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I agree with your points so much, all of them.

What do you think might be some better possibilities than the current mess?

Yeah sure, but messaging apps don't need new features - they need to simply send messages to each other. Walled gardens suck as a user experience for messaging apps.

The problem is companies compete and the ones that reduce their costs for support drive the other ones out of business.

This has evolved to the stage where it's endemic in what used to be well functioning societies, that day to day civic economic interactions are now broken, which is what the posted talked about.

The answer is regulating to avoid this race to the buttom.

Clearly companies are en masse externalizing the costs of support onto users, and plainly not supporting users in fixing real problems with systems that are now required to live in society. It's at the stage where it's breaking our well functioning civil society and turning the first world into a third world kafkaesque dystopia.

I believe this is an economic race to the bottom and regulation is the answer to fixing it.

Here's the basis of an idea for how to fix the power dynamics so the market works properly

1) an ombusdman that can fine companies for user abuse of wasting user time, and redistribute the fine to the users

2) regulations of how long a company can on average keep users on hold, such as no more than 10 minutes to speak to a human, otherwise the speak to a human option is useless as the company makes it take longer than the median user can afford

3) regulations of threshold of acceptable customer complaints against a company, otherwise the company will make the service operators unable to actually fix anything as you note

4) a process with the ombusdman where when the number of complaints exceeds a threshold the company is fined and the fine distributed amongst the complaining users

5) some sanity check here to prevent user abuse, such as checking the average wait times, and confirming the customer service actually never fixes issues from a number of tests. The tests could be made in collaboration with a subset complaining customers.

It at least changes the cost dynamics away from the companies just shafting users because only the users wear cost.

Clearly companies are en masse externalizing the costs of support onto users, and plainly not supporting users in fixing real problems with systems that are now required to live in society. It's at the stage where it's breaking our well functioning civil society and turning the first world into a third world kafkaesque dystopia.

I believe this is an economic race to the bottom and regulation is the answer to fixing it.

Here's the basis of an idea for how to fix the power dynamics so the market works properly

1) an ombusdman that can fine companies for user abuse of wasting user time, and redistribute the fine to the users 2) regulations of how long a company can on average keep users on hold, such as no more than 10 minutes to speak to a human, otherwise the speak to a human option is useless as the company makes it take longer than the median user can afford 3) regulations of threshold of acceptable customer complaints against a company, otherwise the company will make the service operators unable to actually fix anything as you note 4) a process with the ombusdman where when the number of complaints exceeds a threshold the company is fined and the fine distributed amongst the complaining users 5) some sanity check here to prevent user abuse, such as checking the average wait times, and confirming the customer service actually never fixes issues from a number of tests. The tests could be made in collaboration with a subset complaining customers.

Is it about safety or tax/revenue?

Some of the camera companies even did revenue share omg

Yeah Windows has really shot the pooch this last decade.

It used to be so consistent and poweruser friendly.

Windows 11 has just broken a lot of the poweruser keyboard shortcuts for doing things, on top of all their ads, nagware, telemetry/stalking and various antifeatures, it's like they are begging power users to go to Linux.

Mind you in that case a cheap Chromebook with a decent screen would fit the bill

You're right Apple doesn't care - it's your issue if you need it :D

Love me some AMD, running them on all my machines currently.

However on desktop where power usage isn't an issue, Intel 12th gen performance has pulled ahead of AMD. Theoretically even on laptops too but I suspect they have the common problem of powerful Intel cpus in laptops where they cooling just can't hack it and they throttle to make it worthless getting top end Intel. So I believe AMD is still better on laptops presently.

In common usage I believe 3 times faster is what most people understand for these figures.

Yes the cost of replacing houses has jumped stupendously. Building new ones likewise.

So if the stocks really crash your LOC is eviscerated when you most need it.

The problem is the line of credit may be inaccessible when you need it most.

If you don't memorize anything, what is your name, and where do you live?

Hi I'm interested in this, can you talk more about the process and stages you went through?

That's what the spam button is for. Enough spam reports causes them real financial costs.

Surprising decent even with cheap plastic lenses. I was surprised anyway, after not expecting much.

Well you can extend the tooling to suit your needs. As Steven Covey says, sharpen the saw.

My friend at this stage you become a journeyman programmer, if you are able to understand and continue someone else's conception of a reasonably complex domain!

What does not separating concerns of data structures have to do with OOP?

Mixing state between a bunch of different backing stores, or not making in memory data structures explicit, makes data structures harder to discover, but what does that have to do with OOP?

But WebGL does put the users data at risk. WebGL is an attack vector for fingerprinting which is data about the user, that gets correlated with other data about the user to stalk them.

If you look at the history of longer establish countries in Europe, the SFH truly has become a luxury. Many families live in multi-generational homes with three generations, when someone marries the new couple lives with one or the other of the parents.

You can also prevent people from dying in a house by making the house too expensive that it's unaffordable for them.

This response is exactly what the op is pointing out - reflexive assertion that something is 'required' without balancing it against the broader picture.

97% less cost!

That means that the AWS service based option costs 33 times more. Not ten time more, but thirty plus times more.

There are techniques to allow large teams to work on monoliths together. They take planning and discipline, but overall I would say are far more reliable than microservice explosions for similar sized systems, because the earlier you manage the integration the less work it is. ie what you pay at source integration time is less than what you pay dealing with deployments, infrastructure and especially support across distributed systems which can get real expensive real fast.

I've worked on multiple systems with around 50 developers contributing fulltime to them, very practically.

I don't know what the op intended, but services can be deployed in process inside one monolith.

But well-defined interfaces are not specific to microservices (ms). Low coupling, high cohesion, separation of concerns and well defined interfaces are simply system architecture. Which is easier to work with without the infrastructure overhead of loads of semi-independent ms. Ms is a net loss here because your complexity budget is consumed by the infrastructure instead of the system architecture.

Fault tolerance again is largely orthagonal to ms. It's a matter or system architecture, see the point above. e.g. A common situation where service one depends on availability from service two, having them as seperate ms doesn't help, what helps is architectural design to keep service two useful somehow regardless, and this is orthagonal to if the services are in process or done as ms.

Scaling is a whole other discussion, and microservices can have good impact here, but so can other techniques.

The theme of their posts seems consistent with what a russian psy-op would be. Probably a paid inciter/troll.