. I'm more inclined to believe the people with rational explanations for why things are going to shit rather than the people who will try to gaslight me into pretending nothing's happening. Why are there still people against climate action?
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  148.  @biggiouschinnus7489  Surely the evolution of planes though wouldn't effect a pilot's instinct to cross-check all sources of the same data though...
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  149.  @AV57  True, although it doesn't help that 1) the employers don't organise any decent training, and 2) they don't pay enough for old employees to stay
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  150. Here in Italy Schukos are the bane of our lives...all the larger appliances come with them (or the ungrounded version for some reason) meaning you either have to cut off the plug and replace it with an Italian 16 amp one or use an adapter. "Why not just install one of those fancy outlets that can take both Schuko and Italian plugs?" I hear you asking. Well, here's why: those outlets tend to work terribly with Italian 10 amp plugs, catching on the part where the prong insulation meets the metal tip. This is particularly bad with europlugs (identical to the traditional ungrounded Italian 10 amp plugs except non-rewireable). Additionally, Schuko outlets take twice the space of traditional 10/16 amp Italian ones in the most common compatible socket assembly designs. Some designs, particularly older more traditional ones, also have smaller plug faceplates (I mean the little rectangle of plastic around the socket, which also normally is the size of a light switch) which do not support sacrificing two Italian outlets for one Schuko.
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  151. Thank you, I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I'm 23 and was diagnosed at the age of somewhere around twelve. For me (and in retrospect probably even more for my family) it was really helpful because I could finally start to understand why I didn't ever really fit in and start to get some help in the for of books and so on targeted to that audience. I have a fairly high intelligence (particularly when it comes to mathematical and logical topics) and not too much in the way of sensory issues so for me it's mostly good, but I do struggle in social situations. I don't need help in everyday life, certainly not more than what friends can provide now and again, though I do sometimes amuse people around me for not thinking about something that is "obvious" and sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm in public so I shouldn't dance and mouth the lyrics of the song I'm listening to in my head. I do also struggle in social situations as well; that may be part of why I've yet to have a date for all my trying. Coming from this background, more or less all discussion of autism irritates me for some reason or another. First off, a self-diagnosis as far as I'm concerned is not a diagnosis. It doesn't mean you don't have autism, but I'm not going to believe you do just because you claim to. Yes you're very special Chad, next. Personally I've always been a little nervous and embarrassed when I tell someone, never sure how much they're going to judge me for it. Though in today's trend of marks of not being normal, I guess I shouldn't bother to be concerned. Also, by the time I know someone well enough to discuss it, there's no way they haven't noticed that after three or four sentences of smalltalk I'm out of my depth. Secondly, the terms neurotypical and neurodivergent. When a sizeable percentage of your population is neurodivergent, and both groups have a great amount of internal diversity, I don't think it's a useful distinction. It would be a "useless or whatever" thing in my mind if I weren't seeing these terms used ever more frequently with correlation to the trend discussed in the previous paragraph. Next off, ASD: As mentioned in this video, disorder is not always the most appropriate term. When it's mostly just thing that sets you apart and doesn't require medical attention or constant assistance, I think using the term disorder may be misguided. Condition might be a better term, as in a lot of cases much as with dwarfism there's not really anything particularly wrong with the person per se. Dismissing it as not an issue: There are people for whom it is debilitating, so those people need support. Really I think what it boils down to is a lack of attention to the severity of the issue and particular unique traits or struggles of the person. I suspect if there were medical classifications (preferably without the word "autism") specifically for people who really need help living their lives do to the issue and/or separate classifications for the different facets of the condition, it would be easier to discuss. And as a last note, each and every one of us upon this planet has our foibles; just please have a little patience for those of the people around you and help out where you can. Life's too short to laugh at someone for walking funny, never remembering that you ordered a cappuccino unless they make it right away, or singing joyously one day an moping around the next.
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  152. Yeah, a lot of things especially tech-related are a disaster waiting to happen and really need to be standardised at the very least and also preferably open-sourced. However, it should be noted that this isn't something to demand from companies; companies exist for one purpose, and one purpose alone: making money. The real people to demand action from are lawmakers who can create provisions for the regulating authorities to authoritatively regulate.
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  153. For reference how does that compare to the costs of fuel, maintenance, runway usage and storage?
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  154.  @visceratrocar  The difference is that AI now has (or very soon will have) the ability to take nonsensical and woolly business concepts and turn them into code, and that's the real gap that has always failed to be spanned with all these attempts at "anyone can code now" tools.
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  155. Yeah, it's truly ridiculous. That's not what worries me most though, because the plane still has to read it back and can be corrected by atc. What worries me more is how the artificial pilot part of the system would work; either it can be done using preprogrammed logic like the current autopilot systems in which case it won't be able to handle anything unexpected, or (god help us) they'll stick some AI in there and we'll never be able to reliably predict what it's going to do or even know why it made the wrong call after the inevitable crashes. It's hard enough understanding the human brain, let alone AIs.
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  156.  @arakwar  The point of using cloud services is so that you can arbitrarily turn it on or force your users to pay subscriptions. A lot of free software is better designed than commercial alternatives (and without facelifts every few years!) but sadly without large corporations to push them they have a way of going largely unnoticed, with particularly harsh ramifications for communications platforms.
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  157. TS is useful as a tool that helps statically-typed OOP programmers (like myself) to not completely mess everything up when we're forced to do some front-end programming. If you're used to the flexibility of being able to assign anything to anything though I can definitely see how it can be limiting and annoying.
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  158. "trust me bro" AI isn't a source of information or structurally sound organised data. It can emulate sloppy human-written text, but don't trust the contents to be correct nor expect it to write reliable code. I would expect that asking it to graph a function will lead to incorrect results as well.
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  159. How are such exploits not more common? It really seems like a master key to all windows systems if you can just get users to download and execute a piece of code.
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  160. Can you post a link or something? If it's interesting it might get you a couple signups or people on your mailing list anyway
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  161. I'm not sure maglev is the answer here. As train speeds go up, so does inefficiency, in addition to which the infrastructure requirements of maglev makes it incompatible with anything else. There's sort of a sweet spot for speeds here. Addtionally, one of the limitations of HSR is it can only get you between major cities, by ts very nature. If you need to travel anywhere else, you need a good intercity or local network to get you there. If they were to step up their game with just normal overnight trains, I think it would go a long way. Who cares if it's slower to travel between two cities if you are asleep for most of it? Especially if they could arrange for good meal service included, I think it could go a long way.
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  162. Although this is the first election with the small parliament. Additionally, two things this video glosses over are 1) just how far-right the FdI rhetoric is, even refusing to remove the fascist flame from their symbol, testing the waters to see if presidentialism would fly, etc. 2) the elections don't directly determine a prime minister. This was more precisely stated here than in a previous video, but ultimately the president chooses a prime minister and then if a coalition can be formed than things can proceed. That's how we ended up with Draghi, despite the major parties all having their own preferences. Given the current parliament it's extremely likely that Meloni will end up as prime minister, however if hypothetically Mattarella were to find someone different that enough members of parliament were willing to support then she might not. Unfortunately a lot of English-language news seems to be getting this wrong.
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  163. Depends on the country. If the US tried to, they could probably pull it off (though they might struggle a little with diplomacy). If Uganda attempted the feat, they'd probably lose all kinds of existing treaties and external companies would stop operating in their country.
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  164. I don't normally watch these kinds of channels but I've found several of her videos helpful
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  165.  @Stiftoad  In Italy we normally have some combination of inside shutter (solid), outside shutter (allows airflow but doesn't allow blocking out light from the street below), and especially in the south various kinds of awnings. A lot of houses, particularly the more old-timey ones have awnings that come all the way down to the balcony railings. Another factor is just having way smaller and fewer windows that American-style buildings.
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  166. ​ @MaseraSteve  The reason is simply that buildings in scandinavia have entirely different environmental challenges. The obvious one that springs to mind is they don't need to deal with immense heat, but rather have the opposite problem where it can be difficult to get a humane amount of sunlight inside. Not saying that buildings in Texas are necessarily well-designed, but if you're going for something more durable (and in particular if you're searching for European inspiration) you may have better luck with something not dissimilar to what you find in southern europe/north africa. Small windows, thick stone walls, high ceilings, shutters and awnings are all good defenses against the heat.
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  167. Though it's honestly pretty sad that open sourcing a closed-source project normally requires making sure you haven't done anything too illegal. I wish they would just require all copyrighted code to be sent in source form to the relevant authorities.
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  168.  @epursimuove1633  Actually a lot of the recent issues I've observed over here seem to be linked to politicians trying to copy the US (potentially lining their own pockets as a happy side-effect): gradually privatizing basically everything up to and including healthcare, new unions barely ever getting formed, lack of maintenance of public transit systems...None of these are linked to worker's rights not getting violated except potentially an inverse correlation with the second.
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  169.  @danielvest9602  I'm going to go with "concentrating" rather than "creating", but yeah
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  170.  @andrewm6470  Also, where does the money the government accumulates then end up? Does it go to politicians or towards "expanding the operations", i.e. colonialism or similar? I'm no economist nor businessman but from what I understand liquidity is bad and should be invested as soon as possible.
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  171. eventually we'll run out of internet to train them on, but it'll be a mess if what they're being trained on is produced in large part by the AIs themselves. They'll just be trained to spit out incorrect combinations of the chewed-of "facts" they ingested.
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  172. Did you watch the video prior to commenting? Regardless, I think you'll find that payment for your losses comes in the form of you not paying them anymore because they all quit and found a better job. Just a hunch.
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  173.  @JMM33RanMA  If only they'd impressed him with their railway system, the world could be a much better place :(
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  174. Also, the whole point about the belt and road initiative seems somewhat besides the point...You have a problem with your citizens buying a ton of stuff from China, so you respond by trying to get land on which to put up military bases and forcefully control shipping? Really?
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  175. No, you the user wouldn't necessarily want that, but I can guarantee you that most software companies would love to pay fewer programmers.
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  176.  @angrysnek4445  As a competent human whose job it is to review PRs written by humans, I would quickly switch to just rejecting Devin's. At least when a human makes a mistake or doesn't really know how something works you can successfully correct them.
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  177.  @j.c.2240  That requires predefined scope of work, though. In many areas, that's actually quite difficult to figure out.
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  178.  @ExecutionMods  I can't wait for the day LLMs result in linux kernel source or maybe some GPL'd utility getting worked into proprietary software and being found out.
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  179.  @theboringplanet  Oh man. I'm gunna write a "meta-apropos" script just to cover that edge-case.
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  180.  @drooplug  A good operating system should be capable of running even on sub-par systems, especially if it has as wide a target market as Windows.
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  181. The worst is it'll find something on StackOverflow and use that, but then realize it doesn't work because some dipshit just copied an answer from chatGPT.
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  182. Also they love a free market but not at a global scale like when some countries see the need to fund projects more than others.
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  183.  @pi4795  Also closed-source software should not be copyrightable. If you want the copyright, you should be required to publish the source.
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  184. Not to mention there aren't enough known sources of the raw materials for a 1:1 replacement of petrol cars, besides which the effect on local populations is absolutely devastating. Besides which, if EVs emit 70% less CO2 than ICEVs, that means their carbon footprint is still a third of the size, i.e. nowhere near good enough. Sure, EVs are better than ICEVs, but we really need to be moving away from the concept of externally-powered personal transportation.
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  185.  @proosee  I was a bit like that after my first job. It's an easy trap to fall into when you're in a hellscape with lots of poorly thought out small stories vastly underestimated and strong pressure to do things faster. In my second job the project was well-managed and my scrum master (and immediate boss) was absolutely amazing. A lot of what I learned in the first months in that place could be summerised with the sentence "slow down, don't worry, no one hates you, try to come up with the best long-term solution even if it means taking twice as long".
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  186.  @superdingo9741  Lol most of the people on my team supposedly spend 30 hours a week as programmers and 10 hours as devops guys. I say "supposedly" because the line between the two can be pretty blurred (as can the line between programming and making business decisions/contacting clients directly to know what they want, for...reasons)
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  187.  @AelwynMr  Lol only applies to new devices, and only in some situations. If it's on the end of a kitchen blender or hair drier I really don't care and it's just a question of whether the joy of not using an adapter is worth the effort of rewiring. It's also sometimes convenient to have a standard Italian 16 amp plug on the end of a power strip that came with a Schuko, not to mention standard AC computer power cords (in one situation for example I had a spare cord set up at my desk with a short cable and a right-angled Italian plug as that was what fit best, then I had a separate cord for travelling etc).
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  188.  @jesusmods1  As an artist I could easily see situations where I didn't want to sell tickets at market price. If a particularly famous artist were giving a special concert in a very small venue and there were only 100 tickets available, they could probably be sold at $10,000. However the tradeoff is that then the audience would be restricted to wealthy upper-crust individuals, and that same artist might not want to play to that kind of audience. Or maybe the artist would just figure "eh, I don't need all the money in the world, let me sell the tickets at a more reasonable price". The point is, there are sometimes valid reasons not to price things at the "correct" value according to capitalism. As a side note, the opposite is also true. One of the classic techniques of discouraging activities (e.g. smoking) is to put high taxes on the equipment required. Capitalism doesn't demand those prices, that's society deciding that the sale is problematic. (Note that there are fairer ways to do this, but this is still a very popular method.)
