It's not running in the code, it is running on the code at compile-time, so it's not a consistent % increase in resources, however yes, I agree. It should not be like this. Anything to increase complexity is absolutely awful.

I am working on energysaving for software, with energyrating as part of it at Ahodzil. Hopefully I will be able to make the code optimisation build framework available next year along with the energyrating. It goes beyond the compiler (and PGO) by checking if the code is necessary against a baseline of an "optimal code formula" based on decades of accumulated programming (and most codebases are just manipulating a database anyhow).

GAAS: Gullibility As A Service

Forget about crypto and stocks, gullibility is at an ATH.

The amount of times I have brought this up to clueless non-technical meddle managers these days is saddening. It's like they either stopped caring, or never cared in the first place. TTM at all costs to support short-term profits at all costs. I've never seen such harebrained schemes being used across so many companies as now. It's the big dumb.

and how many will be on visas, "sub-contracted" or in any way indirect "hires" for cents where middlemen take giant cuts, and ultimately nothing of value gets done?

Operation Paperclip -> Clippy -> Chippy?

I read that as H2O conflicts first... I will let someone else insert the other obvious meme.

I remember it from 2006...

This could all have been avoided by treating programming like physics, with emphasis on thermodynamics.

They're not measured. It's just a payment scheme to be able to sell to the government. I know because I have been in dialogue with them, and they refused to elaborate on their methods when I suggested that this cannot be a manual approval process with multiple manual steps. It's all "trust" by then, and that will be abused by all parties involved. I wanted automation and better tracking, but they ignored me. You are not even Norwegian or related to any of this, so if you defend this you are sadly a bad actor.

Well, if you are naive enough even these things can have some "value" to a lot of people. In Norway there's something called "Miljøfyrtårn" which means "Environmental Beacon", which basically is a very expensive PNG with a subscription that you get to hang in your office to pretend to be "green". Their businessmodel is just like NFTs. They have a lot of traction and paying customers. I wonder who it speaks the most of, the cunning of the people selling the PNG, or the endless series of terrible decisions caused by nepotism in the companies buying it?

It happens on both my phones and my wife's phones as well. Check its resource needs in the browser and do a little performance profiling and you will see how bloated and bad it is. Are you not a developer?

Maps is broken enough as it is. I can no longer use it as a GPS-helper or anything for that matter as it crashes all the time and less than 50% of the screen on my phone is the actual map. This is just adding insult to injury.

It's sadly still relevant.