One person ignoring the statistics offered by another to roll in the manure of their own smugness.

These drugs already exist. But they have a bunch of side effects.

Rebound effects from thinking you can eat more because of the drugs and fat stool are the most obvious ones.

Yeah, that’s bullshit.

Poverty isn’t exactly helping, but there are more than enough people with enough resources and excessive body weight.

In the US, ¾ of the population is overweight, are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?

I used to be fat. It’s not a monetary issue. In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money.

Just ask anyone with gallbladder problems…

I mean, that sometimes did happen.

Germany propped up the Commerzbank after 2007 by essentially buying a large part of it, and managed to sell several tranches with a healthy profit.

Same is true for Lufthansa during COVID.

The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don’t see the value of a feature, they won’t merge it.

If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you’ll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.

What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.

Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.

All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.

If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.

“Even deader internet theory”.

Even in “traditional” Industries it’s iffy.

If you outsource all your cleaning personnel, who have low paying jobs, you decrease the multiplier, even though nothing actually changed for the better.

And that’s actually part of the problem: your title doesn’t mean anything.

Not that you’re not leading, but what “lead” or “senior” actually means is completely arbitrary.

In one project I’m lead in, I wrote maybe 5 lines of actual code, because I was in meetings, wrote documentation, did release management (well, I wrote pipelines here, but that’s like 200 lines), etc. The actual leg work was done by 4 or five other guys.

But in another project, I’m lead of myself and another bloke, of course I’m writing code in that one.

So it’s completely possible to have a bunch of guys with the “developer” tag on their title, but they’re not doing much developing.

Actually watch the video, you’re way too generous in your analysis.

The metric is essentially lines of code. That’s it.

So everyone who isn’t hacking away ultra verbose code is considered useless. Lead devs and architects often don’t write any code at all. They’re not unproductive.

Statistically speaking, a few of them definitely fucked up at some point and accidentally did the right thing. Or committed suicide.

If you want to get all philosophical (which is probably a bit too far, it’s George Lucas after all), you could make the argument that the downfall of the Republic is an example of a complacent, non-responsive governmental elite failing to react or even just recognize obvious problems.

The Jedi are just warrior monks and symptomatic for that. They didn’t bring her with them, because they don’t care about people that much. They are above the population and act more like demigods.

You’re giving them way too much credit. These companies sell the illusion of success. It’s in their interest to only find just as many false positives to seem like they have it under control. They make money from these false positives, after all.

Usable quantum computers are just around the corner, just as nuclear fusion and world peace.

It would be really great to have some “Python layer” on top of Rust.

My current work is mostly data mangling web services (Java/Spring Boot) and there’s simply no way I could convince anyone (including myself) that Rust is a viable alternative in terms of development speed.

Depends. Did you talk them into suicidal ideation beforehand?

It’s just a question of time. Every platform will devolve into either obscurity or cesspool.