C++ is… I got nothing.

Sure, if we didn’t have the need to procreate or the need for a life companion, the computer would be the perfect partner.

But since we are not machines quite yet…

The majority of 25 year olds I know would not mind being with an 18 year old. Why pretend it’s not like that?

Calling the 18 year olds children is just trying to make it sound like it wouldnt matter of they are 14 or 18. It matters very much to any normal person.

If you don’t believe me, ask any 18 year old girl who wears tight clothes, what age are the guys looking at her body when she walks around? And then you don’t have to trust me.

It’s biology, you can’t change that with political correctness…

Samsung phones are full of adware and shit. No accident they are “chosen” as top phones by reviewing websites.

Consumers don’t get the best phones in those reviews. They are paid for.

I knew I would get opposing views here :)

There are many ways to do it, but I think everyone should make their own at home. It’s super tasty and quick.

I’m super disappointed also in what these burger chains offer. All of them have small shitty burgers full of sugar.

Started making my own burgers. It takes 10 minutes! Mix meat and a bit of salt and pepper and make the pieces really thin. Fry in pan. It’s delicious.

Fast food is disgustingly expensive for the amount of food you get too. Their drinks are ultra cheap sugar water, and even that they are thinking of limiting.

I agree with you, and that is a hellish environment to work in.

There must be a better middle ground for all of this.

Yeah I’ve seen it before. It’s a very good reminder for everyone to keep in mind isn’t it. :)

Yeah it’s insane. But of course if scaling different parts of the application, I guess micro services are the way to do it. But otherwise one could scale the entire app by just putting more of the entire app on servers. No need for micro services. It just needs to be written to be able to listen to message queues and you can have any number of app instances.

It’s absolutely slower. There is no way to make a network request faster than a function call. It’s slower by probably thousands of times.

Because they give them nice titles, and young devs want the status of the title. :)

I tried being a manager but I hated everything about it. The dishonesty, the politics, the useless meetings.

I’m back in a development role now and I’m super happy and excited to start the day. Almost no meetings!

Yeah I agree. With experience you know where to use it and where it really shines, and when not to use it because it will just make everything harder to reason about.

But a lot of devs are not that experienced when they make these decisions. All of us learn from mistakes, and those mistakes stay in the code base. :)

Yes but in practice, companies don’t want to replace their entire tech stacks, and specially if it’s a large company. It costs an enormous amount of money (because of the time and effort it takes) and means the entire company has to relearn how to work with that stack instead.

It’s not impossible and it can happen, but in my experience from working at probably 20 companies now, there is almost always a strong resistence to change.

People don’t even change their default search engine or browser most of the time.

I don’t think people have a choice. If you join a company where they use kubernetes, you have to use that technology for everything. You can’t escape the complexity even if you just want to make a simple program. It still needs to run in kubernetes.

Problem is that companies are using them for all scenarios. It’s often their entire tech stack now, with kubernetes.

It’s similar to the object oriented hype that came before it, where developers had to write all their programs in a way so they could be extended and prepared for any future changes.

Everything became complex and difficult to work with. And almost none of those programs were ever extended in any significant way where object oriented design made it easier. On the contrary, it made it far more difficult to understand the program since you had to know which method was called in which object due to polymorphism when you looked at the code. You had to jump around like crazy to see what code was actually running.

Now with kubernetes, it’s all about making the programs easier to scale and easier to develop for the developers, but it shifts the complexity to the infrastructure needed to support the networking requirements.

All these programs now need to talk over the network instead of simply communicating in the same process. And with that you have to think about failure scenarios, out of order communication, missing messages, separate databases and data storage for different services etc.

I worked in places like this and I’m not going back unless consulting prices go back up again… The pain is real.

Yup can confirm. Leased a new car six month ago. Wanted to get an electric, but the downsides of electric cars just didn’t make sense. Much more expensive, and worse in winter. Cheaper to charge, but not at all enough to make up the huge extra cost.

When the Chinese make a cheap ev that is better than fuel cars, it’s going to become more profitable than Tesla.

Very happy im alive before AI turns all life into algorithms for profits.

Yeah I was also on Gmail when it was new, but it became appearent that Google was a bad actor many years ago. So I’ve been on fastmail for like 5 years now. It’s never been down. And it’s always very fast, and has many features Google doesn’t have at all. They do care about privacy but since it’s hosted in Australia which is part of the 5 eyes pact, all data is shared with the NSA. To me it’s OK. I just want my email to be in a better place than Google.

But yeah I would also self host it if I could. I have a proxmox cluster with tons of virtual machines at home, running nomad to schedule jobs on them. I have pihole as a dns server so i get a lot of tracking protection just from that.

And you think it will be easier to change if you wait a few more years? :)

Create a new account and set up email forwarding and that’s a start.