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I don't think European programmers are unionized? I'm in the Netherlands, and while there are some small upstart unions for software engineers, there has been no collective bargaining action (certainly not at any significant scale).

I'd be happy to be disproven (go unions!), but I haven't heard of other countries that have unionized programmers.
Feeling valued is necessary for a junior. They deserve the same three monitors everybody else gets.
>>31892421 (OP)

>implying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Adam Sandler has been hitting it out of the park lately. Uncut Gems[0] showed what an excellent actor he really is.

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/
for some people that's the point of life
> The overwhelming majority of people who have ever lived are now lost to history. Are they not worthy of salvation?

Of course! But twice in your comment you seem to be pushing back against points I didn't make. :)

> Christians believe in baptism by desire for those who were never formally baptized

Slight correction to the above: it's true that many branches of Christianity believe this, but definitely not all.

> The idea salvation can only occur if you were lucky enough to have your genealogy recorded is far removed from mainstream Christianity.

Of course! I don't know of anyone - including those that believe in proxy baptisms for the dead - that would agree with this idea, do you?
Yeah that makes sense to me too, you also tend to be a lot more insecure and want to prove yourself when you're a junior, so you may be a lot more self-conscious asking for help thinking that it may be perceived as incompetence. I've definitely experienced that when I started working. Being remote probably means that it's even harder to push through this insecurity and it could also mean that others may not see that you're struggling and come help help you spontaneously.

That being said I think it can probably be improved while still remaining WFH, for instance by more actively chaperoning newbies.
If it's all about perceived self-improvement with no consideration for real-world applications or end products, there's no difference between practical skills and virtual ones. All that matters is that the person in question believes the experience to be valuable.

EDIT: I guess it's worth mentioning a minor exception for basic life skills that some people do as hobbies, like sewing, gardening, DIY or cooking, but those have diminishing returns. You can probably learn everything you need to know to not be reliant on tradesmen or vendors for those sorts of things in a year, and beyond that you get stuck in the same place as the hobby craftsman or hobby artist, where the chance of real financial success is basically nil so you're just doing it because it's an activity you personally enjoy.
That would be even worse.
>Even the best authors need an editor.

I've worked as a reviewer/editor (with "compensation" in the form of the acknowledgment page) on a handful of technical books

Overall, of the ~7 authors I've reviewed/edited, I can confidently assert only one was wrong, but ALL wrote in nearly-unfollowable ways
Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project
>A glitchy mouse won't make them or break them.

It can break my god damn wrist joints if I have to use it all day. Speaking from experience.
Go's error handling is one of its single worst features. It would be much better if if had supported algebraic data types (which would also eliminate two other abominations: `iota` and `nil`, with the former being replaced by type constructors as sum types can act as enums and the latter would be replaced with an `Option` type) along with some kind of pattern matching.

If you're not familiar with algebraic data types, they're well worth learning about, and not a difficult concept. Once you use a language with them, heading back to a language without them feels like developing with one hand tied behind your back.
True, but there have been plenty of cases where juniors languishing in an office with little guidance. And remote you can still ask them how they're doing by chat.

It's true that the barrier is a bit higher remote, but it's not unsurpassable.
Seconding this - I love it!
Classification of musical instruments into these sorts of categories gets tricky in some areas (especially with regard to percussion). Really, the percussion and keyboard categories (when people acknowledge them) kind of become weird catchall categories, especially percussion. Also, depending on our goal, it's ok to let one instrument belong to multiple categories.

*As an exercise:* do you classify based on the means of playing the instrument or by the actual source of the sound?

If it's by the means, then the *piano* is a keyboard instrument, but if by the source of the sound, it's percussion... or is it a string instrument (chordophone) being played by means of percussion which is being triggered by means of keyboard? Is percussion only ever a means of playing? If so, what are drums, membrane instruments? And are cymbals a different category?

And then what about a *harpsichord*? It's another strung-keyboard instrument, but its strings are plucked rather than hammered. How should it be classified?

And then there's *bass guitar*, clearly an electric chordophone unless it's being slapped in which case it's obviously percussion... but its sound is actually reproduced by a speaker cone at the end of an electrical path that varies in complexity... unless it's being recorded directly to tape/digital without a speaker being used at all. Does the classification of a bass guitar depend on listening format?

It's kind of like when people say, _"Actually, a tomato is a fruit,"_ or, _"There's no such thing as a fish."_ Botanically/taxonomically, sure, those people are absolutely correct, but then a ton of other things that we refer to as vegetables (most of them, off the top of my head) are also technically fruit. In fact, botanically speaking, there's no such thing as a vegetable (huh, kind of like fish... I guess we could consider them seafood).

