I doubt FEMA money is actually used for the immigrant stunt and Florida is not unprepared for hurricanes. Florida actually has pretty good stormwater management infrastructure, mostly because it has to. Homes in South Florida are also required to be built out of concrete block and have hurricane windows. Point being: Florida is decently prepared for storms. Could it be better? Of course. But I would not say Florida is complete unprepared. I do think there needs to be changes to insurance and government aid though. We're distributing (read: subsidizing) a lot of the cost of living in an expensive area. We're seeing ripples of this with insurance companies not wanting to insure houses in Florida. That or making it more expensive to get insurance directly (premiums) and indirectly (you can't have a roof over 10 years old in some cases because, by law, they have to pay to replace a roof if a few shingles come off).

I say Florida a lot because I lived there up until recently, I can't speak for other states.

> I doubt FEMA money is actually used for the immigrant stunt

An assertion is that money is fungible, so $12mln spent on a stunt in Texas could have been spent on breakwaters, infill, or to move less stable homes from the immediate coast. (Or to have more building inspection before Surfside's incident)

Companies want to pay less to work with COBOL? I was always told you’d get a nice bump to work with COBOL because so few people are still around to maintain these critical systems?

And you think they want to pay those rates ?

The whole point seems to be to convince people to learnt hat so they don't have to rely on some near-retirement people and also able to pay them less.

Same reason big tech companies are so desperately funding "learn to code" programs, especially in high school.

Don't think for a second that the software engineering gravy train won't come to a screeching end as soon as supply catches up with demand.

I wouldn't even be surprised if us SE's eventually try to heavily license and gatekeep the industry like law and medicine, loading new workers up with 6 figures of debt and significant post bachelors requirements, in order to keep our salaries artificially high. Medicine in the US seems to be especially damaged by this.

Ugh - I never thought of this (I work in IT) but I unfortunately could see this happening in the future. Weird times - Your healthcare example is unfortunately completely spot on

American medicine is made increasingly worse by legal liability.

From what I've observed by my conversations with friends and family in medicine, actual physicians increasingly do very little hands on work (with the exception of surgeons) and instead essentially just manage lesser educated technicians, especially RNs and advanced PAs, NPs, and CRNAs, who do the actual work. The physician essentially just stands around and observes but importantly takes most of the legal liability when things inevitably go wrong.

I think this is a huge part of the reason healthcare in the US is so expensive.

Perhaps the future of software engineering will look similar, with principle engineers and architects being like physicians. Extremely well educated, but almost no hands on experience writing code.

Could you imagine if there actually was legal liability for software developers? Imagine a world where ethics considerations actually mattered. Maybe we'd have fewer evil software corporations?

> Imagine a world where ethics considerations actually mattered.

Ahh yes, the rest of the non-software companies in the world.

Any actual CS engineering degree based job in Europe, by law..

I would be happy with a functional tested product.

It is just that FANG and VC funded startups are so highly compensated that they go even higher.

I'm on the wrong continent for FANG/VC funded startups. COBOL was still considered a downgrade vs Java/PHP/NodeJS/... , with a paycut. Why would they pay junior you more than they pay their senior cobolists now?

Of course, the pensioning age of those cobolists might give them a reason in the extremely near future ;-)

It makes me want an extension that redirects to the lite version of every site if it exists.

If so few users care about security, why should the government regulate for that outcome?

I think theoretically the argument above makes sense, but in reality it doesn't. The market that exists doesn't provide a solution because the barrier to entry is basically infinite. Even Microsoft couldn't offer an alternative to iOS and Android because Microsoft couldn't do it alone. It's a natural monopoly problem, which means normal market arguments don't work.

You are right. And I hate it.

Do they? Having a stable starting point for the “machine” you’re building on contributes to having reproducible builds does it not?

Only the scenario where development and target machine match 1:1 in hardware and underlying software stack.

Just changing the kernel under which the container runs can break havoc on the "reproducible" build.

I disagree on the importance you’re putting on what I think are edge cases for most development. When I’m building a binary, the biggest issue I tend to run into is the “machine” I’m building it on. Docker allows that “machine” to have reproducibly equivalent dependencies. Same version of Node, .NET, Java, etc. I don’t see how the kernel really matters that much here. I’ve never once cared what Linux kernel I’m on, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to figure which exact version of Cordova I need with Ionic or whatever mess of dependencies I need.

Maybe kinda, but really you'd want reproducible cross-compilation too, so a reproducible build should produce the same binary regardless of which machine it is run on.

"Identical binaries" is not the same thing as "reproducible builds". It's maybe one aspect of one type of CI/CD, but I would say not even the majority.

I meant "reproducible builds" in the sense of: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/definition/

> A build is reproducible if given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts.

Thank you for sharing this. This issue is constant but I’ve never had it explained so well.

There's a weird inversion of the Thermocline happening in the past few years, with "activists." Social Media can so amplify the voices of "activists," that they gain power which people are afraid to speak out against. Especially if the power is based on mob mentality. Especially if power is given over to accusation without evidence. (This is borne out by history. McCarthy, for example.) So when certain people go too far -- and given how power corrupts, it's inevitable that sudden onsets of power will corrupt -- people who should be saying "wait a minute" are saying nothing.

All power is fleeting.

All power is contextual.

Any one who tries to deny these truths, is attempting some manner of deception to further their own power at someone else's expense.

Management never seems to understand anything besides direct dollars. How much time has it cost the company to switch to Teams? It's definitely not zero.

Teams also has an SLA and built in policies for retention, search, and auditing, which Discord does not have because it's a free, consumer service. Which is why I desperately want them to make a enterprise version.

Thank you for the well written comment. You gave me a new perspective that changed my viewpoint.