Readit NewsIMO, that phrase is key. It's horrible to do this kind of thing to all of your employees as a matter of course, but I don't see an issue with doing it on an individual basis to specific employees who aren't getting their work done.
2. "The technology will improve" is not always a reliable strategy. Fusion is perpetually almost here, for example.
3. Without a federal money printer propping up the EV market it would not exist.
4. Just because a lifestyle works great for you, e.g. walkable cities and ebikes, doesnt mean it will work for everyone.
5. How far into a dictatorial, command economy, are we capable of going into to effect a massive energy transition, i.e. how much do we force changes a substantial number of people have serious problems with?
I would tax the beejesus out of energy use and personal road use and invert most income tax to make something closer to a free market than the US is.
With Paypal/Venmo/app-du-jour, in the event of an account takeover, the result might be different.
Check fraud is an old problem — as old as the checks themselves — and it's a problem well understood by the banks, the police, investigators, and judges. On the other hand, good luck explaining the police such obscure technical details as "they installed a proxy on my IP" or "they sim-swapped me to intercept the one-time password".
On another note, checks charge 0% commission: to pay someone $5, you need $5.
I agree it's suspicious though! I hope it's thoroughly investigated and his bail revoked if he is in violation.
I bought into the whole "do the minimal changes when they arise" thing for many years, but then I realised I was basically just slowly rediscovering what had already been discovered by plenty of others before me: the bundled desktops work fine, and they are not really the problem. The problem for me was actually just a need to feel in control while other things in life felt out of my control. That's probably why I still haven't kicked all suckless stuff entirely. But I would never advise anybody else to go down the suckless path. There are so many better hobbies to explore out there, incidentally so many hobbies that will put you in circles that are more enjoyable company than the suckless circles. Slowly iterating on your own personal set of keybindings and scripty doodads is the digital equivalent of spending an evening playing single player solitaire, except much less challenging.
I don't agree that you should spend time configuring and suckless makes configuration hard on purpose. I think the suckless philosophy embrasses vi over the embarrassing plugin/configuration hellscape of vim.
At least it seems oracle's stewardship of java is good enough (atm at least...).
Google was pretty much incompatible, they had no interest in workstations or paying for quality as their focus was redundant arrays on inexpensive machines.
Fujitsu was the best actual option for commercial compatibility, but everyone felt it would be a waste of time to pursue that as the USG would almost certainly block a foreign sale.
I think the language difference is a red herring.
I always felt they were hostile to understanding OSes and problems/solutions they provide and thereby limiting themselves to mostly junior C devs who didn't rock the boat by making real OS features for the JVM.