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Let me be the one to say "good". These gangs have been responsible for dozens of detonated ATMs in the region where I live (Germany, close to the Dutch and Belgian border). I don't believe anyone has been seriously injured yet, but many of these ATMs are embedded in ground floor stores, with the rest of the building being apartments. These heists will have the shop completely bombed out, and sometimes will leave the rest of the house uninhabitable, so it's easy to imagine what it might do to an inadvertent bystander.
> Except that isn’t what software engineers largely do, we aren’t building the nth copy of the same building with a slightly different skin.

That’s exactly what most developers do.

There is far greater variation in boring bridges spanning small streams than most web applications and yet after more than 20 years we still can’t figure it out without some giant framework to do most of it for us.
Are you saying we're safe from exploding toilets because of regulatory capture by a few corrupt individuals? Bring on the corruption!
> companies are terrible at retaining talent, and sadly job hopping is often the easiest way to get a raise and a promotion

I wonder though if it's about hiring or about raises. Maybe it's the well paying companies that hire people who already get paid a relative lot and for the current employer that raise would be out of budget.
I would love that but then again org-noter and pdftools compliment base org-mode nicely.
Interesting!

Though it seems to share the problem of all current dependently typed languages of not supporting efficient implementation since everything has to be boxed and there are no linear types.

So you are forced to choose between something efficient but with no built-in dependent types like Rust or an horribly inefficient dynamically typed languages.
Ehh. It's a nice sentiment, but from my experience "casual" guilds fail at progression because they're carrying a lot of people who don't really care all that much. Usually theres no choice in the matter either for the guild, since you have to go with who you have available. They just perceive the responsibility and requirements differently from a "hardcore" player. They don't want a second job, or a second manager.

If you're not in a world-first-kill level guild, then it's pretty standard to expect people to watch videos on how the fight goes before any attempts are made. Feedback for failure is usually pretty punitive because more is expected of you.
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Age is the other major risk factor. The 1900 age pyramid is completely different than 2000 age pyramid. Within the biologically active sector of the population (persons with biological children in their future, aka children and young adults, or primary caregivers of such persons, aka mothers and fathers of minors), 1918 pandemic was way worse than covid.

https://www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/055
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Possibly. Unfortunately, nobody's going to see that movie since all effort went into special effects.
> police make discriminating between a high credit risk and a low credit risk "easy" by having a (possibly unfair) ultrafilter: "did you spend time in jail"

The point is it is fair for a lender to use history of not paying on time as a factor in determining riskiness of borrower.

It can be unfair to use the sole fact of having been in jail as a factor in determining riskiness of borrower, but in my experience, no lender checks for that.
As an entrepreneur, I wish I knew that university is a great place to network and build business relationships. That aspect has vastly more value in the long term than anything you learn in courses.
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The main challenge of building a building that does not collapse isn't how to swing a hammer.
9y have passed, no new developments about this?
> it was stagnant for last 10 years

Could it be because it was really good?
And preferably tax carbon as close to the source as possible (crude oil). Because leaving oil in the geound is so much easier than putting it back in.
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Im not trying to establish a categorical imperative that applies to everything, such as toilets, but may make sense in certain industries (maybe zoological taxidermy)?

The larger point is why the software industry has avoided regulatory capture or eschews certification in contrast to other markets.

In other words, more boadly, is it the government that pushes for these laws, or the market that demands/asks for them?

(Also, it might helpful to differentiate B2B vs B2C here).
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Companies are happy to compete with each other in the market for people when hiring, but they forget that they are still competing with the market to retain their existing employees.

The situation is even dumber when you consider the costs incurred by on-boarding new employees and the knowledge lost when employees leave.
In my experience, almost no mass death event is computed as a per capita amount. Except perhaps the USSRs casualties in ww2, ever war I’ve ever seen has been counted in raw numbers.
> There needs to be some scepticism about what these bills actually achieve rather than what people would like them to attempt to achieve.

That's not how it works. If you want the bill to seem like a wise decision, you name it something like WISE or SMART. If you want to make it seem like it would work, put the word "effective" somewhere in there. If polling indicates widespread support for universal programs, make sure to stick the word "universal" in there.

