Jemm

One of my biggest complaints about the IT industry is the prevalence of scummy operators.

Straight from storyboards more likely

Surely the fuel will be separated in to multiple tanks with pumps between them, similar to conventional aircraft.

Put simply, systems now are designed for teams of people and automated testing. This adds complexity and verbosity not necessarily needed for small shop projects.

The reliance on Design Patterns (Gang of Four) went from nice to use, to mostly required.

So many developers now go right in to coding without learning other skills. The result is software to automate or help a system that the coders don't really know how to do manually and it shows. These coders know one language, one framework and maybe very good at that but they don't actually know how a computer works or why what they are doing work.

Proves the saying, "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product"

Can't let you use Stage Manager on external displays because that might eat in to the `MacBook market. Damn I hate Apple

We used to have a retail chain called Consumers Distributing. The showroom was just catalogues. You would take a slip of paper, write down the product code and take it to the desk. Someone in the back would the pick your order and it would arrive by conveyor belt to the cash.

Actually worked quite well but they didn't get the impulse buyers that regular retail has.

I would like to watch that trial.

I like it. That solder ball from the expanding rosin is a bit concerning but that was just a demo.

Companies using jobs as a profit buffer is truly sociopathic.

Yes of course when things get truly bad companies need to lay off staff, but what we are seeing is people being fired to preserve a profit margin and CEOs are massive bonuses.

Shortage of jobs that pay and treat people with respect.

Employers have enjoyed exploiting workers for much too long and now they feel entitled.

Productivity has greatly increased. Pay and respect have not.

Got to love people who believe that eating causes weight loss.

VM on pc with lots of ram. Works fine for me.

We used to break distance records in video games. The shooter would fire a shot and the spotters moved the target to where the shot landed then the shooter would fire again. Managed to get some amazing distances that way and break the game.

Once took a flight where they just handed each of us a bagged lunch as we boarded. No in flight service and frankly didn't miss it at all.

In Canada immigrants vote for the Liberal party who are currently in power. It doesn't take long before many of those immigrants forget their past and vote against their best interest for the Conservative party.

The Libaral party (which is actually the moderate of the three parties) pushes for immigration.

Immigrants are a source of cheap labour to be exploited. There is a real shortage of jobs here that pay a living wage.

Immigration raising the population is good for the housing investors who want to see prices continue to climb. Many of our politicians are either real estate investors or have ties to real estate investors.

Canada is a huge country but most people live along the southern border. Services and infrastructure even a few hundred kilometers north are bare to non-existent. Much of the land in Ontario, for instance, is flood plane, conservation controlled, native land or greenbelt farmland which cannot be divided (until a mega rich development company somehow manages it). This means crowding.

Most people think Canada has no corruption and is stable, well that is not really true. Corruption here is just at a much higher level.

Funny how they care now when they feel oppressed.

Youtube demonetizing Soft White Underbelly is an example of the Toxic Positivity problem in the western world right now.

They do it because they can, which in this case means that enough people will put up with lots of ads.

Sad truth about humanity is they don't care.

Can we please now have a UI that doesn't cover the content when paused.

Rectangular like the shape of image sensors?

I find it annoying that they are not using the standard phoenetic alphabet

Same deal in Canada

I got the exact same view as my third link.

All industries are scummy if you dig in to them. Capitalism is unchecked and people have been trained not to say anything negative for fear of being ostracized.

Time for the tech community to declare a code of ethics and refuse to participate in corporate sociopathy.

Song from 1400 BCE just happens to conform to the western scale?

Nice idea but likely will never happen.

Canada has a lot of corruption and protectionism that we pretend does not exist.

Also the FREEDOM movement and American style conservative politics are very loud here. Anything the government does will be viciously attacked.

Because ordinal counting has been a tenant of computer science since inception.

Is there a code of ethics for programmers and engineers?