"Would you like to try the digestive tract remapping first? It's a lot less invasive, but, if it doesn't work you'll be depressed the entire time you're making a mess of yourself."
Today is the day that florianwueest learns that "spoken language" is actually a really controversial topic lol
Seriously though, I bet finishing up this project felt great, then posting it to HackerNews was a huge dopamine rush, and now... everybody's just pointing out issues left and right because they accidentally stepped on a dozen
landmines that are irrelevant in day-to-day life for 99% of us but entirely relevant when you post to an audience of millions.
It's really not a big leap, though. People who are afraid of violating a code of conduct because they're "under the watch of language police" are basically experiencing a form of anxiety that may or may not have a basis in reality.
Being afraid of being sent to the HR DEI board because you named a process 'Child1' then ran Kill(Child1) ... or any less obvious scenario similar to that ... is not going to do great things to your ability to work.
"Oh, THEY are policing my language. THEY are watching everything I say!"
You're reading the idea of language policing as some actual thing, like people are hanging over someone watching every word they say. It certainly might be true in some offices or with some coworkers, but, I'm pretty sure feeling that your every word is policed is closer to a form of anxiety than an actual problem in most offices.
Or, your coworkers are basically bullying you over minor nitpicks, which will keep you in a state of mild anxiety.
Either way, having to monitor your every word is definitely closer to being anxious than not, and is definitely going to have some impact on your performance.
> You're reading the idea of language policing as some actual thing, like people are hanging over someone watching every word they say.
I’m not sure where you got that impression. I didn’t say anything like that anywhere. You’re just making assumptions in service to what appears to be some axe grinding.
the point here being: the perception of being surveilled by "language police" on its own is either anxiety inducing or the result of an existing anxious disposition.
The actual act of "language policing" is also going to induce or worsen an existing anxious disposition.
The best programmers I've worked with swore at their coworkers regularly, but never in their code.
They were not great people, and I'd happily kick them in the face if I would encounter no legal or professional repercussions, but, there definitely does seem to be some correlation (in my experience) between being abrasive and being a skilled programmer.
Swore at or swore while talking to? There's quite a big difference. I don't see profanity as inherently abrasive, and some of the biggest dickheads I've met in workplaces didn't swear much at all (some were of the Professor Umbridge type, so kept up an air of perfect professionalism)
literally right there in the comment. "swore at regularly".
Anyways, I definitely agree that swearing isn't the same as abrasive, but swearing at people is definitely an abrasive trait. Also agree that some of the biggest dickheads around keep up an air of professionalism.
RIP. Likely the Platonic Ideal of an abrasive programmer.
I'd put mid 00s Linus Torvalds as the apotheosis. Despite being an incredibly abrasive person, he has left a mark on history.
no, no, and no. Lets see if we can petition Microsoft to add them, and then we'll see if Win2000 still runs decently fast on a P4 with 4gb of ram.
My guess is: yes, it will.
Somehow, in the past 15 years, "progress" seems to include "software keeps getting noticeably worse, but anyone pointing this out has to be shot down because progress."
There's been a problem of lateral rather than forward progress in nearly all industries since the early 2000s. Lateral progress being a different way to do the same exact thing (a doorknob versus a lever latch for example), and forward progress being a new way to do a similar thing but in a much more efficient and modular way.
It's been bothering me for some time ever since I noticed it with the advent of IoT "smart" devices that have the same features as traditional appliances for twice the cost and technical debt. My washing machine still washes clothes and turns itself off, but now I need to set the wash type using my phone because lateral progress dictates a physical interface on the device itself is obsolete.
Ah, there's another question, I'm running 32GB of RAM currently on this machine and 64GB at home. How well does Windows 2000 support >4GB RAM or SMP? Does it come with a good hypervisor? I do like running a lot of VMs in Hyper-V as well.
Sure sounds like there's a ton of gaps in things I really want out of my operating system on Windows 2000...
Does the switch to 64 bit slow things down enough to explain what happened between Windows 2000 and XP?
Does the operating system have to support virtual machines? Seems easy enough to install vmware then run operating systems inside it for most use cases.
I mean, you can keep 'what if'ing me here, but, is it really worth having all the features that you, clearly as a power user or professional, use installed on every computer everywhere? No. No it really doesn't. It's bloat.
> Seems easy enough to install vmware then run operating systems inside it for most use cases.
That's a way different experience than running Hyper-V.
> is it really worth having all the features that you, clearly as a power user or professional, use installed on every computer everywhere? No. No it really doesn't. It's bloat.
I also didn't realize that managing WiFi networks or using display scaling are things only power users and professionals would want on their machines. I guess supporting Bluetooth natively in the OS and a modern sound stack is just bloat for most people.
so, I can't reply to your latest message because it's too far down but...
Let me just hop on my wifi and browse the web. Lets do it on a computer from 1999. 2000. 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008... etc, etc.
Why is it that every couple years from 2012 onwards, doing the same thing keeps taking longer, even with new hardware, without the same revolutions in quality and experience that came with that new software previously?
...
you completely missed the relevant part with the "1999" part. The relevant part is the "2012" part.
Things used to get better, do more, and faster.
The last 15 years, the "do more" part has been less and less useful, and the "faster" part has turned into "slower" in a number of ways.
Software engineers are relying on an increase in hardware performance to pick up their slack, and that line is running out quickly, and there will be many years ahead where we're cleaning up over a decade of laziness.
I bought a newer PC because my older one from 2012 legit wasn't fast enough for what I wanted to do. It couldn't handle the VR applications I wanted to run, as its PCIe and RAM performance just wouldn't be up to the task to run the resolutions, texture qualities, and latencies I wanted. The newer one is miles ahead of the older hardware, and the applications I use are significantly better because of it.
But even then, from the other perspective of continuing to run similar-ish workloads using newer software, a lot of the other things continue to run the same experience-wise with slightly better features than when the software was new. When I first built that 2012 machine I installed the then brand-new Windows 8 on it. These days its running Windows 10. From a UX perspective it definitely feels faster than the OS it shipped with. Things like the new Terminal app are way better functionally than the old cmd.exe that used to be on it. I do demand more still from using VSCode with more plugins and what not than before while previously I used things like PyCharm more. I videochat, watch more streaming content on it than when I first had it, and it consumes far more animated GIFs and what not than it used to.
But in the end even with software supposedly getting more bloated and what not, its at least as snappy if not more than it was when it was brand new in 2012, other than the fact there's a whole new class of application I demand from my hardware.
So yeah, even today things are still getting better, doing more, and getting faster. Its not the extreme doubling or quadrupling of stuff like the 80s and 90s where things literally went from only text interfaces to GUIs to 3D apps, but there's still bleeding edge stuff that legit just takes more oomph than a box from 2012.
Well, with Canada giving billions of dollars to whoever asks (or threatens to stop construction, after finishing 10% of a project) for it, it's not much of a surprise.
And once that hardware is selected for a given range of vehicles, it's literally impossible to change. Updates to some parts of the software stack are also basically impossible at a certain point.
ah, there is some regulatory oversight and there's awareness of the safety aspects.
Not much, but, there is some.
After working on infotainment, I'm doing my best to avoid purchasing a car with an infotainment system. I had to compromise and got a Civic with an infotainment system for my wife, but I'll probably stick to late 2000s, early 2010s for as long as I possibly can to avoid them. Seriously hate touchscreens, and there's just not enough value in an infotainment system for me to be OK with what I'm losing by having one.
