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>"lower-value human capital" - this is really something.

It's basically what republicans and conservatives have rallied for the past decade; it's just in their case, that's just code word for women, immigrants and blacks.

>"So you'd prefer for all this project management drama and power struggle to be invisible?"

Well project managers can have their dramas. Just do not involve developers. Or what is even better - get the fuck out and leave it to people who can do things without drama.

>"All this scaffolding is not a cult. It exists to democratize the process. Your personal comfort is irrelevant to the results."

Pile of BS. It exists to feed whole layer of self serving people who contribute very little and grow like a cancer.

In my career I was lucky. I am an independent software developer. Designed and developed many products for various clients (including some of my own ventures) and have managed without Agile, Scrum and the likes. My largest products - I had teams of up to 35 people under me and somehow we've survived.

On few occasions I had pleasure to be on some of those meetings as a visitor - felt nothing but disgust. Again luckily I was spared from direct participation


>"Why would someone in their right mind think working on the Voyager project could damage their careers"

Assembly? Understanding how things actually work? No Agile? No K8s? No Rust, No React? - death knell for someone's resume

>"and the person will move on to another space exploration job, with the extra golden star of having been on the Voyager"

this is the best case with the result of being tied to another single project for years and unemployable anywhere else. in more realistic case - warm goodbye in few years and start your life from scratch with no credits for the thins done.


My monolith C++ backend passed SOC2 Type 2 without any real efforts from me as a programmer since I was very security cautious when writing code. Nevertheless this whole business is a racket and unless you commit to spending small fortune you will be just fighting windmills no matter whether you are actually compliant. In my case I've developed it for a client so it was their headache. I've just written couple of documents outlining compliance features. but before we got certified we would give clients same documents and that would give us free ride for a while.

It's 100% a racket. Your code could have been 10x worse and still passed, I doubt the auditors even looked at the code. It's a legal box-checking exercise, there really isn't much of an actual review besides the documentation. But my god is there a lot of documentation and paperwork.

It very often being used for thread management inside single process etc. Very convenient. Nobody says it has to be default.

I am from Canada and when renting from Hetzner was never asked about personal ID. Maybe because I started few years ago. Never knew about Scaleway. Looked at their website - prices for bare metal seem to be higher than in Hetzner

Yes but hetzner sell a lot of older hardware for bargain basement prices. It's their thing. They're more of a traditional hoster.

Scaleway's compute is more like Amazon EC2.


>"Scaleway's compute is more like Amazon EC2" - meaning they give less and charge more. Thanks but I'll pass.

Hardware I rend from Hetzner is usually 16 core AMD with 128GB RAM and couple of nvme's. Never had single failure. Of course I periodically buy new server, do deploy. Old one becomes standby and standby of the old gets cancelled.

Scaleway's offer of the same computing power is highly unattractive comparatively.


What I mean is Scaleway is more dynamic cloud-like. You spin stuff up and pay by the hour. It's not really as cost effective for static 24/7 stuff just like Amazon isn't.

That's exactly what I meant by Hetzner being more traditional.


The ID checks are random. When I registered a while back I had to provide mine, so I aborted the registration. I tried again recently and was not asked for one.

>"So, what's the European thinking on Hungary as a partner within the EU in the future?"

Does that really matter? They can not un-member it. And if current economic situation persists you will find more with the Orban like thinking.


>"Ukraine can never trust the EU again after this. There can always be another Orban."

Well, EU and the rest of the world owes nothing to Ukraine, yet they have provided much help. Blind trust is stupid anyways. Especially between countries.

>"Trust is broken forever."

This sounds like a drama queen. Look at your own politicians first.


Depending on who is my software for I host either on my own premises or Hetzner / OVH. Do it for many years already and no cloudy headaches

>" Dex which is much better then the current Android desktop mode"

Maybe it is better but my experience using it as desktop was absolutely atrocious. I mean it works as designed but it sucks


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