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It's directed at Iran. It basically sends the message "We don't want to attack, but if you do, we will defend our interests". This makes it clear that the US is not interested in aggression, but will make any attack on Israel extremely expensive for Iran.

Absolutely. I barely touch code anymore, but I talk about how to touch code a lot.

As a fellow baltic sea dweller, I really need that statue somewhere in my neighborhood.

Yes, I forgot that, it was a long day.

In general, one should check how much power actually costs versus buying a new device.

Even in Germany, having something draw 1W 24/7 costs something like 20 cents. It's really not worth the hassle or money to micro optimize and buy something like an SSD.

Very little substance or conclusions. While technology is improving, you're not reading into account AI investment is a bubble.

AI can certainly help, but not a single one was able to consistently deliver good results. A technology that needs constant supervision by an actual expert isn't really all that useful. And this is not just a problem of scale. It's a limitation of the current approach. Throwing billions at a problem to save a few millions just isn't worth it.

Ok, now I have to assume you're trolling.

Look at my comments above, that they're not the first is exactly my point. They re-invent things instead of investing a tenth of the effort in the existing solution and their solutions are worse.

And please don't come with that corporate apologetics. You make it seem like a corporation never makes any errors whatsoever and even the stupidest error isn't just stupidity, but corporate genius we mere mortals just don't understand. That's not the case. Canonical simply is not very good at this.

Yes, maybe they do have some products that do work and are actually better than the competition, but again, actually read my comments and you'll see that I already covered that.

Seriously, are you paid by them?

You obviously don't understand my point. If we want to flex, I have a combined CS/business degree, so I do understand the system quite well.

What canonical is doing is essentially a make or buy decision. Make our own solution or "buy" an existing one. Since in the foss world buying is almost free, you have to have good reasons to invest quite a lot of money into developing your own solution. Good reasons would be better technology, better integration into the existing ecosystem, lower costs, etc - or vendor lock-in.

Canonicals solutions are never better than what the community already agreed upon. They are not cheaper for Canonical, since they have to do all the heavy lifting themselves. They don't integrate better, since the rest of the system is more or less vanilla Linux.

So the only remaining rationale would be vendor lock-in. Canonical wants its customers to build upon their products so that it can retain those customers easier. This might actually be a valid reason for snap. Canonical has kind of cornered the market here, but it's definitely not true for Mir, Unity, etc. Those were doomed from the start and a huge waste of money.

You see, wasting money is not productive. It's kind of the opposite.

They "think" that, but it's definitely not the case.

Apart from the obvious vendor lock-in, their solutions were never the better approach from a technical or usability standpoint. Snaps aren't that great, their Wayland competitor wasn't particularly good, Unity was divisive. So they put tons of work into bad solutions for problems that have been solved elsewhere and better. Not the smartest business move.

Well, first of all, that term has been coined by Max Weber, who wrote that at least in part about Germany as well.

Anyway, the behavior you described is also kind of self inflicted pain. Developers simply don't have much room to grow, unless you want to get into management, and there are countless cushy, well paying, but somewhat boring jobs where you can just coast along doing 40h. And that's perfectly fine. But for some reason, Americans seem to be unable to get out of their total competition mindset and absolutely need to grind all the time and especially need to talk about how they are grinding.

Based on my own experience (albeit in Germany) that's all too often a problem we create ourselves. Devs don't like to be late or seem bad, so they'll take deadlines seriously, even though deadlines are almost always made up and irrelevant.

This is of course not helped by the fact that most of us actually like what we do. Last week I closed my work laptop where I wrote a deployment pipeline, and opened my own laptop - to write a deployment pipeline.

And that world would be much cooler.