> For the other "business falling apart", maybe they consider it’s part of the business owner’s responsibility to make sound business decisions when involving someone else’s livelihood. Just like when leasing a shop or taking on a loan.
What about running a tech startup with high chance of failure? Ever considered why they seem to be few and far between in EU?
Yes, naturally such a system is biased towards high accountability and high trust industries. Industries which thrive on minimal accountability and trust won't function very well. Personally, I think that's a good thing overall. The problem comes in when other countries don't operate this way, so those businesses can just go there (and take your talent with you, i.e. brain drain).
> These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors.
Yes, but if platform API allows using customizable third-party clients it is not really a problem for me (e.g. I can just enable chronological timeline, filter out all the ads and noise).
> For everything else, including desktop and mobile operating systems realtime sounds like a good idea.
Why on earth would you need real time on desktop? Every time the topic is discussed on internet bunch of confused people chime in with this sentiment that doesn't make much sense. "RTOS" is not some magic that somehow makes everything on your desktop fast. All it would do in reality is make everything slower for 99% of your interaction but guarantee that "slowness" is uniform and you don't have any weird latency spikes in other 1%. Note that for cases that are not "nuclear reactor control system that requires Very Certified OS with audited and provable reaction times" RTLinux is already available, but distros are not inclined to leverage it on desktop for reason described above.
I've read many opinions of those who used QNX on desktop in the past, that it felt much more "snappy" compared to other systems.
Desktop definitely has real time tasks. Any animation is real time task. When I'm listening to music, it's real time task. macOS sound interrupts for a short time, when something hardware-related happens, so it's not pleasant experience. You might argue that user can tolerate those interruptions, but for me those are just bugs.
Indeed. There are people who have a fair point that desktops for users (as opposed to servers) should have a focus on being responsive and useful. Like how writing on a piece of paper produces meaningful markings in real time, user interfaces should be able to perform tasks with analogous interactivity. See comments about BeOS elsewhere in this thread. I don't know about the extreme, but the overall sentiment is valuable and a far cry from the current state of the desktop experience.
When recording live audio performances, some guarantees that the thread that records the signal will always get some attention for the scheduler, would be nice. Otherwise the recording program will miss on the signal, and the recording will have cracks.
We sidestep this problem because our CPUs are insanely fast for this task, so as long as you don't game, compile and record audio at the same time, you should be fine. But we don't have any guarantees.
> we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us)
It is not even that since what they basically propose is to dial down the war in Eastern Europe but get more involved in the war in Middle East and possibly soon in East Asia. That stance always seemed very confusing to me as a non-US person.
> That stance always seemed very confusing to me as a non-US person.
Europeans seem to overestimate how close America is to Europe.
If you live in the Western half of the United States, Asia is much closer than Eastern Europe, most US military deployments are in the Pacific, and most foreign trade the US has is with Asia.
Both parties campaigned on leaving the Middle East, but it is difficult to disengage from the region without devolving power to a regional ally (similar to how the US historically let France take the reigns on African relations). Historically, that ally has been Israel and Turkiye, but relations between the US and them have fallen precipitously.
> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force?
"Women earn less due to sexist discrimination" and "women earn less due to bearing the brunt of raising children" are two distinct claims. The first one is contentious and widely disputed (disproved?).
> Being a manager is about more than just getting people to do their job well. You also need to plan things, you need to know what's changing over time, you need to test whether your processes are working. I use metrics to measure the aggregate impact of my influence on managing my teams, not that of any IC on any of my teams. Employee metrics are useful for a big picture view.
The point of the article is exactly that such metrics don't give you any kind of a good signal unless you are really into the fine details. And if you are, then you don't really need them in the first place.
> quantitative details (eg a count of how much output there is)
For example I recently spent a week producing several thousands of lines of tedious trivial code that parses some configuration out of JSON file in pure C. Then I spent a month writing less 1k lines of very dense low-level packet parsing code and the main loop also in C. So the metrics would show you the big picture of me slacking and my performance tanking which obviously wasn't the case. You can't substitute actually knowing and understanding of what your reports are doing with some tools providing you with trivia like number of commits, lines of code changed or tickets closed.
AFAIK, car manufacturers want to bring more software in house as a core competency, which is probably good because the "Tier 1"s are generally even worse at software than them and have worse aligned incentives.
> For now, most countries still have some semblance of control, usually backed by the power of international treaties, DNS blocking and control over payment infrastructure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the prevalence of fast and affordable satellite internet on one hand and easier access to crypto on the other will make the situation even worse.
What exact scenario are you envisioning here? Germany bans X (for example), but people smuggle Starlink terminals to continue reading it and advertisers continue advertising to them illegally by paying with crypto? Sounds extremely unrealistic to me TBH.
What about running a tech startup with high chance of failure? Ever considered why they seem to be few and far between in EU?