Restricting attention to the Windows ecosystem in the 90s almost proves the point. The BSOD was legendary. It was notoriously buggy compared to Solaris, NeXT, and Apple. Those platforms had their problems, but they…
Since there are no colonies involved, a better characterization would be: Free market capitalism under the rules based order established by the US and its allies after the end of World War II. You could, and many have,…
Indeed, those things were stated, but they would seem to be assertions and interpretations rather than anything established by the work at hand.
And it is in my interest to charge my employer as much as they will pay for my work, regardless of whether or not I would have done it for less. In many cases, I would have, but I still negotiated for more. There are…
> Their local environments are being destroyed, city and state governance corrupted, regular jobs muscled out, electricity used exorbitantly, psyches damaged, and so much more all in the name of extracting low-cost…
You're telling me they're recruiting these workers just by offering them attractive wages?!?! Disgusting.
This is what computers are for.
I agree. It's one thing to think her action was riskier than you would like for your own child. It's another to think it should be a crime.
This was my reaction exactly. I was surprised by the diagram of a "normal" linked list.
Even if we concede that it is irresponsible, which would very much depend on the individual child, it should not be a crime.
It happened because a neighbor was so disturbed by a child walking alone to report it, the police thought it was serious enough to refer for prosecution, and a prosecutor decided it needed to be charged using their…
It's rare, but if it happens it is catastrophic. You will be paying a lawyer 10's of thousands of dollars and if you do have to plead out, the charges you plead to may look very bad on paper on a background check.
For example, many kinds of biopsy can result in serious infection or other surgical complications.
This doesn't seem to account for the outcome that someone receives testing and treatment for a problem found by the MRI, and is injured in the process, despite the fact that non-treatment would have been harmless; a…
I've been thinking about formal verification a lot, recently. I've dabbled in it before, but it was clear that it was only used by a small research community, and the effort required to verify anything larger than toy…
These companies aren't coming in, buying property at market rates, and developing it with existing infrastructure under current zoning laws. They usually want tax breaks, major infrastructure changes, and other…
I can tell you, based on local examples, that politicians are setting up deals to bring in data centers without trying to build community support first. Not only that, they are often signing NDAs that prohibit them from…
I would love to pay and manage parking from my phone if the apps actually worked intuitively, but they rarely do. It was easier when all I had to do was have a roll of quarters in my car.
C-level does not seem uniformly convinced, and they have a lot of reasons to tell that story, even if it isn't really true.
I don't see an uptick. Demand has been steady for the past two years after falling from the post-pandemic frenzy. That fits with my personal experience of the tech industry over the past several years. People are right…
I think the pandemic broke the feeling most Americans had that we were all in the same boat and we could work together to solve our problems. Liberals stopped seeing Trump's election as a fluke but an indication that…
Even though I am personally agnostic, I do structure my life around the traditionally meaningful things you're talking about, and I do see the cultural mood a kind of spiritual crisis. What's less clear to me is why the…
This is mostly true, but things were almost universally worse in the mid-to-late 1970s. There was a similar feeling of anomie, stagflation, and a sense that the country was on the wrong track. But people still reported…
Engineers, I am so sorry. They are still going to be your bosses.
Just because the wider society encourages it, your family doesn't have to lean into individualism, and many don't. We got by when I was a kid with a lot of help from friends and family, when I am absolutely sure we…
Restricting attention to the Windows ecosystem in the 90s almost proves the point. The BSOD was legendary. It was notoriously buggy compared to Solaris, NeXT, and Apple. Those platforms had their problems, but they…
Since there are no colonies involved, a better characterization would be: Free market capitalism under the rules based order established by the US and its allies after the end of World War II. You could, and many have,…
Indeed, those things were stated, but they would seem to be assertions and interpretations rather than anything established by the work at hand.
And it is in my interest to charge my employer as much as they will pay for my work, regardless of whether or not I would have done it for less. In many cases, I would have, but I still negotiated for more. There are…
> Their local environments are being destroyed, city and state governance corrupted, regular jobs muscled out, electricity used exorbitantly, psyches damaged, and so much more all in the name of extracting low-cost…
You're telling me they're recruiting these workers just by offering them attractive wages?!?! Disgusting.
This is what computers are for.
I agree. It's one thing to think her action was riskier than you would like for your own child. It's another to think it should be a crime.
This was my reaction exactly. I was surprised by the diagram of a "normal" linked list.
Even if we concede that it is irresponsible, which would very much depend on the individual child, it should not be a crime.
It happened because a neighbor was so disturbed by a child walking alone to report it, the police thought it was serious enough to refer for prosecution, and a prosecutor decided it needed to be charged using their…
It's rare, but if it happens it is catastrophic. You will be paying a lawyer 10's of thousands of dollars and if you do have to plead out, the charges you plead to may look very bad on paper on a background check.
For example, many kinds of biopsy can result in serious infection or other surgical complications.
This doesn't seem to account for the outcome that someone receives testing and treatment for a problem found by the MRI, and is injured in the process, despite the fact that non-treatment would have been harmless; a…
I've been thinking about formal verification a lot, recently. I've dabbled in it before, but it was clear that it was only used by a small research community, and the effort required to verify anything larger than toy…
These companies aren't coming in, buying property at market rates, and developing it with existing infrastructure under current zoning laws. They usually want tax breaks, major infrastructure changes, and other…
I can tell you, based on local examples, that politicians are setting up deals to bring in data centers without trying to build community support first. Not only that, they are often signing NDAs that prohibit them from…
I would love to pay and manage parking from my phone if the apps actually worked intuitively, but they rarely do. It was easier when all I had to do was have a roll of quarters in my car.
C-level does not seem uniformly convinced, and they have a lot of reasons to tell that story, even if it isn't really true.
I don't see an uptick. Demand has been steady for the past two years after falling from the post-pandemic frenzy. That fits with my personal experience of the tech industry over the past several years. People are right…
I think the pandemic broke the feeling most Americans had that we were all in the same boat and we could work together to solve our problems. Liberals stopped seeing Trump's election as a fluke but an indication that…
Even though I am personally agnostic, I do structure my life around the traditionally meaningful things you're talking about, and I do see the cultural mood a kind of spiritual crisis. What's less clear to me is why the…
This is mostly true, but things were almost universally worse in the mid-to-late 1970s. There was a similar feeling of anomie, stagflation, and a sense that the country was on the wrong track. But people still reported…
Engineers, I am so sorry. They are still going to be your bosses.
Just because the wider society encourages it, your family doesn't have to lean into individualism, and many don't. We got by when I was a kid with a lot of help from friends and family, when I am absolutely sure we…