You’re basically locking yourself to a single development eco system, and a highly limited deployment eco system.

It’s not clear what the benefits of either are either. I get that the MacBook gets great performance for battery life but the majority of work is gonna be done in desktop settings, so simply using more/equally powerful x86 chips is only gonna cost you a few dollars a developer per year in electricity costs.

And all that despite the fact that your development is on Docker which doesn’t even have a working solution for the workflow you’re considering at the moment.

Sociological studies strongly suggest that masks do work.

For example, there was a recent study that compared COVID hospitalization rates of districts in Tennessee that had mask mandates vs those which didn’t and the areas with mask mandates had significantly lower disease spread.

Not BitTorrent exactly, but close enough that if the blockchain spinoff was bought for that much the blockchain folks would certainly consider (rightfully IMO) a victory in the blockchain column.

And since you can’t even look at the CSPROJ within VS without gymnastics debugging isn’t even easy to get started with.

After the first week of constant anxiety because it constantly felt like I had forgotten something, it was incredible, getting used to not having Google Maps at all times, and drawing up the courage to ask strangers for help with stuff like using their stores phone to call a friend who I was waiting for, for directions, etc. it was absolutely incredible.

I felt like a literal weight had been lifted off my shoulder and felt more independent and free than ever before. I explored a ton more, and had a great time overall. I was also less stressed out and did much better at work due to the significantly reduced distractions.

Of course, I was completely single at the time, which made all of this possible. I’m not sure it would be doable either when in a relationship or married.

Also, a lot of people are commenting about retreats and stuff, which also I have done and is great. However, living your normal life without being hyper connected and your face in a screen at all times (basically going back to the 90s) is a very different and refreshing experience.

So why do people not throw the same kind of fit about nearly every other programming environment as they do for Node/NPM? And frankly why do those other environemnts not have the ridiculous security breaches we have seen in Node/NPM land?

The real problem with Node/NPM i suspect is a lack of a standard library. Simply having a standard library would have greatly reduced dependency and package hell. Further, a standard library would mean people would be more willing to write a little more code rather than include a new dependency.

One could argue, like some Iraq war proponents do, that the idea was ok for Sweden, but the failure was in execution. But one can not argue that it wasn’t a significant failure.

These and others are all things the current administration has reversed and is almost certainly playing a huge role into why things have gotten so bad.

The priorities shouldn’t be dictated by a single company.

I don’t fault Google for what they are doing (besides the AMP stuff). The problem the author is talking about is largely because google is the de facto way pretty much the entire world finds new stuff.

If website discovery was driven by blofs and the like wns people then added the stuff they liked to their RSS readers then the authors issue would be resolved.

Unfortunately that world doesn’t exist anymore and Google’s preferences end up dictating what all websites prioritize.

Is the kernel getting impossible to compile on anything less than a monster $2500 gaming rig? Too bad. Stop being poor or from a poor country.

Does the code require a $1000 monitor to be readable? Same.

Do you need a larger size font because of age? Well pop your Benjamin Button polls coz Linus Torvalds dont care.

Hospital systems would collapse because of the number of sick people. Doctors and nurses would be missing because they would almost all likely fall sick.

And people who would not die of COVID would die of other stuff because healthcare systems would have collapsed.

This is what happened in Italy. This is what was happening in NYC for a few days at its worst. This is what is about to happen in Brazil and possibly in India.

And no mosquito outbreak has caused entire hospital systems to collapse in various parts of the world.

You do know that mosquitoes have wings and can move from place to place without humans right?

I see absolutely no evidence of this being the case. The US has never in the history of India stepped in to help India.

In all likelihood, if IndanandnChina came to blows, the US would simply sit aside and not participate.

In an alternative universe where Silverlight, instead of Flash, had become the de facto standard before the iPhone, I suspect we would likely have moved onto something like OpenSilver instead of HTML5 as the backbone for web applications.

Flash was designed for tiny animations and somehow became an application platform. Sikverlight was actually designed as an application platform and it showed, in how much better it was.

Relevantly, a lot of developers and ops folks who need overlaps with US hours.