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  189. That's why a lot of countries have strict limits regarding political advertising
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  190. What sort of systems are you using instead? And what kind of company is it?
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  191.  @maxstrong1999  Looks like it, why do you ask? The disadvantage to making Chrome MIT vs GPL is that MIT on a high-demand product that several competing companies are involved in is that it's liable to lead to the problems X had back in the day
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  192.  @Drew1903SG  it's remarkably peaceful down here.
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  193. @ I mean...I don't know who used it first but considering how different neo- fascists vs nazis are from the original does it much matter in the grand scheme of things whether one associates it with fascism or nazism?
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  194.  @rubiconnn  IP legislation as a whole is just so fucked up...
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  195.  @egates  and how'd it go?
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  196. At my first job I knew how much the raise would be after the first 3 months (17%), but that raise just never came. Only contact my boss would have with me was to tell me (with every other word in all caps) that I wasn't doing stuff properly (there was no training) or according to the plan (code for a word doc he half-assed and then considered a full plan with everything clearly laid out to make our lives easier, despite the fact that it always left a huge number of open questions). Those plans were actually a major insult, because I was hired to be a programmer, not a typist, but he removed any possibility of my doing my job properly. Still, didn't help the deadlines never allowed doing things the right way either...
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  197. They could also start offering pilot training programs if they got desperate enough
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  198.  @naszfluckah7314  The plug doesn't make contact until the insulated portions are about halfway inserted, so it doesn't make a lick of difference whether or not it's recessed (barring equipment with really old plugs, like you might find in an antiques store). I'll also comment that Schuko plugs normally do not have sleeved prongs but rely on the recess instead; at the end of the day it doesn't matter from a safety standpoint which you use, you just need to pick one. Personally I prefer flush outlets and dislike Schukos for a number of reasons, mostly to do with the fact that the outlet is over twice the size of our traditional 16 amp outlet and at least the versions sold here work badly with the europlug as well as some Italian 10 amp plugs (they snag horribly as you unplug the plug). Sadly a lot of heavy devices get sold with Schukos anyway, leading to adapters being an essential household item. Rewireable Italian plugs are pretty cheap though so at least they can be replaced as needed for the application.
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  199.  @gabrielalbeldaochoa8234  There's a line that passes by a city I used to live in that was built way back (not sure by whom). until 2015 or so the line was run by a corporation heavily regulated by the government, and it was ok. I would have preferred it to have been run by the national rail company, but it was fine and it got people from one end of the line to the other at an affordable cost. Well, then that company got bought by a major transit corporation from way up north. That corporation kept running the trains a couple years, but then because they couldn't be bothered to carry out the necessary routine maintenance the line fell out of disrepair and after a derailment they had to close most of it "for maintenance". Half a decade on, no work has been done at all and the estimated price tag has gone way up (if I remember rightly about tenfold) from where it would have been had they just done their job. Around a year ago I visited my old local station just to see, and there were plants all over the tracks, including a tree right between the rails of platform 1. And the real kicker? The local government has finally realized this sucks, so they're planning to take the line back and get it back running with some other company specifically created. Except the funding to repair the line is all coming from various levels of government. No penalty to the corporation that let it all go to ruin, despite the fact that they're quite successful thanks to other ventures and could probably do with a little squeeze now and again.
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  200. I don't know if it's acceptable in your area, but where I live it's not uncommon to see profiles with groups of people where everyone other than the profile owner has their faces blurred out and honestly I like it as I appreciate they respect their friends' privacy
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  201. I unintentionally spent a day in Frankfurt when all the systems failed recently, but honestly Lufthansa's terrible handling of that from a customer service point of view hasn't lowered my impression of them at all. Their planes are equipped with seats somehow less comfortable than those of Ryanair by a margin I wouldn't have thought possible, they have very organised boarding from the front only and disembark also from the front meaning it takes forever and a day to do either, and their prices are so ridiculously high not even the 10g chocolate they give you on board can make up for it.
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  202.  @mawnkey  You poor thing :( Jokes aside I've never actually used emacs, what are its strong suits/the advantages over vim?
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  203.  @justsomeonepassingby3838  Gah! I hate youtube.
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  204. Honestly the more people freak out about crime the worse it's going to be. I think at a society level the best way to combat that is to work for a more cohesive community
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  205. Regexes are a really useful tool to know anyway though, so just do yourself a favour and force yourself to learn them. Just bear in mind that the exact syntax varies slightly depending on parser/context.
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  206. A problem I've seen recurring in the projects I've worked in is business logic has not been very clearly defined/recorded. When reading code it's nice to be able to tell if some value or check was a business decision or a (possibly no longer needed) technical solution to some problem. It may be fine when the code was written last week and you can ask the guy from business, but when you're debating rewriting a complex mess it's a real issue.
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  207. It's a language where the first thing that happens is all the variables are loaded into the stack. It has the huge performance benefit that you know the stack size right at the beginning so the OS doesn't have to use any guesswork to figure it out or anything.
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  208.  @DowncastParadox  Yeah, definitely and that was something mentioned in the final report as well. I just take issue with the "critical to perfectly anticipate everything, as I know from my decades of experience" thing, as if anyone can perfectly plan anything above trivial complexity. Maybe I'm overly sensitive to it, having once had a boss with just that thinking who'd take any opportunity to belittle his employees and brag about how much faster than us he would be able to do things😅
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  209. @Bryce_Fl They do need transit at least to the nearest cities of the next size up though. People need to go places to run errands or visit relatives even if it's only once in a while. And if that means running an EMU up the track nearly empty every hour from 6 to 21 that would be a perfectly decent service for such a town at a relatively low cost. Regional trains are very cheap compared to high-speed, and that would mean fewer trips in an automobile for people who have access to one, and more mobility for people who don't.
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  210. @Bryce_Fl I spent my teen years in a town of roughly 15.000 including the outlying farms and villages. After high school I had to move to the big city, in large part because they'd closed our railway line a few years prior so what had been just under an hour in a DMU to get to the nearest large(r) cities became a somewhat longer bus trip, with a schedule that required leaving the large city before dinnertime in order to get back the same night. Thus it became nearly impossible to go out with my friends many of whom were in uni in one of those larger cities. The reason they closed the line had to do with ever-increasing privatisation. They got rid of the regional transit provider (that had been reasonably good) and sold all the routes to a bus company from up north somewhere. Well, the bus company didn't think the line really needed to be maintained so after a while and a derailment they lowered the speed limit on the line to just 50 km/h. Shortly after that they closed the line completely "for maintenance" and proceeded to do absolutely nothing for years. These days the bus "substitute" doesn't even stop at the station, a fact that I learned the hard way at one point. Instead it stops at the highway interchange more than a kilometer away and poorly connected to the town itself. Now repair work has started to get the line up again, but it all needs to be replaced; the first step was to cut down the trees and other vegetation that had grown on the tracks in the meantime. But now the maintenance is being paid by the region; as far as I know the bus company got to keep their profits without having to pay any of the costs they should have. Meanwhile they are continuing to make money in the region as all the regional bus transport was turned over to them at the same time as the rail. And what's more, due to the time and additional wear and tear since the company should have done the original maintenance work the cost of the work needing to be done now is an order of magnitude (no exaggeration) larger than what it would have been. By the way, in you experience where do people living in rural areas go to shop? Because afaik stores tend to be found in towns or cities.
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  211. Another fun detail not mentioned in this video was that in Genova some years prior to the columbus voyage there were maps that included land roughly in the region of north america, probably based on oral accounts from sailors. There's a fairly decent chance columbus was able to catch a glimpse of some of these prior to departure as well.
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  212. In the case of Tesla and similar, the answer seems to be "the dude sitting behind the wheel not paying attention because all the promotional material said 'self-driving'".
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  213.  @balala7567  Lol, I don't even argue based on the contents of the system, I argue based on the principle. Most people know and refer to the system as Linux, Linux is objectively a better-sounding name than any the FSF have suggested, and the idea of naming stuff based on the components is just not how most things work.
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  214.  @maybenations  I might just send it in the mail, printed on paper in Comic Sans
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  215. It's been there a long time, I would be surprised if there were any distros that either used an alias passing --no-preserve-root or used an old enough version of rm that it didn't have that guard.
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  216. It's amazing to me that they use "essential worker" yet don't pay those employees the highest salaries in the company...if they're essential, why don't we get paid like the company depends on them?
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  217. Please don't, there are so many other guys looking for a wife who aren't so creepy about it
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  218. Very true. Sadly a lot of that threat is not even to the people choosing to put on a seatbelt, but to people walking or biking.
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  219. which ones in particular hold you back?
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  220.  @merukit  Ah right, that's what I get for staying up too late. Corrected, thanks
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  221. If Microsoft wants to, definitely. They get away with a lot... Seriously though, if AI can write code then intellectual property for software needs to be abolished as a concept. There would be no arguments left for keeping it around.
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  222.  @gytosas  You would think, but a lot of famous brands seem to be largely running on momentum. They cheap out where they can just like everyone else, sometimes more (they can get better contracts with suppliers because of their name).
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  223. Actually, if your brakes break you have the opposite issue...
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  224.  @zy7134  It makes sense to basically anyone except Javascript programmers. Not sure what a nub is though.
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  225.  @CalcProgrammer1  Is the TouchpadEmulator publicly available? I don't have a linux phone but if I did that sounds like something I'd like to install.
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  226.  @valdir7426  And honestly, a lot of those can be done on cargo bike depending on local geography etc.
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  227. Fairly new to the workforce, but my understanding is recruitment is the process between someone who knows nothing about your role calls you up to try to sell you on some job, and eventually getting through the interviews with the future bosses etc up til the point of signing the contract. After you start the job is the onboarding phase, which just means training. Could be anything from someone actually explaining how to do your job to being stuck in a room with twenty hours of video to watch on every product your new company has ever sold. But basically once you're onboarding you already work there. That is, that's how it works in my country but they seem to have some really weird setups over there lol
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  228. Problem is that the tracks will still belong to brightline's owners.
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  229.  @SecondThought  Although that's already way different from how it works now. I'm a software developer, and in the industry it's pretty rare for the devs to actually get any credit for what they've done save in open source or free software. But most companies don't like being transparent about their software, so finding an open source job is difficult. Actually, I've long thought software source code should be required to be publicly available as a consumer protection measure; it wouldn't even require changing IP laws, it could even be copyrighted in the same manner of a book. But at the end of the day, users need to know if 1) companies are lying about the data they collect, 2) if there are major security flaws that need fixing, and 3) if maybe the terrible code quality implies a somewhat haphazard working environment for the programmers.
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  230.  @spnyp33  And? At the end of the day, if you got paid to write the song in the first place should you get extra profits for no additional work indefinitely just because it happened to become popular? If the company comes along and sells all those copies, they would have to compete with any other company doing the same (remember, no IP). Thus, the price to the consumer would stabilize at a much lower point than it would with IP; considering the internet, probably an amount just above the cost of producing the CD (or whatever). Also, I'll remind you that in today's world it often isn't the song writer who ends up getting the money. It's the singer, or perhaps some other group the singer works for. If it's part of a musical, probably the production company.
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  231.  @DiegoMonroyF  I agree that the goal should be to give people transport, but I don't agree that roads comprise transport. What roads are, fundamentally, is a place for people who have otherwise obtained a means of transportation to use it, thus putting the burden of acquiring transportation squarely on the individual whilst also using a lot of public money to do so. If I have to own, borrow, or otherwise arrange for a vehicle the government has clearly not provided a full transit solution. That said, if I could hop on a bus or cable car rather than a train, it would be perfectly alright. For a lot of use cases though trains are better, and they have a way of forming a central part of public transportation networks between their reliability, efficiency, and extremely high capacity. As far as your argument for deregulating in order to force quality to rise, I have to agree that yes that does normally work, assuming that previously the service was just kinda left to its own devices in a government-aided monopoly. This assumption sadly is often correct, but the solution I'd far rather see is for the public service to actually be controlled by the government with parameters like ridership and percentage of population served as goals, not money. As for the last one, I don't think the government should be playing the "game" of economics when it comes to public transit, it should be doing its job. If there's someone (government or private) who's "winning", that means they're making boatloads (trainloads?) of money off of either the government or the populace directly, on the basis of a public _service_. There should not be a game to be played, there should be a legally guaranteed way for people to get from point a to point b, at an affordable price.
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  232. Lol, with luck they'll just form a consortium centering around a new open-source fork of it and keep that going forward as the mainstream version. Once enough people are on board, free software finds a way. There's a reason Linux is still around when you'd be hard-pressed to find a direct descendant of the original Unix systems.
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  233.  @douglascounts4634  Except there's usually not much typing to begin with and if there is it usually indicates an architectural issue. Like the other day when I needed to modify 7 files in two repos to change the type of a parameter, for instance.
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  234.  @u4yk  I live in a hot climate and have a hardware camera cover just in case, so fk shirts. And trousers.
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  235.  @seancpp  Especially since a lot of the requirements are arbitrary business needs rather then technical ones. It would be nice to have some easy marker in the code to say "nothing bad will happen if you change this"
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  236. Protip: rip those discs ASAP onto your own storage as they do wear out and (depending where you live maybe) it's probably perfectly legal to make personal backups.
