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This is my personal experience: I've seen multiple emails from management about handling AI properly - it hasn't improved the situation. Those people don't hear and my org still so…

> Developers are - on average - terrible at this. If they weren't, TPMs, Product Managers, CTOs, none of them would need to exist. This is not really true, in fact products become …

I work for a very big US company. My team (10 people) has something like 4 PMs and every task is essentially priority 0. They're coming up with a new way to split tasks that seems …

I don't think the dependency from Whatsapp (it's arguable other apps are "better" or not and on which axis) is critical. WA has alternatives (up to "no app at all" thanks to RCS). …

Not bizarre at all. Many EU countries mobile users have "prepaid" SIMs. Whatsapp came at the perfect moment - mobile operators were starting to offer decently priced data plans but…

And i want to use hibernation, as I don't mind putting my disk encryption passphrase once a day as the price of not risking having my laptop with a completely drained battery on Mo…

I worked in finance on the other side of the pond - developers wanted to constantly bring in and use new services but also didn't want any of the responsibility or the work needed …

They should be funded by the companies using them. Do you believe any of the fortune top100 would be greatly impacted by funding libxml2? They probably all rely on it, one way or t…

Exactly how openssl was (is?) when heartbleed happened. It's nothing new sadly, there are memes about the "unknown oss passion project" holding up the entire stack all over the int…

Isn't this intuitively true? Building a nuclear power plant incurs in a massive set up stage with a lot of unknowns unknowns and requiring impressive material engineering and QC. S…

Suddenly? That's the level of quality that is standard in all software projects I've ever seen since I've started working in IT. Enshittification is all around us and is unstoppabl…

I have plenty of hard disagreements on the "user experience improvements" in Linux. "Adding a skin" is not easy and making the experience somewhat coherent is extremely hard (GNOME…

The last rewrite I've seen completed (which was justified to a point as the previous system had some massive issues) took 3 years and burned down practically an entire org (multipl…

This is what home automation was supposed to be. You shouldn't be looking at it, it should just help you silently and reduce the amount of things you have to care about. Turning li…

As a non-blind user, the title expresses my feelings too. And I feel like it's getting worse over time, not better. From little things to kernel lockdown breaking hibernate on a fu…

In my country you pay for school lunches as a local tax (and assistance is available for low income families). Children are always fed. Parents are the ones with the debts and the …

In one of the movies it's actually explained the machines originally created an utopia for humanity, but it was bad for "engagement" and "retention" and they had to pivot on the ni…

IIRC eBPF and DTrace are (no longer) solving a similar problem, eBPF has become far bigger than just tracing, it's now a way to have user space code "driving" kernel decisions. I'm…

> Every minute you spend doing on-call work is time that you can't spend on the things you've actually been assigned to do. In my experience at least if you're oncall during a spri…

I guess what you are saying is the problem is the company culture - from a technical operations point of view at least - sucks. An no one wants or can put the effort into fixing it…

The fact boot codes displays are getting pushed to always more expensive motherboards - and there is no standard way to get them otherwise - drives me crazy.

You can somewhat reliably evaluate what works and what does not, what brings you forward and what is slack you can cut. It takes time (6-12 months at least) of very engaged work of…

> But it's not the case that EU nations and Canada sent their soldiers to die in Iraq They did, not all of them but many did. On Canada I may be wrong, sure. I believe even Ukraine…

There was effectively uniform foreign policy between the US and its allies for the last thirty years, even under the first Trump presidency, and this included at least a certain de…

The NATO treaty doesn't imply in his wording any obligation for a military reaction to an invasion of a member of NATO. There's no penalty to just respond with a strongly worded le…