matis140

npr is always doing fun drives...they are annoying, but the content used to be worth a donation. they are still around. don't see why it wouldn't work for others. places like HBO already don't have an issue getting people to pay for their content, but are not freely available over the air either.

The main reasons I would like to see a tech unions and things I would want out of it:

1. assessment training and rank. my sister is in a union and has been train and qualified for specific kinds of work. she does this work for many clients and the chance that they are getting the skills they need and she has those skills are very high. she can also call in others from the union if needed and the union handles negotiations of changed whatever.

2. unions handles her seniority. she can work for several different companies a year, but time off and other benefits come from time in union not those companies.

There is a lot of other things about her union I do not like, but my biggest problems in tech are finding or developing the right talent (including my own) and constant loss of seniority (pto, retirement, and other benefits). I lost a lot of both early in my career because I didn't negotiate well.

If a union existed that helped protect my interests, develop my talents, and match my skills with work I would join it. If they were good at training/vetting their members (apprentice, journeyman, whatever) in whatever skill set they learned that would benefit both employee and employer. Might help with imposter syndrome. Might help both sides with many issues if done right.

Looking at extinction and new niches created like our happy little stickle back fish sees an advantage. The stickle back fish contains the genes of past versions fresh water adapted or salt water adapted. Maybe more (alkilin vs acidic vs high o2 or low 02)? These happen within a generation or few. I wish we were longer lived to see what happens. it seems like it would be very interesting to watch. I cannot imagine the stickleback is the only invertebrate carrying this genetic baggage. Watching the niches change and genetic variations of current creatures fill them would be very interesting.

I wish we had some form of stacis we could put ourselves in to observe what happens.

the left is just better at producing propaganda. do not forget most of our universities have become extreme left and the papers they write reflect this. It is not an accident the way money has corrupted research.

Seem to remember insurance sets pricing somehow not the doc/hospital? One of the reasons they don't have an answer to that question is it depends on what your insurance carrier negotiated with the care network the doctor is probably loosely affiliated with because it was required by whoever now controls the administration in the builsing they currently work...except more complicated and less direct with lots more opportunities for people to pad the price another few % for each layer of abstraction because abstraction is always free.

Another change, but one much harder to manage is that many of the products people buy today have no value left after 2-4 years and some both have no value after 2-4 years and do things degrading their performance forcing you to again purchase an expensive item that does nothing to build wealth. Vehicles, electronics, home appliances all sit at something like a max of 8-11 years of use and loose 30-50% of their value as soon as purchased. Now that we are making smart everything's I can see the life of home appliances dropping. Some of this is intentional. Some necessity. I have a refrigerator from the 70's that works great, but I know I could reduce my power bill by getting a more modern one, however I am worried that upgrading will land me with something more likely to fail. certainly not something that will run 50 years with no issues.

PG&E is much worse than a private company. It is the weird result of heavy government regulation on the wrong most ant-competitive ways + lots of lobbying. PG&E is not subject to any free markets. Cali for example has 3 of these companies each serving certain regions. When there was completion in the power market you had multiple companies inside cities all providing different kinds of service (AC, DC, varying volts/amps) in crazy ways that would result in most of our modern electronics getting baked. The standards were good. It is however also difficult to have free market power when your cities heavily regulate who can put up utility lines and where so poles don't get too ugly or loaded. There are a lit of reasons what we have is worse than private or completely public.

I would think it is a bit different. PG&E is not government and doesn't collect taxes. Those lines originally may have been public property, but I do not know if they still are? I know PG&E talked about burieing them a few years ago after a large fire caused by overloaded transmition lines in North Cali....too expensive. Pretty sure that math Will come out the same way again.

Anyway Gov collects plenty of money for infrastructure projects they would just rather funnel the money into their own pockets via war spending.

I do not think any of this is an internet age issue. Looking back the tobacco industry was able to suppress research about smoking for a couple decades back when journalism was more trusted and supposedly better vetted for grade a truth. They had lots of advertising targeting children, research about safety, propaganda about benefits of smoking and all presented through mainstream media.

Not entirely and I know Mozilla is in the process of doing this now. They could take some small portion of the original bit of the browser they are rewriting and put something technically interesting together instead of more opinions like this. One of the things they have to overcome has been stated above and that is that c and c++ have a lot of inertia. They are also still cool languages. This will take a lot more than opinion to overcome.

I have written a few small things in rust and explored crates.io and like the language and ecosystem. I am much less certain about the community surrounding the language, but it might just be that they are mostly younger people looking for safe places so they often feel unauthtically welcoming. It is a bit off putting.

Anyway I would just like to see something like here is a unit of the browser we replaces with rust servo. It took us 2 week to do this unit. before the rewrite this unit would crash or leak at some rate after the rewrite these have been reduced x amount where these would be numbers from the wild based off their metrics. They could Also throw in a couple bench marks over those code units for good measure, but i am certain Mozilla captures enough to probably put together something with interesting real world numbers.

I wonder about analysis tools for c/c++. I know those tools have come a long way. Is the problem the decades of time where those tools were proprietary or expensive or free/open and poor in quality where most of this code was written? Or do these tools actually fall short of their claims of memory safety and the only solution is a rewrite? Or I guess it can be like opening an old solution in visual studio seeing it has 100+ warnings or doesn't even build anymore with current tooling so changes go on the back burner because that small change turns into a few days of work because nobody has built it in the last 10 year's...

On the upside I was pretty sure this was going to be a Rust to the rescue opinion piece before I clicked on it. On the downside this is a Rust to the rescue opinion piece though it does also mention swift for memory safety so that is nice. Nothing against the language, but it has been around a few years and I would like to see something more concrete than opinions. Give me a write up about a vulnerability in the wild fixed with the new language.

Something new at any rate I see plenty of opinion piece espousing this or that new language PR reading points, but most fall into fluff.

I think our public education system is also to blame. We push kids down academic paths too often and many of those paths do not lead to professions that can sustain 45-80k debt after graduation. Too much easy credit is available driving up the price. Degrees are not properly valued. Degrees in social work should not cost the same as a degree in STEM because they are not worth the same. More kids should be going into trades like electricians, plumbers, and millwrites. Good careers that also pay through their apprenticeship programs and currently are looking for kids to train.

Not sure I entirely get what the problem is. I am happy with my distributions NOT including stuff I don't want. I develop on Linux and maintain servers. I do not want anything unnecessary on those machines by default because it makes some developers life easier because he doesn't need to read the doc or search a nebulous error message to get dependencies anymore?

I like the idea, but where we run into trouble is when the pm comes downstairs and says it looks wrong on his computer. He uses chrome. He rejects the story. Arguments about correct are moot. Everyone uses chrome is his trump card. The business perspective doesn't care about web standards.

as a side note i remember reading something about some patent trolls using money from suits to actually drive development of promising patents. i do not remember if this was optimism about their true intent or full bs...now i will have to go hunt that down.