On some level yes, but ultimately the worst cases of poorly invested time make me learn to spend my time better, so it wasn't entirely wasted - I like to think of it as a learning experience.
What I am more concerned about is subtle time wasting, sprinkled all throughout daily life in the form of various technologies and media mainly. It's so hard to get a feeling for how much time you are really spending there and it's even harder to escape it.
Have to agree, it's a funny story but charging someone a stupidity rate for nonexistent work isn't justified by that person being stupid and a pain in your ass. Unless your circumstances force you, you can always just refuse work from customers like this. So many people downvoting this is disappointing.
Thank you for sharing these links, this is some very interesting context to Orwell and his writing. It seems I read 1984 quite naively, though some things did seem off even then.
By this logic, you want a complete monopoly of a single platform? Because that's the only possible way to have "no barrier". Unless GitHub starts federating with some kind of standardized protocol. This is a huge technological and monetary barrier for GitHub, which is why it will never happen on its own, so if users are not willing to try platform-independent workflows then the problem is frankly not the competing platforms.
I wouldn't say "need", but there are possible improvements to ergonomics and safety that wouldn't make the language itself more complex or high level. I think it does its job quite well though and will be here for decades to come.
This is only true for the merge request workflow and not at all a problem for the patch workflow, which can work entirely via email (and is in my eyes simpler). Have a look at https://git-send-email.io/ if you want to learn about it. This is the true decentralized spirit of git. :)
I would not recommend addictive and harmful habits like smoking tobacco/pot and drinking as a coping mechanism, it can go real bad and can make it harder to get out of that hole again.
Its cross-platform support (not just for using but also for building it) is not there yet, and it is quite huge and unstandardized with only one full implementation. I'd agree the last part will change with age, but given the frequent large changes and feature additions I am afraid it will be harder and harder and it is simply too complex and fast-moving for many low-level applications. It is closer to C++ than C in my eyes. I'd be happy seeing it replace C++ though for its memory safety benefits!
How has nobody said the meat and cheese yet? Besides the sauce of course. But there is a mountain of research about the health risks of meat and dairy consumption, from elevating cancer risk to heart disease etc:
There are transcripts and citations available at those links, as well as a lot more information about other topics. Since these are huge industries, there is a lot of money put in bogus research and advertising to show apparent health benefits and downplay risks, but the scientific consensus looks very different.
I actually first assumed that they meant three dimensional volume when I read "size" and wondered how we saw such a tiny comet. Quite confusing (read: bad) choice of title...
Then perhaps a better phrasing is "may be the only way to feel warm and get to sleep", even if it doesn't actually warm you.