*To sum things up*, I guess my point is that categorizations are somewhat flexible (in many cases even subjective). More importantly, they're only meaningful when they help us to solve a problem. By extension, they only apply to a particular context. A tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable; you just need to decide whether you're a botanist or a chef.
I would pay good money to watch that!
In my accounting internships, we were just expected to show up and work. There wasn't much mentoring, and accounting classes really only cover theory. It was a bit of shock to the system.
Notes on Luca Palmieri's Zero to Production in Rust
I mean it definitely cratered...
My experience is that any comment on this site that includes the words merely, trivially, obviously, or simply is best ignored, including mine.
For me it was a lot of pairing/mobbing on tasks leveraging the tools available. e.g having the driving person sharing their screen and using tools like Jetbrains Code With Me or VSCode LiveShare for the coding aspects.

Biggest pain point was the flexibility that was required with lockdowns meant sometimes the senior members were occupied with parenting responsibilities but we tried to ensure that the junior member had someone to pair with most of the time.
I watched from my roof as someone rammed a moving van into multiple store fronts. I'm going to stick with my lying eyes.
It's been the norm for decades that companies provide workers with the tools they need to do their job. And good companies provide good tools.

If you're bringing in your own means of production, what is the company for?
I had the unfortunate experience of working at a cubicle farm in Atlanta, and what really got me were the chairs. Crappy monitors, crappy equipment, par for the course, but the chairs hurt. Chairs that have been sitting around for a decade, and management could not care less. Gotta sit in a chair for four hours at a time, got back pain, too bad. That’s the only job in my life I’ve ever just walked out on. It was absolutely awful.
Sorry for the "people like you.." remark.

You say it would affect you do bad you might even leave a job. So essentially you are excluding people with disagreeable views from the workplace harming their ability to provide for themselves and family. That is categorically unfair and anti democratic. Instead of people changing their views peacefully you are threatening them this way and they will also need to use force in return. You only feel this way in my opinion because you have options and your views are in the majority. Many of your views at a point were unpopular.

I do not go to work to socialize or play politics. I am there to provide labor and services in exchange for money. Quite frankly, on just about any political topic my views would offend people on any end of the political spectrum because I like to think for myself instead join the hivemind and go with party propagnada. You want to take that libery away from me. You want to force me to agree with you or become unemployed, because the other end of the political spectrum will also feel the same way as you. You think what I said before about the hypotetical person bob is bad? Ok, what if Jane is a transexual working at a factory in the deep south, how do you think that person is treated? They won't hear nice things about transexuals I can assure you that and they may not be able to move either (and they shouldn't have to).

The phrase "don't shit where you eat" comes from the fact that disease spreads and wipes out civilizations when they fail to so that. In this case, the specifics of your politics are not relevant but that you are contaminating the workplace with politics and politics with the workplace. Using the power dynamics of the workplace to further your political agenda and allowing politics to decide who works where (which again, that is illegal under labor law of many countries not just US).

In the US as well I see this trend where leftists and rightists alike think it is a good idea to force people into their camp. If a person is on your side because you forced them, obviously their supposed views are fake. You get rid of bob, but his friend jack saw what happened to bob and will quietly try to get rid of people that disagree with hid and bob's views now. You brought political conflict to the workplace now.
We'll have a colony on Mars before we agree on what constitutes a healthy diet.
> loadbalancers, volumes are heavily biased towards cloud providers

Can you even run a "loadbalancer" if all you have is a single machine with a single IP behind a router you don't control? I got stuck on that the last time I tried running my own kubes.
>The Supreme Court has taken on relevance because Congress is worthless

>Ultimately Congress needs to become functional again

Yes exactly. I keep seeing rhetoric that we "lost 50 years of progress". we didnt. We band-aided our government and had 50 years to make the proper correction and havent been able to yet. More importantly, though, I dont think we have really tried to

the group that was keeping that band-aid on is now out of power and we want to blame the other side for simply upholding separation of powers. I mean, it is tone deaf to do it now at best, but Mississippi pushed the issue. the court is obligated to uphold the law, not dictate it. Abortion as a privacy right has always been a weak stance.

