Reason is a shit rag, and I don’t think their slop should be posted.

Sweden did something similar for a long time, making every owner of a TV pay a license fee. Then the enforcing body tried to reclassify all computers as TVs, including smartphones, since these could technically access the online streaming version of the state-owned media. A ridiculous interpretation that was ultimately struck down in court.

All this did was cause unnecessary friction, and kept a bunch of really useless people on payroll to collect this fee.

We resolved it in the end by just making it a tax instead, and it’s never been better. Rest in piss, Radiotjänst, nobody ever liked you

Idk how that’s going to go.

This was a hilariously toxic game by the way, coming from someone who played and enjoyed it as a teen. Seriously, even the developers were completely insane

It would be so hilarious if he actually did something so fucking dumb as put tariffs on Taiwan. Please self-destruct already and please do it quickly, you fucking loser

Buying assumes a willing seller, and I don’t think ByteDance are willing.

What a joke. Who would ever choose having their shit taken away after a year?

I’m not sure if you’re up to date on how layoffs have been done lately in tech, but management has been primary targets in layoffs. Full layers of management have been removed, and middle managers have often been expected to take on twice as many reports for no increase in compensation.

No comments on the C-level part which is largely correct

Indeed! I was planning on mentioning that as well but forgot.

IKEA is an acronym: Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd - the name of the founder Ingvar Kamprad, the village of Elmtaryd (now spelled Älmtaryd) located in the parish of Agunnaryd.

Älmtaryd/Agunnaryd are located in Småland.

It is indeed.

It’s a bit of a play on words, since Småland literally translates to Small land, making it apt as this is where you can leave your children at IKEA.

I looked up the etymology of the name out of interest, and it seems like it stems from it being made up of a collection of smaller self-ruling villages, located between Skåne that has often been under Danish control, and Götaland which was controlled by Götar.

Note that there’s a typo in the source article:

One woman, from the southern province of Smålandeven, Småland, even managed to get Social Security benefits for calling in gay.

This is what feature flags are for. You can test in production to your hearts content if you use them!

heatpumps don’t work below about -20C

I don’t think that’s true? There are cold weather models that can work at COPs > 1.5 at -30C. Are we talking about a sizing constraint for the model here, perhaps?

The hot dog-operator

There’s no sense in spending limited public funding on nuclear now - renewables and storage is winning on all fronts.

Shutting down what nuclear existed was a costly mistake, but going down that path again is an even worse one

I would say thats mostly because of Company policies since devs would use the same tools you would use in a linux box.

Not at all the case for me and for other devs where I work. We can freely choose to run Linux, and some people do (mostly backend devs). M-series MacBooks dominate though because of the simple fact that they are just so much more powerful than the alternatives.

Since you’re doing Android development, you’re probably saving some very significant amount of compile time, if you’re running an M-series MacBook Pro.

When the M1 was released there were actually stories of companies sidestepping normal device replacement policies and upgrading all mobile devs to M1s because of the time savings involved, which should tell you something about the power in these machines.

Since the release of the M-series, the MacBook Pros have gone from being primarily a fashion item to becoming primarily a tool for work - someone made the apt comparison that the previous MacBooks were trying to be Lamborghinis - pretty to look at at the expense of functionality, while the M-series are tractors - tools to accomplish jobs.

Push those feelings aside and try it for a while.

Is this satire?

If not, who would you say is the dictator of Vietnam?

I swear to god, if the west can’t get their shit together real fast I’m going to have to start learning some mandarin

I don’t think the Android devs with iPhones are yearning for Xcode.

Having used both, Android Studio is far superior in my opinion. Most iOS devs I talk to seem to have a particular disdain for Xcode as well, so that seems to track.

Does anyone ever actually ‘want’ Xcode? Is it not just a necessary evil to be able to do iOS development?

Agreed otherwise, M-series macs are sick as hell