> In the past 5 years there’s been 1 rust job in my region of Denmark. It listed rust as a “nice to have”. I think it fares better in the Copenhagen region, but not by much.
This is pretty much what killed me on it, and I think the leadership and community really don't understand that commodity development is important to language growth.
I like Rust and it opens up some interesting domains I don't get to play with much, but it's a considerable effort to learn it when I know there are zero real opportunities to use it professionally. I keep hearing hype about how this or that big giant company is using it, but none of them are hiring for it: it seems quite a few are just shifting internal C/C++ teams to Rust. The rare public openings are either a) demand extremely senior C/C++ level dev experience, or b) vague crypto/blockchain startups that reek of fly-by-night scams.
Far from the hope of "democratizing" systems programming, it seems like the industry has instead closed ranks around it and used it as a further gatekeeping tool to keep out entry or even journeyman level experience, and certainly anyone not already bathed in the old C languages.
Why does every commercial editor seem to desperately believe we all want this?
Why would I, as an actual developer, want "pair programming but now there's lag"?
I didn't even like the pairing fad in the first place, I found it awkward, anxiety-inducing, and slow. Adding an additional software dependency just seems worse.
> Why does every commercial editor seem to desperately believe we all want this?
It's one of those implementational-catnip ideas that steadily converges toward collective bikeshedding whenever it comes up, but which is really tricky to scale/sell/market in practice.
So, it hasn't caught on and been soundly disproven.
Or maybe it's that it hasn't caught on and then done the whole "oh look at all these other companies that were so head of their time" thing...
There's no reason to own a television with a shitty computer built-in, when I can just buy a screen and plug it into my actually good computer.
Right now I have a 27" ThinkVision display and a pair of studio monitors, with both laptop and Switch connected to it. Media comes over the computer (who even buys cable in 2021 anyway?), audio patches into the display over USB-C/HDMI and out to the speakers.
I'm moving soon and I'll probably spring for a 30+" 4K for the living room at some point, and look into a receiver and theatre speakers but honestly I don't see the point.
You do pay a bit more for the display-per-inch, but the reason those "4K smart TVs" are so cheap is all the adware money, so they're only "cheap" in the way that Facebook is "free".
I've started using it as my main browser both in daily use and dev.
In the past I had trouble with client projects or dev tools only working in chrome, but I decided that the only way things get freer is to make myself fix those pain points when I come across them.
I think you’re rather over exaggerating. For a few emergency boot disk or very low spec, like LOAF or uLinux, sure. But even late 90s, for anything actually practical, 50mb would’ve been quite the achievement. DragonLinux was my go to “lightweight” and it was around 200mb. 50mb in the early 00s only got you the net install for Debian, and Knoppix was a whole CD.
But this is 2021. You need to do some serious pruning just to get GCC in under 1gb. 50 mb is a fucking miracle.
Well, when 4chan started it was basically just a porn board. The idea of actually hanging around was akin to being someone who’s really dedicated to their pornhub comments.
It took a few years of those few dedicated weirdos bouncing off each other (and their Japanese equivalent boards) to fully metastasise into the face of modern neofascism.
Hm? From when 4chan was just a board with no other boards, it was a _lot_ of stuff. The original board distinction (/a/ and /b/) was made because eventually anime content and "other"/meme content collided in the interests of the board users, so they were separated. It's hard to see the viewpoint in our politically charged time, but the origins of 4chan were just about people interested in anime saying whatever. The frequency of the content often meant that it was mostly just kids with too much free time (as I suspect a lot of *net Fora tend to be). The board changed a lot over the years, but initially it was just a place for anime-oriented talk.
Finland is historically not especially concerned with monopoly issues in any case. Nearly the entire retail sector is controlled by only two companies.
But for some reason they can try to expand to next country... Which really puzzles me... After all they are collection of regional "co-ops". Even if the whole model is quite distanced at this point.
For just the supermarkets, yes. But S-group and Kesko are huge. They own restaurants, banks, hotels, gas stations, home improvement stores, department stores, car dealerships, and a bunch of specialty stores.
Yeah, I used "retail sector" quite carefully there. The breadth of the conglomerates here is vast. It's sort of surreal to me, even by American standards, that this level of market capture is even allowed.
You don't even get paid more. The apps have been circulating this myth in the press, but it's based on obfuscating of the numbers at best, and outright lies at worst.
There's a reason most of their couriers are immigrants: anyone else can get paid more stocking a supermarket or driving a cab.
> After they freed the taxi market even that is somewhere on level of gig-work.