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  237. ​ @reginabillotti  I'm a programmer and hate when they start interviews that way...there are so many tech companies competing for the 2024 "dumbest name of the year" award and I just apply to the positions that look vaguely interesting and not terrible, do you really expect me to know your name off the top of my head? Half the time when I get a callback after applying I don't remember the ad at all...
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  238.  @squarerootof2  Well, long story short (largely because I can't remember the exact circumstances) despite popular opinion Windows doesn't always work "right out of the box" and I was having a good deal of trouble getting hooked up to wifi after it had all just broken randomly. Disconnected but "can't connect to this network" or whatever, you know the drill.
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  239. 727 was a lot larger than the 737. It's chronological, rather than based on sizes. In Airbus's case, the reason it seems to work is because 318-321 are all part of the same family; it's just like 737-700, 737-800, 737-900. Also, the A300 and A310 were both wide-bodies. As for the 717, originally the number was used internally to refer to the C-135/KC-135 military aircraft, but as it was not widely used the number was later recycled for the former MD-95.
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  240. It won't, chances are companies will be paying Microsoft billions to use AzureDevAI
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  241.  @W1ldTangent  Out of curiosity, why do you prefer the MIT? I normally use GPL for my own stuff (mostly terrible side projects just to learn some cool new things), but I've been toying with using MIT if I ever make something useful.
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  242.  @deadbeef576  was that Siemens in Germany?
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  243. He also completely ripped off Wozniak early in their careers, and to my knowledge never saw any consequences.
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  244. This is one of the reasons in long-term projects it's so important to make the deliberate decision to take the time to carefully document all the important topics as you develop.
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  245.  @masstronaut  The services industry, although developers seem like the subset of humans worst suited for such a workplace.
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  246. I live in europe, but here too Ryanair's baggage fees make it cheaper for me to take the train 11-12 hours each way rather than flying when I visit my parents. I don't mind too much because that particular train connection is quite comfortable, but it does make for a long trip so I typically don't do it for less than a week.
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  247. As a C# dev my instinct is to agree, however at some level this take is wrong: -Conceptually, the variable name "result" doesn't have to refer to a specific type. It could be a number in one instant and some function a few milliseconds later. -From a data perspective, types don't always exist. In scripting, everything is a stream of characters (unless you're using Powershell). In C programming, fundamentally everything is sets of bits in multiples of char. Sometimes it makes sense to treat 'a' as just a number, or to treat ints as just sequences of bits etc.
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  248.  @kx7500  Well, yeah if you remove forests then of course you'll release that carbon, but a larger problem is we've spent the last two hundred years taking vast quantities of carbon from secure underground reserves and depositing it into the atmosphere as quickly as we could. It's hard to expect the global ecosystem to instantly adapt to all that extra carbon and increase forest growth to absorb it. And the issue with planting trees is that although reforestation in many cases is a good thing, the amount of carbon each tree can remove from the atmosphere is finite and depressingly low. Then of course there all all the issues with tree planting scams, but that's a separate matter.
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  249. Honestly Youtube is also that way. If anyone knows of a technology that will provide you new videos of people you're subscribed to and nothing else, please let me know.
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  250.  @landlubbber  Maybe, but losses go down way easier if it's a "this year is going badly, but next year we'll do great!" thing versus a "we have to spend years at a loss, but two CEOs down the line you'll be making money". But when it comes to properly run transit (properly as defined by good for people) it's not a question of when the downturns come but rather where. Corporations all the time shut down or outsource the parts of their business that don't make money, it's among the most common business practices. Unfortunately, a properly-designed rail system will have routes that run at a huge loss. For an example of what happens when you try to get rid of those routes, see the Beeching cuts.
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  251.  @drzeworyj  If I had to guess I'd say it was mostly just chance that German culture aligns with public perception of autism.
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  252. Other than the iberian penninsula and Britain, I believe the main issues are train control systems and line voltage. But the thing is, both of these can be solved with a fifteen-minute or half-hour stop to change locomotives. Sure, it's not fantastic, but certainly not something that should prevent international routes from being travelled. There is the minor hiccup of EMUs being really in fashion right now though, and very few companies investing in regular carriages...huh.
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  253.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Dotnet is good for userspace programs because the runtime is shipped with Windows, it's decently fast, has automatic memory management, and a nice combination of features from various paradigms. However, cross-platform development is harder because then you have to tell your users they need to install the runtime, and additionally programs in .NET are not exactly fast or lightweight. That's why in systems programming languages like C or C++ are likely to yield better results. Note however that C++ has so many features you're going to have to provide some strict guidelines to keep it from becoming a mess, and C to some extent has the opposite problem. Hence I would expect C# to be cheaper in the end if it can do the job. P.S. The restriction of extension method definitions to static classes sucks.
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  254. Do you have any advice for how to handle colleagues who write unneeded interfaces and other boilerplate and defend it with "it's needed to maintain separation of concerns and is good clean code"? I used to have a colleague who did this all the time, but I'm fairly junior and probably ten years younger than him and perhaps because of that he never had much time for my arguments that in the monolithic architecture having exactly one class of that interface didn't really make sense when there weren't any externalities to mock away. Maybe I've misunderstood something fundamental about unit testing (sadly I've never been in a project that put much focus on it) but as I see it with a modern IDE replacing all calls of an internal class with an interface is really trivial so no need to plan ahead for that eventuality, and there were frequent cases where adding a method to a class really meant adding passthrough methods to two interfaces and the corresponding classes.
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  255.  @aSfuLk  To be fair to juniors, it can be pretty dang hard to tell. I recently had someone ask me what I thought my level was and I genuinely didn't know what to say...if you look at job postings a lot of "mid-senior" postings require 3-5 years of experience and "senior" postings are frequently requiring 5 years or so. Doesn't seem like a very sensible division in the context of a career totalling around half a century long.
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  256.  @d.b.cooper1  "many european countries" Which ones? I live in Italy, and it's just getting worse and worse...the government got tired of actually providing a service so now they let the publicly owned company operating the trains do whatever they want/is most profitable. Regional lines constantly closing, but for some reason they're operating high-speed trains in France and Spain and are expanding into other countries as well. Germany is even worse than ours, as seen by the number of delays and strikes due to low pay (fun fact: the swiss rail company decided last year to stop waiting for German trains when they're late because they're late so often and to such a great extent). Spain has fantastic high-speed routes, but mostly it's private companies operating them. Not sure how their regional routes are. Maybe in Poland or something the situation is better?
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  257. Honestly after a few days when the cash runs out I'd probably just run a tally of what I owe to my grocer, and he'd do the same for his suppliers. Question is what the financial fallout would be afterwards.
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  258.  @holodoctor1  I mean, I already live in a city of 200.000 more or less I believe, at the end of the day city size is irrelevant if you mostly shop in the same places every day along the same km-long stretch of road and they all know you.
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  259.  @nathanball99  Yes. High-speed trains with just a few stops, plus regional trains with lots of stops.
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  260.  @richjhart  The reason a Europlug has narrower pins is so that it's compatible with Italian 10 amp plugs. I hate the Schuko sockets because they work badly with our plugs and are needlessly clunky: twice the size of an Italian 10/16 amp socket in compatible designs, with a larger size difference for Italian socket assembly designs that do not support Schuko sockets.
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  261. Yeah exactly, if your other products are fundamentally reliant on it then the theory doesn't make nearly as much sense. An example of this that always gets to me is when some penny-pinching government cuts its rail service to small towns in the middle of nowhere. Sure, maybe the line didn't turn much or any of a profit, but if I can't get to the nearest major city then the fancy high-speed line passing by there that they keep bragging about is fucking useless.
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  262.  @user-vr8zs3ei7n  Why is that a bad thing, if the taxes are spent well? I'd happily pay a 50% or tax rate if I got housing and two hot meals a day for free. Also, is that the maximum or minimum? Most countries have a different income tax depending on how much you make.
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  263.  @drooplug  By subpar I meant systems that aren't that great. I.e. relatively low ram, slow processor, small hard drive. The reason they should be supported stems from the fact that a lot of people have these kinds of computers, whether due to just having old hardware or the relatively low price. For free software like Linux, it increases the usefulness of the software to have some way to run it on these systems, besides potentially aligning with the political/moral views of various groups. For commercial software such as Windows, it widens the userbase i.e. more customers and thus more money if you squeeze them right. That's applicable to general-purpose personal computer OSes. Obviously if we start talking about mainframe/server OSes the equation is different. Or indeed embedded systems, where you'll often have very little of anything and you need the system to be just big enough to get the job done.
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  264.  @kevinwelsh7490  Except for the fact that they exist to keep sun/rain out of the house whilst allowing airflow...
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  265.  @nw42  Arguably fake stone in some applications has the same issues of shutters that don't shut. Actual stone walls have a lot of advantages over home depot 2x4s, such as the fact that during the summer they tend to stay cool longer and in the winter are relatively warm. They also tend to last a lot longer.
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  266.  @fatefinger  how tf did they win if workers had clocked overtime that went unpaid?
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  267.  @charlesparr1611  Honestly I feel so sorry for that poor soul, it must've been hard to decide to report him.
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  268. I also love the assumption that employees are either 100% or 0% developer. How do they account for, say, a scrum master/tech lead/team head who spends most of his time in meetings but is also responsible for a lot of design work and a small amount of code? Likewise, be prepared for the software architects to suddenly find themselves flagged as useless lol
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  269. Here in Italy you can get a replacement plug of any of the standard types for a euro or so, so all you need is a screwdriver and wire strippers and you can fit all your appliances with whatever plug works best. Just please make sure not to replace a 16 amp plug with a 10 amp one and then try to draw more than 10 amps.
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  270.  @TheRealWindlePoons  Though depending how much they trusted the system, the explanation they came up with might just have been that they hadn't noticed before without the high-tech solution.
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  271.  @nathanm2664  Lol classic, same here. I lasted 5 months before getting a better job. "Scrum" where all the tasks were pushed on you and you had to get x number of story points done a day, deadlines absurdly unrealistic in order to appease the client, CEO who thought of himself as the god of programming but whose entire architecture was as difficult as possible to work with...I was hired around the same time as 4 or 5 other people, and by the time I left only one other was still in the company. Unlike some of the other people here I did get pay for the time during my notice, but the guy never dealt with some important bureaucracy leaving me in a pickle. Actually when I turned in my notice, he asked if there was any way he could convince me to stay 😂. Conveniently, my new job started exactly a week before he had a make-it-or-break-it golive that was bound to be a disaster.
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  272.  @savannahsmiles1797  I just had a headhunter proudly tell me about the great training I would have access to by working for them, they have this website where I can learn stuff in complete autonomy... The irony of course is as a self-taught software developer I know full well what employers think of that if you can't show any work experience, and that basically boils down to the same thing as being sent to a website on an as-needed basis.
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  273.  @willneve  That's my case, and tbh I haven't really had a problem with it yet. There are companies that will only hire people with a degree, but considering that it's fairly widely recognized that universities unfortunately don't do a tremendously good job of preparing software developers I figure more fool them.
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  274.  @Privacy_menorykee  Marscetti 😂
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  275. If you're a retiree you'll also likely have the sort of experience they'll need to get their project up and running.
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  276.  @ВасилийКоровин-г9э  Nah, the pyramids were actually just big freeze driers. Sadly grave robbers stole the pumps centuries ago and one of them made its way into the hands of Leonardo Da Vinci (but that's a story for another time).
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  277. Huh. Sounds like JavaScript.
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  278.  @davidmartensson273  VS's "TAB to insert xyz" feature is horrendous, you never know what TAB is going to do the next time you hit it.
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  279.  @Anamnesis  I'm a software developer, so it's literally my job to learn new things and come up with solutions. Typically the solutions are to problems the business people have created for themselves, and as for the "learning things" part when job hunting recruiters for some reason seem to expect you to have experience in exactly the technologies they use.
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  280. They had programming guides.
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  281. You say that, but I absolutely think that some things shouldn't be resellable, particularly high-demand tickets purchasable online and the like. If you do allow resale, you make it so that the only ones buying from you are bots ready to make a resale at a huge markup. I know there's an argument for "but what if you end up not being able to go?" and I'd say the obvious solution is to allow selling the ticket back to the original vender minus a small return fee so it could then be sold last-minute to others.
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  282. 3 out of how many? If it's 3 out of 5, I'm seriously worried about the other two. If it's out of 1500 then that's statistics ig
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  283.  @Name-ot3xw  don't most large companies have a whistleblowing system that's isolated from the employee's immediate manager/colleagues though?
