And it has been asked before, can we mark it as a dupe? (Does that still exist?)
https://slashdot.org/poll/3224...

I think it would be interesting to look into the poll archives - they go way back to 1999 - and ask the same question now and link back to the original poll. Some answers may need to be changed but I think it would be interesting to see how tech, culture, etc has evolved (both in the poll results and the comments).

Oh wow, a goatse reference. That brings back memories, not all good ones though. However I feel that /. had much more significance and impact then.

US federal law does not apply in Australia. There is more in this world than the USA. You should visit it sometime if you have the chance, the (financial) means and your boss is generous enough to grant you a 2(!) weeks vacation because you put in all those extra work hours (not required but actually they are) and no vacation the last few years.
In the meantime we in Western Europe enjoy our yearly 3 weeks summer holiday (legally required in a lot of countries, or at least the choice must be given to the employee).

It still might have to do with cost, as around holidays the cost of the ingredients go up as well. That stick of butter you buy at the beginning of December might cost you 5-10% more in the week before Christmas. Other ingredients may have even higher cost increases (think strawberries, although I don't understand why someone on the northern hemisphere would want those in the middle of winter).

I agree, I was checking the cost out and its € 11.99 a month or € 17.99 for a family subscription. If they'd slash that in half I'd subscribe without a second thought, and I think a lot of people with me. Same goes for Spotify, Netflix, the account sharing on those platforms is simply because it's too costly for people to be subscribed to several services. A lot of people rotate their subscriptions because of this as well. I don't mind missing out, so I'm subscribed to a few services but those are all production services and/or a gateway to several services.

Youtube differs in that they're not only gateway to production services, but also for user generated content.

As true as this may be, I wish it wasn't. Because running a desktop is different from running a server.

Try convincing a dev that he can't just do this or install that in an enterprise environment, like he is used to on his vm or desktop.

I've seen too much stuff break or be incompliant with security policies: wrecking authentication methods, not understanding sudo, installing unnecessary packages (the tutorial said I needed to install iptables, nevermind that the distro is using UFW), installing out-of-date packages by pinning an already ancient java version, keeping up-to-date with patches/releases or just plain installing a DHCP server (OK, those are thrown off the network pretty quickly). And if you try to reason with them or explain why they shouldn't do this they get their manager involved just to get their way. And often a security exception is drafted and approved with a little help from said management.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind working with someone who wants to do stuff right and I'll do everything to help him or her getting to a compliant install. But usually they'll just tell us off and only come to us after they built everything and won't budge because of the endless commitment / sunk cost fallacy.

That's also solved in most countries, where there is a broader political spectrum than 2.1 (I'm being gracious with the .1 for the minor parties in the US).

Moreover, anyone with real submarine (engineering) experience would have "slowed innovation" because of "criticisms", that, in the real world, could have prevented this loss.

AI learns from the (news) sources it is fed. It sees a lot of coverage of violence in the news. It may "reach the conclusion" (I use this very liberally) that for a society to function, it needs to have this violence. So it may create situations in which a violent response by a human is triggered or it may influence a human to start a shooting. AI may not be deadly directly but it can certainly be influencial to violence.

If you have Philips Hue lights you can use the API to have a light turn a specific color once done (yellow - build running; red - build failed; green - build succeeded). The office accross the street from my office has this set up.

Germany is opening a coal mine to get off of Russian gas mostly. If the war in the Ukraine hadn't happened this most likely wouldn't have been needed. The average modern gas plant is about 60% more efficient in generating electricity than a (brown) coal plant. Should they have gone nuclear? Maybe, however, people are fearful of nuclear plants (and rightfully so, if things go wrong). But it's probably the cleanest option available save renewable energy sources like water, wind and solar.

I see it as the result of a "good enough, so why do better" mindset. As can be seen with print (DTP) work, photography - everyone has a decent to good camera in her/his/its pocket these days - so it's not surprising that other creative arts are next. This doesn't mean we can't still value artisanship over AI just because.

I propose Comic Sans. Your call if this is meant seriously or sarcastic.

I expect a full Japanese delegation on the München Oktoberfest.

Yeah like what you see with management types, they can run a {team|business unit|company} in the ground and they never get another job!

/sarcasm off