Depends on who is shoving it. If Apple - people will happily eat everything, but not from Microsoft.

It has never been serious about security, quality and performance. Only new sloppy features. And now everyone is bragging on LinkedIn how fast they create more slop: "Look, CC generated thousands lines of code for me! Approve and merge!"

That's not true, you can get a cheap new EV, pricing for electric Dacia without subsidy starts from €16k. And used Zoe or i3 are really cheap.

That is still expensive versus traditional cars.

Is it? You can't even find a German car in the same price range.

Not everyone buys German cars, rather something that simplifies their daily lives, with a motor and some amenities.

That looks like a bit Apple mentality applied to cars.

Right, you need to hire a scapegoat. Usually tester has that role: little impact but huge responsibility for quality.

While there was a rat race in the city, typical farmlife was more brutal: work from early childhood and then from dawn to dusk. City dwellers had at least one day off per week, while working with animals is a job without holidays.

That was not what ourworldindata chose (or had the data for) to showcase.

Developers do that as well. Especially now with llm-assisted coding. Accept half-baked solution and go to the next ticket.

I've had recently a case at work, while filling a contact form to add a new party there were 300+ calls to the validation service to validate email and phones. Three calls per every character entered to every text input!

996 is already a thing outside of China.

If you are paid hourly and not per task than what is the point in finishing your task faster?

>> Energy independence is extremely valuable.

Not if your top politicians are on putin's payrol like Orban and Merkel.

Got recently a new surface laptop at work - windows 11 gives me the same feeling I had from Vista. Hilarious how modern computers are more powerful than ever, but windows 11 now feels worse than windows 7 ten years ago.

I set up an old instrument in the lab and the computer is running Windows 7 and it feels better than the newer machines running 11.