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An employee wants more than money. If I have the feeling that I grow, I stay longer. If I get the feeling that they want to keep me down, I leave sooner. Simple as that.

If you increase the skillset of your employees you get back something along the way, so it's not just money wasted but also collecting a lot of interest. Also you become attractive for employees who want to grow. It's easy for the beancounters to count all the wasted money but it's not so easy to evaluate the real productivity that such employees give back. Maybe if companies were allowed to trade employees like cattle that mindset would change.

Forgetting about the enormous heat sink is a typical rookie mistake. Those things produce lots of heat when you try to cool something. They are much better suited for heating something to a specific temperature than cooling.

One advantage that they have is that they can pump the heat in both directions and change direction very quickly. This means that you can keep temperature very precisely with a closed regulation loop.

Would he use C++ or Rust?

Providing base technology doesn't seem to lead to financial success. You have to provide more concrete solutions for companies and people instead of the abstract infrastructure. I wonder if protection of the base technology through software patents could have averted this looming financial disaster.

It could easily be replaced by an electron app running a QEMU in JavaScript emulating an virtual machine running Windows 3.11 on an Rasperry PI terminal connected to a cloud server located at the edge for maximum performance paid for by real-time Bitcoin micropayments.

One of the reasons why the prohibition of alcohol failed but cannabis is illegal has to do with the DIY-supply. Everyone could brew some alcohol at home. Growing a hemp field is not so easy to do undetected and therefore much easier to enforce. Cheap artificial lighting did have some impact but this yeast (if it works well) could be a real game changer.

> I don't think it changes until the next generation comes.

The next generation of professors.

GNU/Octave has a great strength and weakness that it uses the Matlab language. This is great for many who are educated with Matlab but don't know much else. After some time I found Python and the ecosystem around numpy/scipy/matplotlib fit my problems much better. Python just much more flexible and better suited for general programming tasks than that weird matrix oriented language.

Why should anyone use Octave over Matlab?

- Licensing cost.

- Freedom.

Why should anyone learn Octave instead of Python?

- It's a bit easier to get started for scientists who are not programmers.

- If you mostly do vector/matrix math, the language is nice.

- Otherwise I don't know any good point.

All in all I like a free alternative to Matlab but have the feeling that most people are just better served by joining the much bigger Python ecosystem. (Or maybe R/Julia/Rust which I don't know so much about in this context.)

Yes, the fish we catch will die out. Bad for us because we don't have any good fish left over.

What I'm also saying is that I think that other fish (or lifeforms in general) will take their place.

I agree that taking one specific animal out of a complex system that had a long time to adjust will produce big changes. Killing the wolves allowed the deer to thrive. We wanted lots of deer, so that was good for some time. Now we don't hunt enough of them, so we need wolves again.

I agree that the oceans change - a lot - due to human influence. Some species will dwindle in numbers and disappear. It takes a long time for new species to emerge. But what I'm not so sure is that the overall change necessarily would have to be so negative in the long run.

Doesn't the extraction of fish have a positive impact on the O2 balance?

I thought that overfishing the kinds of big fish we like to eat will just lead to a growing population of smaller fish and other marine life.

> MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar.

For me, the keyboard kills it. It feels cheap. It almost feels like there's no keys at all like the glass surface that is rumored to come. I'm sure that's great for people who are media consumers but producers of media and software often like to have a keyboard. To me it feels like they missed the market and try to sell products at premium price to normal customers.

Also, the lack of HDMI and one USB-A port on each side would hinder my workflow.

They are probably the fastest dicts and lists we can imagine today. If you really need lists and dicts for your data, you need them and won't gain much. But if you don't need them and instead could use something simpler, an array of C structs would be much faster than a list of dicts.