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  284. Note about the "a value cannot be null, but you can make it nullable by adding a question mark". The short answer is this is inaccurate, but a full explanation is that there are two kinds of data types, reference types (defined by classes and interfaces, e.g. string) and value types (defined by structs, e.g. int). Reference types can be null, however value types cannot. Therefore, if you create a new variable of a value type (as in "SomeType variableName;") it'll be set to the default value, but for a reference type it'll be set to null. If you need a nullable value type, that's actually a fundamentally a different type and is written with a question mark at the end. So, int? can be null, but int cannot. If you need to compare them, a cast is involved (if I recall correctly the int gets implicitly cast to int? prior to comparison). There are also other important differences between value and reference types, so if you're new to the language at some point be sure to learn them. However, for some reason the designers of C# decided that this was confusing to newcomers [citation needed] and so in the most recent versions of the language by default there's a warning (hence the yellow squiggle, not red) if the compiler detects that a value of reference type that's not explicitly nullable (the question mark) could at some point in the execution become null. This has the advantage that you don't have to worry about null checking if the value isn't marked as nullable, assuming your dev team does a good job of paying attention to warnings and resolving the issues. The code base I'm working on currently has something along the lines of 4700 warnings if my memory serves (it's also an older version of C#, from before they decided to start all this non-nullable reference type stuff). However, there are a few disadvantages to this behavior too. One is that you have to explicitly mark the type if you ever plan on setting the value to null, a frequent thing to want to do. Additionally, if you're trying to work only with non-nullable variables it can make some patterns more cumbersome (e.g. "SomeType returnResult; if (something) {doStuff(); returnResult = someValue;} else returnResult = someOtherValue; Log($"Returning {returnResult}!"); return returnResult;"). One could also argue that it can confuse people at a fundamental level about the differences between classes and structs, sort of like in Java the line between abstract class and interface was somewhat muddied when they introduced default implementations in interfaces. And then you get the people like me who just hate it for no solid good reason other than "this isn't how I learned it!" and try to justify their hatred through other arguments.
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  285.  @mskiptr  I'd argue that code should be copyrightable, but companies should also be required to publish the code behind software they publish and code they run on backend systems related to public sites or programs. That way transparency could be properly maintained as well as copyright infringement being easily found and brought up.
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  286.  @hidicproductions4849  Haven't parts of Germany been trying to switch to FOSS for government stuff for a while now? I think that more and more groups should move that way, trying to regulate Microsoft artificially like it's the only way we can use computers is always going to have us lagging behind their latest round of fuckery, so as I see it the only decent alternative to FOSS would be to somehow nationalise Microsoft (however tf that could be achieved from a legal standpoint) everywhere people heavily rely on it. And honestly their OS really isn't worth all that hassle for all kinds of reasons imo. That said, one way to regulate it that would be useful would be to require out-of-the-box implementation of POSIX and various other standards (including filesystem-level permissions) for commercially-sold (or licensed, nice try) consumer operating systems. Microsoft sort of barely not-really half-asses these right now through things like WSL but that would force them to make a system that's actually compatible with all the others out there thus somewhat leveling the playing field.
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  287.  @friendmaker9210  Arguably that would imply market salary is lower than "market salary". Regardless, time to unionize.
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  288. We have no understanding of how AI makes decisions and why it makes the choices it does. Why would we introduce that into a system when we need to be able to go back and figure out the causes of failures after the fact?
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  289.  @BigWhoopZH  Take a look at NixOS for instance
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  290. The question is, for a given project profile is the number in closed source greater or smaller than that of open source? A challenging debate since it's a question of figuring out which of two unknowable numbers is larger
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  291. I wish more apps were available on FDroid tbh, it's a pretty nice appstore with regards to features.
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  292. Can Occam also run on GPU? I know it was originally designed for the Transputer, but it has a really elegant way of dealing with parallelism in a non-functional way iirc
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  293. Yes, although one huge advantage of hydrogen over more traditional batteries (at least in theory) is the lower requirement for heavy metals and other environmentally and humanitarily disastrous resources. I say "in theory" of course because if your complex setup to produce the hydrogen and keep it cool ends up requiring more of these materials then this argument loses water.
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  294.  @henryfitzgerald5857  Also, per passenger-km a full airliner is actually remarkably efficient, certainly way better than cars. I don't remember how it stacks up against electric trains with a typical power supply profile though. Honestly the western world's current push for electric cars has me pretty pissed off, tbh. It completely fails to address issues such electric vehicles have (battery supply chain, significantly higher weight...) and it's like they're deliberately missing a fantastic opportunity to improve public transport and the quality of our cities as a whole.
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  295.  @1klap  Though I'm not sure having a sans-serif header is creative in this day and age haha
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  296. He gave a roman salute, to resounding applause. Brace yourself for whatever comes next.
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  297. Nah, if the company doesn't do anything for the next several years it'll basically be an empty shell with loads of money. No way is that not going to a string of financially-oriented leaders with no knowledge or interest in planes.
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  298.  @StrategyMapping  That argument applies to hardware as well as software..."if the farmer unscrews anything they might cause a problem!". It's also not really applicable since from the video what farmers don't have access to isn't just the source code, it's the diagnostic software as well. As for your question "Would you want access to manipulate your software on your phone, accidentally deleting a particular line of code, and in result your phone is now faulty." if my livelyhood depended on that software and I knew how to fix it, absolutely.
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  299.  @os10v311  are there such viable alternatives? I don't know anything about the industry but so many have become monopolised.
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  300.  @MonkeyJedi99  Whilst agreeing with the sentiment I have to say I always balk at the argument "I paid for it, and thus I own it." with regards to software. That's just not how ownership works, it's like saying you own a car because you paid Hertz Rental 350€ for it. So much software comes with a license that clearly says "this software is licensed not sold"...even if you pay an enormous sum to get your hands on some random piece of GPL3 software in some ways you still won't completely own it, for example you won't be able to copyright it (MIT license yields a more grey area here). Software ownership is very closely linked to its copyright. In my opinion this is a big problem, specifically engineered to stop people from fixing bugs in programs they use. if I had my way software would be required to come with the source code...this also makes sense from an IP perspective as the source is what is copyrighted and it's not like people sell you books and then say "but you're not allowed to read it, btw we definitely did not in the slightest way copy and paste from The Lord of the Rings :D".
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  301. Regarding the installing DEs, it's not that clean because it doesn't clean up some of the configs that those DEs might have created. In my case I uninstalled Plasma and the cursors are still those defined by the old plasma configuration
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  302.  @CramBL  I dunno, tools come and go, and if you're linking to a ticketing tool you stop using you lose documentation of why the PR was done. That said, in practice a lot of us shift companies often enough we don't mind so much if that's the company policy although in public projects it for sure makes sense for every PR to have full description.
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  303. Ones I always love to see (on programming jobs, for reference) are "good time management" and "functions well under stress"
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  304.  @BoredOligarch  ...Yes. Some of them settled in France for a bit before invading britain (i believe it was in France they gained the name Normans). If my memory doesn't fail me they reached well into the Mediterranean for a while too, and they discovered and mapped parts of the canadian coastline a while before Columbus. Interestingly, some maps depicting such a landmass have been discovered in Genova from the era, making it not impossible that Columbus had an idea that there was something out there.
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  305. I'm a fairly junior programmer, and the stuff I've gotten to work on has been so boring compared to my personal projects. Not just because I don't care about the program, the requirements are interesting, but like...guys, not everything needs to be written exactly the same way. Seriously, everything seems to be done with classes, not structs (even where value-type semantics would be better), it's like people are scared of using a class directly rather than in interface for that class (the other day I was asked in peer review why I'd defined the return type of a method as a List<T> rather than an IEnumerable<T> when the method created the new list internally 🙄), abstract classes seem to be a largely forgotten concept, not to mention the "clean coders" who will spend half an hour of review time debating something really trivial but then when asked about the performance implications of writing a LINQ statement one way versus another can't say anything on the subject. I'm trying to switch from C# to C for my next job, in the hope that the C crowd will have a more performance-oriented perspective. Unfortunately most of the openings are for C# and Java webservices and stuff though.
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  306. You would think, but people will do virtually anything for a price. And you don't have to have that many people, and there are a ton of devs to choose from.
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  307.  @MAC0071234  fyi a lot of banks don't actually have that money lying around, because a lot of money deposited then gets loaned out to borrowers and/or other investments. That's why at various times in modern history when a lot of people have asked the bank for their money (like, the money sitting in their accounts, that they legally own) the banks have run out.
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  308. I mean, that's sort of the foundation of capitalism, market rate is determined by shortage and abundance. Kinda funny when companies complain about it though considering how little they seem to want regulations to tamper with free market dynamics lol
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  309. Honestly it's a tragedy there are so many holy wars within the community. Seriously, pull your heads outta your arses about the whole Linux vs GNU/Linux thing and work together to create good software. And please, try to get some companies interested in paying FOSS devs.
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  310.  @urphakeandgey6308  Could be, but I doubt it. An example of a valuable AI would be one that could efficiently find and/or track a given person from security camera footage, or analyse atmospheric or digital data in order to find stuff that looks kinda weird or worrying. A bot that can spam twitter is just not that useful.
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  311.  @chrishayes5755  What distro did you try? That makes a huge difference
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  312. What's the alternative?
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  313.  @sebinohoo2979  if it's made open-access, it seems silly not to make it open-source and copyleft.
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  314. I'd argue with the first. The customer often lacks the understanding to ask for features that make a whole lot of sense, not to mention when they ask advice on something and then ask for the exact opposite of what the advice was.
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  315. Tbh here in Italy I prefer our standard 10 and 16 amp plugs because they have all the advantages of the Schuko but are significantly smaller on both plug and outlet.
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  316.  @MtJochem  hahah same. Except my current flat only has inside shutters (you know, those little wooden panels on the inside of the windows that heat up right away). But my house was at least built for the climate so the windows are nice and small and the walls are thick enough.
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  317.  @jeremypalmer7177  In tropical climes awnings are even better (though having both is the better than either). These can be as simple as a long curtain hung from the outside of the doorway and over the balcony railing or of course they can be much more sophisticated structures, the important thing is to stop the sunlight from getting all the way to your window. As for storms, I wouldn't expect most regular wooden shutters to help being lowering the amount of rain hitting the window. They certainly aren't a protection against broken branches or anything else, though maybe if you went with some fancy metal solution it would be possible? But unless you live in a stone (or well-built brick) house the wall next to the window could be equally vulnerable.
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  318. As I see it, it's the government admitting a major shortcoming. They're essentially saying "We can't be bothered to work out the solutions to these problems, so we'll just let anyone who can handle it all for us. They'll cost everyone a lot more, but who cares as long as we don't have to deal with it! And competition will help keep the price down." This last one always gets me because 1) in most schemes for safety reasons the government ends up paying for the expensive parts of the infrastructure, 2) corporations have no interest in providing the unprofitable parts of the public "service", and 3) corporations are fantastic at price-fixing and will always add a certain amount of additional cost in order to make its shareholders happy. If the government just did its job properly, the need for this profit wouldn't be present.
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  319. I'm sure the western Europeans would have loved that solution... and on top of it all, the USSR being so much further east would have been a lot less affected than France.
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  320. was your paycheck docked in the end?
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  321.  @Coolio_Ash  It all depends on what you install. If you get a distro with a nice GUI out-of-the-box, it's pretty good; just spend a few minutes learning the different directory structure and you'll be fine.
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  322. Tragedy of the commons. Global warming isn't exactly going to improve the economy long-term either, but companies don't give a shit about that either.
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  323.  @bogdyee  Sure, the industry has all sorts of tools that help such as compilers and profilers, and unit tests are certainly helpful, but the fact is that a compiler is deterministic (assuming a bug-free compiler, mileage may vary). Unit tests and profilers are useful for testing the program. Other kinds of analyzers are good for figuring out potential problems. Not sure what you mean by the delightfully vague "cloud tools", but I assume it has to do with tracking network traffic, or maybe load balancing and stuff? But at any rate none of these are both nondeterministic to a significant degree and affect the end result. Hooking up AI straight to the IDE in a position to generate code seems like a vary risky proposition. Your comparison to a plane's autopilot is not very apt, because the autopilots have very precise operational parameters and have a predetermined set of manouvres they can do (like level change, maintain a specific vertical speed, autoland in conditions that allow it, etc). Outside of this the pilots have to take over, and even when autopilot is engaged you still constantly have a pilot flying. AI has no such limits. Even if you tell people to look over the code before copying and pasting it, what are the chances they will do so? And it's a small (and practical!) step from the dev copying and pasting to someone hooking the AI up to the IDE and getting rid of the middleman. Regarding allowing AI to take important decisions, I suspect it's already happening. And the better and more intelligent AI gets the bigger a problem it will become.
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  324. Makes one wish that the transputer were still around...
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  325. Can they? As far as I'm aware, there are still computers on the market that you can buy without paying for Windows. Just move to Linux, it's so much nicer over here
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  326. Huh. Almost as if public transit and walkable cities were important.
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  327.  @thehappycockatiel9568  Yeah, Linux these days tends to be pretty user-friendly for the experienced user or the beginner, it's really only people who want to be able to play the newest windows-only games with anti-cheat technologies and stuff who seem to complain in the comment sections.
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  328.  @jbird4478  What is the binary blob? Does that just contain the trained data, or is it an executable?
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  329. Is it possible for Claude to give itself further instructions? I can see a "bug" causing an unlimited amount of tokens getting used on a machine the user has lost control of. Great for business for sure, and probably something that user protection legislation should prepare for.
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  330.  @grainusrainus  Which is ironic since it almost certainly collects GPLed stuff. Can't wait til that results in a lawsuit due to copy-paste from GPL via extra steps.
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  331. I really appreciate the inclusion of the word average. If it takes thirty seconds to do a task on a state-of-the-art programming workstation, just imagine on an old Dell laptop with a Duo or Pentium core. There are still some of those out there. And (especially relevant given the nature of a lot of programs these days) make sure it works with an absolutely terrible, or better yet nonexistent, internet connection.
