agressivelyPassive

I mean, they're literally called Activision, not Creativevision.

As it should be.

Offsetting is 95% green washing and thus actively harms climate efforts. Companies shouldn't get away with basically fraud.

That's why you use a proper IDE, that checks everything as you type.

Especially larger companies are sometimes structurally unable to effectively hire people.

I've been involved in the hiring process of a large company (>100k people at the time). The process goes something like this. The team lead needs a Java dev, announces that to the department head. DH whips out the standard dev requirements, these include some technologies that the department doesn't use anymore, and some the department may would like to use in the future.

That shebang goes to HR. They fluff everything up, add some aspirational stuff, like AI, so they sound more interesting.

Obviously, nobody fits the bill, HR will throw out anyone who doesn't confuse them enough with lies or jargon.

And even if you do get through, internal politics might get you. We had a pretty good candidate once, who was highly competent and had experience in teaching and training junior devs. He interviewed with two teams. My team gave him good grades, but we suggested that the other teams, full of fresh graduates, might profit more from his teaching experience. That was turned into "they don't want him", even though we explicitly said, he's a good hire. He didn't get the job. Absolute shame.

I'm aware that bodies will be eaten up, but I have to say, I have absolutely zero intuition, how long it will take.

Germany doesn't have many wild animals left, so only foxes, birds, maybe badgers and rats are left to eat larger chunks. They'll not exactly eat you in one go.

So, how long are we talking from body to bones? Weeks? Months?

All cool and dandy, until you have to type that random 50 letter string on your TV.

But many sites don't support that, unfortunately.

DHL for example will happily create an account for you with the "mail+xyz@gmail", but will sometimes drop the suffix internally. You can't reset your password for example. Super annoying.

Hey! I'm not useless! I cleaned my own coffee mug today and pushed not even ten bugs to production this week!

At least regarding the last point: maybe because there was no other option.

If you need specific features or have certain space constraints, you may end up with only two or three devices.

As an example: try to find a TV (not a monitor, a real TV with tuner, etc) without WiFi. Almost impossible.

I'm too lazy to come up with a witty money laundering joke.

Because it's advertised. That's why.

A remarkable (and actually concerning) percentage of people completely lack the critical thinking skills to question whether that's a good idea. The box says it has WiFi, WiFi is good, so I connect it to WiFi. Simple as that.

There are some cases, where scaling is relatively hard to achieve in a sane manner. Especially when you're in that weird place where you've grown out of the SME solutions, but can't really justify the enterprise solution yet. I've worked on such a project, switching to the big boy DB cluster was pushed back again and again because of very high upfront costs (licenses and staff).