I gave up on cyberpunk 20 or so hours in. The lack of interesting side stories is a part of the reason why. This feels like the article is gaslighting

It doesn’t reduce their tax burden, as they are receiving extra income from your dollar. There’s no tax loophole here.

The benefits to the company come from “look at all the charitable work we did last year”, and sometimes croniesim as op pointed out.

The answer that the status service websites will tell you: we automatically detect outages by performing http requests and checking responses for errors

the actual answer: some overworked developer gets woken up at 3am via pagerduty and manually set the status website to an outage state

No. But not because of AI. There’s currently hundreds of thousands of out of work people surrounding tech. You’re competing with them for every job.

Even then, most of engineering isn’t in the nuts and bolts of putting it together. It’s in the endless discussions and decisions that lead to the nuts and bolts.

I feel like this is a very modern problem with the community. I’ve been in open source for a long time, I’ve been employed by some of these companies to write open source things.

Most open source stuff was created by someone who was employed to write that open source thing. There are exceptions, of course, but most things came about because of a need, and that need is often related to work. Companies used to be a lot better with allowing open sourcing of components.

Then, there are all the community contributions that come from commercial reasons. If someone working at a company fixes a bug they encounter, that’s someone being paid to write open source software.

I do not understand the reaction people are having to this now. The open source ecosystem was built on this.

It depends how far it is, and personal preference.

4k makes a massive difference for me on my TV, I’ll opt for it whenever I can. But it’s all personal preference and circumstance which is good to remember.

Your situation isn’t the same as everyone’s, theirs a valid use for 1080p but also for 4k

Home cinemas could make use of 8k, but we’re talking about 4k in this thread

It really depends on the size of tv. It’s like a cinema screen, you want very high resolutions for that even though it’s far away, because it’s a large size

I’ve been around open source for 20+ years and can tell you right now that it don’t work that way. An issue tracker and a wiki is not a community.

Most older open source communities were built on irl connections and irc, with some mailing lists thrown in. Hell, we even funded conferences just around the software, not to sell a product but just because it’s good for everyone to be talking to each other.

The issue tracker tracks the status of things, the wiki is generally user focused. It’s not where development happens or thinks get built.

yup, the very popular stuff you can usually (but not always) buy on disk. the less popular stuff you can sometimes (but not often) buy on disk if the creator really pushes for it

Nope. Not how it works. You don’t have to agree to anything. You don’t have to read anything. The provider has to inform you, which they do even if you block it.

before you could tell an encoder to run multiple threads, but everything outside of the encoder would run effectively single threaded.

now you (should) be able to have all the ffmpeg components, decoder, encoder, filters, audio, video, everything all run parallel

Also lucky any-other-ev-companh that wants to snap up hoards of trained, skilled workers

To be fair, I think most media fits the definition of lost media. Most things aren’t sold anymore, and often aren’t on streaming services. News broadcasts, music shows, talk shows, everything

At least it’s not actually lost. Just not easily available

I have made endless spaghetti and this has never ever been the case for me, ever.

Are you american? i gotta know if this is some american food is weird thing. american food is often weird. this is not something the rest of the world talks about.

Yeah, I’ve read those theories, I’ve also seen people say it does nothing. I’ve forgotten and it’s made no difference. But I still do it. It’s worth noting you have to add a lot of salt to meaningfully change the boiling temperature.

What are you people doing to your pasta… I don’t even know what universe it would do that. How would it do that? Is this some American thing where American pasta isn’t made from wheat anymore but instead corn syrup?

I have never stirred pasta. I need you to understand this. I’m old, I’ve never once stirred pasta. I’ve made a lot of pasta.

I wait for the water to boil, I put salt in and question if this even does anything but I do it anyway, I put the pasta in then seven minutes or so later it’s done.

I have never stirred pasta once in my life, it’s self stirring

For many of them, yes, the only way is via YouTube. Some of them have patreons, and I use that too. Not all do.