They also use prison slave labor, https://www.boycott-wendys.org/endslavery

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

Their whole purpose is monopolization of advertising engagement to make money for shareholders. Collecting user data, building profiles, targeted ads, prioritizing rage bait and conspiracies and misinformation, hiding alternatives like open source software and distributed community supported software, are all in support of that goal.

This is a pretty good summary of the classes of algorithms and an open problem related to them:

Alt: diagrams showing from P to NP-Hard under p=np and p!=np models, with a brief description of each and an example of each.

Cult of the line must go up

The ones I’ve seen in the wild are pvcs and ccc/harvest, but there are others. I think they usually try to brand it as part of a larger end-to-end SDLC tool or change management, or it’s built to work with a specific proprietary system like Autodesk vault.

And Firefox, git, Dia, gimp, etc…

Proprietary OS’s like Windows and macOS lack package managers too that tools like chocolatey and homebrew provide.

Weak code lacks tests

Alt: if strength relies on unity I need to switch to game dev

I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files

Cygwin terminal and chocolatey package manager gets windows some missing features in Linux like gnu tools and a non-store based software library.

iTerm2 terminal and homebrew package manager help turn MacOS into a fully functional OS

Once you hit 99+ in Firefox on mobile it changes to ∞

As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.

I don’t have anything against Rust, I’m just not very familiar with it

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I’ll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I’ll use C instead.

I’m not sure because google.com requires JavaScript and then when I enable it it says it’s had too much malicious behavior from my VPN address and to enable another host gstatic to connect to I’m guessing for a rechaptcha and I gave up

Where I’m from we call that Laissez-faire IT

There’s not really a difference between 0 timezones and 1 timezone, let’s split it and go with 1/2 timezones

Based on a completely superficial review there are three almost guaranteed ways to become unhinged; studying infinities, refactoring legacy code, and working with timezones.

Not op but guessing she had an idea from media like TV shows and movies that make technical jobs seem much more exciting for entertainment over realism. Crises are usually more Jerry accidentally deleted a directory and we need to recover some files and establish safe guard procedures to prevent it from happening again or this thing broke that nobody even knew existed so we gotta figure it out and less type fast enough to save the mainframe from l33t hackers.