Anecdotally, I have felt a growing disinterest in local politics growing for the past decade. I can name so many people who "didnt want to talk politics" 2 weeks ago who are now non-stop politically charged over roe v wade. I could roll my eyes about it all, but honestly I just hope it serves as enough of a wake up call for people to stay involved.
Then let's play fair and apply that same test to products made by amazon, microsoft, google, facebook, twitter, tiktok etc.

these companies all have products that involve what are essentially forms of "ai" (i include social media platforms like twitter as "ai" not for their algorithms but because they have linked human brains into some sort of super brain - take it or leave it) and were unleashed on an unwitting society with untold (and often times disastrous) consequences.
(Preface: This is simplifying and likely wrong to some extend, but my mother held a somewhat high post in a german union for a while, so I have some exposure)

In germany, the union does not directly determine the pay rate. Membership in a union at a very fundamental level allows you to participate in the union activities, access to their resources (+) and the right to strike for work-related reasons (++). Unions can participate in the organization of the work place when there are sufficient union members in a company by forming a workers council (Betriebsrat), which must be involved in certain kinds of decisions, for example firing people. Forming a workers council is a deliberate act - union membership is required, but there’s not automatism. None of this limits the ability of each union members or employee to negotiate pay rates.

On the employers side, you optionally (+++) can negotiate (or join a pre-negotiated) Tarifvertrag which covers topics such as pay grades, work time etc. There’s for example the TvÖD (Tarifvetrag öffentlicher Dienst) which covers all employees of the state/local governments, teachers etc. There‘s the option to join a Arbeitgeberverband (employers union), which then can negotiate that contract with the unions, so that the employers side gets a better negotiating position. A Tarifvertrag can be declared as „allgemeingültig“ which means that it covers all employees in a certain sector and the employer must conform to it, whether they like it or not.

But even the Tarifvertrag only sets a minimum bar - every employee can negotiate better rates. Whether that succeeds is a question of its own - for example teachers usually can‘t negotiate a higher salary since their individual negotiating power against the state is veeeery limited. But that’s not a legal requirement or limit - übertariflich (above Tarif) is a common word found in job descriptions where the employees have more leverage.

That said, there’s still problem you can have in unions - nepotism, people using a union job to slack off, protecting employees that should be fired are things that happen. But those happen in every power structure - I’ve seen the same thing happen where „favorite“ employees have been shielded by their boss from negative consequences. So that’s a fairly unspecific point to hold against unions - at least the representatives are elected by the workers and egregious examples are usually purged sooner or later.

(+) for example legal advice and also legal services - my mother fought their employer over employment-related matters and the union sent their lawyer.

(++) only unions are allowed to organize a strike https://www.personalwissen.de/arbeitsrecht/mitbestimmung/gew...

(+++) optionally can include „my workers forced me by striking“
I think this is where we use meta tags.

All pages with one click links should have no index follow or no index no follow. Your seo consultant (if you have one) should have advised you on this.

I am not saying this excuses the privacy violation but just suggesting there are things we can do...
I've been looking a lot into self-hosting recently. In my area, it seems that no LTE ISP will give you an suitable connection: they're all either behind a NAT, or behind a heavy firewall.

Now sure, I can rent a VPS to forward traffic to my device via a VPN. But that's not really self-hosted any more.

It seems a decentralised internet is becoming harder and harder with each passing day -- hosting stuff on an rpi at home is no longer possible.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with a software project being run like a church. Don’t know what the legal situation is.

How common are those views in question tough? I’d say about 9/10 Christians I know from Europe and Latin America would find several of these points too extreme. But yes, that leaves probably still more people than lisp devs …
I can not relate to this. I found my first real job after university in a medium sized company (100-200 employees). This company is a truly in-office company by heart. Before covid everybody had to go to the office. Working from home was not an option. Not even for one day. The whole culture was built around the in-person work experience.

But due to covid everybody worked remote. So did I. I actually never met most of colleagues up until recently. But working remote was never an issue for me. On the contrary, my colleagues struggled with working remotely. I think thats because they are relatively old and never used messengers, mail, social media and co. to an extend as my generation (age <=25). I think that people that grew up in digital spheres are going to feel quite comfortable in a remote environment.
This is the kind of thing I think of 80% of movie rabbit holes people get into… Often the explanations are plain and unglamorous. But of course everyone is free to interpret what they want from the end result - just maybe not adscribe it to the creator’s original intent.
There's a vscode k8s language plugin that gives you autocomplete and tooltips when hovering over yaml keys, saves me a ton of time in situations like these.
When the church and the government are too tightly intertwined, religious freedom ceases to exist. They are separate and should remain separate.

In the United States, most Protestant churches are run by tithe (voluntary donation) and are not taxed at all (the Establishment Clause) or are paid as mandatory fee directly to the synagogue or local congregation. Most Protestant churches in the U.S. have seen declining membership and tithing, but that is not the fault of the government, and church tax is precisely the opposite of what Jesus and Paul laid out, as well as the allocation of tithes in Malachi.

