Jochim

Punishment is an intermediate solution.

Holding executives responsible for their misdeeds is the bare minimum in the meantime.

Why should I be fair to anyone who believes that $3m/year isn't enough for them? Someone who decided they needed an additional $2m after their incompetence lead to them laying off many of the people who actually produce work.

Curious to hear more of your thoughts on Application Insights.

I've always been fond of it due to how much it gives you straight out of the box.

I'm on AWS now and sadly it doesn't seem to compare whatsoever. A custom solution seems like it would take a fair bit of effort just to reach basic parity.

I'd support jailing the executives of any business that engages in such training.

Which 50%?

It's far more likely that the multi-national has already signed such a contract with the bakery, preventing you from entering the market in the first place.

Even if you were to get there first, when the contract comes up for renewal the multi-national can offer terms that would be unsustainable for a small producer.

Seems to be the goal of most "cybersecurity" types.

> I really do not understand what it is that they actually do

Their main purpose is to occupy the same social circles as other executives and board members.

It'd be more likely to just kill Unity.

What medium-large company didn't already have teams in low cost of living countries before the pandemic?

As sokoloff has pointed out, we don't disagree with one another. My comment was a criticism of those who portray workers' demands as a single massive increase, rather than a small yearly increase.

> I disagree that leading with "reduce consumption, if possible" is impractical when we're trying to address the results of calorie intake

We do lead with "Reduce consumption, if possible". The point isn't that it's impractical but rather that stopping there is woefully ineffective. We've never had more visibility into calories consumed; yet we're still seeing rising levels of obesity.

If we actually want to reduce obesity then we need to identify and address the reasons that cause people to overeat. That's what makes the reductive view of "calories in, calories out" counter-productive.

It's complicated because it's generally a symptom of deeper issues related to circumstance e.g. mental health, price, time, availability etc.

Solving poverty is also not very complicated when reduced down to "just have more money". That might be a useful starting point but it's worthless in practical terms.

Developers only built half the homes that they were approved to build over a 10 year period[0].

The destruction of the provision of social housing has been a disaster.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/08/over-1m-home...

Landlords and foreign investors.

They're asking for 20% to offset recent inflation and then 5% per year until 2027[0].

Misrepresenting a cumulative 4 year increase as a single upfront one is honestly disgusting behaviour. I can only hope that GP shares the same level of disdain for the CEOs of these companies who actually received a 40% increase in their compensation over the last 4 years[0].

[0] https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/08/03/u...

> and for 4k.

AMD seems to be doing pretty well on raw performance this generation. The 7900XTX is about £200 and £500 cheaper than the 4080/4090 respectively and often comes out much closer to the 4090 in benchmarks.

They still haven't cracked ray tracing though. Their implementation performs much worse than comparable Nvidia cards. Hopefully they'll figure it out before ray tracing actually takes off.

I can see adoption being fairly slow though due to AMD's partnerships with console manufacturers and Nvidia's absurd pricing on the cards that can achieve decent ray tracing performance.

It's disgusting how high GPU prices have risen though. My first build included 2 top of the line AMD Radeon R9 290X cards for less than the cost of a single 4070 Ti.

Most ISPs sell broadband only plans now, even on copper installations.

It's the word that's used in place of "corruption" when speaking of one's own country.

Corruption is a rude and dirty word. It's use would besmirch the good reputation of those engaging in it. Cronyism is considered much more polite.

It won't in most cases. People either don't know or don't want to risk their job for the possibility of a payout at tribunal.

That's assuming the employee is even aware that they're being monitored in the first place.

> Reminds me of fast food employee who simply hands your meal out the window, no greeting, no thank you, no smile...

Do you expect them to do so? Are you ensuring that they're paid and treated well enough to do so?

why create a backup branch instead of just pointing the rebased branch back at the original commit?

Good telemetry is an absolute game changer to be fair.

The annoying thing about OpenTelemetry is just how underbaked/rudimentary it is, and how opinionated the implementations are.

For C#, I consider Microsoft's Application Insights to be the gold standard. You get per request tracing, stack traces, hot paths, dependency operations etc. with absolutely no setup on your part.

I was looking for an alternative since my current place is on AWS and OpenTelemetry seemed like a flexible, Terraform-like alternative to the platform specific SDKs.

It's not that simple though... AWS doesn't provide any direct sinks to their services, instead you must send it to a collector running in a sidecar container, or if it's a lambda: create a custom layer.

X-Ray's surfacing of the traces sucks as well. It'll only show traces in 6 hour ranges. Hopping between 5 different products trying to find the right metric is not an enjoyable experience.

The argument is that they're more efficient than the alternatives:

> People being defrauded, injured, poisoned, and dying must be much more efficient

> I'm sure an inability to trust the safety, quality, and accuracy of the things one buys wouldn't have any negative effect at all on a market.

And that private business is not an alternative, having given rise to the need for such an agency in the first place and a demonstrated inability to oversee, audit, or classify honestly:

> The illustrious and unbesmirched track record of the worlds major auditing, accountancy, and credit firms has demonstrated beyond doubt that private enterprise can truly be trusted to handle these matters in a manner that puts society's needs at the forefront.

That's not to say that the public agencies responsible couldn't be improved but the idea that privatisation of these matters leads to increased efficiency is farcical.

I don't agree that it'll affect spam and I couldn't care less about ad fraud or cheating.

What is does do, is afford the major players total control over which devices and individuals are allowed to access the web.

Ah, I misunderstood, I didn't realise you were talking about bots that spam comment sections, forum replies, etc.

I still think the approach is harmful overall.

The idea that I must be "vouched for" by a "trusted third party" by providing extensive details about my system, in order for my browser to send a HTTP request is in direct opposition to privacy and my interests.

That it's being proposed by a company that owes it's entire existence to web crawling is ironic.

It turns the web from an open platform into one where the big players have complete control over which devices and software are permitted.

Those sites make their money through SEO optimisation.

Tracking me harder isn't going to make those sites go away.

> But it is something that the web standard should think about in order to make the web a better place.

In what way does it make the web a better place?

> So is cooking or curing meat before eating it, but sushi restaurants haven't been blanket banned. There's a difference between driving one farmer that poisons people out of business and prohibiting it entirely.

I'm not sure why people always bring up sushi restaurants so incorrectly when discussing this topic.

Much like the requirement to pasteurise milk, when fish are caught we require they are processed to destroy bacteria and parasites via freezing.

> Even stuff like fugu which can genuinely kill you remains legal.

I had trouble establishing how widespread the legality of Fugu is. Some articles claim it's widely banned, whereas others that it must be imported from Japan, which requires the individual to be licensed.

The other difference is that fugu is entirely safe when prepared with care. Applying safety measures to the production of unpasteurised milk can reduce the risk of introducing new/more bacteria but it cannot remove any already present.

People are prohibited from selling it. You may obtain all you'd like, no one's stopping you shooting it straight from the teat.

An ice cream maker and husband of a dairy farmer puts it better than I could[0].

> My wife is 53 and has drunk raw milk pretty much daily all her life. However, we know the hygiene of our cows and of our milking process, and we know our herd is free of TB and MAP.

> I am NOT a raw milk advocate for the simple reason that these health and safety issues are tough, and serious. So I would not drink the raw milk from another farmer’s cows. There’s simply too much risk.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-raw-milk-taste-different-from...