For everyone who thinks "users" or "clients" is dehumanizing, it can in fact get worse. IMO "clients" isn't even that bad as a way to differentiate people you are serving from those you are not serving, but I would never be able to accept calling the people I help "customers". We are not doing business, this is a public service ffs.
This along with the upcoming damage to Canadian trade is why you're seeing a lot more Canadians talking shit. Of course we're pissed: Trump opening his dumb shit-eating mouth caused our dollar to lose 10-15 cents on the US dollar.
Also it's pretty funny that some Americans (like OP) think Europeans are jealous of them and that's why they shitpost about America. Americans need to actually talk to Europeans about this, because they will find out America is viewed as a deeply immoral and unequal country, stuck in a backward way of life because Americans think it's the greatest nation on Earth.
I used to spend more on new games but I have cut back a lot, largely because new games suck and are very poorly optimized. I have refused hardware upgrades due to the absurd costs and been playing more on my Steam Deck instead.
Currently playing State of Decay 2 and Helldivers 2, will circle back to Hogwarts Legacy, Core Keeper, and a few other games later.
Not the other user but I support a whole load of apps that run everything you can think of: printers, x-ray machines, radio frequency modelling, surveying equipment, forensic software/hardware, etc... it's a lot. The Windows 10 upgrade hit us hard enough but this one has been on another level, now that Microsoft is also consistently a source of issues. Updates get forced through sometimes, Microsoft turns on random experimental features in our environment, and some shit just cannot reliably be blocked or controlled at all.
Windows was sometimes annoying or difficult, but now it is hostile. This is unacceptable.
The wealthy all seem to understand that class solidarity is more important than any other issue. Why is it taking so long for everyone else to figure that out?
Those plates don't stop rifle rounds. The school shootings we hear about (actual mass shootings) nearly always involve a rifle. Given that fact, those plates are just useless weights.
It took me 3 years and over 700 applications to get two interviews and one underpaid job, which I took because it beat working for minimum wage and getting no experience. I worked that for 3 years and then they ran out of work for me. I was not able to leverage that experience into a new programming job despite my efforts and have since moved onto administration.
Yeah now I understand why so many admins hate "developers": they're actually real fucking ignorant about so many things, especially licensing. I've had to do battle with Oracle twice because our people don't understand the difference between personal use and commercial use.
100% this would be my reasoning. I love Python for prototyping and personal stuff, but on an enterprise team? There is a reason Java has survived this long.
I really don't get the use of AI to replace creative roles. At worst I've used it as a sort of "lorem ipsum" generator but for various placeholders. I think AI's true value is in understanding the sometimes overwhelming amount of documents, records, datasets and databases that organizations can amass. Being able to have an AI help sift through the garbage is real helpful actually.
I've seen governments using it to do things like handle access-to-information type requests or help patent examiners find relevant patents: those uses make a lot of sense.
Fuck no. A beginner learning base concepts like arrays, conditionals, loops, variables, functions, etc. should use something much less punishing like Python. It's much easier to iterate, to understand your mistakes, and to learn from others when you use a simpler language.
When you're ready to learn about pointers, memory management, etc. then you can take on Rust.
I hate so much that this is true. How did we manage to go so far backwards despite an army of UX designers? Oh wait...
But seriously it's all this bullshit driven by engagement and weird metrics no one likes. For some reason even our ticketing system at work is built like it's supposed to hold my attention rather than be a purpose-built tool for making my job easier.
For everyone who thinks "users" or "clients" is dehumanizing, it can in fact get worse. IMO "clients" isn't even that bad as a way to differentiate people you are serving from those you are not serving, but I would never be able to accept calling the people I help "customers". We are not doing business, this is a public service ffs.