It can't just be both (and then some)? There's no end to this administration's corruption.

Coming from a company that has enshitified its UX version after version over the years, why would them greenlighting the use of Rust mean anything? So that fanboys can tell their superiors "See look Microsoft uses Rust therefore we should too!" and get to play with their toys?

Not enough people realize this. They hear "AI will kill us all" they immediately envision a Terminator-like world, when the real threat is much more boring and stupid.

Let's be real here. We all know everyone just changes it from MyAwesomePassword1 to MyAwesomePassword2.

Not sure why you focus on California when this new agreement literally has clauses for folks to be fully remote with strong guardrails for random RTO demands. 50k USD is decent money if you don't feel the urge to live in some of the most expensive areas in the world.

Interesting in what way? The cost of a game won't go up because of this, because the cost of games hasn't gone up in several decades. In fact, it was down for some time and only now coming back up to what we used to see in the cartridge-console days. Will they push for more microtransactions to fund this new cost? Likely. Maybe. But your statement is about as hollow as it gets.. at least give us the entertainment of an actual take.

It's par for the course with these people.

I'm sorry for your situation, my previous comment definitely didn't consider that, but this is extremely naive. These people don't give a fuck about "going fishing with friends", they are not normal people and can easily imagine themselves in a world where us pesky middle-class are gone and they get to just enjoy the world without us with their robots tending to their every need. It's not about fulfillment it's that they actually believe they're *that* special.

Are you trolling?

The will to survive is built into everything. If you don't care to survive that's not peace, that's a mental illness. It's not about "scrabbling in the dirt to eke out a few more years", it's about the off-chance that no matter how bad it is, you might make it through.

You kind of had me hooked until this part. I'm going to have to see some real numbers here because everytime someone has helped me recently and "vibe-coded" away a solution, it 100% of the time resulted in rework for me where they would've been better off just not helping.

Is that anecdotal? Yes. Have I ever heard of a situation where this is not the case? No.

As long as people engage with the topic, yes. Here you are, engaging with the topic. Remember the numbers are looked at in a vacuum, not the quality of the posts/statements.

But how would they know that if they're just a random employee on the floor? What if a co-worker read an article that Amazon was doing this and told them that some specific books they were looking at were *really really rare*? If you've worked on the ground in any industry with "bottom-tier" employees, you'll know what I mean.

And now with Gemini giving us our Google search results back, how do we know said employee didn't go back home that day after his co-worker told him this, did a search, and got told that "Yes! In fact this is relatively rare book!", ignored the nuance and now believes his co-worker knows what he's talking about? Now he might feel like he has a moral duty to contact the press about it! And after all, he's a frontline worker so they'll eat up anything he has to say for clicks.

Knowledge is power. There's no lack of people projecting their "knowledge" in the hopes of gaining "power", especially at the bottom where people are making dirt amounts of money compared to their managers and everyone above them. The amount of shit I've been told over the years from extremely overconfident people, only to find out it's nuanced *at best* because their takeaway is the TFS, or worse, is staggering.

He has dev in his name, so you know he knows what he's talking about.

I think they have bigger problems right now.

Unless a State in which he resides in agrees to extradite him for the charges (which... let's assume he's smart enough to avoid States friendly with Russia), then this is about as grandstanding as the term gets. Unsurprising given the turmoil Russia's going through lately with Ukraine knocking at their front door after all this baseless aggression.