Microsoft ended extended support for Win7 in 2020 and security updates in Jan this year. Seems reasonable to stop supporting it for third party, networked software.
> I hope that at least they gave these candidates some amount of money (at least one month's salary).
Sorry, what? Have you seen that happen before? I don't see how that's even on the table.
> Don't actively interview
Why not? It's a good skill to have and they could happen upon a better opportunity. Just the fact that the OP made the post in the first place indicates that they're going to resent their employer every day they continue to stay there. Even if they stop actively thinking about it, it'll still permeate through every reaction they have to future corporate decisions and changes in direction.
Darwin was born to a rich family and the book was published when he was 50. I guess I see the point you're trying to make, but his life was very much not like the average person. It was also over 150 years ago; the world he lived in was so far different from 2023 it's absurd. I don't understand why you would use an example of someone extra-ordinary, a geo/biologist no less, in a critique of hustle culture.
I my experience, normal users don’t read the permission prompts. They immediate click Allow or Accept and then wonder later why they’re getting popup notifications in Windows pretending to be an anti-virus or think their entire computer has been hacked because “something is wrong.”
I completely agree with your points about shallow comments. In a similar vein, while we’re asking for a bit more effort, I’d like to ask you to re-read what you write before posting. There are a half dozen typos and no capitalization. It helps ESL users, gives your subconscious another chance to refine your comment, and makes it easier for each reader to focus on your ideas without distraction.
Do you have an open source repo? Commercial licensing? Is there a business / pricing model? Do you have a roadmap for feature parity with other solutions? Do you have a public list of the missing features? Is there written documentation? Can the db server be interacted with aside from the Browser app?
I don't mean to downplay the potential performance benefits you've shown, but you're up against other databases that have been around for 22-33 years each. You have a bus factor of seemingly 1. You have a specific way of communicating that you've decided on that is unlike any other popular solution out there. I wouldn't assume speed is the primary factor.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what kinds of unique institutional knowledge you think they've built up and what sets the Twitter employees apart from their peers at other companies. My main guess would be scaling caches and services, but even that isn't a super rare these days compared to say 2006. I'm not sure what about Twitter specifically, the app and its functions, is that complex to pass on. Coming into codebases that large is very challenging, but it's doable. Isn't the current calculus ~ lowering headcount to stay solvent vs. the risk of more lost knowledge and the other 50% of the company losing their jobs?
I don't think the issue at hand is truths and lies, it's the ability to both communicate with hundreds of millions of people easily while at the same time also being able to create smaller silos of group think with no restriction on geography.
Aren't you using the cloned voices to generate marketing material for your company to make profit? Indirectly profiting without consent or compensation seems like a difficult ethical line. It also seems like something you want to have a very good stance on when a law could be passed that completely shuts down your ability to operate.
No, we're talking about batteries and charging. If you think battery tech is done evolving, wont shrink, and that "energy" and "power" are interchangeable concepts, then I don't think we can have a fruitful discussion.
> And no, you never ned 1GB of hard drive for anything that was done with computers at this time.
That was my point. Saying something wont happen based on what's happened so far is foolish.
> No it's not, not unless you have Tesla style massive DC chargers. And they are not putting those in every supermarket. Regular chargers will barely give you enough charge to get home in that 30 minutes.
Not it's not, not unless you have IBM style massive cabinet hard drives. And they are not putting those in every home computer. Regular hard drives will barely give you enough disk space to store plaintext documents.
Sorry, you just sound like people that used to say things like "you'll never need more than 1 GiB of hard drive space." Things will evolve. It'll happen faster than you anticipate.
Hi Gavin; that sounds interesting! I saw @eirikbakke make a comment about https://www.ultorg.com earlier. It appears to also support editing the underlying data. I'm curious to see how you've each tackled these tricky topics.
Can you steelman allowing terminology to evolve and allowing new forms to be the assumed/default meaning? Also, context matters a lot. It's rarely ambiguous if we're talking about networking or libraries. When they overlap in conversation you'd need to clarify anyway.
> It's not inherited so the long term rate of it occuring would be unaffected.
What? The rate of it occurring is about the number of people alive with the syndrome, not those conceived. They abort all of them, so there are less of them. It's not about inheritance.
> One of the key points he made that seemed fairly intuitive is that as your population declines you eventually wind up with significantly fewer long term experts in various fields of science and engineering.
Good thing we have books, the Internet, billions of video recordings, et al.
There's also a lot of great wine and delicious pizza in TX, KY, and CO, but I bet if I throw a dart in the dark 9 times out of 10 I'm going to land on a name from CA or NY.
No, relatively speaking, it's not a lot. Yeah, it's a big number in a vacuum, but comparatively it's dwarfed by other countries we should want to compete with.
To be fair, there are few things as here-be-dragons as the guts of Pandas. It'd be hard to find a more rarified example, but it served to further the conversation at least.
There's obviously a lot of legacy Ada out there, but would you say it's 'typical' for new code being written? I don't have that sense. There's probably more MISRA C/++ code floating around at this point. I have no idea how compliant SX is, but I've heard mentions of Power of 10 rules and JPL standards. For what it's worth, their track record doesn't seem concerning nowadays.
Can I ask a Ship of Theseus kind of question? Is there any amount of shot-caller employee turnover possible in the last 15-20 years that would cause you to reset your projections of their ethicality? Relatedly, is there an amount or form of recompense possible on MS's side that could reinstate your doubt? Or is there a general lack of trust in unchecked / unethical capitalism that is insurmountable?
With 213 million people, they do have a ton of devs and a ton of ESL speakers. There’s lots of places like that, like Turkey or SE Asia, where word doesn’t reach NA/wEU.
Nope, that many characters would be impractical in daily use. There’s a lot of copying, pasting, reading, and reciting of numbers via email/web/phone/TMS/WMS/etc.
> The full Starlink satellite system doesn't have 4,408 sats. That's just the Gen 1 constellation. They have committed to completing the Gen 2 constellation, with an additional 7,518 sats, which each provide many times more bandwidth than the Gen 1 sats, by 2027, well in time for the RDOF.