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  332. Actually a self-driving car that isn't completely self driving is worse than useless, it is a danger because it actively encourages you to pay as little attention as possible until it suddenly fails to work properly.
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  333.  @JoshSweetvale  Calorie used in dietary contexts is usually actually kcal scientifically speaking. A calorie as normally used in science is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree celsius; due to the fairly obvious shortcomings of this definition, it's mostly been replaced with the proper SI unit joule. In some places it's standard to have the energy content of food measured in kJ instead of or as well as in kcal on the nutrition facts label. Energy is always energy, doesn't matter what you do with it.
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  334. @Luke5100 Well, in theory yes, but you try getting two teams adding up to 30 devs working on the same legacy codebase to consistently apply any coding standard, let alone your preferred one. 😅 Jokes aside, I'm somehow already a senior enough member of the team that people listen to me at least with regards to this particular thing. Tbh overall I'm just as happy we don't rigidly adhere to any particular rigid guidelines except for "braces on all if statements", since oftentimes the most readable syntax depends on the specifics of the situation. I also don't agree 100% with the Microsoft guidelines, especially where it comes to basic types like int and string.
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  335.  @chrstphrr  They can't reliably be tagged as such. Once the source code is output, developers will get out of whatever watermarking you add and regardless once it's in a corporation's codebase it becomes IP that no one else gets to see. Well, that's the theory anyway, it's always a fun time when the bosses find out that decompilers exist.
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  336.  @luisjavieravilaolivera2471  For reasons unknown to me, copyright for code is very different from that for art or books. Yes, it's written and you can put a copyright notice on it and everything, but there is no obligation to actually publish your copyrighted code as code. This means that in practice you can copy and paste however much source you would like into one codebase, compile, and ship the program with a license that explicitly disallows any attempt at reverse engineering or decompiling (these sorts of licenses are very common in proprietary software). The result is that anyone who even tries to look into whether you're infringing on copyright can be sued or for violating the end user agreement, and moreover no one can see what your software is doing behind the scenes that may be...undesirable. Things get even more crazy when you consider that a lot of software these days is run only on remote servers, so there's no way for you to get to the binaries at all much less to the source, and therefore the only thing that will reveal copyright infringement is a whistleblower. IMO companies should be required to release the source code of the programs they publish or run on servers, even if the licenses do not permit editing the source. This would allow auditing for compliance to legal standards as well as a greater transparency regarding overall quality of product. Better yet would be if they were required to allow end users to edit and publish changes to the source after official support period ended, but this might be too effective at breaking up the patterns of insufficiently long support cycles for some people's taste.
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  337.  @nomore6167  There's a difference between logging "Value should_continue was unexpectedly ja, returning -1" and "User typed ja instead of the expected y or yes, but we'll assume that means yes anyway". What I'm saying is that your implication that the people responsible had made the deliberate decision of not handling that edge case is probably inaccurate. The edge case was definitely handled somehow (i.e. goaround thrust was not applied and there weren't any obvious warnings to the pilots), however as the report found in this particular case the somehow wasn't perfect. Likewise, had the humans in the system (pilots) been trained for this exact scenario and acted according to that training, the issue would have been averted. As I previously pointed out, unless there's actually evidence that people noticed the potential shortcomings in the system (in both the human and computer portions) and decided it wasn't worth investing effort into, it's probably safer to assume that it just never occurred to anyone as a possibility.
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  338.  @johnsteward8325  I'm not in the US, but I can say that the market's pretty good more or less everywhere for programmers. Especially the fact you're full-stack is great- everyone's looking for those. As for not having a bachelor's, I don't have one either and I haven't had too much of an issue. Again, I'm not in the US and actually currently I consult for a company that can't hire me directly due to an ancient policy against hiring people with no degrees. It's mostly fine, though. I would definitely lean on your three years of experience though, not your schooling. They're even advertising "senior" roles with very few years of experience. If you're able to describe your projects in detail or show them off at all, that might help too, but perhaps best of all would be to learn to market yourself. Chances are the first round interviewers won't know a thing about programming, so if you're downplaying what you've done they probably won't even pick up on it. Also, watch out for any red flags...there are a lot of terrible companies out there so do what you can to avoid them. Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I guess the good news is you should be able to find something.
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  339.  @johnsteward8325  Ah, a couple technology-related things I forgot: if you're knowledgeable in Java, changing to C# would be super easy so don't discount C# roles as well. Peer review is a good thing, ask companies what their process is and make sure they have one in place. And take it with a grain of salt if someone tells you to always or never do something, or goes into programming philosophy. Chances are the pattern you're implementing isn't what was originally intended by whoever was a proponent of it back in the day, and even if it is it might not suit your case in the textbook form. As for always and never, they often lead to all kinds of grey areas the person giving you that instruction didn't consider or potentially know was a thing. When it's regarding a language feature (classic example: goto) it's often the result of something being considered bad form back in the day, and that being blown out of proportion until long after the original issue with the feature or pattern was largely forgotten and didn't exist anymore.
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  340. Small note, for anyone else confused: the Tōya Maru was actually a train ferry not a car ferry as the video implies.
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  341.  @AlexanderNecheff  Taking a look at `:h =` I just found something interesting: ``` ={motion} Filter {motion} lines through the external program given with the 'equalprg' option. When the 'equalprg' option is empty (this is the default), use the internal formatting function |C-indenting| and |'lisp'|. But when 'indentexpr' is not empty, it will be used instead |indent-expression|. When Vim was compiled without internal formatting then the "indent" program is used as a last resort. ``` Not sure how exactly that go-fmt command is called, but it may work just by setting it to equalprg in your config somewhere. The same should be true for any other autoformatters. It appears there are ways to have a project-specific vimrc (in case settings based on language aren't enough), but it does carry with it a security risk as if you do a git clone of a repo with such a file there's potential to execute malicious code.
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  342.  @davidf6326  I know, but when it came down to it affects just felt so deeply wrong that I didn't have the moral fortitude to resist the urge to spell it with an e. Perhaps next time such a quest is presented to my I shall try to find a more worthy knight to fight in my stead, in the hopes that he through extraordinary luck, immense strength and clearness of mind, and the will of God Almighty might be able to best the darkest temptations of the soul.
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  343. Not quite, he missed out on bitfields, several of the keywords (static, register, inline, volatile...depending on C version), and completely omitted mention of the CPP which is pretty important to say the least. Also, he didn't mention all the datatypes, nor go into some of the more complex topics like integer promotion, which overflows are undefined behavior and which are defined, and the challenges of having potentially different byte sizes on different platforms.
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  344.  @RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse  I'm pretty laid back and like a flexible schedule (I am autistic, but I suspect this has more to do with being Italian) and I'm currently working as a computer programmer at a company where they don't really care when you're working as long as you're at meetings and get stuff done. I'm remote though which is a bit of a shame, but it is nice how patiently everyone handles it and really amusing at times to see the contrast with some of my colleagues from other countries. For example, one of my German coworkers likes to get up bright and early (i.e. at the middle of the night) and often goes home at around or shortly after noon (which is lunchtime up there). He has been known to send messages at four in the morning. Meanwhile my lunch isn't until sometime between one and three, and I have another coworker who has written to me at 23.30 before because he "found something interesting" regarding something or other at work.
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  345.  @ericdpeerik3928  Societies build systems according to their needs and external parameters, but then just as quickly dismantle them as new "more advanced" systems are deemed good enough. I used to work with a guy who lived in a fairly small town in Kenya (rural enough there were often goats bleating in the background during our calls). His power would go out quite frequently, I'd guess averaging close to once a day for anywhere from a few to several hours at a time. Our occupation? Software developers. When his power died and he needed the internet for something, he'd take a break to go run arrands.
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  346.  @InconspicuousChap  Currently on the job hunt with roughly two and a half years professional experience (I was a hobbiest doing mostly C# for years before), It's remarkable how many companies specifically ask about your experience with a language or framework. Great at C# but they're hiring for a Java role? 0 years of experience as far as the first few interviews go. I'm not sure I've come across a single role that requested a certain level of experience in computer programming in general. I wonder if it's a reflection of more dug-in frameworks, though I'm not really sure how it was back then. Or maybe it's due to companies industrializing the recruiting process to the point where it takes a while before you get in touch with someone who knows that C and C# are in fact different.
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  347. my poor scrum master recently resorted to writing a SO post, and no replies yet :(
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  348.  @TeensierPython  If you don't trust the government to run the dams themselves, how can you trust it to regulate dam operators?
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  349. I also loved the implication that working on a high-value project was somehow a benefit for the devs haha
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  350.  @armoredchimp  Maybe. I've never paid for that sort of cloud hosting so I'm not really an expert, I normally stick to desktop stuff.
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  351. zero-based indexing ftw
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  352. ...Though anyone who managed to pass a driver test presumably should know that a bumpy road/uneven surface/anything out of the ordinary means you should slow down.
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  353. I'd guess the limits of AI would be the amount of computing power we're willing to dedicate to it, which in turn is limited by raw resources. Note I haven't mentioned anything about environmentalism slowing things down; history seems to imply that as much as we like to talk about doing things in a greener way, every time there are possibilities for perceived convenience or lower prices we tend to jump on the chance.
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  354.  @Darth-marmite  It's not a level playing field, but I really hate the level playing field argument because it's used in a context in which capitalism reigns supreme, with the assumption that whoever makes the best product for cheapest deserves to win. Why then is it unacceptable for a democratically-selected government to choose to spend its citizens' money on making domestically-produced widgets sell better overseas? The fact that those politicians are worried enough about it to make a fuss is already a sign that they don't really believe in letting free markets do their thing.
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  355. @benign4823 And then people wonder why software is so shit
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  356. fortunately at least in most of europe drivers are bright enough to be aware and correctly handle such stuff (partially due to the way roads are built).
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  357. It's perhaps telling that I (gen Z) have grown up with the idea that "where do you see yourself in x years" is a normal interview question, but I'm now on my third job and only one interviewer I've had has asked me something to that effect. On the other hand, it seems to be pretty universal for recruiters to ask how much I currently make.
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  358.  @maximusdarja  Given the nature of the GPL license, I'd take indemnity to mean all code generated must use a license compatible with GPL v3, and if the owners of the AI want to offer an equivalent product without those restrictions they will have to retrain with a properly filtered dataset. No doubt Microsoft and others will weasel out of it with "prohibitively expensive..." or something though, I don't trust US courts to stand up to the corporations.
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  359.  @puertoricanguy999  Maybe not free as in beer though
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  360.  @Cynsham  Also, after crashes with the road test vehicles we have no way of understanding why the AI decided that the kid it hit was just a puddle. In aviation, we need to be able to backtrack and figure out what happened, it's critical for the whole investigative process.
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  361.  @marxel4444  In many parts of the world, a lot. Signalling systems in a lot of modern trains are combined with emergency brakes such that if you overrun a signal you will come to a stop. If you go over the maximum speed, same thing the emergency brake goes on. The station scenario is different because if the train has permission to enter the platform it usually could go (within speed limits) all the way to the buffers if it's a terminus, however. Note that there are definitely exceptions here. Non-electrified lines with very few stations in remote areas for instance tend to have less in the way of signalling, whether that means tokens (you pick up a physical token when entering a line, and hand it off at the other end), or even in some places e.g. parts of the US written instructions with things like "go to siding xyz and wait for train 1234 to pass".
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  362. Jet fuel does at least to some extent have the same issue as it's light enough, which is why aircraft wings these days are filled with an inert gas as the fuel is used up. I believe Mentour has a video explaining an accident caused in part by the fact that at the time they filled the tanks with air instead.
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  363.  @2fiafisdoafw34  If I were king of the universe, I would start by preventing businesses from owning each other (or by extensions shares of each other) and make a nice exponential corporate taxation curve. Then I'd work on getting the unions nice and strong, and after that maybe figure out something to prevent people from getting into conflicts of interest (such as owning stock of two competing companies if either has over 20 employees)
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  364.  @maximus1992-y8x  Seems weird for corporatism to support small shops and unions, the description sounds more like a focus on labour/workers' rights.
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  365. No company should be too big to fail. If there are concerns about maintaining the duopoly the concerned parties should get together and work out how to render Boeing a state-run organisation (including options like international joint venture). Though honestly if Airbus would otherwise have a monopoly maybe it should be broken up too?
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  366.  @mickotyn  I was gunna write just that, but you beat me to it
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  367.  @franknuzzo2576  Which consumers though? I would much rather a 1 or even 5 euro transit fare than whatever "market rates" dictate for sitting in gridlocked taxi traffic. And as someone who lives somewhere, I would much rather that somewhere not have heavy traffic around it. I see no problem with making people who don't want to take the bus cough up medium-large time.
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  368. That's one of the huge advantages of trains.
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  369. Why mention WSL for windows as a lifesaver right after claiming most games and proprietary software don't work on Linux, failing to mention Wine and Proton?
