That is …

Surprisingly deep.

What is the battery situation like?

The older, cheaper devices are obviously, well, older and thus the battery degraded a bit. Linux isn’t exactly optimized for these things either. I would expect less than great battery life.

That’s not really how black holes work. They evaporate really quickly when they’re small enough. And if they’re small, they don’t have much gravity either.

Why not just recommend adblockers? No ads, no revenue, no matter how much tracking.

I mean, what else are we doing?

Science is just structured failing forward with a protocol.

Even that is pretty temporary.

If you build a house, there’s a good chance, it will survive for decades or even centuries. The house I currently live in survived two world wars and heavy bombardment in one of them. I don’t think any software will manage that.

I think we (as an industry) need to be honest to ourselves and admit that pretty much everything we’re building is temporary. And not in a philosophical sense. 90% of the code I wrote in my about 10 years of professional work is probably gone by now - sometimes replaced by myself. In another ten years, chances are not a single line of code will have survived.

Also just being liked by the interviewer. For my current job I had an interview of about 90min, and basically just had a rather one-sided chat with the two guys. They seemed to like me, just let me talk and the next day I had the contract draft in my email.

I certainly did not excel at anything during the interview.

And most importantly for me personally: they seem to disregard people using multiple windows.

I rarely work in one window, and having a large screen for only one app is pretty stupid.

Gnome feels like it’s intended for small screen devices like tablets.

Yeah, it’s a budget Wurstbrot, but perfectly serviceable.

Follow up question: do you need to feed one blended billionaire to one unblended billionaire, or would it be sufficient to feed just a certain percentage?

For most of the practical use cases, a mechanism to somehow link to your own instance would be enough.

I often stumble upon links to other instances, but from there, there’s no direct way to interact via my own instance. I have to awkwardly copy URL parts around or search the post in my own instances UI.

These patches do offer some benefits for cloud providers or in general orgs that host a bunch of different products on potentially the same machine.

I could see benefits in them, especially if the v3 or whatever addresses some of the issues.

There’s a really annoying subgroup of developers who are convinced that typing itself magically produces good code and the only bottleneck in their productivity is how fast they can smash keys.

These are the ones who are hellbent on not using anything graphical, a mouse or any tool they deem too advanced.

It’s super annoying, especially since they often spend more time “optimizing” their setup than actually working, and even more time talking about how efficient they are.

You didn’t get the joke, did you?

More than a surface level understanding is not necessary. The level of detail in the meme is sufficient for 99,9% of jobs.

No, that’s not all just accounting, it’s pretty much everyone who isn’t working on very low level libraries.

What in turn is important for all sorts of things is knowing how irrelevant most things are for most cases. Bit level is not important, if you’re operating 20 layers above it, just as business logic details are not important if you’re optimizing a general math library.

I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

I already thought about that, but never really could justify switching.

I would argue, though, that it’s not customization, but rather packages themselves changing over time and sometimes just break.

And sometimes you have crap like a full boot partition, because apt decided to keep all Linux versions for some reason.

The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It’s gotten much much better, but it’s still not good.

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.