DigitalDilemma

Exactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that’ll get buried under his new patio.

YES!

UK lawmakers - please take note also. Not just in cities but we find them jammed up in our country lanes too, and regularly crossing the centre line on B-roads.

I mean, we knew that anyway, right?

Stolen? The employees were paid, weren’t they?

What a rubbish article. Complete non-story.

Good answer. Like a michelin chef working at McDonald’s and having a little secret area of his own.

That sounds like hell.

Interesting. I’d not heard of those before. Are they dateable?

Here in England, on the other side of the world, we have similar structures that have been dated back to the Bronze Age (3000 to 6000 years ago) These had a rock base, with mud/daub/wattle upper walls with thatch or turf roofs.

The similarity probably isn’t that surprising, people have needed shelter and use what’s available to make it. Even modern ruins from a few hundred years ago look pretty similar.

(One example below from Dartmoor, there’s thousands in this area)

Sharing filesystems could be useful, I can see that.

I do that with target dev platforms anyway, using things like NFS, samba and sftp, but I do see that it could work well for this.

I too do that, working from a windows vm and writing code for linux - but I push it to a linux vm for testing. Never occurred to me to use WSL and have another environment to configure and maintain for dev that’s different to the target one.

But fair play if that suits you! Each to their own, and I’m sure I do things that make no sense to others.

Thanks - I can kind of see that, as docker on windows is majorly broken. I think I’d just run it in a linux vm, as I do with most of my developing, but I can see some might not want that overhead.

I do know what it is, I just don’t know why you’d use it instead of proper linux, or a vm.

I still don’t know what WSL is for.

Good answer, and some good points.

My analogy is not perfect, but I think there are parralels. People are currently trying to shoe-horn AI into things where it’s never going to work well, and that’s resulting in a lot of stupid and a lot of justifiable anger towards it.

But alongside that, it is also finding genuinely useful places, and it is not going to go away. Give it a few more years and it’ll settle down into something we rely on daily. Just as we did with electronic calculators. The internet. Smartphones. Everything since the Spinning Jenny has had a huge pressure against it because it’s new and different and people are scared it’ll negatively affect them, but things change and new things get adopted into the everyday. Personally I find it exciting to be alive during such a time of genuine invention and improvement.

Fair enough - it’s not the most concrete of comparisons and those are good points, but I do feel there is an amplification of ludditism around AI just because it’s new.

Hah! I had a calculator watch too - and I’m certain it got me my first girlfriend when I was 11!

You’re right about that exact argument being used widely, I certainly was told I’d never have a calculator with me. Little did they know.

I went to school in the 1980s. That was the time that calculators were first used in class and there was a similar outcry about how children shouldn’t be allowed to use them, that they should use mental arithmetic or even abacuses.

Sounds pretty ridiculous now, and I think this current problem will sound just as silly in 10 or 20 years.

Bad news sells.

Plenty of evil has been done under the name of communism and socialism too. It’s not capitalism’s fault, that’s just the tool that’s being used in these cases by evil people to achieve their ends.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product.

I feel your pain. Or rather, I felt it once and am now freed!

We were big into Atalassian when they announced they were going cloud only. We had on-prem versions of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

We pretty quickly said “Fuck that”, mostly because we have an on-prem policy for IP protection.

I was pretty happy to spend some time searching for replacements, mostly because it was my job to apply upgrades to these steaming, tottering piles of badly written java horseshit. They looked pretty, but the upgrade process was convoluted and quite often failed terminally. I still think that the difficulty of upgrading the hosted versions was a driver towards cloud only, mostly because it exposed how shite the things were and how many complaints they must have got for offering an on-prem product that was so hard to maintain, despite looking pretty.

I take some pleasure that the Atlassian share price is now half what it was before they did this.

(If anyone was interested; Confluence and Jira were replaced by Youtrack. Bitbucket by Teamcity. Both by Jetbrains, both much easier to upgrade (Teamcity is web-based one-click), and our licencing costs are about half what we paid to Atlassian)