Yeah but in many cases often only after decades and still with a sizable final paycheck on departure. "Failing upwards" is a thing, and it happens far too often.

Yup, and the result is that GA has orders of magnitude worse accident rates.

> I saw a guy with nothing but a fan and a parachute just flying around the cliffs off Hwy 1. No license or certification needed.

In most of Europe, this just doesn't fly (pun intended), you need a license for almost all aeronautical activities, and on top of that a fair few countries (most notably Germany) only allow start and land from official airstrips.

> Shouldn't need a license to make React components, sorry.

Oh I'd say, yes, a license is a good idea, simply given how often developers put in stuff from marketing that violates laws. Forcing a license that can be revoked now gives engineers the ability to push back against management because now their licenses are on the line.

Well it works. Aviation for example is incredibly safe if you think about it, and mostly because the governments worldwide joined forces and introduced an amount of safety regulations everywhere that sounds insane until you remember that these rules were literally written in blood. And similarly, losing your life or getting injured on a modern ship is a pretty rare thing to happen (either as employee or passenger) if you contrast it with the situation just five decades or so ago.

> We effectively have that kind of gatekeeping now with the University degree and University recruiting pipelines (all other candidates are "external" and illegally deprioritized but it's somehow allowed).

Degree mills aren't the kind of gatekeeping I'm talking about. If you screw up, you still can go to another company and continue screwing up there, which also means there is barely any incentive to hold education institutions accountable to deliver good education. In the regulated trades however? Screw up enough and you're out for good.

> Licensing just gatekeeps it more to even more dumbass people with connections getting good roles. It should be more merit based to avoid this kind of thing.

Trades licensing is merit based.

That assumes you can meaningfully decompress. In a car, it's almost impossible (or at the very least, reckless) if you are the driver, and on most crowded stop-and-go routes even as a passenger. In any kind of public transit you have to deal with anything from rowdy children over beggars, drunks, thieves and other undesirables to keeping up with the latest construction BS and delays. Basically the only thing left is biking or walking, but that only works out on specific routes (i.e. well built sidewalks and separate, wide bike lanes)...

The main problem is that the IT industry for a loooooooong time "self-regulated" itself, the only areas that did have regulation had it come in externally (i.e. automotive, aeronautic, astronauts and maritime). Only in the last years, GDPR + insurances forced a bit of change and accountability, but still, it's far removed from the standards that company owners, workers and planners are held to in construction (licensed engineers), legal or medical practice. Mess up there and everything can happen from fines over a license suspension to a permanent removal, or even jail time.

In contrast, mess stuff up as a CTO and you'll probably be "asked" to voluntarily depart in exchange for a nice golden parachute.

That's an entirely different technology, and if you look at it from an RF lens, a highly impressive one.

And Linux to this day still mostly does not get energy efficiency right, partially because manufacturers only test their crap hardware and ACPI tables against Windows.

I didn’t expect having to read great replacement bullshit on Hacker News. JFC do some napkin math, it’s utter nonsense.

A myriad of „uninstallers“ exist but these are all third party and rely on crowd wisdom.

Unfortunately you'd have to wire your entire kitchen in cameras, your scale needs to be smart and all of it needs to be sent / processed in real time to track consumption which means it will take a lot of compute power and a level of data mining that could be abused by anybody from enterprising break-and-entry crews to the police, and on top of that if it's done by a cloud provider it's probably gonna end up in a data lake for targeted advertising.

There's an old WSB saying: the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The AI craze is that but on 'roids.

> These are incredibly sophisticated companies so presumably they wouldn’t let themselves get into a company ending bind.

The problem is, company C-levels don't care about the long term health of the company. They only think about next quarter (in a misguided interpretation of "shareholder duty/fiduciary duty") and their bonuses tied to their KPIs.

> But what are the chances this is actually an MBS type situation where the system is truly overloaded and a few sacrificial lambs are needed?

The system definitely is overloaded to hell and beyond after well over a decade of ZIRP. That money never got deflated out of the system in a healthy way and now everything is looking to fall apart.

Unfortunately, such events are already "priced in". VC essentially is built on 1 of 100 investments striking it big and 99 going bust. A market correction won't hurt the big guys, but it will definitely hurt all the small guys.

They are not wrong, just look at Germany before the Deutschlandticket, but that one is useless for tourists so they still are stuck in the Holy Roman Empire of Public Transport Systems [1].

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Karte_de...

The problem is, shareholders have bled Western companies dry in the chase for returns on investments. There is no money left in the companies to retool them to be competitive with China.

Meanwhile, the CCP just pours dollars into their companies.

Unfortunately, there is no punishment in Western societies if you run a company into the ground as long as you pay your debts on the way out.

I'd say it was an utterly braindead move and pretty much everyone involved is lucky to be alive.

There's just so, so much dangerous stuff you can hit below ground - high voltage cables that really, really do not like it if you even nick them, high current cables giving off nasty electromagnetic fields, ordinary low voltage cables whose isolation is already degraded, old water, gas, steam and sewer mains that may or may not burst simply because the only thing holding together the rust is the pressure from the soil, other, maybe long forgotten tunnels...

And that's before even getting into the issue of potentially getting caved in, creating a sinkhole or an ingress avenue for stormwater.

Simple: further action was not requested in the Jira ticket, and what is not in a Jira ticket is not getting done because the team responsible for doing the needful is already overloaded with other crap.

Or maybe because the higher-up whose authorization is needed to go on a few days worth of deep dive other than doing exactly what is asked and accounted for in tickets doesn't have the time for a few minutes to explain to them why it is needed, or the higher-up needs authorization from finance or legal first.

Obvious /s, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is exactly what happened. If I were to guess, the "legal" is my biggest suspicion - if a provider reacts on notice of illegal/harmful content, they're just fulfilling legal obligations. But if they go and actively wade through the archives to find more incriminating content, that might be construed as Github doing active moderation of their own, leading to a loss of pure content hoster legal protections.

Indeed, and the usual solution that firefighters choose is to dump copious amounts of water onto the burning vehicle and then drown the carcass into even more water. The biggest issue is that it takes time for the firefighters to arrive - about 10 minutes in Germany by law - and so a fire has quite the time to progress.

That's a solved problem, drench the car in copious amounts of water and flush all oxygen with high pressure CO2 tanks.

This kind of stuff has been the norm literally for decades in any major harbor. No AI BS needed.

The thing is, cheap housing comes at a cost. Housing barely qualifying as more than "a roof over the head" is the most efficient use under capitalism... but as usual with capitalism, the second-order effects / externalities (most importantly, the collapsed birth rartes) aren't priced in. Unfortunately, for Japan's society it may already be too late to turn around.

And even more unfortunately, here in the Western countries we are headed to repeating the mistakes Japan has already shown.

To the contrary, IMHO. When you have to stay at the office until the boss leaves... you don't need a large apartment, you won't have much free time to enjoy it anyway.

The excessive amount of both fake and real work makes such horribly insane housing practices possible in the first place - if people had more free time, they'd go nuts from being cooped up.