Certainly the freeing could have been done better, but the system before wasn't exactly healthy either. There was a fixed number of taxi licenses, and taxi companies were of course heavily lobbying against increasing the number. Since there were so few of them, good luck getting a taxi on a weekend night. Then again, if you were lucky and got a taxi, it was a shiny clean Mercedes (which perhaps tells something about the profit margins they were running at).
On other hand good luck getting taxi now during weekday night, specially outside cities. Prices have gone up and from what I have heard quality of service has gone down.
I think licensing system we had made sense, prices were capped, service was at least controlled and availability during all times was guaranteed. Ofc, this lead to some issues when there was extreme demand...
Correct. The labor board has issued its opinion that they should be considered employees but it hasn't yet been enforced by the courts.
Instead, all Wolt couriers in Finland have been "independent contractors" and had to have their own business name or do other paperwork, that because of how Finnish law works for small business owners, means they get cut off from any public health insurance, unemployment insurance, etc.
Courier work doesn't pay nearly enough to afford private insurance here, and since they aren't unionized (because after all they're not "workers" but business owners), they can't join a union unemployment benefit either.
There has been an ongoing attempt at unionization but it has been difficult to push through; the apps are fighting against it tooth and nail because they already run at a loss and underpay the drivers as it is. Wolt deliberately obfuscates how much couriers are making an hour in the driver app, runs propaganda articles on the customer app, and both it and Foodora have continued to fight against employee or union recognition in the courts.
It's become apparent for a while they are running scared, and running out of money. Quality of service has massively degraded over the last two years, as they've stripped support staff to the bone, manipulated delivery fees and ranges to nickle-and-dime customers, massive order delays and fudged estimates, started manipulating algorithms to push certain restaurants and promotions, rushed couriers causing constant order failures, which then mean more cost in customer refunds. It's god bad enough I stopped using it completely, because I just could no longer trust that I'd even get what I ordered, or that it wouldn't be left a sodden mess leaking all over my entryway.
It's an app that was probably going to implode if they didn't get a buyout and soon, so this move is incredibly predictable. My only surprise is just how greedy they went with the bogus valuation here.
> because of how Finnish law works for small business owners, means they get cut off from any public health insurance
This is not true. Finnish public health insurance is residency based: Every resident has it [1]. What you are probably thinking of, is the extra occupational private health insurance, that most Finnish employers provide for their employees (so that during work days, the employees don't need to wait in line in the public health services, but can get back to work sooner after seeing a private doctor).
My father-in-law was a Finn, born and raised, and had to pay for everything out of pocket because he owned his own home business fabricating HVAC ductwork, and of course got no sick leave if he did get injured and couldn't work.
It's possible to buy private insurance of course, a common solution for tech freelancers here is to make your own business and then hire yourself as an employee, so at least you can get an occupational health care plan.
But private health insurance here is a joke anyway, they don't cover a ton of things because they assume they can just refer you to the public care for any of the complicated stuff. Mine wouldn't even cover a CPAP machine, I had to get on a public waiting list and borrow one from the state, and it took months.
I believe most of the couriers have ”residence permit for an entrepreneur”. That means you get emergency care but thats about it. As your link states ” Jos olet tullut Suomeen tilapäisesti muualta kuin EU- tai Eta-maasta, Sveitsistä, Isosta-Britanniasta tai Pohjois-Irlannista, sinulla on oikeus vain kiireelliseen sairaanhoitoon. Hoidon kustannukset voidaan laskuttaa sinulta jälkikäteen. ”
> I believe most of the couriers have ”residence permit for an entrepreneur”. That means you get emergency care but thats about it.
This is not true, for Finland. Residence permit for an entrepreneur [1] is still a residence permit. You get residency, home municipality, and everything that goes with it.
> It's become apparent for a while they are running scared, and running out of money.
In he meantime it seems that their executive + lead level salaries took quite a hike between 2019 and 2020. At the sametime there were stories about how cost conscious they are. Funny.
This is pretty much what killed me on it, and I think the leadership and community really don't understand that commodity development is important to language growth.
I like Rust and it opens up some interesting domains I don't get to play with much, but it's a considerable effort to learn it when I know there are zero real opportunities to use it professionally. I keep hearing hype about how this or that big giant company is using it, but none of them are hiring for it: it seems quite a few are just shifting internal C/C++ teams to Rust. The rare public openings are either a) demand extremely senior C/C++ level dev experience, or b) vague crypto/blockchain startups that reek of fly-by-night scams.
Far from the hope of "democratizing" systems programming, it seems like the industry has instead closed ranks around it and used it as a further gatekeeping tool to keep out entry or even journeyman level experience, and certainly anyone not already bathed in the old C languages.
I thought Rust was supposed to free us from C?