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I don't think anybody was suggesting to remove benches and replace them with stairs.

The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people this time.

Right, but at least with the expensive machine, one is making a conscious decision to spend a certain, known amount.

It doesn't seem to. My current place is all in on AWS and we have about 6 "DevOps" people dedicated to dealing with it all.

Last place we did pretty similar stuff with 3 data centers, all self hosted, self managed, mostly OSS stuff with about 6 sysadmins and way less hassle.

Batteries usually degrade. That's why people ask this question. We have all been carrying around phones with batteries that start to perform badly enough after a couple years that we end up buying a brand new phone.

Not everybody wants to buy a new phone every couple years, and not everybody agrees what a standard car lifetime is.

It's only 67% more. Practically the same price!

I have also never met a flat earther, or seen any discourse online that seems like such.

I am not convinced that they exist in nearly the kinds of numbers that folks like to suggest.

I recently managed to get my hands on a non-smart TV and bought a roku stand alone device for it. Mostly because the interface is simple and has been the same for years.

I prefer the moving fast and breaking things to stay away from our limited TV time.

I guess clear market winner depends on what one defines as market.

Anecdotally though, I have been working with medium sized startups in NYC that are heavily API driven for the last several years, and I haven't seen graphQL in production once. Not at my companies, nor in any external API we have interfaced with.

I will even go a step farther and day that I cannot recall a single time that another of the several dozens of devs or managers I have worked with has even mentioned the idea of using it.

I can only assume the market OP is referring to is a very specific one. I could make a guess or two, but wouldn't want to ruin the reader's enjoyment from doing the same.

I read mine also. The lender seemed way more surprised than I would have expected.

Then the title person later was like, "Almost all of this is standardized stuff. It's not really like you can negotiate it at this point."

Whatever, lady, I want to know what I'm signing, I want to see that this version matches the version I already signed last night (it didn't), and for half a million bucks, you can hang out for ten minutes while I do it.

Yeah but they break those laws for their own gain, not for you.

I was interviewing recently, and I asked everybody explicitly about remote. Any places that have wishy-washy answers or seemed enthusiastic to get software devs back into the office, I didn't continue with.

I have no way to know if I influenced anybody's thoughts or actions, but I communicated to everybody involved that I'm only interested in remote work, and told them that others I have spoken to feel the same.

That's not strictly true, I do know some folks that are looking forward to getting back to the office, but I tried to do my part anyway.

I think in a couple years we will be back to a pretty high percentage of positions being onsite. Right now there is a small window of time to really drive home the idea that there is a sizable group of folks who will refuse to commute to an office, and hopefully at least influence the number of future remote opportunities a little bit more in our favor.

I use a single git repo for all my personal project docs.

This is it. I actually took a small pay cut this year to work for a company that is guaranteed remote friendly.

The peace of mind knowing that these guys already had remote engineers before the pandemic and a good workflow, and having a job that is officially and permanently remote is absolutely worth a few thousand bucks to me.

I was dreading going back to the office, even if only a day or two a week.

Counting the commute I would have otherwise been going back to with my previous company that was super excited to get asses back in seats, I'm probably actually getting paid more per hour of my time dedicated to work activities.

And just like the TV's, it will never be allowed to happen.

I don't understand why churches would say that, when they were the cornerstone of culture until a few tens of years ago.