iamtherealwalrus

@iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world
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Do we, as an industry, have such short attention span, that we forgot how Microsoft abused their monopoly in the 1990s to force everyone to use Internet Explorer? Now that Google is doing the exact same thing, nobody seems to mind.

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Did you even bother to read the article?

Luckily, the creators of the NERV App, Gehirn Inc, have created an app-based alternative for users to get information in real-time, as well as running a Mastodon account

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Incorrect. https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/ states IP addresses are personal data.

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The question is, what alternative are we going to have, if all auto makers start doing this?

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You don't own a phone?

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I started dating at age 30, met my wife when I was 35 and we're still married now 8 years later. My father-in-law met his girlfriend when he was 50 and they're still together now 15 years later.

Newsflash: Not everyone is a teenager on lemmy, many of us have spouses and children.

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On all the agile projects I've worked on, the teams have been very reluctant to make a specification in place before starting development. Often claiming that we can't know the requirements up-front, because we're agile.

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It's called the free market where your can purchase and sell goods as you wish, within the applicable laws.

BBC article states "Italian MPs have voted to back a law banning the production, sale or import of cultivated meat or animal feed, in what the right-wing government calls a defence of Italian tradition."

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My wife is still playing this, going on 4 years.

Also Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

The same could be said about a lot of sources of income. It's subjective what is considered a job.

After trying Linux repeatedly for some 20 years and always returning to Windows for various reasons, Pop! OS finally seems like a Linux distribution I can use as a daily driver. The amount of useful and concise documentation is great, my hardware is all supported and automatically configured, i.e. I don't have to mess around with obscure config files to get either audio or wifi working, it works on first boot.

Earlier, multiple sources had indicated that Xbox is looking to foray into third party development, with ports of several first party titles rumored to arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2

So I guess they know more about the next Switch console than the rest of us.

Yes Europe is mostly manual. You pay a heavy premium to get a car with automatic transmission. Anecdotally, I bought a Skoda ~5 years ago and had to pay ~20% more for automatic transmission than manual.

Please don't give them ideas.

Content quality is very subjective, as in that's just your opinion. Other players may think it's good.

I started developing software professionally, i.e. for a salary, about 20 years ago. I didn't have any education beyond high school. Today I'm a freelance software consultant, currently working for a central bank in Europe. You know how I got here? By studying. Learning to use SQL, C#, PowerShell, bash, JSON, etc. I never learned computer algorithms and to this day I can't write an efficient quick sort in either language. Along the way I learned the value of human interactions and efficient communication, vital to a freelance consultant wanting to be successful. Now my peers would tell you I write clean, efficient, readable, working code. My managers would say I deliver value and play well with others.

My point is it's not about your theoretical knowledge about CS or The Art of Computer Programming, it's about delivering tangible value to your employer.

If you have been gaining experience in the IT industry as a developer and have good hands-on experience on various issues that appear in any kind of application then you should consider moving higher in the corporate hierarchy.

Or, you know, keep doing what your enjoy and stay a developer.

I've seen this quote repeated over and over these past few weeks, while noone brothers to actually explain what it means and why. This article is no different unfortunately.

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Running Visual Studio in a VM? No thanks, it is heavy enough as it is. And don't say use VS Code or Rider. Saying "Just use some other software, so you can use Linux" defeats the entire argument that Linux can be used in place of Windows.

Discord with virtual backgrounds for video calls? Yeah that's not supported on Linux.

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Powerline networking is often limited by the fact that a lot of houses/apartments have multiple circuits and circuit brakes are the nemesis of powerline networking.

Try reporting the post instead.

How is this relevant to the article?

The article states the layoffs will affect the UK division and EU division, I am assuming you are basing your statement on US laws. https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/notice-periods states that you will get paid for X number of weeks depending on how long you have been in your job.

So convience over privacy, got it. That is pretty much what made Facebook rise to fame.

Was about to say, the article quotes numbers around layoffs worldwide and then continues to discuss US only companies. Even though Wired thinks the US is the only country in the world with tech companies, the majority of the world's population doesn't live or work in the US.

I develop C# on Linux, but I run the full VS inside of a Windows 10 VM.

For most games. Tried Witcher 2 on Linux a few months ago, what an unstable mess.

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Article is from 2016

That's fine. But it crashes constantly on Linux, rarely on Windows. Point being that not all games run fine on Linux.

Its not till you get to what would be a very large SUV in Europe do you start to get to the £1k+ mark per month, or what the US would call a mid sized SUV

Driving a Mercedes EQB and paying ~£600 per month, due to banks here in Denmark making low interest car loans on EVs.

Let me know when you get Witcher 2 to run on Linux. With some tinkering and magic settings, it can run. But it crashes so often it is bordering unplayable, using several different versions of Proton in Steam and Pop! Os.

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Welcome to Europe, where we get 1gbps fiber at reasonable prices. Here in Denmark it is available at ~$30/month for example. Because the same fiber infrastructure is accessible by many different ISPs to offer to consumers.

Here in Denmark we get 100% from wind some days, yet we still get gauged on those days.

My first thought is you need to buy new network equipment to utilize 10 gbit and new ethernet cables.

Sea of Thieves. Revisiting it after several years of not playing it, and finding it just as much fun now as it uses to be.

Since the "new" version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

Missing perhaps the most important skill: Human to human communication, allowing you to:

  • Discover the real requirements for your task by talking to the end user/stakeholder.
  • Be able to propose and discuss alternatives to the requested solution, after you learn the real requirements.
  • Clearly and timely communicate obstacles that occur during any phase in the project.

I suspect it is missing because most developers, myself included, dislike human communication. We like computers because they give us honest and logical answers.