In neither case should or can the government get involved.

Most churches in the U.S. are not megachurches. Most are much smaller. The abuses of a few shouldn't taint the whole concept.
In the README it says in a trolling way "should it have been a native app?" but actually it's not a bad concept at all.
The reason to use Electron is to not have to take care of app portability and also to limit the number of expensive C++ developers you need to hire.
That's also why doing a mobile website / Progressive Web App / Bundled Web App is a hack that makes sense, though the "right" way is to develop a native app with one or two additional developers (which is absurd, because then you have roadmaps that get out of sync between platforms).

Hardware is cheap, especially when you are not the one paying for it. Engineers are expensive for your company.
Yah, in a general area I think it would be fine. The TV in my grandfather’s van in the early 1990s was great from what little I remember of it. More of an issue when you’re crossing state lines on a 6 or 8 hour bus trip
Now go back 10 years and imagine trying to raise money for a startup that was entirely remote. Or being an employee that refuses to work under forced-commute conditions. The tech industry and VCs have always been extremely anti-remote, and still are.

I have a working theory for why this is, which also explains why tech companies hire unsustainably. But that’s a much longer post.
Listen to what they say during the daily team meeting, and occasionally ask by chat how they're doing. It's true that it has to be a bit more explicit, and it may be a bit slower, but it's far from impossible.
The behavior of most small animals is a good deal more stereotyped than it seems, and the experimental evidence shows they do have an inherent disposition to avoid this setup. Unless these devices become commonplace, there may be little pressure for them to adapt (this would not mean these devices would be pointless, as the main goal is to feed other species rather than cut off food from the sparrows.)
> Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes.

They're not VMs, they're containers. And it already supports accessing the host filesystem, see the `--volume` flag.
That's one of the ongoing theories as to why Moby Dick was so long ... not merely to accentuate the 99.99% bordedom of whaling (with the 0.01% of "excitement"), but because he'd get paid better if it were longer

Having read the "Great Illustrated Classics" edition of Moby Dick as a kid, and watched the Gregory Peck film, I can confidently assert I NEVER want to read the whole thing.

Even those "condensed" versions had enormous swaths of nothing in them!
I would bet that by porting a x86 emulator to electron it actually runs on _less_ platforms than native x86 emulators. I mean, emulators are practically one of the most ported software and as a consequence one of the most portable software overall.
"I find it difficult to watch action movies these days, with camera cuts every second and thirty seconds per scene."

You know that dream most people have had, where they're running down the hallway that never ends, or running away from something they can't escape, or swimming up through endless water, or any of a dozen variations on the theme of reality no longer being composed of length and distance and height but instead being just a geometrically featureless abstraction of whatever experiential idea is currently stuck in your head?

Modern Hollywood action feels like that to me. There's no geography. Nothing changes because no matter how hard you punch the superheros (whether or not this is formally a superhero movie) they don't even so much as get their hair mussed. Things break and fall down, people get flung into concrete walls and break the concrete walls and pop back up so often it has lost all impact, you can't get your bearings on anything, you can't figure out where things are, nobody's winning or losing, it's not in any particular place, it's just never ending inescapable abstraction of fighting ideation, until the director or writer just decides it's over for basically no reason and we go on to the next thing, no different than a nightmare finally breaking not because you got away from the thing (you can't, it's in your head with you) but just because it is later.

Modern Hollywood action feels like that sort of nightmare you can't escape from for me... not the one that has you waking up drenched in sweat and terror, not the night terror nightmare, but the nightmare that drones on and on and doesn't let you go and makes no particular sense and you just can't get out of, with no real place or concrete events or anything else to hook your attention on to and break out of the loop.

Needless to say, I'm not particularly excited about throwing my money at them to produce this feeling in me.

(The last fight I really remember was the last on in Serenity. It sure isn't an action extravaganza like a Marvel movie, but that fight impacts everything and everybody. As Malcolm Reynolds hobbles away from that confrontation, there is no question. Something has happened. It happened in a place, and there was a sequence of events, that followed logic and biology. Events logically led up to it and consequences radiated out from it. Serenity isn't the greatest action movie in history or anything, the fight in the bar of the same movie also feels like the nightmare I describe above, it's just the last scene is the last fight I remember that impacted me.)
We sort of waltzed around that one with PV's on EBS on Amazon and also shifted the control plane to them. But there are still some serious problems in that space.