jason0597

I work as an Equipment Reliability Engineer at a nuclear power station. The only programming we are allowed to use is Microsoft Excel Macros, nothing else. There’s a reason why VBA is still alive.

My apologies, I've been up for 18hrs today

Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job

make recompiles source code files by detecting the last modified date on a file, hence it only recompiles source files as necessary. So if you have 10 source files with 5000 lines of C in them, and you only change one of them, it will not recompile everything, it will only recompile that source file which has changed.

Which makes me agree with the parent above, I don't see how exactly Ccache is supposed to be used. Maybe for a distributed source directory with many developers working on it?

Because it means less eyeballs on the front page, hence less ad revenue

I think that's an exaggeration of how it works in Europe, it is not the case that it "sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways"

The level of crime in Rotterdam is lower than in San Francisco though

This is exactly my experience with my differential equation lessons in my maths classes at Year 1 and Year 2 undergraduate chemical engineering. The way we were told to just follow the instructions and not have any critical thinking at all about what we were doing made me so unmotivated that I sort of gave up learning differential equations. I was lucky this was during lockdown, so I was assessed by online tests and was able to get through it, but my god was the teaching so so unengaging.

When AMD or NVIDIA sell GPUs to scalpers, and those scalpers resell the GPUs and keep the profit, there's outrage about it. Nobody ever says to "build more GPUs" to fix the problem.

When houses and new developments get snatched up by investors and landlords as buy-to-lets (or even by Blackrock and pension funds), there is little outrage and calls for restricting who can buy them. The same argument is rehashed over and over and over again. Just build more houses!

I feel that there is a disconnect between these two schools of thought. I personally believe that, while indeed more houses should be built, we should also have a serious discussion about whether houses should be sold en-masse to very wealthy investors

Same stuff can happen with Windows too with unexpected updates. Not sure about Mac though, I've never used one.

As per the comment:

> it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other device including my phone.