He didn’t use an IDE, but I don’t remember what he tried. He also wasn’t a fan of googling stuff. Use the man pages and nothing else.

Here is my story:

There were console outputs after nearly every line. I asked about them: “Oh, I couldn’t get the debugger to work, so I print everything to the console”

This was everywhere. The whole program was like this. On a standard Linux machine. It wasn’t even remote debugging or something. Just a local C++ program.

The filenames where written in 8+3. Again, on a modern Linux machine. His answer? “You never know where we’ll port this software to”

Onto computers that were outdated decades ago? To embedded systems? Of course he had no answer for this except “just in case…”

I could tell you more, that software was the stuff for nightmares.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-P. Another hard workday done.

Wich was, sadly, 5 minutes later (these are not the right clothes for skateboarding).

Ah yes! One step closer to servitors. Praise the Omnissiah!

How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?

Perhaps Superman has cheat days? You know, to stay sane?

Police Chief: “So we release these people and you hunt them for sports?”

Superman: “Pretty much, yeah. It’s my cheat day!”

Police Chief: “But with your super speed and x-ray vision they really have no chance!”

Superman: “Do the animals have a chance when you hunt them? It’s just for fun!”

Police Chief: “But why Republican politicians?”

Superman: “Even on my cheat day, I still like to do good.”

The reward for efficient work is more work.

And of course the expectations that you always work that fast.

Oh, and complaints if you don’t work that fast, even if the new task is something completely different and takes more time.

Is this the bad place?

Waiter (shouting to the cook): “One order of African killer bees for table 6.”

Yes, it’s a cultural thing. In our culture. Hence why I interpreted as such. If the whole thing had happened in the UAE that would be a different thing.

Their explanation is way too weird. I think we can use occam’s bisexual razor here:

I would bet that at least one of the hand holders is gay/bi and too afraid to say it… Which is fine. Sometimes it takes a bit of time (and handholding) to figure yourself out.

I think Trump would love to start a war: distraction from the Epstein files, a nice scapegoat for economic hardship, the possibility to grab even more power under the guise of wartime emergencies, …

Hell, if it takes long enough he could postpone the next election.

Resistance only makes us harder.

Well, if he fails again he can just get another $40bn. I can see why that appeals to the voters…

The ‘S’ on IoT stands for security!

And how did no one think about a fallback in case of a outage? I bet some of the tech people thought about it and management said: “No, we don’t want the consumers to have a functioning unit without internet access. We need the data!”.

Btw. same with the new Windows 11 setup. There’s no technical reason for a computer without internet access to deny the installation.

Well nearly all right wing parties roll back climate protection policies. We are so fucked.

It gets even more unfair: participants get selected by chance (if they fulfill the criteria)

BUT it’s just a pilot project. I hope it’s successful and gets implemented for everyone - I mean everyone has the potential to become an artist if money isn’t the deciding factor anymore.

Who knows how many great musicians, painter, etc. are stuck in a 9-5 job? I for example want to create a game… Not really “art” in the classical sense, but creative and prone to bring me next to no money unless I have a lot of luck.

Hell, even scientists might be more free in what they want to study if money is less of a problem…

UBI might be a great thing and I agree that art isn’t the only thing that could benefit from it.

As I said: not surprised.

Shootings in a war zone, who would investigate?

There are places in the world where the law breaks down. You wouldn’t even have to go to a war zone for that: If the super rich abducted some homeless people who would notice? Especially if it’s in a poor country with already corrupt police.

Hell even in “first world” countries the poorest are nearly unprotected.