I mean, what else are we doing?

Science is just structured failing forward with a protocol.

You can dream of being a capo in the corporate work camps!

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.

That is not the point here, though.

Boeing fucked up in multiple, unrelated ways over more than a decade, killing hundreds of people. That is definitely worth reporting.

You’re disengaging a lot then.

See, maybe if everyone you meet is an asshole, that could say something about you as well.

Does that attitude work for you? In general, I mean. Doesn’t seem very effective.

It’s the maximum amount of respect you can’t expect for posting nonsense.

Why on earth do you think something keeps working just because it survived the warranty period? That doesn’t make any sense.

Read that statement again and ask yourself, if it really makes sense .

It’s still there, though.

And since it’s usually one integrated board, a failure in the “bullshit” will likely affect the not-shit.

Even then you still have a bunch of cheap hardware crammed into an insufficiently ventilated box that will lead to problems down the line.

My TV is 15 years old, not very smart, thick as oatmeal, but works like a charm.

And even more basic: renewables are consistently cheaper.

It’s not really rocket science that adding a costly postprocessing to an already more expensive solution makes that solution even morer expensiver.

That’ll show him!

Asking obviously doesn’t hurt, but usually the laptops aren’t even technically property of the company but leased and given back after some years.

And even if your company actually owns the laptops, there’s likely a bureaucratic nightmare lurking because a laptop with potentially critical information on it is missing.

I know of a company where the IT guy “accidentally” sent a mail to everyone that the old hardware is sitting in a hallway waiting for the recycler.

Cattle cars, obviously.

In all of these countries the moderate parties failed the people.

Globally, there was a slow redistribution away from the middle and working class since the 70s. Moderate parties were complacent or compliant, they got a few vanity projects in place, but overall just administered the status quo.

Now we’re at a point where the theft of wealth reached a level that seriously threatens the livelihoods of ordinary people. I can’t speak for other countries, but Germany is simultaneously grinding to a halt and falling apart. It’s scary.

The left has no answers, unfortunately. They’re busy with identity politics and academic debates and nothing. Trans issues for example are in themselves important, but if you’re a worker who doesn’t know how to pay rent, a left party that puts trans issues at the top of their priorities isn’t exactly super appealing.

The moderates failed at preventing the downfall. The lefties are busy addressing niche issues and ignoring issues that don’t fit their view.

The alternative is a far right that doesn’t even hide behind nice words, just hate hate hate. And even though their program would fuck most of their voters, hate prevails.

change my mind!

It’s not social media, it’s media.

Social media are somewhat faster, but if you watch TV or read news here in Germany, the discussions there and reality on the have almost zero connection. We’re discussing completely absurd proposals to deport refugees, while most people are much more afraid of their landlords or can’t get a doctor’s appointment.

The media completely fails at questioning power. They’re just repeating what politicians say or demand, knowing that 90% of that is straight up against the constitution.

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.

Germany (or more specifically, Berlin) lost potentially hundreds of covid cases during the height of the pandemic because the fax ran out of paper.

Again, how many people does that affect in relation to food delivery?

Hardly any of your statements make any sense. Are you honestly suggesting that people order food specifically to maintain their medications schedule for medication that has to be taken with food? Really?

Do you really for real think that all these people are physically unable to have, well, a fridge? That’s absurd.

You’re trying to justify being drunk. Maybe that’s why you’re so angry.