This is far from my understanding. Changing out this signature scheme is hard work, but doesn't require a rewrite of the VM.

It doesn't seem like they are trying to figure out why two copies of outlook are installed, they're trying to figure out why neither is giving them access to their email.

Is there a technical write up where we can see how consensus works and what guarantees you have that the chain history can't be rewritten?

While they were being warned that his team spent 4 years planning on how to get rid of anyone who pushed back, and he wouldn't be hamstrung this time.

The people who thought 2.0 would be like 1.0 were simply choosing to beleive it despite all of the evidence suggesting otherwise.

You can write a lot of code when using Godot and mix that with capabilities provided by their editor.

You never have to use editor features, but can use them to avoid wasting time reinventing the wheel.

Your comment is like saying that game engines are used by people who don't care for programming and would rather make a call to handle physics interactions.

We also need decentralized identity so my identity can exist independently of service providers, but still be owned by me and not an impersonator.

I do wish my copy of 'The Dispossessed' was signed. That book is a masterpiece!

I don't see how the numbers support that claim.

What percentage of the population would you like to see made up of immigrants? Would you make immigration harder if the immigrant populating was above 1%?

If it got too high, would you start deporting people or forcing native people to have more children?

Is this a named concept that I can learn about?

This is disappointing.

Solana has a highly centralized validator set that will keep shrinking over time as the cost to run one out paces the rise in the SOL price.

This leads to it being very centralized.

Solana is also missing core cryptographic primitives like state receipts, meaning I can be easily tricked by a dishonest validator about whether my transaction happened.

Without a mempool, sending transactions is a nightmare during high network usage and my transaction can dissappear forever, or be executed multiple times.

Solana isn't even significantly cheaper than the alternatives anymore.

There are still budgets that constrain on how much you can achieve.

If Microsoft thinks using AI to add more AI features will be more profitable than increasing performance, the that's where they'll spend their budget.

Why do you assume that Microsoft would focus on building a better (to you) VSCode or less bloated Teams?

I assume they'd use Github Copilot to make a more profitable VSCode and Teams, which doesn't require focusing on speed and bloat.

Microsoft has forced differentiation, not stack ranking. They aren't the same and differentiation is much better for employees.

> The individual in question was definitely under pressure. I worked rather closely with them, and this is well documented in the source article as well

I'm sure you're feeling a lot of options due to your proximity, and I'm sorry for what you're going through.

The article says he was under pressure, but it didn't say the source of that pressure. Perhaps it was due to a series of "lower than expected" reviews, or the constant worry about losing their job and their visa. It didn't say that the pressure was caused by internal policies.

I've known many people who put pressure on themselves and burnt out because of it, despite no one expected them to do so. I suffered through that in my own career and nearly quit software engineering because of it.

If you have real details about the situation and that it was internal Microsoft policy or the pressure put in them by their manager which may not have aligned with Microsoft policy, that woukd be very useful information to share with the public.

Microsoft operates like many big companies vs a single company, and some teams go beyond standard Microsoft policy and have unrealistic expectations of their employees. Those departments and managers should be called out and shamed.