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  370.  @iloveblender8999  If complex math is important and you're not in a field such as cryptography or low-level high-performance libraries, chances are you're doing something the hard way. As for working with 10x devs, in my experience what makes them impressive is having been in the group longer than anyone else (even if it's only 3 or 4 years) and writing a lot of complex-looking code/closing a bunch of stories quickly. The issue is they don't tend to document much (or anything...) and their code is often hastily thrown together and really isn't that great, but since they're the expert in those topics no one else tends to notice until they leave and some poor sod has to start looking into the numerous subtle bugs in that code.
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  371. The issue I have with what I've seen of Copilot is it's too helpful. If a tool lets you not understand a regex, you're not going to try to understand the regex, and then you'll wonder why your code breaks in certain specific situations. Just learn the tech, don't rely on tools that give you vague translations of what you're seeing all the time or you'll cripple yourself.
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  372.  @avalonofbabylon3024  Honestly I'm worried they'll end up getting a panel of wealthy CEOs to act as jury
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  373. The other day I had to save a new file in Excel (haven't used Excel in years, I don't remember what exactly the circumstances were). I clicked the "save" icon, you know the one that looks like a floppy, expecting it to pull up a file exploreresque save dialog to choose a location since it was a new file. But no, because of UI changes (sorry, I mean improvements of course), it took a full five clicks passing me from one pane or popup to the next before I got the dialog. To think that it worked brilliantly in windows xp when I was growing up, and then they spent money, and probably not nothing, to go and redesign the whole experience to make it harder to save a file where you want it.
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  374.  @Wargasm54  That's why the government needs to be extra careful not to put all its eggs in one basket (for example, it could insist on having an unlimited license to use all relevant IP in order to maintain and replace its aircraft). Obviously one way to do this would be to have government-run military production facilities but it's a balancing act; if we're talking about where to get the navy ballpoint pens it probably doesn't need to come from in-house.
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  375.  @mrmariusi  A duopoly isn't that much better than a monopoly. Imo other tools need to be used to tackle the problem, whether by nationalising the relevant services or lowering the maximum time key patents can be valid, to in extreme cases requiring certain kinds of IP to be rendered public and free use.
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  376.  @pinkace  Just because people have done things wrong in the past doesn't mean we should continue to do so
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  377.  @pinkace  Most countries in Europe are also selling off as much of the government as they can and are busy promoting electric cars instead of much better alternatives that have been around longer. Been a pretty long time since I've seen any talk of socialism (let alone communism) in my country and I'm pretty damned tired of the gung-ho attitude towards capitalism whilst just so happening to award lucrative contracts to companies owned by close personal friends of politicians and deregulating ever more stuff to provide extra sources of profit for such demographics.
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  378.  @pinkace  The main point I was trying to make was that European politicians are perfectly capable of idiocy and corruption too. Regarding electric cars, my main beef with them is that they have basically all the downsides (and a few extra ones) of ICU cars, save for what comes out of the tailpipe. We have politicians pushing hard to promote automobiles for both personal transit and freight, yet the continent is already criscrossed with well-designed and largely electrified rail lines which have all kinds of advantages over road traffic. We have a golden opportunity/excuse to expand pedestrian zones and improve public transit to get cars off the road (in the process making our cities prettier, safer, and wealthier), yet mostly that isn't happening. They're going for costly bandaid "solutions" instead. Now don't get me wrong, if you happen to need to go somewhere where infrastructure isn't present and human powered vehicles just aren't gunna cut it (say, the middle of a desert), and electric vehicle might be worth considering. I don't know diddly about offroading so I wouldn't really know what the state of technology is in that regard, but my point is that we should have better options available where most people live, i.e. cities.
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  379.  @pinkace  Of course electrification is better, but applying it in the form of trams, electric busses, metros, and trains would be a vast improvement to saying electric cars are the future and then just leaving citizens to their own devices.
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  380.  @pinkace  Well that's exactly my point, within the confines of cities cars are largely (read: should be completely) unnecessary. Take a look at some of the cities in the netherlands for examples of how much cities can be improved by restricting or removing them. Regarding train networks...Yes we have one, but it's being continuously underfunded and depending on where you are gradually or suddenly privatised. In Germany for instance the Deutschbahn trains are so routinely late that the swiss railways will no longer wait on late connecting trains run by them (usually there's a policy of waiting a few minutes). Additionally each state has its own local lines, some of which apparently have enough money for nice modern DMUs yet still aren't electrified. In Italy where I live there are still some major lines in the south that are single unelectrified track only, and until this year intercity trains through there were hauled by ancient diesel locomotives (we haven't bought diesels in a while). Now they're being replaced with DMUs and I think some widely publicized hybrid units. They've also made a ton of noise about hydrogen and battery locomotives/multiple units, both of which are insanely overengineered concepts that have no real use-case on the peninsula. Just cough up the money to electrify already instead of hiring consultants for a bridge that is never going to be built. Local trains in particular are suffering, for example the line that ran by my parent's city has been closed the better part of a decade because the company that took it over decided it didn't really need maintenance. Local public transit is much the same way, in some places and ways it's wonderful (look at Milan with trams every few minutes, or Munich with its fantastic system) but other times not. In my city some of the busses have an unreliable schedule and frequency as low as an hour, and they get stuck in traffic. Additionally, they spent lots of money on building a metro system and buying trains for it, yet they only have one every 20 minutes and the latest one is way too early for anyone going out in the evening.
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  381.  @fixpacifica  If MAXes continue to have these issues they could also end up being sold used to poorer airlines in third-world countries.
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  382. @@nidoking1044 deeply suspicious, and yet whence do we buy all our electronic hardware? 😄
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  383. @@nidoking1044 Including consumer hardware too? Good to know. Do you by any chance have some good search terms I could use to find out more? Thanks in advance
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  384. I expect it would mess up any systems that required the ground to be below the plane, not sure what the dash 80 had or his altitude at the time but nowadays the radio altimeter at the very least would undoubtedly cause some trouble if it were in use.
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  385.  @bazooka712  I thought that until I became one and discovered that a lot of them are just normal dudes. So much for the excuse I'd given myself since forever.
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  386. Same. Last year I had a guy almost hire me, he just wanted me to do a "quick" programming project so he could see how I did it. Requirements were "create a web app including authentication that consumes this NASA API and displays the data". I asked if the project would be paid, and he acted surprised and said I'd been the first person to ask that. I said I'd consider it, and once all the documentation arrived via email I looked at it and quietly groaned. I ended up not doing it as I was a little limited on time around travel and whatnot, and the recruiter later told me the hiring manager had been surprised since he thought it was just a couple hours of work. By my estimate it would probably have been a couple days to get right, in large part because I'm not a cybersecurity expert and would want to be extra careful with the login system.
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  387.  @althunder4269  I'm in Italy and am not set up to work as a business, so best case they ignore it, worst case I have the GdF (tax police) on my back. Chances are there's nothing I could do to make a bill legally binding when there was no up-front agreement to pay, but I'm hardly an expert so could be wrong.
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  388. @wenas_161 pacman has commands to allow you to tell what programs were installed not as dependencies and you can decide from there what to delete. If you're trying to save space you should also clear your pacman cache; it prevents you from installing a package again without downloading but it'll clear up storage.
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  389.  @sheldoniusRex  Why tf would I want a gun if the utilities were out?
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  390.  @cerdickjohn2385  ...who the hell would drive on the highway fully expecting never to find an obstacle?
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  391.  @petergerdes1094  For the purposes of the consumer though, it's effectively 120. Traditionally it's also called 110, much as 240V in Europe is also called 220 or 230. The margins of error are large enough that it doesn't really matter that much, and in fact you can see in the photo of the voltage set switch in his presentation it's labelled "115".
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  392.  @petergerdes1094  That requires a separate 240 v circuit run from the breaker to the kitchen. It's also common for washing machines over there, so I hear. But stick a multimeter in one of your standard electrical outlets and tell me what voltage you get. That's the voltage most appliances (electric toothbrush chargers, computers power supplies, sewing machines, electric mixers, light bulbs...) use and are configured for. Although now it's more common to have devices that can handle either 120 or 240 without a problem, until recently this was fairly rare; about ten years ago I distinctly recall causing all the magic smoke to leak out of an American electric toothbrush charger by plugging it into a european outlet with just an adapter (no transformer).
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  393. To be fair (and I cannot believe I'm actually defending the US's approach to both capitalism and religion) the bible is large and heterogeneous enough that one could pick out bits to support essentially any viewpoint.
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  394.  @iAPX432  1) fuck you 2) you're a dickhead 3) the recruiters who ask me about SOLID principles are arguably less important participants in technical discussions than the newly-recruited junior with some good instincts but no clue what the LSP is.
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  395. The fridge actually looks like it's a standard (though largish) european-style fridge with a colourful outer shell for the US market. Fridges do tend to be a lot warmer here, though food consumption patterns are different too. It's unusual to put a large quantity of stuff in your fridge all at once (as in the soda can test) so the warmth isn't really as much of an issue, but the flip side is it's best to finish milk within a few days of purchase, especially if you're already halfway through the bottle. Though many shops in my area store their milk at warmer temperatures than my fridge too.
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  396. @@phillipbanes5484 Do you guys have actual thermometers in your fridges, or do you buy one separately and put it in? Mine just has a dial 1-7 with no visual indication of which one is colder.
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  397.  @RealShaktimaan  Startups aren't the ones dominating markets with locked-down appliances, they're the ones that either fail or occasionally grow big enough to be bought out by larger companies or sued to oblivion with some excuse or other. Bear in mind, when IBM released the PC a bunch of companies immediately attempted to reverse-engineer the bios. The dumb ones got sued out of existence for copyright infringement but the smart ones used a cleanroom technique to get away with it (two teams, one looks at the code and makes a spec, the other writes new code that follows the spec). However nowadays with all the EULAs including things like "you may not attempt to reverse-engineer, disassemble..." I suspect the legality is a lot murkier and depends on the exact jurisdiction where the EULA can be enforced (which could be up to the company that wrote it).
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  398.  @simplehealthyliving4681  Well, Microsoft got a foothold when they got their CP/M clone shipped with every IBM PC, and from there they were able to grow and create a plan with IBM to work together to make a graphical operating system. That plan fell apart, but Microsoft was able to ship windows and importantly within a few versions it got good enough for companies to choose it as it was cheaper than alternatives. There were far better OSs around at the time, many of which had their roots predating Microsoft (consider things based on Unix for instance). Microsoft has also long a policy of largely refusing to standardise, for example the wikipedia page on POSIX has a long list of things you can do to have limited POSIX environment within windows, and that's just a very basic standard pretty much every other major OS in the last twenty years conforms to. Even Linux which is not even standard with itself is usually approximately POSIX compliant. Another example is .NET, a Java competitor designed and heavily promoted by Microsoft since the early 2000s. Until recently .NET programs (so pretty much anything written in C#, F# or Visual Basic) could not be run in other operating systems. I think there were some independent projects to try to make it possible earlier, but my memory fails me on the details. Recently some versions of .NET have been made cross-platform, however none of the Microsoft graphics frameworks have (note to C# devs out there: if you need this feature, check out Avalonia). Particularly in the 90s, Microsoft was vicious. They did things like sabotage other vendor's application suites by adding new (faster) APIs for use in Microsoft products but not telling anyone else about it so 3rd party programs would all feel slower when run on a Windows machine. Largely due to the combination of Windows pcs being everywhere and incompatibility, many programs for commercial use were written for Microsoft with no attempt at rendering them cross-platform; in my industry (as a mostly C# dev), an important example is Microsoft's own Visual Studio which their attempt at porting consisted of creating a fancy text editor and selling it as an IDE. Now if you do find yourself in such a situation Wine will let you run Windows programs on Linux however it only works with decently "normal" programs. Things that use more specialised Windows APIs typically don't work (so, good for most games or simple tools but if you have drawing software like Paint.Net or Photoshop it won't work. Visual Studio is another example of something that doesn't work with Wine). Add to this the fact companies typically like to simplify things by requiring everyone to use the same OS and you end up with a high level of lock-in. And yes, I absolutely agree that more programs should be built in a cross-platform way. There are plenty of technologies that let you do that without too much pain, however it's a slow process especially when a tool only makes sense in its surrounding environment. You really have to convince the people at top that relying on Microsoft is a certifiably bad idea. Btw if you're interested in the history check out Retrobytes, he has a ton of delightfully nerdy stuff.
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  399.  @imeakdo7  What precisely do you mean by good group policy? Is linux's existing permission structure missing a critical feature?
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  400.  @KahlevN  With fantastic promotion and bonus opportunities
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  401.  @Sacheess  Along with fewer people out and about.
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  402. If it were tethered in perfect spherical-plane-in-a-vacuum conditions, yes. That's how wind tunnels work.
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  403. Although a more common one I see is where they describe their system as basically a webapp or whatever then ask for 3 years of experience in a range of technologies that make no sense at all together
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  404.  @gonzalobruna7154  Training the model is probably far more expensive than running...it's now that they get to recoup the cost of training
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  405.  @SuperMopga  No it's not. DB's trains are pretty expensive and so consistently late the Swiss railways have stopped waiting for them in cases of delay. Not saying I don't take them when I'm in Germany, but the experience is often worse overall than the FS in Italy (where I live) for instance. That said, public transit within cities in Germany in my experience tends to be better.
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  406.  @anshevel  To some extent it's still a matter of choice depending on the region. Sadly governments are heavily promoting electric cars and such though so it's only a matter of time.
