The discussion is about players who want to get paid for their gaming. And they complain they cannot do it effortless.

There is something important missing in those reports and that is energy needed for those results. Up until now we were comparing raw power of different processors - but actually, we should start to think about computing power per 1 W of energy. We already have enough raw computing power to start thinking about efficiency.

Even if Intel beat Apple in raw power, it does not mean it beat them in efficiency. There is no info on that.

It obviously is important when you think about laptops, but not only. Up until the paradigm was that in desktop there is no need to think about energy, because you can always put a bigger power brick - but even in desktop it costs something. And if there are millions users, it starts to make a difference.

Of course dreaming gives information to competitions. If people dream about something and the competitors manage to offer it before Apple, it is Apple's loss, isn't it?

Ideally, people would share their dreams with the company, not revealing anything to the public.

Of course, because China might be the only country to have the guts to kill their own citizens, if it is deemed necessary for survival of the others.

Humans were afraid of the blackness of a dark night long before that noticed anything about skin colors. Also black were he remnants of the burned area... Lots of non racist reasons to associate black with bad.

So why chess videos are banned?

The chess videos are already banned on YouTube, because hey are racist by definition.

Ok, so we remove "master" as a branch names, because this one reeks of racism and slavery. But this is just the first step.

What about MA, MSc, etc? I think every time someone introduces himself or herself using these hateful words, the part of humanity in him or her dies.

Of course, "to master" must go. And "masterclass". Heck, there is even a portal who dares to flaunt this name in the faces of people.

Also "Master and Commander" must be taken off the streaming platforms until someone does something about the title.

Of course, it seems a little exaggerated, but I am sure that everybody who feels pain seeing the master branch in the code must feel the same pain seeing words like MA, MSc, masterclasses, etc. This is enough reason to change those words, right?

You will never know if you were refused entry because of social media post or other reasons.

I heard there is already a shortage of engineers.

Detroit

This is a myth that Japan is a country of dying-at-their-desk workers.

I mean, it happens from time to time, but it also happen in London City, or in other places in the world.

I worked for a Japanese software company, it was the only software company in my life where I did not have to do all nighters the day before the release. ;-)

Wow, that never happened to me in 15 years.

The recruiters always went silent, even if they promised feedback.

I do not agree with you. Not showing up after the agreement has been reached is absolutely wrong, no doubt about it. But while the negotiations are not ended, it is the same situation on both sides. The company has made an offer, but not a promise yet, and the candidate has not made promise either. If it is right for the company to suddenly go silent during negotiations, than it is al right for the candidates go silent during negotiations as well.

If it is all right for the company to have parallel negotiations with several candidates, it is quite ok for the candidates to have parallel negotiations with several potential employers.

Once the recruiter told me "I will call you in two hours". I had to rearrange my my plans, shorten my bike trip to be able to talk without obstruction . And then nothing - no mail, no phone, no explanations. This is not "We will contact you later" (meaning "go to hell"), but precise appointment, and a very short one. If the company is allowed to do such things, why should I not be?

If the company say they will announce the result of the hiring process in two weeks, and they do not do - this is unprofessional, and even more so, because they have people , whom they pay to do such things.

From my personal experience, the only companies that treated me well in case of failure, where the Japanese ones. They care enough to write a polite letter of refusal.

FYI I never went back on my word, not even, when I got a much better offer 2 hours after signing a contract - and everybody around told me, that I was wrong, because the employer would never actually care. Well, they tried to kick me off the project when I got sick half a year later, and I was saved only because my coworkers said that taking over my duties would require at least one month anyway - one of the eye opening experiences. The employer usually do not give a damn - but sometimes there are people, who do.

How beautiful. It is very biblical - they rip what they sow. Most of the companies have absolutely no right to complain about ghosting. They taught everybody that when you are not needed it is not worth an effort to even tell 'go away' to you. Apparently, this lecture was very efficient and now everybody uses this method. The only companies that refused me and still treated like a human being are some Japanese companies. When they said that by the date they will inform about the result of the hiring process, they always did. I was never left not knowing, what is the status. As for Europe, I never got any feedback, even if they promised to give one. Some British agencies went to the ridiculous level. I understand, that if you send somewhere your offer, you are subhuman enough not to deserve answer. I can even understand, that when they talk "We will contact you later", it actually means "f-off". However, if the recruiter tells you "I will call you in two hours", so you rearrange your agenda to make it possible talk to them in a quiet environment, and then when the time comes the only thing you get is silence, no phone, no mail, nothing - well, this is ridiculous. And then the same recruiter calls to you three weeks later saying about another offer... I still talk/write to them politely, because you never know, the Chinese proverb says "never spit into the well, you might drink water from it later", but frankly - now I do not believe a single word they say, and consequently, I treat them the same level as the guys selling the new best models of vacuum cleaners. How can I treat them more seriously. I write replies to them, sometime the next day, sometimes after 2-3 weeks, that I am sorry, but their offer was not really interesting. I still keep my word. I was discussing an offer. They refused me, told me they had better candidate - I was getting through insider reference, this is the only way to get any feedback. I said OK, no hard feelings, and then I accepted another contract. After a week they told me they actually want me, and "the better candidate" was apparently not as good - o perhaps, ghosted them.. I said "No, two hours ago I signed another contract". You know, the potential contract was closer to my dream job, so I had really hard time - but I decided I must keep my word. Actually, almost all people around told me I did wrong, and I should follow the dream and not the actual contract. So maybe I was wrong. But still this market tendency is not enough;-). Recently I wrote to a quite big software company, that is entering Japanese market. I wrote to them them, asking if they need a software engineer with 15 years of experience, and working knowledge of Japanese, including reading and some experience in the trenches on the local Japanese market - well, never heard of them, even no "no, thank you" note. So, I guess it is still surplus of people with my skills, but anyway - I have a job, so I really did not need them, just thought it could be fun to work between a European company and its Japanese clients. How should I respond in the unlikely event they ever call me?