Everything's marketing, we can just market ourselves to death. Most of US politics is the mastery of baby boomer tone anyway: that bland assertive 80s speech pattern that makes boomers think you're a wise steward and a moderate, nuanced hand. For that matter, part of it is to repeat the words "complex" and "nuanced" a lot, especially when referring to "challenges" and "responses."
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Software is buggier than buildings because it is built on human made abstractions all the way down. You can reason about a structure if you know where the buck stops (Newtonian physics basically). Computer software isn’t that.
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In Quebec/Canada there is this huge company called Trigone. They build all kind of big buildings here and their modus operandi was to create shell companies around Trigone. So the shell company would build the building and instantly bankrupt after. The people who bought part of the new building were stuck with all kind of problems and no way to fight back.

The RBQ which is the agency in charge of making sure the rules are respected for construction, removed all their licenses yesterday.

It took years, but finally people will no longer suffer from crooked builders.

Here is the news. It's in french. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1828502/construction-re...

I wish there was some kind of agency in charge of penalizing crooked software companies which are known for years to screw businesses. It will take time, but we will get there.
You may not be aware of this, but university professors tend to hold their jobs for a very long time, often 30, 40, or even 50 years. So if you look at a department now, that means that the people there were hired possibly decades ago and do not reflect current hiring practices

You should instead look at recent hires. Or have a look at the recent MacArthur Grant awardees in the humanities.
> Even today children of single mothers are at a large disadvantage,

Except that today, with few exceptions, the decision to have that child rests entirely with the mother.

With respect to family matters, females, especially in modern societies, have many more options than any other demographic of that society, or indeed, in all of history.

It's not quite comparable to how bastard children and their mothers were treated in the past.
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Yes he's wrong: to be promoted you must be doing the next job already and the management must be terrified you leave.

Sure about this?
This isn't even possible everywhere - doing the next job, for example, isn't generally possible for lower wage jobs. How the heck are you going to train for a shift manager position by learning the job when you literally don't have the authority access to do it?

You don't.

Terrified that you leave? Try that in a call center. You, no matter how good you are, will be easily replaced with another warm body or two and folks quit these jobs all the time.

Are you sure petulantly slacking off won't make one happy? I mean, what if you get joy out of seeing how far you can push that button - or alternatively, don't get satisfaction from a 'job well done' like you are told that you should? Or maybe you only do well for some recognition that you aren't getting... or maybe jobs don't give you satisfaction at all. They merely give you the means to do stuff that does make you happy.
And looking at the Hungarian politics and geopolitics it's like you insist on being on a collision course with the majority of your closest neighbors. The odds of anything good coming out of that for Hungary are very slim IMHO.
I think Jared Diamond told a number of convincing stories in this book to convince people of geographical determinism. However, I don't think that any of it amounts to a real proof. Essentially, he picks out more or less "successful" societies and then correlates it to the features of the environments they existed in. Almost certainly overfitting since there is no real test set. His theory also does not account for the topic of this link: extreme success of a minority group.
I really think the easy solution (if there's such a thing) is that non-competes should be paid at 200% of the person's previous full time adjusted comp. If a company really wants to bench someone, they can, but it puts a pretty high bar for who they do it to.
It's visually a lot less interesting than the million dollar home page though.
> Now, you get a check engine light and the code reader says, in so many words: “bring to dealer and pay up”

That's funny, because my OBDII reader tells me exactly which sensor logged a fault and what the fault is such as reading too high/low. Sure you can have oddball errors where a bus wire has its insulation melted and is sending noise over the CAN bus or something, but you also had bizarre issues on old engines with weird vacuum leaks in pipes and dashpots and all the other analogue junk that electronics have replaced.

People look at old cars through rose coloured glasses and forget having to clean distributors and adjust timing and fix tuning drift with carburettors.
But these are the same leaders who pushed ACA as a right, and then completely failed to mention that with rights come responsibilities (i.e., personal health). ACA hasn't made us any healthier and even in the middle of a pandemic we continue to blame the healthcare system, even when the data says otherwise.

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...

It's not just to blame the people for not sacrificing when there are - and rightfully so - trust issues. There's simply not enough historical evidence to support trusting Uncle Sam and his ilk. I'm not advocating that, simply showing empathy for those who - again rightfully so - remain suspect of a political and media system that has its best interests in mind first, and WTP a distant second.

Keep shopping.
Obamacare didn't make anything better. The simultaneous Medicaid expansion made things better.
I dont know which domain you work in, but in banking everyone knows everyone and the interview either doesnt happen or doesnt lead to hiring if you ve been visibly slacking off.
I didn't see the immediate connection between the strike and the infections either. I assume that is the case(?)
I view software as a form of literacy as opposed to engineering. Silicon chips - that's engineering. Codifying the process used by a large corporation to tell all its other systems a new joiner has arrived called "bob smith". That's writing something that other humans can read and can be executed by these engineered robots we have.