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  407.  @peristiloperis7789  I've seen to many of these genius millionaires to take that at face value...
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  408. ehh...they will have to be good but not necessarily productive (at least in a measurable way.
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  409. People keep pinging me in a nearby thread (argument, really), and so I've seen this comment over and over again. Thinking about it more, there could still be some incompatibilities. If you think about the issues europe's forever struggled with for cross-boarder train routes, there could still be discrepancies of loading gauge, train protection system, electrification voltage (is brightline even electrified at all yet? In the video it looked like no), and perhaps even coupler design (not sure if the janney coupler is suitable for high-speed trains, they might end up needing to use the Scharfenberg coupler or something instead).
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  410.  @heinzketchup4558  lol I worked on software designed for dealers to diagnose issues and activate features on a fairly expensive brand of car, and absolutely. They take it seriously too, it's not just "our program has the ability to turn that feature on", it's "that feature will not turn on unless the secret encryption key is successfully downloaded from our servers and written to the computer chip in the car, and to make it available on the servers you have to go to our web portal and pay the activation fee". There's just no getting around that.
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  411.  @Robert-cu9bm  True, but in many places that's just as effective as saving up. In my country the cities with vaguely affordable housing tend to be in the south, a large portion of which is predicted to become a desert in the next two decades.
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  412.  @Robert-cu9bm  Look, as said in the video if you don't see that you have anything to work for other than your vacation, why would you work more?
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  413.  @Robert-cu9bm  I do better myself, i take care of my mental health by not busting my butt for unrealistic deadlines that will benefit me not at all if they are made. I also do a good deal to increase my skillset, but I very deliberately avoid increasing my skillset during my own time in such a way that it will benefit my company. Training should be paid. I'm a C# dev by trade, so I work 8.30 - 17.30 (one-hour lunch break) on that, then I pack up and after doing whatever else I need to do that day I will often open up my current side project and work on that. On weekends I will happily spend eight or nine hours a day on these hobby projects (atm I'm playing around with Haskell) which one could say is me broadening my horizons and bettering myself (again, assuming I don't have too many chores etc to do). The only thing is sometimes I forget to eat. Don't assume that just because someone doesn't care about a company they have a contract with it means they don't care about themselves. I'm happy to better myself, I'm not happy to give someone free work.
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  414. One of the challenges of Alitalia was/is routing. It's kinda hard to make money flying between (for instance) Rome and Milan, since there's the Frecciarossa. Likewise for many other city pairings up north. In the south people tend to have less money, so while yes there's less competition due to the government's relative lack of investment into rail it's harder to turn a profit particularly in the business market. A lot of the north-south routes that are run now are by low-cost carriers targeting holidaymakers, but despite that the train is usually still cheaper if you're not going more than halfway across the country. Particularly if you use an Intercity rather than high-speed train.
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  415. What sorts of things do you have to teach people? I'm a software dev without a college education and mostly what I've observed is the people out of college have some knowledge of design patterns and potentially some low-level knowledge (though from what I've heard it's dubious if they remember due to how it's taught) but don't really have a lot of experience with things like reading complex code to figure out how it's failing in that really weird way. In my industry I'd rate it as optional, though learning to code in some technology being used is pretty much mandatory.
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  416.  @aarushimalik5244  YYYY-MM-DD is superior for timestamps that will need to be sorted
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  417. In my project often the answer to "what were they thinking?" is that lines 367 to 369 were a quick fix to an exception thrown in testing (unknown cause...), the mess from 358 to 423 was sort of an ugly hack by someone unfamiliar with the surrounding code and with a requirement that only sort of made sense, lines 346 to 357 and 424 to 495 were a fairly elegant implementation created over the course of two years about a decade ago...
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  418.  @Jupiterxice  AI-powered hacking is scary as hell. There will come a day when our programming is done by AI, our cybersecurity is done by AI, and it'll be defeated by AI. And the owners of the AI are gunna get really rich real quick.
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  419.  @MaseraSteve  hahahahahaha I'll give you one good reason not to build a house in Texas based on blueprints for a 1995 construction in Bergen.
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  420. Depends on the country, in Italy they are not normally recessed (though exceptions exist). I personally dislike recessed sockets in the Italian context in part because right-angle plugs don't fit in them. They are also arguably harder to clean and probably unnecessary due to our prongs being sleeved. The obvious exception are Schuko outlet/adapters, which due to their design must be recessed.
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  421. It already is, just...people don't want to believe it.
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  422.  @masskiller9206  To be fair to the programmers, a lot of this choice is down to upper management. It also doesn't help that microsoft does everything they can to tempt you away from writing cross-platform programs
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  423. Considering the careful tracking of airplane parts I'm surprised there wasn't a way to contact the owners of potentially affected planes directly in order to get them all inspected.
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  424.  @Davebsuk  pretty sure the top-secret climate predictions only they can get their hands on read something along the lines of "You're probably not going to be in office two years from now, and you'll likely be dead within the next fifteen, so the climate's just fine...there's nothing to worry about, sir."
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  425.  @Davebsuk  lol probably the terms t*p-$ecret and cl!mate combined...for all of google's work into really advanced ai tech and such they really have the crudest of filters on the YouTube comments section.
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  426. @Lazarus That could be good, but only assuming the state owned trains don't slack off on all the important lines than normally run at a loss. Also, I'd point out that it does kinda suck for the government (and thus taxpayers) if the private company isn't in some way paying to both support line maintenance and the aforementioned unprofitable services.
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  427.  @MrMarinus18  Yes, and also the induced demand actually improves service since it encourages whoever's running the system to run more, either (if a public service) because it's clear people use it and would appreciate that, or because (if private) you can make more money if you run your trains with enough capacity to spare that people actually want to get on.
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  428.  @nailil5722  It wasn't just Italo, the italian government has done a fair amount of encouraging Trenitalia to function like a regular publicly traded company. I.e. to fuck over anyone who actually needs decent transit rather than pricy high-speed trains. Though there was that case on the news a few months back of the napolitana who takes the Frecciarossa up north somewhere every day because it's cheaper than renting a flat near her work place.
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  429.  @kkon5ti  I used to think that the UK did a terrible job with their privatisation, but honestly the more I learn about it the more I realise they did about as well as could possibly have been expected, and certainly way better than a lot of governments have in recent years with all kinds of privatisations. Sure, it's still a mess and everything's being done by the lowest bidder which can't even make enough money to stay afloat, but at least it's highly regulated. Meanwhile in my country one project after another gets basically given to a company which profits when times are good and gets money from the government when times are bad. One of my more recent pet peeves is that the large train stations have been handed over to a company with no interest in providing rail service; instead they've turned the stations into shopping malls with ticket barriers to keep homeless people off the platforms. They divide those barriers into meaningless groups termed "gates", which should shed a light onto their inspiration. Last time I was in the most important central stations, I needed to go to the loo with half an hour to spare before my train left. I remembered there being a pay toilet a short ways up platform 24, but when I went there it was gone. there were signs to the toilet, but it took many rounds of dashing back and forth on two different levels and asking for directions before I finally found what appeared to be the only restroom in the station, in the very back of a cramped food court. It was saddening to note that on the way to the food court was a hall with desks belonging to car rental companies. Now if that's not an admission of failure, I don't know what is.
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  430.  @appa609  Planes are not on the same scale. 737NGs range from 149-220 passengers, whereas a Trenitalia Jazz trainset (chosen because it's frequently used for local as well as intercity services) ranges from 347 to 511 passengers. On the upper end of things, an A380 can carry up to 868 passengers (per the EASA), whereas the Rock trainset (always trenitalia) has a maximum of 729 seats (plus a number of standing room spaces I couldn't quickly find online). From the standpoint of the endpoints, in 2018 the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport had 43 million passengers pass through it in 2018, meanwhile in 2019 the Roma Termini station handled 179 million passengers. From a more practical standpoint though, if you're flying it's generally not a commute, it's a more substantial trip. When you're in a train, it could be either. There's a whole other argument to be made, though (completely independent of the above argument): When transatlantic flights were deregulated, that wasn't a process of privatisation, that was a process of removing ensured monopolies. Had the routes been government-run on the basis of which flights people relied on, the impact may have been quite different. What worries me more than having multiple train companies is having train companies that don't have to provide the public service. We may already have reached that point though; I can only hope we backtrack before it's too late.
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  431. one does have to wonder to what extent Google is already doing that
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  432.  @m.x.  Many de-facto professional apps are Microsoft products or windows-native precisely because so many people used/use windows. But there's no reason a corporate policy can not allow multiple OSs (especially now we have formats like odt supported everywhere). And there are also exceptions; to any microsoft-ecosystem devs like myself, chances are at some point you've installed git bash which essentially boils down to a fully-fledged emulated unixy environment. When I'm working on bugs, I view the log files in vim launched from git bash.
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  433. @benign4823 No, testing is not enough unless you're a "write once, then crash 'n burn" sort of project. You need to be able to maintain it, which requires that it be written well. In practice, this means that you need to at least to a full review of the generated code and make sure you understand it all and don't see a better way to write it, and then send it through peer review. Don't just test once and send for review, your reviewer will not be best pleased...ask me how I know.
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  434. Remember not to exceed 80 characters though, so choose your function names carefully.
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  435.  @brothermine2292  For sure that makes sense (though I do wonder if rain does have an affect on oceanic life and if so what sort), but sadly I suspect consideration for the downwind environment is unlikely to be taken in most cases. Especially considering any number of a wide array of other environment-changing technologies and how they have been deployed.
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  436. Honestly having watched all of his episodes on accidents and incidents, this is the one that's scared me the most. The fact there's such a big fire risk right at the only part of the plane from which it can be controlled...it's amazing this is the first time there's been major accident because of it.
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  437.  @lkym2481  What programs do you need? At work I'm forced to run Windows 11 with Visual Studio...each as buggy and slow as the other.
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  438. I'd say it's very likely. If they aren't selling Windows to users without webcams, they have an interest in not supporting installations on such machines. Additionally, it's likely not very difficult to check if the user meets those requirements and crash if not.
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  439. ​ @Fabian46544  Ah yes, I'm a dev and it's pretty much every interview when they ask about how much experience I have with the exact Java frameworks they use. I mean dude, I've used C#, Java, C, Haskell, Python, Javascript, Typescript, fking Powershell (don't ask), Lua, Nix (the language and the system) and probably a few others with any number of different frameworks or libraries as each project required. I'm perfectly capable of ye old RTFM procedure. The much harder part will be understanding the over- yet somehow also under-engineered backasswards system that your team has cooked up over the last eight years with no documentation to speak of.
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  440.  @martmine4618  I use Linux at home because frankly it's less flawed than Win 10 (which I have at work). Also, when there's a problem usually a fix is just a duckduckgo search and half an hour away rather than the endless Microsoft forum threads in which the only Microsoft representation is a bot pointing you to an unrelated page about how to change your screen saver (or something). Add to that the fact that my installation (like most distros) has additional features like middleclick paste and so on, and it's a much nicer system to use. (To say nothing of the spyware.)
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  441.  @futuza  Well, in the world we live in anything writing-related that is produced is implicitly copyrighted even without an explicit notice. However, with most mediums in order for anyone to appreciate the copyrighted work, such as a book, they have to have access to the "source code" i.e. you can't usefully simultaneously copyright it, prevent people from seeing it, and sell it. Software is different, and as a result it's often impossible to know what third-party copyrighted material has been illegitimately included in a proprietary project. Thus, if there were some requirement of transparency of source (either via central agency or by requiring software distribution to always be done in a source-available fashion) it would in my opinion be beneficial to consumers and open-source authors.
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  442. I find C# much easier to work with than Java, but I will still refuse to write C# on anything other than a Windows computer targeting anything other than a Windows computer if there is not a very good reason to do so. Why? Mainly the principal of the thing. I don't want Linux users to have to bloat their machines with the .net runtime and .dlls just to run my program.
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  443. The top-ten fastest-growing sectors was honestly pretty horrifying...
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  444. Can you change that setting in your ide?
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  445.  @coherentpanda7115  Vim does too ;)
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  446. but...for that price can't you just buy freeze dried strawberries in bulk?
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  447. Honestly the only reason proprietary code exists now is so that companies can make lots of money off something. It's a lot easier to modify an existing program to add a feature you need than it is to create a whole new one. And copying code is virtually free; just the time, electricity, and memory required for a computer to copy a file.
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  448. The fact they hired you is a good sign imo...how did the job turn out all told?
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  449.  @michaelmitchell2213  Seems like a good way to land yourself with longlasting trauma as a result of serious emotional abuse at the hands of your own chatbot.
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  450.  @1KiloDepartment  Presumably a Japanese lawyer.
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  451. Yeah, honestly you don't even need the battery assist for most purposes. Just go with a well-geared bicycle structure, and if these manufactures ever get around to figuring out how to build them to a decent durability it'll last forever. I just wish we could lower the speed limits to the point they could be a major part of the traffic outside of cities as well as in.
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  452. I've been gradually working on getting a NixOS system set up on one of my computers as a system for developing Haskell programs, but I've found it significantly harder than Arch (which I have on my daily driver). Mainly I think this is down to configurations requiring rebuilds to take effect as well as the fact that there really isn't nearly the same amount of documentation.
