Oh yeah I was specifically talking about all these new technologies, not just incremental improvements on the existing ones. Hybrid organic cells have been promised for a long time and it’s not just a question of scaling etc., but that they have had serious issues that have so far meant that they were a complete non-starter for any actual real-world use. I didn’t look into this any further so I don’t know of Longi solved the stability problem, though, so it may be that they’re finally actually ready to even start leaving the lab

Yeah, all these super-efficient panels are all well and good but like you said they’ve been promised for over a decade and have yet to leave the lab due to a bunch of different problems such as stability for these organic hybrids. I wonder if these newest ones have actually managed to solve the stability problem, or is this yet another cell revolution that’ll be coming Real Soon Now™ in 2034

It’s not like literally all Russian artillery gets destroyed before firing off a single shot. Fuzing absolutely does make a difference

Not all that cute though

Yeah, there’s a reason why they suddenly have a lot of trouble selling their military hardware even to countries that haven’t sanctioned them.

Well, other reasons in addition to the fact that the stuff they’re fielding themselves in Ukraine keeps getting blown the fuck up and they have had to replace it with something that was initially being built for an outside customer. “Yeah you remember those tanks you ordered? Weeelll you’re not going to be getting them quite on schedule, there’s been some… uh… complications. The turrets… they, uh… experienced rapid unplanned disassembly caused by… uh… assembly workers smoking in the crew compartment. Definitely not caused by inferior westoid antitank missiles in Ukraine, our cope cages work against those 100% of the time and it’s not like we’d use your tanks in combat, no siree Bob”

It’s not “Brussels” pushing for this, it’s braindead MEPs who were lobbied by various shady organizations

Reportedly the Russian factory workers are being paid quite well.

Paid well for Russian factory workers

And the lack of quality is just a myth I think. There’s no indication that’s actually true.

Then you haven’t been paying attention.

Yeah, was the C++ dev just “pre-empting” the PHP devs by ordering all their beers for them so they don’t do it one by one and sing the rest of the song?

Yeah. Government-owned companies producing shells that probably wouldn’t pass QC in “the west”, and paying employees a pittance in comparison. Also at least based on aerial photos, Russians seem to use contact fuzes a lot (you can see the difference from the “splash” patterns) which are a lot cheaper than airburst / multifunction fuzes, but admittedly those might well have been old Soviet stock and their new production could well be more modern.

Still, regardless of the fuze used it’s no surprise that Russian production is cheaper.

I, uh… I don’t get it. Somebody help an idiot out? I haven’t had my morning cuppa yet so it might just be a lack of caffeine.

Or a FAT meme you’re too young to understand? I honestly can’t remember if NTFS needs defragging or not, I haven’t used Windows since Win7

Programming is also for nerds.

Therefore, tests are for programmers.

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YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, YOU’RE NOT EVEN MY REAL DAD

On the other hand most Linux desktop users are Normie’s, think Steam deck and so on.

Jesus fuck what a statement. Your parents probably regret having you.

Management said that writing tests takes too much time and eats into the time that could be used to write features for the app, so they decided that we’re not writing tests. They were always green anyhow

I’ve been learning Swift recently, and I have a really ambiguous feelings about it as a language. It has many things I like, but it also feels like the dictionary definition of “designed by committee” with a billion features bolted on to it, with often multiple different ways of expressing the same thing (quick, how many syntaxes are there for closures?), and it feels like it’s overly complex because it has too many abstractions for doing approximately the same thing but not quite. Like concurrency and memory safety for example, where you have async and actors and tasks, the new isolation region stuff, the concurrent memory access rules that apply even outside of async contexts, borrow / consume etc. etc. and all of which interact in sometimes frankly fairly confusing and not too well documented ways.

Especially the concurrency and memory safety side could use some sort of overarching abstraction instead of a dozen different ones that get bolted on one at a time on top of each other as problems are discovered with the earlier ones. While eg. Pony isn’t a simple language as such, at least for me its reference capabilities + actors are much easier to reason with than Swift’s async + actors + tasks + isolation regions + memory access conflict rules + borrow / consume + kitchen sink setup

Probably the majority

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts

Which ultimately does seem to lead to innovation slowing down. The big players buy out any potential smaller competitors, and very often just outright kill the products / services they inherited in the acquisition.

It feels like actual innovation in all sectors has slowed to a crawl, and corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites – are concentrating more and more on just squeezing money out of people with various bullshit tactics, while at the same time thinning their workforce (naturally the MBAs are never under threat, though)

Microsoft security practices haven’t changed much over the decades