While my heart is socialist, my head is market-driven. And I think a market solution is the best option here.

But markets only work with informed buyers.

If my literacy idea is right - then no-one can judge software without being software literate (and having access to the source.) Just imagine a world where people had to buy the best books - but that the literacy rate was under 1%. We would have podcasts on that great book, the CEO would sign off on a purchase after and .... - books would be like software is here. Success based on marketing and yes minimising liability (no one ever got fired for buying microsoft). Linux would be samizisat!

I vastly admire Poul's incredible contributions to FOSS - but software liability is best fixed in contracts (where it usually is).

Edit: The only sane way (#) to build liable software is with some form of proof-based modelling - and this is even after decades of research horribly limited and does not reach into areas we wrote or use most software.

I am afraid software is just an extension of the human technology of speech and writing. It is a way to express ourselves in symbolic form outside our brains. It is probably the second most important development in human history - and we need to adapt all of society to be able to harness its benefits without too much harm. The crap IT surrounding us now is the pollution of the first coal driven factories. We will get better - our problem is to do it faster.

On a different note, most software (hence most bad software) is written in house - so the software that makes a bank a bank or a construction company construct, that is mostly already covered by liability. Your bank sends the wrong amount to the wrong bank account? That's been a liability since before the USA was a thing, and so the onus is on the bank to ensure it writes the software correctly. The fact that this is insanely hard implies to me that we need not just "better training for software developers", but "redesign our entire organisations" and probably our whole societies (let's start here: most things written down are done so openly - published or emailed or sent around. Most software code is closed and "proprietary". Change that first)

(#) I can imagine many companies taking on software liability without caring about the risks - but they don't sound like the people I want building airplanes, power stations etc etc.
> lots more still to do to address its current flaws

That is a bit of an understatement, given that actually implementing a routing algorithm that works at scale is an open problem in computer science with nobody even knowing where to begin.
Tangentially related, I think political advertising actually does work. Not just ads ran by candidates, but all the different memes and infographics and whatnot. At least in America. Most Americans are sort of middle of the road, but in recent years, the right has gotten very good at drawing people in through media. I know many people who are now all wrapped up in all sorts of right wing conspiracies and viewpoints that they were not wrapped up in before, that if it wasn't for seeing it on Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, they never would have believed this stuff or even thought about it.
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Every building is unique construction project regardless of how much you can save on using existing blueprints or readymade components. You need to consider soils, unevenness of surface, connection to communications and roads etc etc.
Construction projects are indeed the same as software projects, when you consider the planning and execution. Even in that some discoveries may happen at the last stages, adjustments have to be made, blueprints have to be changed.
Shouldn't it include methane? Methane is far more potent green house gas than Co2.
> Idea of beta-testing on the public roads by creating consumer disinformation is outrageous and must be stopped.

Everyone driving the FSD Beta knows pretty well what they're doing and what the whole thing means, hence the very strict criteria the drivers must meet to have that feature enabled, so I don't know what disinformation you're talking about.

Calling it outrageous, dangerous, etc doesn't make it so, and evidently, after many month of FSD Beta, there is yet an accident to be reported resulting from use of it, in a world where every Tesla accident makes it to front page of the news. Is it an accident waiting to happen? Well, every time you get into your car, you're entering the accident lottery. It's all about the likelihood of getting into an accident and so far numbers are in Tesla's favor.

And how do you imagine a system whose improvements relies heavily on real world data is meant to obtain it without large scale participation? Have a hundred employees doing rounds in a test track?

The way I see autonomous driving through being well informed, and not speaking based on outdated intuitions, Tesla's pushing the envelope just enough to make meaningful progress toward full self-driving while not overly putting people at risk.

> It is beyond believe, how regulations are soft towards applications of technologies with direct effect on human lives.

Heavily regulating something that's in its infancy is the surest way to kill it. Those people who are constantly bitching about why robo-taxis aren't here yet even with lax regulations, can be certain to dream of it for the rest of their lives should walls be put up too early.

> In car touch interfaces are exciting for people who hate driving and love their phones.

Not only. I drive a M3 and I love driving it. I don't use my phone and nor find the urge to. I enjoy the lack of clutter, and the beautiful large screen when I need to use it. Every other car I sit in, feels like a 60s Russian rocket and stresses me out. Even Tesla's own Model S and Model X feels too cluttered now with the extra driver's dash screen.

