It's too late for Intel. x86 doesn't have a future, ARM64 SoC architectures like Apple's M1 (TSMC) are the future of computing. Just as fast (and often faster in many benchmarks) with only 20-25% the power consumption and heat. Even Microsoft is preparing for the shift to ARM, at Build 2⁰22 they announced project Voltera, an ARM Windows 11 PC loaded with Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7 all for ARM to give devs a head start for the coming ARM Microsoft systems. Microsoft will partner with Qualcomm and have their own custom SoC like the M1. Intel is toast (because their CPUs are too hot). This is going to be a massive shift in the PC industry.
They have a right to form a union. Amazon has the right to fire them at will. Unions create an antagonistic relationship between member employees and the company that employs them.
In the corporate world, just like government funded research, science is only science if it aligns with the desires of its funding source unfortunately.
Removing a book from children school libraries and the curriculum because they are not age appropriate is not banning books. The books are in print, in public libraries, commercial bookstores and available for purchase online. Not banned at all.
Perhaps it's that disease of a profession named "project management". In the past we had engineers and architects running large projects. They knew the industry, the people, and how everything works. Now we have professional projects managers that don't really understand the details of what is actually required, or how things work, so they crank the process overhead up to almost fetish levels. Even in the IT world, a one year project just 10 years ago is now a 3 year project.
Sure, but the desktop market has been shrinking. Unless you are in business, all you need is an iPhone, android and maybe a companion tablet are you are good computing wise. There was a time when your grandparents used Windows, but now they all use iPads/phones.
I think of Microsoft as a legacy, business oriented tech company. Other than the second string XBox product, they don't really have any consumer juice anymore, they are all about locking in businesses and forcing technology top down via company leaders. My nephews and nieces use Google products at school and iPads at home, by the time their generation is in the workforce, Microsoft will be like IBM, still rakes in money but pretty much a has-been. The only reason I still use Windows is I'm forced to on the desktop at work, but Linux has already taken the server market.
We can't use Nim at my organization as the binaries it generates are detected as viruses and deleted by CrowdStrike Falcon when I attempt to execute them and results in a visit from our security team. I uploaded one of my binaries to Total Virus for inspection and several AV products mark it as malicious. This was with Nim verson 1.6.2. I created an issue but it was promptly closed as there was already open 6+ month old issue about this. I know it's not the project's fault and that the AV companies need to resolve this, but if this is not resolved it's going to severely limit the viability of Nim, especially in larger companies. I want to use Nim to build tools, but can't until this is resolved.
Based on experience interviewing many job candidates over the past 5 years, college degrees are no longer an indicator or knowledge, abilities or intelligence. It seems like a four year degree today means almost nothing, I'm not sure what they are teaching these days beyond woke activism, but it's not working. On average I'd rather hire someone that received high school diploma in the 1990s and has a little experience than recent collage graduates.
I love Python for slicing and dicing data, automating tasks and building tools, but for a web server or web application it's a mess and is a bad choice.
They shouldn't have "invented" a new language, they should have just embraced Python and started providing Microsoft supported modules for managing their products. That was a big miss.
PowerShell is OK for small things, but it's cumbersome as hell when used for scripting and my goodness is it slow as dirt (50x slower) compared to even Python if you are processing a lot of items.
Another thing that bothers me about it is how many Windows system administrators claim they can "script" or "code" because they chain a few cmdlets together.
Sorry, but after using Golang with its very simple and powerful goroutines and channels approach to concurrency, this seems like a convoluted mess. When I need concurrency, I certainly don't think of Python as the right tool.
Python seems to have lost its way after the 2 to 3 shift and is no longer what I'd consider "pythonic".
Both AWS and GCP excel over Azure. Many organizations are strong armed into using Azure as part of their Enterprise Agreements (EA) as part of Microsoft's predatory tactics (they haven't changed one bit) I couldn't imagine someone choosing to use Azure if given a choice.
There will be more cars on the road then ever soon. When we start to return to work, most people will avoid mass transit because of COVID19 concerns and start driving again. Only a very tiny percentage of people bike to work. Shutting down streets makes no sense. Seattle city government is a joke.
I live in Seattle, the homeless problem has absolutely nothing to do with "affordable housing", that's a lie that they keep repeating. All the homeless I see are heroine/drug addicts or insane or both. If apartments were just $500/month they'd still be living outside and committing property crimes/theft and panhandling for drug money. If the city can't even be honest about the problem, they'll never solve a thing.