Japan is slowly getting better, but it’s a long road ahead. There are more laws and they’re actually enforcing some of them with regard to harassment and hours worked (a lot of people would clock out and keep working, but they’re trying to make the penalties bit enough to stop it from what I hear. My company is certainly strict about it).
It’d be nice to have european-level vacations before I retire, but that I don’t see happening
Yeah, Google, Meta, Amazon, and probably others really need to get broken up and get proper antitrust treatment. I say this even as someone who holds stock (like a total of 5 shares, so not much) in a couple of those. I used to dream of working at Google as well, but that dream died quite some time ago based on their actions and culture.
Would you like fries with that for only a dollar more?
Neither? I am more wary after the launch of 6 and the issues, but I also say ‘neither’ because I’m simply not in the market for a new device.
killing ab blockers
I might finally get a six-pack!
As someone who started in tech support in 2000 and is a software developer now: absolutely not.
All I see in the thumbnail is delicious, forbidden makizushi
Nice! Thank you!
I will learn to build a mouse and write my own damn drivers first.
I always said “in GIN icks” (gin like the alcohol) based on someone else’s pronunciation years ago. I never realized it was meant to have anything to do with “engine” as a result.
Every time I think I’ve managed to erase NetWare from my brain, someone has to drag it back up angry fist-shaking
I do Rust and Go and VSCode has been fine for both so far. I put off trying it for ages out of a hatred/distrust of MS products, but I’m quite happy with it.
Good News! Unless something has changed since I worked in healthcare IT, those systems are far too old to be impacted!
I’m half-joking. I don’t know what that kind of equipment runs, but I would guess something embedded. The nuke-med stuff was mostly linux and various lab analyzers were also something embedded though they interface with all sorts of things (which can very well be windows). Pharmaceutical dispensers ran various linux-like OS’s (though I couldn’t even tell you the names anymore). Some medical records stuff was also proprietary, but Windows was replacing most of it near the end of my time.
One place we had ran their keycard system all on a windows 3.1 box still. I don’t doubt some modern systems also are running on Windows which has interesting implications for getting into/out of places.
That said, a lot of that stuff doesn’t touch the outside internet at all unless someone has done something horribly wrong. Medical records systems often do, though (including for billing and insurance stuff).
Doctor’s notes are usually up to the company to decide. There are various insurances and such as well that can kick in for long-term illness. Japan has a program that pays 60% of salary for some period of time, though I don’t know the details.
Well, certainly less ominous than being based on where I’ll die.
Another shocker for others, maybe, is that many companies require you to use those same pool of days as your sick leave. Get sick and no vacation for you. Japan does this as well (though Japan actually has ma-/pa-ternity leave which is more than I can say for the US)
Especially when the job market contracted with all the IT company layoffs, some people may be stuck in jobs they hate because opportunities are few and they’d rather not be homeless or have their kids not have food and so on.
I mean, I like complete microservices in principal, but I think they design of your software and organization, its style of operating, size, and budget all play into the decision. I think the issue lies in presenting it as a binary rather than a spectrum. You can have something that is largely a monolith, but some bits of it are split out into microservices. The opposite is true as well.
My company tried to do the “microservice all of the things” approach and we’re already back to combining a handful, but definitely not back to one monolithic app.
I knew a guy who worked with stuff at Nasa programmed in Ada and who named his daughter Ada :)
I don’t want to see the EXPLAIN for that query. This person really needs to learn more about sql, I’d wager.