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  453. A compiler already does that in modern programming languages, so no trouble there. One issue with AI's involvement in programming is that it's...just not great at it. Programming systems (toolchains, code generators, etc.) need to be reliable and thus trusted to always behave in the same, predictable manner. AI is not that. Then when it comes to the more creative human side of writing code, AI can slap together a bunch of lines that technically work but good luck getting a result that you would be proud of.
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  454.  @kuda1532  Honestly they should standardise app packaging formats so that any packages provided via google play could also be provided at virtually no additional effort on F-droid, Samsung's store, etc
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  455.  @gargoyled_drake  Building from scratch is only useful if you trust the repo maintainers more than you trust the packagers, unless you plan on doing your own "peer review" of all the changes made to the packages you use.
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  456.  @GeorgeTsiros  Yeah, the issue is when the declaration sets it to the output of some method and you can't really tell what type it is (especially when reviewing).
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  457.  @RowenaSnow-px3jg  You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.
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  458. funny how resistant companies are to the idea of letting their employees use Linux
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  459.  @zah936  Social media/"content" websites in general these days are to the point it's like having a casino in your own home.
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  460.  @juliadagnall5816 I never understood why paying someone on a full-time basis to do a job you have the capability to do is supposed to be cheaper than doing it in-house. If you would spend x in-house, they're gunna charge you x + profit + management fees.
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  461.  @juliadagnall5816  Ok, but in your example a full-time chef wouldn't be needed all the time, and there's some question of kitchen facilities etc. I'm a software developer. I work for a company that hires me out to a company that hires me out to a third company that employs fifty or so people full-time specifically for a long-running project that is being produced for yet another company (which is the one that manages and puts its name on the project). It is truly ridiculous. I've been in the project two years and can't get any closer because each company has its own standard practices that forbid it. Moreover this sort of thing is pretty standard in the industry but rarely will one person work on projects for multiple clients.
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  462.  @DaveGrean  Did you grow up in the suburbs? Those things brought their own host of issues.
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  463.  @DaveGrean  Ahh, ok yup got the picture haha
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  464. If so it won't be secret for long. There's a limit to how long you can keep large projects under wraps (as alluded to in the video as well), and considering they have a whole host of suppliers and stuff if it's anything significant word will get out. Even if all the details are largely unknown.
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  465.  @dkosmari  Although considering the usefulness of config files, one might consider it a problem of education regarding what the files are for and how they work
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  466.  @nebuchadnezzer2436  No, loading bars are an indicator of a slow process. In today's world, that normally means one of two things: either you're handling a lot of data (e.g. compressing or editing a large file) or you're waiting for a backend request (particularly if you have slow internet).
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  467. And yet country after country goes and privatises its railways completely
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  468. Although German policy over the last 30 years has not done their railways too many favours. It's likely telling that I ordered an item online the other day, and based on the shipping company's info it looks like it went from the Netherlands to northern Italy by truck, where it was then transferred to a train to be taken farther south. I went with bog-standard "I'm in no hurry" shipping, so there must be economic reasons they did not stick it on a train all the way in the Netherlands.
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  469.  @cpMetis  That's because railroads in the US don't try to compete with trucks for unknown reasons (railroads have a huge natural advantage over long distances...)
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  470. Lol. Living in Sicily and hating AC, I wouldn't do it any other way
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  471. I think it should be GPLed and given to some free software group or other but with a yearly development budget paid by google as a slow fine.
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  472.  @graydhd8688  I've considered looking into it a few times but never have as I use a tiling WM and didn't really see the need. Is it worth going into in that case too do you think? I feel like the sessions thing could be cool for a couple of my perpetually open terminal sessions, but dunno.
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  473.  @poisonpotato1  Most railway by what measure? Size being land area?
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  474. Good luck getting computer chips manufactured in the EU, or anywhere in Europe for that matter.
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  475.  @SusCalvin  True, but Trump has never had much beef with Putin
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  476.  @tigerboy4705  Useful to keep around after installing too just so you have a rescue device, but yeah
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  477.  @AshesWake-sf7uw  I watched a colleague import a package without looking into it at all because he wanted to format filesizes in a log line in a nice, human-readable format. He then spent 45 minutes trying to get chatGPT to explain how to use the package. He was my team lead at the time and had several more years of experience than me as a dev.
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  478. More in what way? If you're just looking to learn, linux from scratch is certainly good, though at some level I feel like tinkering with your Arch daily driver to sort out the kinks can sometimes teach more. The LFS guide these days is a pretty complete step-by-step guide, but from what I recall (it's been a few years...) it doesn't have some of the nuances the Arch wiki does.
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  479. ​ @ParadymShiftVegan  Yes, but one of the goals in abstraction (aside from cross-platform/architecture potential) is to make the language easier to learn or more convenient. The original commenter was laughing at the grouping together of such different languages, I don't think the goal was to teach people that high-level means "easy".
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  480. OOP languages tend to be good, but if someone tells you to stick to strict OOP principles ignore them. Like any other tool in programming, use it when it makes sense. If your code would be better with a lambda expression somewhere or whatever, do that. The strict OOP cops will tell you not to use inheritance ("antipattern") or static methods, for an example of how over-the-top some of the stuff gets. My controversial opinion would be that it's best to just stop worrying about it and just write code that's readable, low-effort, uses the best tool for the job, and (if applicable) efficient. If the best way forward involves a goto, then fuck it and stick a goto in there. Just double check it was the best way first, and choose a more laid-back coworker to do the peer review. Also, side note: given the choice of C# and Java, go with C#. It's virtually the same, except generics aren't broken in all the core methods ;)
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  481. Same, I last tried Bumble for maybe 8 months or so but didn't get more than a couple matches leading to a grand total of one whatsapp chat (which was with a scammer). Based on this video I think my profile was fairly decent though maybe a little wordy...I guess I was mostly just unlucky.
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  482. How did they settle on that precise number? 😂 EDIT: oh, explained in the video. ngl kinda makes sense.
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  483.  @kx7500  Which we currently have no technology to do in any quantity. If I recall correctly, that mega carbon capture place in Iceland will be netting about the same as removing 50 or 100 cars...which would be far easier and cheaper to do with a tram, or pedestrian zone, or any one of a number of urbanist strategies.
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  484.  @kx7500  Yes and no. Plants are fantastic at capturing carbon temporarily, but they die and when they do all that carbon is still at the surface and ends up in the atmosphere. That's why although forests are great for a lot of things, they're not really a climate miracle; the total carbon they hold remains more or less static as life dies and more grows to take its place.
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  485.  @Kelly_Ben  Please tell me you replied with "probably, shall we find out?"
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  486.  @gytosas  Same, but I'd need to be emotionally invested. Trouble is, startups tend to do best when put together by individuals with a ton of experience rather than 4 dudes in their 20s googling how basic stuff works.
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  487. Problem: The company is private and for-profit, so instead of doing that last step they'll give the upper management and owners an extra fat paycheck and retire rich and happy as the country moves on in their car-centric modern utopia.
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  488.  @divirusp  well the difference is if it's abandoned you still have access to the source so if it's important enough to you you can make it work. With proprietary stuff that is usually not the case. Just ask anyone whose lifetime adobe license has expired while they were still very much alive.
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  489.  @Obyvvatel  Hahahah I've tried a number of different apps, in several cases running out of people on the app to swipe within a few months. Never been on a date, so if you're getting 10 a year that's pretty good.
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  490.  @leesoftwareengineer  If it makes sense to separate the concerns architecturally than maybe, however when you have a class fundamentally linked to the place it is used it is unlikely you'll have multiple devs working on that same section of code at once (if they are, maybe a pair programming approach would be better). An interface only makes architectural sense if there are multiple fundamentally independent implementations. As for practical considerations, popular testing frameworks at present do require interfaces for mocking, though it may not be strictly necessary (I've considered writing one that didn't but haven't gotten around to it). This however only requires classes that need to be mocked, for which there are two potential reasons: firstly you may have external dependencies (e.g. user input, DB query...) but you could also have a situation where you are trying to unit test a separate piece of code and don't want to wait on a long-running algorithm when you know what it will output. In both cases it normally would make sense to isolate the problematic piece from the thing you actually want to test, but that doesn't mean that you should create an ISomeInternalModel interface out of instinct.
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  491.  @nobody227  Open sourced projects have been sued before, however they tend to be slightly more resilient as a new fork can pop up every time an old one is taken down. The real issue though is when people get too scared of the company suing them to make a public fork: getting sued for this normally carries significant monetary penalties that are not likely to be recouped.
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  492.  @landlubbber  provides affordable access to every city or town over 10.000 people to the extent terrain allows. Or just stop building roads and see where people complain. And by "affordable" I mean "cheap enough that a pensioner can regularly travel to the next city over". I'd say 5 or 6 euros for a fast regional train journey of about an hour or two is about right, but relative to living wages there that might be ten dollars. I don't know what kind of pension you guys have.
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  493.  @The_king567  which? I have too many comments in this thread lol
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  494.  @leandrew2725  The worst is when you google "cmd equivalent of [really basic POSIX tool you always use in linux]" and the answer is "there isn't one, unless you count this way worse tool that can do something vaguely similar to what you want"
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  495.  @kurshadqaya1684  Is there a real reason to learn vi these days instead of vim? To be fair I'm decently young, but I have never seen a system that had vi where it was not just vim in compatibility mode.
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  496.  @StefanMaring  That's definitely true, although high-speed international travel is only part of the equation. Intercity trains, at least in my country, are way more affordable and therefor often a better choice for the casual traveller.
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  497.  @homan-awa  vulnerable? To what?
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  498. Ironically it's always those bad startups with toxic bosses that are going to completely fuck you over that talk about loyalty.
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  499.  @bartiz12  The fact they're pushing so heavily for electric vehicles whilst being slow AF to integrate their rail network while at the same time countries all over are putting less and less effort into public transit is atrocious.
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  500. Same. If we insist on funding airlines that are not profitable rather than cutting service, then we are implicitly admitting that the airline has the function of public transport and as such it should be nationalised. Bailing airlines out and then letting investors profit is just irresponsible.
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  501. ​ @Mnementh-ub8md  Tech is evolving, yet many times the latest and greatest is just a rehash of old technologies and patterns.
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  502.  @dheerajvithalkar  Much like with houses you can absolutely buy software, you just have to have the money. Software changes hands all the time. Ultimately most of us live in a largely pay-as-you-go world. There is also a philosophical debate to be had regarding what it means to own software, which I suppose ties into debates regarding owning anything else. At the end of the day ownership seems to be a largely cultural concept I believe, but that's a whole other can of worms.
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  503. To be fair to your client, rewriting code generally takes roughly as long as writing it the first time.
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  504. Do you still have the issue? I don't know pop, but I've bricked my arch install enough times I might be able to help. Always have a recovery usb handy lol
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  505.  @LRM12o8  man [whatever] is a beautiful thing. I remember once having trouble on a Win10 machine connecting to the internet, and the help button in the settings page literally opened an Edge tab with a Bing search for "Windows 10 help connecting to the internet" (or similar terms). I couldn't help but laugh, it was so bad.
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  506.  @Cynicalgeek743  OP doesn't necessarily imply that, if you save all this data on your company laptop you should be good to go.
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  507.  @JarrowJR  How does one protect against that, short of using Tor?
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  508. most text editors are configurable though, and that's sort of the point. Different devs can choose whatever width they like.
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  509.  @chinglamyung  Yeah, so many cities are perfectly suited, we just need to wean the population off them, and then ban them from cities altogether. Preferably increasing public transit of course, but like seriously, from an infrastructure standpoint we're all set. Adding some tram lines or similar wouldn't be amiss, but ultimately where money is tight there are other ways of making it work. I just wish fewer cities had rebuilt car-centrically postwar.
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  510.  @andys844  Shame we for the most part haven't bothered to actually start using the renewables we keep claiming are the way of the future that will save us. Russian gas was just too cheap.
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  511. No, the left is just dead.
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  512. As I see it there's a strong connection to the airline industry. When an airliner goes down or anything serious happens, there's always an investigation and a final report, many of which find that new safety features need to be introduced. The pilots are almost never blamed, and even when they should have done something differently the report will contain a recommendation about increased training or the like. If we really care about software working properly, we need to have a similar framework with mandatory test procedures, documentation, and the like proving to some "critical software system safety board" that our software works. We could also have licences and special training programs required for devs working on such systems. Naturally this isn't necessarily a good thing for all programs. When I play a dumb flash game in the browser I don't expect it to work perfectly, but for large systems backing bureaucratic processes it would go a long way towards guaranteeing better results albeit at a high price.
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  513.  @JelMain  Lol you remind me of a former manager of mine. A lot of software these days don't replace manual work, at least not work that's been done manually sometime in the last 50 years, so knowing the job "the old way" before designing a system isn't always a feasible methodology. Right now I'm in a project building a system that was outsourced in part because the business people up top don't know how to program and/or don't have a grasp of all their business rules. And knowing how to use the software we produce would be virtually useless as the general procedure is "click the button and wait for the magic to happen". Programming is not all coding. And there's a reason programmer is a job description in and of itself.
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  514. Normally it would collect taxes. Here it agreed not to, hence indirectly partially funding it. It's genuinely strange to read a comment that implies that taxation is government intervention lol
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