The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It’s gotten much much better, but it’s still not good.

Actually, the Pico is also an arm device, just the M0 variant which admittedly barely counts as a computer.

My company tried to jump onto the bandwagon in 2018 or so, but it fizzled out very quickly. Fortunately.

It’s the same crap like with blockchain.

People have no idea how sophisticated modern IT systems already are, and if you glue fancy words on solved problems, people will cheer you for being super innovative.

Are there ways to say exactly this kind of happy? I’m pretty sure, happy and gay didn’t mean exactly the same. Synonyms rarely are drop in replacement.

But yes, there is a gap now. That might get filled with another word, or people get better at discerning ironic and unironic meaning. Or maybe people stop using it in this way - groovy or rad aren’t exactly common today either.

That’s how language works.

Many words shifted meaning over time, some gained connotation, some lost it, some turned to something completely different.

Just look at the word “gay”, it shifted from “happy” to “haha homosexuals are outwardly happy, so we call them gay semi-ironically” to “homosexual”. The homophobic connotation was added, then the original meaning got lost.

You can complain, sure, but just read an old text from the 17th century and try to find a sentence that means exactly the same today as it did back then.

I’m not talking about the incident in Romania, but in Germany.

A shipyard needed some wires over a river deactivated and that caused an overload cascade, because the river was the border between two providers who had different assumptions about the capacity of the power lines connecting them.

Nuclear power was never a significant power source in Germany and most of the reactors were scheduled to be shut down anyway.

These companies will cry about anything. If they have to pay 5% above minimum wage, they’ll cry about abject worker’s shortage, if they have to pay a minimum wage at all (only introduced in 2015), they’ll cry that this will definitely destroy the entire economy, despite the lowest unemployment in decades following the introduction.

You’d be surprised, how fragile critical infrastructure often is. There was an incident in Europe a few years ago, where a single miscalculation in a planned power line shutdown almost caused the entire European grid to split.

A similar thing to the first point happened at my old company.

When it became clear that working from home won’t go away, management came up with some new and actually reasonable rules, that basically allowed 100% wfh, if the team was okay with it.

Now, here in Germany east/west differences are still pretty stark. So someone asked “sooo, I’m in the East, get a low wage, but work with a team from the West. If my neighbor would start working for the same team, formally at an office in the West, but 100% from home, he’d get West wages”. Management didn’t address that at all, so a bunch of people (including myself) just said fuck it, quit and now earn way better wages working from home.

I worked for a company that handled a ton of personal data. Pretty much every person in Germany, including addresses, bank account details, etc.

On my first day there (fresh from university) I was given literally full read access to the entire database. And as I later found out by accident: they did not track any data exfiltration at all. I copied several gigabytes of data without anyone noticing.

Your data is only as secure as the least motivated data broker sees fit. And that’s not very fit.

I did this with my sensors running in Pi picos.

There was some wonkyness with some of the electrical stuff and since I have no idea how to debug that, I just restarted them every 24 hours and at start “drained” all pins by repeatedly reading from them.

I’m reasonably sure, this setup is cursed enough to kill an electrical engineer on sight, but it kind of works good-ish enough.

What is ticking? Putin doesn’t care for either population or territory in the short term. There’s nothing of value there, only the lost ability to bomb ukranian territory from Russia in that region.

And the embarrassment can be handled by his propaganda machine.

It’s clearly the other way around. These animals leave, causing plates to slip because of reduced weight.

Of course not. Where do you think the term surgical strike comes from?

Thing is, Russia can just trade land for people.

Ukraine can’t really threaten Russia as a whole, and the further Ukraine gets, the thinner and more vulnerable the supply lines will be. So the whole thing will eventually run out of steam and Russia can try to grind its territory back under its control.

Of course it’s annoying and embarrassing for Putin, but letting it just fizzle out is definitely within his MO.

Google Reader didn’t fail. And they killed it for no reason.

Chromecasts are probably simply not profitable enough. The device class is served by cheaper sticks and given the absurd salaries and profit expectations of these firms, it’s probably not “worth it”.

They killed stuff before.

Google’s downfall seems to be this weird promotion culture where you only get attention by launching new products. That’s why they keep introducing half assed messengers. Nobody gets anything from maintaining a successful product.

That combined with myopic shareholder value management gives us the corporate equivalent of a 12 year old kid with ADHD and a bad tamper.

Yeah, it’s a rollercoaster.

Not even one generation, the entire runtime is not even 10 years, and you’d have to be in a rather small age bracket to get the full brunt of the “cultural” impact. My parents’ generation watched it, but it wasn’t really all that different from everything else for them.

It’s actually super interesting to see the fall of GoT. It fell into oblivion almost immediately after the last season finished.