Pure profit you say? No one else benefits from it at all? If you don’t know the truth just say so. I live in the Canadian Petro province of Alberta. And I quote from source: “ Alberta is forecasting a $2-billion surplus for 2026-27, an $11.4-billion turnaround from the $9.4-billion deficit projected when the provincial budget was introduced in February.” https://strathmorenow.com/arti...

we went from one of our biggest projected deficits of all time just this February, to a $2B! Surplus projection just 6 months later. Oil prices dictate terrific royalties and windfalls for governments. Of course it caused inflation across much of the population, but basically it’s caused incremental prices increases for many to flood government coffers. That will buy a lot of hospitals. And the govt has cut gas taxes, so really, our deficit has been paid for by oil companies. Hey, you can argue royalties aren’t enough (like less of an idiot) but to say the increase is pure profit is just wrong. I get the sense posters here don’t accept facts anymore when it challenges their narrative though.

No one here is going to click your shitlink. Please fuck off and crawl back to whatever culture war bullshit social media that I’m sure you’re a rockstar on.

Write out a proper (direct) fucking link. URL shorteners have no place here. Why the fuck do you think a single person is going to waste their time with some god awful site that you are somehow are convinced makes a good point and makes you look smart, against an anonymous troll post! I won’t know, cuz I wouldn’t click that shit if they paid me - the simple fact you posted that link is enough to judge you an irredeemable idiot. I still have to hope 99.999% of the people here aren’t as stupid as whatever mouth breathing corner of the internet you come from. I actually have a hard time believing someone with your UID can be so retarded, but I’ve seen worse.

The only reason for you to post that is you’re a dumbass (best case) or trying to be deceptive. Notice how /. Puts the domain being linked to after your a tag, and you don’t control that? Why do you think they do that? There is no 100 character limit to your infinite genius here, so either link to a known domain, just make your point here, or please fuck right off. Rant over, but I finally found someone worse than the people who post YouTube links here.

The cost argument isn’t strong. That said, sometimes the complexity and cost of skillsets to work within some resource constraint, do justify simply expanding resources. I mean, I assume embedded systems are basically like any other computer system, you can add more resources (eg memory). Might it always be possible and that’s an increased cost, but if the hardware you chose to accomplish your task requires coders who know some obscure assembly language and are very expensive, changing your hardware to gain access to a much larger (thus cheaper) developer community, why wouldn’t that be a consideration? Now I’ve done nearly no microcontroller programming and in all my years programming haven’t learned python, but I don’t see what your argument is here? A system either accomplishes what is intended within the requirements, or it doesn’t, correct? Whatever resources your runtime environment needs and just another part of resource management.

If every one of you that wake up every day, ready to climb back into your keyboard weapon of culture wars, were to just go experience the outdoors, humanity would be fixed.

You both need help for getting into such a debate on the internet.

Literally this has been the approach since Vietnam. I am thankful someone is ready to stand up to that horrifying regime and am saddened by how deeply they are entrenched. I’m thankful we shine a spotlight on 2-3 people killed by the government in North America - but saddened that we let 30k murders by the govt over there slip without criticism.

Too difficult to reach the conclusion that someone might disagree with your perfect opinions eh?

What could possibly lead you to the conclusion it is likely any life at all existed on that planet? We have zero idea about the likelihood or mechanisms of abiogenesis.

Time for you to see a therapist my good man.

I believe it was one Doctor Dre who coined the term, thus saying: “bitch you better akrites”.

Hmm but if he stopped that means he saw you correct? I think what he means is he wasn’t looking, and no degree of smaller vehicle will fix that.

Companies agree on the jurisdiction any claims of breach will be handled as part of the contract process. I guarantee you that jurisdiction was dictated by VMware (prior to their Broadcom acquisition).

I'm willing to bet this has nothing to do with their actual contract with Broadcom. It is probably a claim that Broadcom's actions have caused damages under some civil tort and it actually relies on the fact there is a valid contract in place to use their software, rather than this being any type of breach-of-contract claim. This might be a very novel legal approach here, and I don't see any mention in the article Tesco is claiming the contract was breached here.

It's actually near impossible to believe that a suit related to their contract would be allowed to be filed in the UK. I've negotiated licensing agreements with many software companies inside a company even larger than Tesco. Most contracts are created as a bunch of back and forth between two companies to agree on a long list of Terms & Conditions (T&Cs) which define the actual contract. Software companies stand alone in typically handing you their list of T&Cs and refusing any negotiation at all. I promise you VMware would've said "agree to these terms or go somewhere else" - and there is no other supplier.

A very clear and key term of these and any contract is agreeing on the jurisdiction in which claims of breach will be resolved. This is such a key term for software companies they would never allow it to be changed. Especially since customers are worldwide, there's no way they want to understand the intricacies of court systems in any country/locale but their own. I'd actually say that jurisdiction, along with liability, are the two most non-negotiable of all the non-negotiable terms.

You are right, my mistype. About 45M in Canada to 450M in EU. The point still stands - in comparable population sizes that would mean Canada is roughly equivalent to Connecticut compared to California in the US. If electoral college votes translated to parliamentary seats, how much say would Connecticut think they had relative to California? At least the US allows for some legislative methods of equal representation and state rights.

Generally, I think my point is that while I still strongly advocate for democracy and some type of federal/union approach, I've evolved that to firmly believe sometimes the scope of a democratic union is simply too large and ineffective, and breaks under it's own weight. See provincial separatism in Canada and Brexit in EU. I mean, do we stop somewhere or keep moving towards a single world state with one vote per person for one world leader?

Yep, they are all the same. Mass hire bodies off the street to meet contract commitments, who were all clearly quickly trained on one very specific skill and thrown into the blender. A very true and typical example: replacing an in-house DB admin with someone who's never turned on a computer before but completed a one-week crash course in writing basic SQL queries. Turned out as expected. The top 5% you mention is about accurate, and those were the 1/20 who (by luck maybe?) turned out to have either some real education or aptitude. The problem with them being capable, is they were always smart enough to see it, and quickly refused to settle working with the rest and accepting same wages. They would (rightfully) demand the same pay as their NA counterparts, which required immigration.

Unpopular opinion here though... I thought this outsourcing cycle was actually very beneficial and valuable. I went through many instances of it, and ended up consulting (even recommending!) "outsourcing" programs. I never lost a job to it (all I'll say is it seemed easy to shift what I did to be out of scope, as I would do with AI now). The ultimate problem was pushing through outsourcing before a company had an expertise on how to do it effectively and make it valuable.

It was seen and often implemented as a resource replacement strategy for cost savings: replace expensive onshore coder/admin/etc. with cheap offshore coder/admin/etc. Every instance of doing that at every company ever failed miserably. What some of us figured out early, and most eventually, is that it is a spectacular workload replacement strategy. Most in-house IT staff are very skilled, and without doubt most of them had huge chunks of mindless and repetitive, low-value tasks on their plate. This was huge value creation for onshore people - I'd never outsource to an Indian company ever again, but every new organization I come to and find one of my Tier 2 NOC technicians spending half his day fixing server backup errors that I could actually train one of those Indians to do in a week? Yep, he's not doing that anymore. Shift that work to a junior, or soon enough, AI. You don't fire the tech, you get him to do things much more worthy of his skill and experience. So, I "outsource" regularly now by finding masses of work I can train anyone to do, and either contract it out cheap, hire a new in-house junior employee to train using it, or pretty soon, hand it to AI.