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My body, my choice...sometimes

People who are afraid of or at risk of covid should be the ones staying home. Not healthy people.

This isn't going to work out well if there are a bunch of false-positives

Rent goes up every time the contract is renewed, mortgage payment stays the same for the whole 30 year loan.

This sounds more like a problem of scope creep than unexpected complexity

We're getting there: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Who wants to make a new extension to replace the word Metaverse?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...

Did crime actually fall, or was no one there to take the reports?

> easy to develop for

Right, that's the trade off. If we wrote low level software that can make efficient use of the hardware, I bet these cloud services would need significantly less hardware and thus significantly less power usage than they do today.

But what we have today is companies using inefficient tech to crank out janky products as quickly as possible to hopefully one day make a profit, or to be able to quickly throw out "updates" to give the marketing department something to brag about. This whole web 2.0 start-up culture has turned the software industry into a get-rich-quick scheme, rather than a industry about engineering and craftmanship.

I would gladly pay: a) limited platforms b) slower and slightly more complex development process c) money, to get native software again.

Stop making inefficient electron and web apps that use up insane amounts of processing power for no reason. Get back to writing software like it was done in the 90s, where there wasn't a hundred layers of abstraction wasting computer resources.

I think you're over estimating how complicated that stuff is...

I hope so, OOP is a disaster for performance and causes exponential complexity in code

You will own nothing and you will be happy

Uber food delivery is insane and no way that its a sustainable business. It's absurd paying $25 for a meal that's $10

It's more skeptisism where I see stories about elderly people dieing from old age, but because they tested positive for Covid it was counted as a covid death. Or died in a car accident, gun shot wound, fell off a ladder, etc. I've seen endless stories where these direct causes of death were counted as covid deaths because they tested positive.

Hospitals were encouraged to label people as positive/covid deaths because that's how they got funding for the last two years (since no one were getting optional surgeries, how hospitals normally get their funding). If hospitals are incentivized by money to label someone as a covid patient...they'll do everything possible to do it.

These "Covid killed more people than BLANK" articles don't phase me, because we haven't separated the "died with covid" from the "did directly because of covid"

Porn also causes issues in that department.

This NFT craze can't end soon enough

I know this just from a Twitch streamer I watch. He'll occasionally have to stream with the camera off because having the camera on takes a lot of energy

The real problem is that Google/Chrome basically run the internet. If Google decides to change some internet standard, Firefox and web developers all follow suite like lemmings. It's like Google has become the authoritative leader in web without any sort of process or watchdog. Aside from getting people off of Chrome, the other need is to get people to stop following Google's leadership on all things web.

The answer is in your comment. If you add a step of decompression, then text parsing...it's plain-as-day going to be a lot slower then just pushing bits through a binary parser. Less work = faster

Reading a binary file is no different than reading ascii. I experimented with writing a debugger, which meant learning how to parse executable ELF binaries. It really wasn't bad at all. It just takes a bit more time to figure out what the bytes/data are expect at what offsets. The real un-said reason is a) programmers are lazy b) its easier/cheaper to hire people who can read ascii than find someone who is a bit more experienced and can figure out how to debug binary parsing.

It did for me, if that anecdote is worth anything

> I haven't heard a compelling argument for why every sector needs a 50/50 gender divide.

It's secretly about increasing the available labor so that salaries can be lower

or the california government

That’s also the sad part. It’s no longer about taking pride in one’s craftsmanship and caring about the end-users experience. It’s about cranking out janky products to make money.

It’s more sad than amazing. The amount of computing resources we waste for no real reaso. We have crazy fast technology that runs software just as slow as they did in the 2000s

As someone who used to have that job, the only thing I was thinking when someone said that was: well it’s going to happen eventually, and I’m glad retail is not my career

Pick any big budget game released by a AAA studio or publisher