Over the years I have used as my main development machine:

* 2011 17" Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM
* 2016 iMac with 8 cores and 32GB RAM (with 2 additional 4K screens)
* M3 Max 14" Macbook Pro with 36GB RAM (and an additional 4K screen)
* M4 Max 16" Macbook Pro with 48GB RAM (and an Apple Studio screen)

I havent really ever run into a resource issue - I had to retire the iMac just last month because the screen was ghosting, but it was still perfectly usable for development purposes right up to that point (ie I never get frustrated with it in terms of performance). The M4 Max MBP tho is worlds ahead of it in performance, so I dont regret upgrading - I just didn't upgrade for performance reasons).

I have used Jetbrains Rider now for the past 7 years and I can definitely recommend it (and I pay for it as well). I switched because I moved to Mac for .Net development, and really hated Microsofts .Net story for VSCode - and since switching to Rider, I haven't found myself wanting Visual Studio at all.

Slashdot has progressively got shitter over the past decade, and its noticable that that also correlates to a decline in the number of comments being left on stories.... The community has shrunk.

Slashdot used to allow me to give them money to avoid ads, but they took that away - so I have no moral or ethical issue with blocking ads on this site. Especially as they also used to provide an option to hide ads for long term users - which they started to ignore for specific ads, and then got rid of entirely.

But thats the entire point - at that point you arent scratching your own itch, you are voluntarily scratching someone elses.

If people stuck to scratching their own itches, we would either have fewer large projects or more involvement from users who are scratching their own itches.

But in the meantime, many OSS projects exist on the following flow:

1. Scratch your own itch, and make the solution public because it might help out others
2. Someone else finds your scratching to be valuable to them, so uses your solution
3. You like being involved with something someone else finds valuable, so you start scratching more of other peoples itches to increase your solutions value
4. Growth
5. You complain that other people are having their itches scratched without helping out

All of that is voluntary, and you put yourself in that situation - but you end up blaming others because thats easier than accepting that you made your own situation.

Look what he responded to.

People toss out a throwaway allegation and then expect you write a dissertation to rebut it.

Another way to go would be to keep burning jet fuel but purchase bricks of carbon from a sequestration company that captures it from the air.

I know there are more efficient types of carbon credits, like investing in cleaner energy in the first place, or increased efficient at the point of usage such as insulation, or preserving rainforest that would otherwise be developed.

The problem is all that gets complicated and thus subjective. Maybe carbon credits could work if it is based on a new type of 'coin' that is 1 kg of pure carbon that is chucked into an old mine.

That truly is the question for Apple. I don't know how they've held off smartphone commoditization as long as they have.

I agree with GP, it's a big kickback scheme for employees that have discretion over business expenses. Most types of card rewards are not reportable as income, which sweetens the deal even further. Score one for the upper-middle-class little guy, I guess...

Yep, the fire code is how you know the story is wrong.

Tesla stock is only up a cumulative 6% from the peak it achieved exactly 4 years ago. That is not even close to keeping up with inflation - 18% over the same time period. So if just getting attention from a market flop is a strategy for driving up the share price, I guess it isn't working very well.

Yeah, nobody would consider this a story without the "billionaire" buzzword.

When my kids were small many of the wives from her church organized a summer school for all the kids. It was great.

I notice this whole thing is a zoning dispute and nothing else. Probably because the level of education being delivered is exceptional, since why wouldn't it be?

You can make a simple statement like "nobody starves to death in America" and it offends people every time. They'll call you deaf dumb and blind yet they can never say who it is that's starving to death.

There are homeless people wandering around all over the place, they produce nothing, ever, yet somehow food just keeps materializing for them. In fact they hardly resemble truly destitute people actually starving around the world. I'm glad that's how it is here and wouldn't want it any other way but it's strangely difficult for people to "admit."

I think the single biggest reason is because demand for healthcare is basically bottomless and we have a lot of money to throw at it so we do.

I haven't seen any emphasis on this factor but look at the correlation between per capita GDP and per capita healthcare costs:

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

That is a strong correlation!

Interesting, did you try any others, such as ChatGPT?

That's not why. Waymo is testing in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYC by the way has also recently legalized jaywalking.

The idea that machines don't / won't beat humans at continuous vigilance and precise movement doesn't make much sense to me, since machines are great at that. The safety issue already favors automation and the gap will only grow. (More specifically, safety already favors certain self-driving implementations, like Waymo... obviously in general, "automation" can also be total crap if done poorly).

I know we are only relatively early in the development and adoption of the technology, but I sure can't see any reason to doubt the outcome.