You should always question if the requirements you get make sense.
And? How would that help if they have no clue about how that specific system was supposed to work?
Readit Newsffgjgf1 commented on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) medium.com/javascript-sce... · Posted by u/agomez314
Good news, installing Linux doesn't teleport me into your living room. Complaining about other users is just another lame cope windows users use to excuse themselves (which wouldn't even be necessary if they were actually happy with their choice to use windows.)
It’s kind of weird that you’re so concerned about the happiness of Windows users…
To be honest I’m surprisingly happy* about Windows 11, after minimal amount of tweaking (less than I need on any Linux distro I tried to make it usable) I turned off most of the annoying stuff and I don’t really have much to complain about it + WSL
*the only thing I really want from an OS these days is to stay out of my way and require the minimal amount of pointless busywork from me (all the package management nonsense on Linux + permanent issues with Nvidia’s drivers).
> they're products we don't -need-. If you already have a smartphone, that's good enough.
I disagree.
If LinkedIn made AR glasses that told me who the person is I’m looking at (that I’m connected to on LinkedIn) and why/how we were connected, I’d buy that in a heartbeat.
> If LinkedIn made AR glasses that told me who the person is I’m looking
I could only hope that the EU would ban it ASAP if such a product existed making it unviable anywhere else. Except maybe China and such, should be pretty useful for the CCP enforcement agencies.
“You don’t need an explicit conspiracy for pig butchering. It’s a natural outcome of competition in the black market and extremely poor security and training.”
If you can actually draw a distinction between what scammers do and what companies do other than “we explicitly have laws on the books to treat it as a crime” I’d love to hear it. There’s a lot of similarities between corporations and criminal organizational - it’s just groups of people who are trying to make money.
And as for who deserves to go to prison, the ratings agencies refused to pay market rates to retain talent being poached by the banks. The same happens in government. So basically the banks continually poach the best people and create incentives to keep the status quo and for regulators to turn a blind eye so that they can land at the bank later. You can go after the regulators but I don’t think that’s going to be an effective strategy to solve the problem.
> You don’t need an explicit conspiracy for pig butchering
Yeah but IMO the scam part is mostly tangential. It hardly matters what did the CEO do with the stolen money, he could have gambled it away at a casino or bought a yacht with it, at the end of the day he still stole it and that’s the crime we’re discussing here.
> You can go after the regulators but I don’t think that’s going to be an effective strategy to solve the problem.
Yes, but going after the bankers would have exposed the extreme incompetence by the regulators and if you started unwinding the whole thing it would have affected a lot of high level people in government. So it’s rather obvious that that they had very little desire to prosecute anyone.
And it hardly matters who deserves what since you can’t send anyone who was just exploiting loopholes and didn’t clearly brake any laws regardless how immoral or unethical their actions were.
ffgjgf1 commented on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) medium.com/javascript-sce... · Posted by u/agomez314
Shareholders of Boeing killed them in the end. They wanted these profits and stock prices, but sadly they are the group that is protected.
Most shareholders hardly have a say on how major public companies are run. Thr Only signal they have is by buying/selling stock or not even that if you only own your shares indirectly through an ETF.
ffgjgf1 commented on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) medium.com/javascript-sce... · Posted by u/agomez314
They're not solely responsible, but they are responsible.
If they fulfilled the requirements provided to them I don’t see how that could be the case. Even if they didn’t it was Boeing’s job to verify that.
It’s a bit like blaming low level construction workers for a bridge that collapsed (assuming they didn’t sabotage anything on purpose).
ffgjgf1 commented on Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019) medium.com/javascript-sce... · Posted by u/agomez314
So let's assume the following:
You outsource your software development to some country with quite low average monthly salary. Say some country in eastern Europe, where average salary is $500 / month.
Then you only hire from the top CS programs in the country and pay them, say, 3 times the national average - so $1500 / month. Given 150 work hours in a month, that comes out to $10/hour gross pay.
You get good engineers, pay less, and they earn more than they'd get from pretty much any domestic employer.
If the average software dev in the US makes, dunno, $70k / year, then that would be the equivalent of getting hired on a $210k / salary.
Of course, it's not all smooth sailing - but I think the important part here is to keep in mind that pay is relative. What could be a pitiful salary in rich western countries, could be a very good salary other places.
> Say some country in eastern Europe, where average salary is $500 / month.
Then you only hire from the top CS programs in the country and pay them, say, 3 times the national average - so $1500 / month.
This is 10-15 years out of date. And even then it was hardly ever as straightforward as that. And only ever applied to junior and maybe mid level developers or those who couldn’t effectively communicate in English. High skilled one were significantly more mobile and were basically competing with a much more global pool of developers. They could relatively easily move (if not to the US then at least Western Europe so your potential savings were usually limited to the difference in CoL + some premium).
This led to pretty high inequality based on skill/experience e.g. to top CS graduates could expect their income to increase by 3x if not more over the next 5 years after graduation.
Yeah, no. Credit agencies weren’t hapless victims of market forces.
> Another email between colleagues at Standard & Poor's written before the bubble burst, suggests awareness of what would happen to the securities they were giving top ratings to: "Rating agencies continue to create and [sic] even bigger monster--the CDO market. Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters."
They were willing participants precisely because they were making huge fees to look the other way.
> One study of "6,500 structured debt ratings" produced by Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch, found ratings by agencies "biased in favour of issuer clients that provide the agencies with more rating business. This result points to a powerful conflict of interest, which goes beyond the occasional disagreement among employees."
These kinds of things are deals negotiated at the highest level of the companies involved. Credit agencies were paid to give the crime the banks were doing a veneer of respectability.
> These kinds of things are deals negotiated at the highest level of the companies involved
To me it just seems a more or less natural outcome of the major structural flaws in the whole business model. I’m not sure you need an explicit conspiracy for credit agencies to begin behaving in such a way that maximizes their revenue, it was mostly just a natural outcome of competition and extremely useless and inefficient regulation. If anyone deserves to go to prison it’s the people who were supposed to be regulating the banking industry.
Obviously the Federal government had zero interest in doing that but if they only went after the bankers it would have quickly become obvious that they are not the only ones to blame.
Most devs use cross-platform game engines which have native elf/linux/vulkan3D baked in (unity, UE5, etc).
Many of those that do also use a bunch of various custom native plugins, middleware etc.
And if we look the most popular/largest games the proportion that use Unreal/Unity gets much lower.
Backwards compatibility is also a thing. If you ship a binary for Windows you can be pretty sure that it will work for 10-20+ years, that’s hardly the case for Linux (because its developers hate proprietary binary software due to irrational “reasons”).
I’m saying there will be a market.
They need to get the weight and price down substantially.
Perhaps, but how is the price or popularity of MacBook pros particularly related to that?