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Someone asked them in their comments section:

> Have you considered switching to a Static Site Generator? Write your posts in Markdown, push the change to your Git repo, have GitHub/GitLab automatically republish your website upon push, and end up with a very cacheable website that can be served from any simple Nginx/Apache. In theory this scales a lot better than a CMS-driven website.

Admins Response:

> That would be too much of a hassle. A proper CMS allows us to focus on writing.

Nothing against Bluesky, but I think we are all a little jaded after seeing decades of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" pattern.

When someone asks me what a software engineer's day is like I give them the following description:

"Remember back to high school math class. Now imagine 8 hours of high school math class back-to-back-to-back. Now add in "pop-quizes" (e.g. production issues) sometimes multiple times a day."

I think that once someone can relate to what day-to-day software engineering is like, they can empathize with why "walls" and "doors" are nice.

> Where is the proof that this results in lower price of machines?

It does. Source: Confidential

> You are tr[y]ing to justify a straight forward cash grab

No; I provided context without opinion.

> Edit: Quoted portion of your post so folks who can't see the text of deleted comments have some context.

I'm confused; I didn't delete anything, were you just assuming I would delete my comment? Also, your comment has this weird vibe; like you are trying to argue with me. However, I wasn't stating an opinion on the issue, merely explaining why propriety hardware and software is used by large machine manufactures.

What gets missed in this discussion is that John Deere and other large machine manufactures offset the purchase price of these machines with the expected cost of maintenance for the lifetime of the machine. This lets business owners (in this case farmers) obtain financing for machines that might in other situations be difficult to obtain. In other words, these large machine manufactures are taking on part of the cost to "finance" these machines because in the past other financial institutions have been reluctant to do so.

Love Java. Very much looking forward to LTS Java 21. <3

What we need is a nationalism of the electricity grid and power plants. A federally owned and operated electric grid solves this issue.

From my experience, exciting projects get assigned to people willing to work 50+ hour weeks and be on call nights and weekends if something breaks because these exciting new products are market-share grabs. If you have shown resistance to working long or late hours you will be put on projects that are not as time and availability sensitive.

Someone is wrong on the internet!

That is not entirely true. Using scene-chunking to multi-thread the encode means that the video buffer can not be transferred between scenes making the start of each scene visually worse in video streaming situations where the bit-rate is capped.

For example, a 2Mbps video stream will usually have a 4Mb video cache that can be used to preload data. Having this video cache means that a 2Mbps video stream can burst up to 6Mbps for one second while still maintaining a 2Mbps cap.

Cool but I'd much rather see someone sell a little server box where all I would need to do is plug it into my router and open up a port.

IE: If we are going to decentralize with Mastodon-style software lets actually decentralize the hardware used to host the system.

ScPrime and Storj use the blockchain to reduce micro-payment fees to data centers for data storage and bandwidth. Sure this could be done via traditional banking arrangements but the transaction fees would take a major bite out of the data center's profits.

I also do not like browsing for content on Netflix because whenever I pause on a title it starts playing trailer with sound when what I really want to do is look at the average user rating and read the premise blurb.