Supersaiyan_IV

"In February 1998 Erlang was banned for new product development within Ericsson"

False statement. Ericsson still uses Erlang, for example in their MME. Source: I used to work at Ericsson.

Doing climate research in Fahrenheit in 2025 gives me second hand embarrassment.

Not sure companies having deals and negotiations is newsworthy. How about that deal where Qualcomm didn't pay to use ARM patents? At least that one's actually interesting.

Is this a sensationalist headline for Magnus Carlsen admitting to being distracted during a game? Get this junk off HN.

My sister completed a 3 year dentist technician education, only to decide that she doesn't want to work in the field. Why? Because of what you just described. Immoral dentists proposing the most expensive procedure regardless of the aesthetics or outcome, to milk insurance money. Rough framing of situation: same story you told, but imagine it's a young girl, that will be insecure for life because of a dentist's greed. He removed two front teeth and installed a bridge, which he orders from dentist technicians - that immediately observe from the order details how deeply immoral the procedure is.

The problem is that if dentis technicians speak up against a dentist, it usually means they lose a customer. Dentists will find someone else to fill their order. It's basically a mafia.

This happens in other fields as well, such as: shoving expensive pills down depressed teens throats to milk insurance money, then gain power of attorney over said kid to feed him 16 pills instead of one (true story, friend's son, named Bobby, would have otherwise recovered naturally, but is simply not himself anymore).

Here are a few problems:

* Money inventivizes immortal practices. Bigger (albeit unnecessary) procedure with lifetime consequences, but more insurance money. Or just money if you don't have insurance.

* The craft is polluted by bad role models. Normalizing said practices, effectively absolving young professionals from accountability.

* Flawed definition of good mentorship. Young Professionals need mentors that are a figurative handrail to honesty, and acceptance of feedback from peers. i.e. when dentists get remarks from dentist technicians that said procedure is unnecessary.

Oh, the software isn't Chinese at all. You can trust me on that one. Source: I don't work for Volvo anymore, but I've authored both Volvo and Polestar 2 code, some of it in the latest 2.10 update.

Discord, Usenet, IRC, and Hacker News, are the platforms that'll get flooded as Reddit rots. Hence, find a way to invest in one of them. No need to develop anything new, just support the things that actually work.

Slide into squeaky corporate office chair, and put on VR headset. Suffer small coffee burn while logging into Microsoft Windows VR. Login animation transitions to "Are you a human?". After a few runs in Mark Zuckerberg's Normal Handshake Simulator, verification ends with "Rate this app". Try to force a positive emotion, as to not get fired. Headset's brain activity sensor performs a satisfied beep, as Windows Hello Enterprise loads, while recording my eating habits based on my average heart-rate. Notice my feigns didn't work, as Windows VR Desktop layout has been updated with floating Unemployment Simulator VR ads to deter quitting. Tell Cortana to load VR skin. Steve Ballmer eating a cardboard donut starts Microsoft Teams VR while dancing like it's Windows 95 release, which transitions into an open landscape of people unintentionally slapping eachother while trying to mute their VR microphones. Join meeting, proceed to drool at 60 minutes of PowerPoint VR animations in slowmotion.

I really need to sleep.

What's the point of a home that depends on centralised Cloud services? "Sorry Dave, there's a bug in the Cloud, can't let you turn on that light-bulb".

Regardless, to those that's have no clue how to procure a good offline solution themselves, Alexa, Google, and Siri are the only options.

Or, simply don't?