> This will not work long-term. The Idea of vehicles as a SaaS platform also will not work. This will be CX hell and people will reject it.

Ye, that's what they said about SaaS on the Internet. Who would, in their right minds, give up control of their service and store their data and code at the mercy of a third party. Saw how that turned out.
Quality of code is not necessary for success, nor does it guarantee it.

It does improve your quality of life as an engineer, I can promise you that.
>The ability to save and invest later is the base of a prosperous economy.

I don't know who told you this but it's completely wrong. People invest first and then tell others to save. Just think about it. You build a factory and tell everyone you will produce more cars in 5 years. You pay interest because you know you can sell them more cars in the future and therefore you can pay more interest than the kebab shop down the street. This means growth of demand is the primary driver of economic growth because growth in demand also results in growth of demand for investments and investments drive demand for savings.

If people just save money without any future demand it's the same thing as choosing to be poor. You have money because you didn't buy a house. You have money because you didn't buy a car. You have money because you didn't buy clothes. You have money because you are poor in real terms.
>Is like an athlete winning a medal and saying that those years of training were useless. That time is where you learn, grow, and get prepared for the next jump. If that's not the case, you are setting yourself up for failure.

I don't think this comparison works at all. An athlete is attuning both their body and mind for years for an increase in the exact same activity. An employee is largely waiting for their time to shine hitting a challenging breakpoint, and practicing repetition of that challenge will have diminishing returns kick in very, very quickly. At the same time, the payoff for going beyond that diminishing returns is highly arguable.

As an example, in most companies, the far majority of employees will spend months doing ridiculously similar, low scope issues. These low scope issues frequently have very, very little to do with what is expected in the next tier. Changing a few variables every day has much less in common with making a basic tool after analyzing requirements. Comparatively, a runner practicing for years is directly practicing to run faster, it's the same toolset more carefully honed.

The far majority of us are waiting for those challenges to come up while doing those low scope, low pay-off issues. The common advice is to "seek those challenges yourself" or to "do the low stuff faster so you can get more challenging things quicker" is cute, but doesn't nearly apply in practice as often as the frequency of this advice makes one think. Think of bureaucracy, managers getting in the way, petty office politics, bottlenecks, and more. Which only leaves practicing in one's own time.

From the way I read it, OP is saying that there's far more of a difference between what one learns during those small challenging periods of time than the downtime of repetition compared to other fields. Which shouldn't be a surprise as software dev is largely a field of practicing mental challenges and logic puzzles, not honing physical skills.
Even if they end up being blocked by many ad funded sites?
Then again, the bad publicity.
Intriguing!
I am new business, and my online ads campaign seen by 4000+ people produced maybe about 2 installations. Appealing to people in real life was much more effective for me.
I know my target audience is in the hundreds of thousands but I just cannot reach them through more or less blind online ads.
Thank you for expressing what I struggle with every day.

The additional counterbalancing layer on top of this is an internal drive for justice - this is what pushes me to work for a big tech company rather than doing something which gives me more self-respect. If other people can earn 6+ figures to fuck about with computers all day and deliver nothing of true societal value, why should I be the sucker doing scientific research for a fraction of that?
That's because we don't have anything better currently. With bitcoin it's possible to pay without custodians, and people can easily choose not to accept fake bitcoin.
Cost of replicating software is near zero, if you want the same thing as the next guy you can have it right now, no schedule risk.

Except that isn’t what they want, they want the same “except for this, and with this extra, and change that…”. And we are back at the discover the spec stage again
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A sizable fraction - haven't- accepted these changes, hence why the disease persists at massive levels in the US.
This is also standard for roofing companies in Quebec, I think. They can offer any guarantee they please, since the company won't be around for long enough.
What an utterly useless statement. What are you suggesting we do instead, downplay the danger and hope someone will eventually do something?
The tool missing most often? Empathy. Eye candy aesthetics and frictionless workflow are nice, but they are not synonymous with "good product."

Empathy is.
Compare this to how Google handled Kathryn Spiers for unauthorized posting of an internal banner.

We can at least stop pretending it was for abuse of commit rights and not for labor activism.
It's not a bug. It's a game mechanic. If it was a bug Wube would have had it fixed within 24 hours and pushed out a new release. They are an admirable exemplar to inspire all of us.
Like a carbon coin ? That you get once you have proven you took out some CO2 from the atmosphere.

Like in the ministry of future novel: https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-coin-climate-change-cryp... ?