The answer that the status service websites will tell you: we automatically detect outages by performing http requests and checking responses for errors

the actual answer: some overworked developer gets woken up at 3am via pagerduty and manually set the status website to an outage state

Honestly, I’m surprised the other two-thirds aren’t too. What do they have to benefit from being parasites on society.

No. But not because of AI. There’s currently hundreds of thousands of out of work people surrounding tech. You’re competing with them for every job.

Even then, most of engineering isn’t in the nuts and bolts of putting it together. It’s in the endless discussions and decisions that lead to the nuts and bolts.

I feel like this is a very modern problem with the community. I’ve been in open source for a long time, I’ve been employed by some of these companies to write open source things.

Most open source stuff was created by someone who was employed to write that open source thing. There are exceptions, of course, but most things came about because of a need, and that need is often related to work. Companies used to be a lot better with allowing open sourcing of components.

Then, there are all the community contributions that come from commercial reasons. If someone working at a company fixes a bug they encounter, that’s someone being paid to write open source software.

I do not understand the reaction people are having to this now. The open source ecosystem was built on this.

It’s more likely that they see rust as a good successor to their legacy c++ code. Microsoft has always been heavily invested in C++ after all.

They don’t want to sell rust. It’s not a money maker for them.

If you can’t defeat this unless bucket of tory rejects that were never supposed to advance further than the back bench with policy, and have to build a “bulletproof” manifesto. Then you’ve no hope.

Don’t let the article being a bit clickbaity diswade you from the actual good this law is doing, however. It’s a good thing and a good solid step forward to curb the disposable economy we’ve had for the past 20 years.

Yeah, but the other guy seems just to be mad about the timed demo thing. The online thing is different

Okay, but that hasn’t been true basically forever. The 15-minute (less?) Resident evil 2 demo comes to mind. I remember Rollercoaster Tycoon being a timed demo too.

Timed demos have been around forever even if you don’t like the concept.

You know what else is dumb? Shooting down a plane full of civilians from another country and yet they did that too.

That Russia is capable and willing to (try) to shoot down anything they want in the sky. For whatever reason. What was the good, solid, well thought out reason for shooting down the commercial jet with hundreds of civilians on it, in your opinion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-defence-minister-wallace-russian-aircraft-fired-missile-near-british-plane-2022-10-20/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66599733

country known for firing missiles at non-combatant and commercial planes has a plane full of political power suddenly crash. a mystery for sure.

The tos applies to their service, that is, they have a cloud service, and you have to abide the tos to use it. It doesn’t factor into hardware or software specifically but their hardware and software might not work without the service

This is a profoundly American problem op. The rest of the world does not have these issues. Contact you’re representatives and ask them why this is the only place in the world that has this issue.

no, heat pumps are rated for and work most efficiently at a specific temperature range. You’re pumping energy from outside in, so the outside temperature matters a lot.

you can have all the insulation in the world and it won’t matter if the heat pump can’t transfer that energy.

What about the content creators? I don’t care about Google, but I want the people who make the things I enjoy to get paid.

Sure, you can subscribe to patreons, but you can’t subscribe to everyone’s, and frankly, 99% of people don’t subscribe to any.

I guess we can all just say ha doesn’t matter I got mine and try to not think about it. I guess that is the plan.

His ilk, want jobs in five years, they want the power in five years. They want to ensure that more than they want six months more power this year.

The tory Party isn’t the pm, it’s likely what they want - which is useful power - doesn’t fit into this thinking.

What’s better, an extra few months of nothing particularly useful that can be reversed as soon as they lose government or focusing on GE 2029.

The fact is that the next few years in Britain is going to be absolutely dire, and being able to point at Labour through that is probably the next messaging. The sooner they can get Labour to try (and likely fail) to deal with the mess they created, the better their GE 2029 prospects are

They also likely want to retain as many seats as they have now, they aren’t going to retain more by waiting.

That’s not absuing it, that’s it being successfully used.

We want young people to use public transport, oh no, the young people are using public transport, the horror.