If you hate billionaires but like steak, have you tried eating the rich?

That’s just what they want you to think.

It really comes down to what you’re used to. If you use Windows tools then you already know many of the workarounds for Windows and you don’t know the tools that haven’t been ported there.

For example, you know not to use Python directly, but that you have to install anaconda instead, or whatever the current problems with Python development on Windows are.

The big obvious thing that you can’t get away from is that you have to do things differently if you have develop for two different OSs with a view to deploying on Linux.

In particular support for shell scripts is crap on Windows. I could learn powershell or there’s workarounds using WSL and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t need to care about, but I’d rather not bother.

I mean coding is difficult enough as it is, I wouldn’t choose to use an OS that makes it even harder.

I use Linux because it makes my life easier. It has better support for development. Some of the other stuff is maybe not as easy or polished, but the support for dev tools and the ease of deploying to from local machines to servers that are also running Linux makes up for it.

If I wanted more effort I’d still be using Windows. It would force me to work on cross platform development and deployment. The idea that there’s value in making things unnecessarily hard is just weird. I want Linux to be as simple as possible to use, so I can spend that effort on things that actually matter.

Amazon are also dicks about sick leave. I’m sure forcing people to work, and work hard, when they’re ill leads to complications.

Why is this the first step and not any of the other things that have been around for years?

We have logic reasoning in the form of prolog, bots that are fun to play against in computer games, computers that can win in chess and go against the best players in the world, and computer vision is starting to be useful.

Lots of the cheap Chinese watches Xiaomi, amazfit etc do a rectangular face. Rectangular lets you use standard screens and is cheaper and easier to get.

If you don’t know about it, check out https://wordnet.princeton.edu/

It’s a great starting point for any English word hierarchy.

But if it kills everyone, it can be fair.

Because the British legal system is starved of money and slowly dying.

It would take years to appeal each conviction, there’s a huge back log of cases, and not enough courts and legal professionals to process them quickly.

Moreover, in order to save money the standard compensation plan is completely fucked. While you can be exonerated if there’s not enough evidence for the state to prove that you’re guilty, in order to get compensation you’d have to prove that you’re innocent.

This is basically impossible for most cases. While we know that all these people were imprisoned because of errors in a computer system, this doesn’t mean that they weren’t also embezzling, and just unlucky to be caught due to computer error.

So the Tories have two options. Leave people that the country suddenly cares about to suffer for years and never receive compensation, or create a special treatment, and hide that they’ve destroyed the legal system.

Unsurprisingly, they’ve gone for the second option.

Dev jobs and data scientists often get a lot of leeway.

Very big tech companies tend to be more open to it. When I was at AWS their threat model was basically to treat every end user device as untrusted, which then meant that they didn’t rely on keeping laptops locked down for security.

More generally any personal data obtained from a third party. E.g. if you’re generating a credit score you might contact someone else with a record of financial transactions.

Eternity is fine. You just need to log out and back in. I’m using it now.

Details here: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/releases/tag/v0.1.2

I mean if you genuinely live in a labour dominant area, you can vote for whomever you like, unless the polls change drastically.

It’s not like it will suddenly swing Tory at the next election, with no warning.

This is one of those things where you have to read your employment contract.

If your main job involves generating intellectual property (code, or research or something else) and you live in the US there’s probably a clause saying you can’t do this without permission. Otherwise, it’s probably fine.

However, if you’re in the US, they can still fire you whenever they feel like, so if you think this might seriously piss your company off and you need your job, you might want to ask permission first.