Yes, but also cartel behavior. Those same 3 manufacturers have been found guilty of it in the past, and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they were fixing prices again now. See this video by Gamers Nexus.

This is the way

Developers have high workloads and managers are remarkably oblivious to sloppy work.

Yeah in all the libraries I’ve been to the standard policy is usually no food, no drinks except water. Maybe it’s the soda lobby which wouldn’t tolerate discrimination between water and soda?

My guess is they’ll ship them off to Israel as soon as consequences are a real possibility. People accused of pedophilia often do the same thing and get away with it.

More specifically late-stage capitalism. This is a classic example of rent-seeking by a capitalist who has cornered a market.

Now that’s class solidarity!

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

The police works in part at the behest of that senator, he deserves all of the blame.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

Yes, 100%, the Democrats should have been taking turns disrupting until thrown out. Fuck respect for these institutions, it’s not like the Republicans are showing them any respect for institutions, with their executive branch constantly breaking laws.

Given she freely admitted to shooting a puppy, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was her.

Nah, just a TI-84 and teach them programming in BASIC

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There’s this famous quote about investing which goes: “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”. I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can’t be replaced by AI, doesn’t mean there won’t be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.

I guess if you have an outspoken leftist like Sam Seder in your cast, you must maintain balance with a PoS like this guy.

Yeah, and all because god forbid you give your (future) employees time to learn another language besides JavaScript. Nope, line must go up so programming must be further commodified.

I think this is mostly a symptom of the gerontocracy. Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them. Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best. I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won’t work on them. Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.

Imagine going in for a new OS and getting Windows 11 😬 Must be like getting hospitalized and catching MRSA

Seems like it’s mostly error handling, which makes total sense to me. In a function with a lot of error conditions, where it also takes more than return <nonzero value> to report that error, the code would get very cluttered if you handle the errors inline. Using goto in that case makes the normal case shorter and more readable, and if proper labels are used, it also becomes clear what happens in each error case.

Sure, you can do that with functions too, but it’s much nicer staying in the same scope where the error occurred when reporting on it. Putting things in a function means thinking about what to pass, and presents extra resistance when you want to report extra info, because you have to change the function signature, etc.

What? Why the hate on vinyl? It’s not practical, nor is it anywhere near the sound quality available on services like Tidal or Bandcamp, but that’s not the point.

It’s a physical, irrevocable copy, in a world where everything is becoming a service which gets revoked when you stop paying. Sure, there’s some consumerism in there as well, but I doubt some plastic discs are going to make a dent compared to the millions of tons of clothing being produced by Shein, just to go straight into the garbage.