Glaxo created zantac while being a British company and they have universal health care

I was at a company that used Yammer (& got an award for best use of).

If you're in Sales and want to see industry stuff, I suppose it was ok. Anyone else had to wade through it to find critical announcements that the company made. Imagine the a TV network with just ads lasting 30 seconds. Randomly there would be a few 10 second spots about natural disasters that might wipe out your home and family if you missed them.

Does *any* other programming language have telemetry baked in?
For the others, how can they possibly improve?

Automation is not going to replace the plumber or electrician going into your crawl space, attic, basement, under sink to do their work. Most stuff is dealing with existing infrastructure. Automation needs a clean slate and its hard to get much cost reduction vs skilled labor. Often, the blueprints don't match what is built by 1/2 way through the job.

They also need to get licensed which takes 3-7 years. It takes dedication and isn't subject to wild swings in the labor market.

My town has an intersection that was on the state's list of top 20 accidents. It was a main road and the cross road had stop signs. Now it has stop lights and is safe.

I usually plan my drives to avoid left turns if there are no lights and bad intersections. I had one really bad one that I avoided by taking a side street before the intersection & turn right on the main road before the bad intersection to avoid it all together.

if this kind of info was made available to towns & states it could help make our roads safer

I lived through that too! I was supporting Solaris up to 11 with a tiny bit of HP-UX on itanium and Tru64 on alpha.

Since then it's been all Linux. RHEL and Ubuntu are closer than any of the Unixen were.

Nowadays its cloud and kubernetes and all Linux running it all.

Thanks for the link.

Too bad your first instinct is to be rude to strangers on the internet.

Growing up we had Kodak Instamatic cameras with cartridge film. There was the 110 that fit in your pocket and was about the size of a box of cigarettes, but longer. Then a 126(?) that was bigger. We later got a Polaroid SX-70.
I think that was most of the market.

We went on a family trip & bought a "good" p&s that took 35mm film in the 80s. We didn't go beyond that.
They got inexpensive enough that I think the cartridge cameras got regulated to the disposable camera that got used for weddings in the 2000s.

If we had had something you always carried that also took pics, we never would have bought those cameras.

Cell phone cameras have gone beyond most of the old P&S film cameras.

Just like in the older days, there will be enthusiasts that will get lensed cameras that go beyond P&S. Some would even develop their own film which was way more involved than photoshop.

Most photos have always been snapshots. Sometimes that's enough to get on the front page (Time had a cover photo from an iPhone for hurricane Sandy IIRC).
For other things like bird watching (distance), sports (distance & speed), insects up close (macro), low light (speed) will want those special lenses. And they will be niche.

My 1st laser printer was a Brother 1470. PCL, BR-Script (postscript emulation). It had ethernet and appletalk (localtalk?). It may have had a parallel port. It just worked forever.

I finally got a newer Brother that had a much lower standby power usage.

I remember being able to use the graffiti alphabet to take text notes during a lecture.
It was easy to learn, fast and accurate.
Graffiti 2 changed enough to throw me off.
I wish I could have it on one of today's phones.I remember being able to use the graffiti alphabet to take text notes during a lecture.
It was easy to learn, fast and accurate.
Graffiti 2 changed enough to throw me off.

I wish I could have it on one of today's phones or touch screen PCs

My electric toothbrush from 2006 is charged wirelessly...

Especially in software. I'm a Senior Quality Engineer in Software. Why that title? Because everyone else is hiring with that title so we should too so we can attract candidates.

What does the Senior part mean? I'd been Sr. Sys Admin starting when I was in my 30s. It really just means I have experience and places me on the salary scale. I'd argue using engineer in the title is just as valid/invalid.

My degree is BS Mechanical Engineer. I passed the Engineer In Training exam in the USA. After practicing for a few years,with documentation and sign off by a Professional Engineer, you can take the exam to become a PE & get the license.

I studied the rigor that went into design/analysis to prove that it will perform. Civil Engineering typically makes scale models, does stress test of all components, etc. I have not seen that rigor in programming and system design. How many systems (websites, programs, apps, libraries, code etc) can certify how much load, accuracy, security and when they will fail? Maybe NASA and medical systems.

I don't think software/computer engineering can have that rigor yet. Until it does, I don't think you can truly have a PE for it.

I wouldn't be surprised if a chemical component affects humans.

How much active ingredient is in each pill you take? It can have a large effect.
Many cancers are caused by trace amounts in our water and food.

In the US, the largest crops are sprayed with pesticides that may or may not get absorbed into the crop.
Many cook on teflon and are finding out about the effects of PFAS.

Heck, for centuries we used lead in plumbing for drinking water. In the last century we burned it in gasoline for decades before finding there are issues.

"Security is everyone's responsibility". Also see "QA is everyone's responsibility"

Devs, QA, PMs, DevOps, Support, Sysadmins, Management should all know/train on security. But they will (likely) not be experts. Add to the fact that attackers keep coming up with new techniques (that they're trying to keep hidden) means it's hard to keep up defense techniques. "The questions are the same, the answers are different"

Security should be part of the design before you even start coding. Having expert input is crucial.

You can't bolt security on. Anyone in the C suite or management who thinks you can add it later needs to learn from someone that is not trying to sell them something.

I had a chance to see Chuck Jones in a crowded theater and he showed many of the Bugs Bunny reels he directed.

I grew up watching them on Saturday mornings in the 70s.
Having an audience around you was so much better.