Well, if you're unable to read, you're not going to figure out what the buttons do by reading the textual labels :p
Further, if you have difficulty reading, it's easier to parse the meaning of an abstract symbol, so you'd use that instead of a textual label when available. (I say this as someone who is a really slow reader. I use icons when I can)
I'll throw in my $0.02, as a fellow zoomer. I care about the things that are mine (as in, my code, my decisions, etc. etc.). But if management fucks up and tells me to fix it, there is no amount of money that will make me care. Especially if I advised management _not_ to do that in the first place.
It's not a racism thing, it's because India is in a fairly unique position: their population is so large, that (relatively speaking) the top 0.1% of Indians in any sector tend to outnumber the top 0.1% of (for example) Americans in that sector, plus if an Indian immigrates to America, a company can pay them less than an equivalent American employee (for various reasons).
So you basically can pay an Indian immigrant a junior dev salary, for significantly-better-than-junior-dev work. It's just stonks.
Not even close. We had two offshore contractors working with our team for about two years and they were consistently terrible. Despite this, some higher up pressed us to “hire” them so we conducted an interview. One of them said they had 8+ years of SQL query optimization experience and could not explain what a table scan was. The other claimed to have 5 years of C++ experience and thought a pointer was a url. I am not exaggerating.
Whereas our team’s college intern turned junior dev has consistently delivered increasingly valuable contributions and doesn’t lie to us.
One of the first startups I worked at in the early aughts, I started as a front-end dev. Indian dude a few cubes over. I'm not kidding, he had a "Learn .Net Nuke" Wrox book he was constantly pouring over.
He was gone on my second day. Apparently the company had hired an outside recruiter who interviewed someone and when they got the job, this dude showed up. Apparently this was a really common scam back then.
On the other hand, I've had extremely skilled senior Indian colleagues who were essentially paid like juniors.
As far as I understand, there's extreme variance between highest-tier and lowest-tier universities and it's not necessarily reflected in salaries when they're hired by Western companies.
They bait-and-switch like hell. Once the original workers are out of the picture they squeeze the contract like a lemon. The managers involved won't re-hire and more often than not will even hide the mess (for their own sake). The old IBM playbook on steroids.
I definitely believe that the modern internet, computers, and phones are bad for us, but this argument is entirely unconvincing. Most of the data _seems_ to be U.S.-specific, which means that this data does not indicate if this is a global phenomenon. Further, a lot of the trend lines don't start in 2007 and could be easily attributed to other causes.
I don't use Zorin anymore, (I'm a dirty Ubuntu plebian) but I used to use it and it's great. The only thing I liked about Windows 11 was it's slick UI, and Zorin is basically the only Linux distro that replicates that without a ton of hassle. Zorin Connect is also awesome if you use your PC to watch TV on your TV.
If you're thinking of abandoning Windows, (which, honestly, who isn't these days) Zorin is a good choice.
> Zorin Connect is also awesome if you use your PC to watch TV on your TV
Zorin Connect is a fork of KDE Connect. If you're on KDE, you can use the standard KDE connect app to the same effect. I haven't tested it recently, but I'm pretty sure the Zorin Connect app will work with normal KDE Connect computers as well.
If you're on Gnome (like default Ubuntu) you could use plain KDE Connect but I find its UI integration rather lacking, as with all KDE applications on Gnome. However, there are re-implementations like good old GSConnect (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/) or Valent (made by the same person who made GSConnect, https://valent.andyholmes.ca/) will replicate most of the Zorin Connect functionality as well.
If you're on something else, pick whatever KDE Connect implementation works best for your desktop, there are plenty of options and most of them work seamlessly!
IMO KDEs design is actually superior to anything Microsoft is offering. It is a great desktop experience, even with stock settings. Certainly better than everything Ubuntu does.
"visual design" in OSes is more of a spectrum, rather than a ranking. Windows and macOS looks better on the surface to most people who don't interact a lot with computers, but for people who spend a lot of time in front of the computer, KDE, Gnome and many other Linux desktops do a much better job to be functional, not get in your way and customizable.
Really depends on what you'd use the computer for, I don't feel like anything is much "superior" to something else, it all depends on the user and usage.
Is there any specific reason to use this over e.g. manually setting an "emotional score" for specific dialogue? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this works, but from a game design perspective I'd be a bit worried about the model inferring the emotion incorrectly, or more generally having a lack of control over the specific values being used.
Good question! Actually, it complements manual settings. There are many use cases but for example, in some games with multiple followers. You sometimes get bugs where they fight each other randomly for some reason. With this system, you could check their emotional state toward each other before triggering combat, and if they're actually friendly, you prevent the unintended fight
It's crazy that a repair shop needs your passcode. I can't think of any case where it would be necessary.
I'm glad this person won the lawsuit though; getting your nudes leaked is a really shitty situation to be in. Apple needs to do a better job vetting their repair shops.
The problem is that Android doesn't offer a pre-boot UI for testing anything unless you flash TWRP (at which point the userdata will be wiped), and I'm not sure if iOS does either.
Often not even that. Samsung wants its proprietary Odin stuff to flash, Mediatek has their own toolsuite. Both need Windows to run.
Only ones actually using fully open source tools are Google's Pixel lineup.
But none, not even Pixel, allow for anything resembling actual "recovery" for common failure modes. Dead display at least for Samsung and Pixel means you have to install a new display if you want to access the data, otherwise it won't even pass the first bootloader stage, much less boot into the OS or unlock the encryption. Something gone corrupt with the OS? Same case. If you can't manage to boot at least to the Android Safe Mode, you're out of luck. And no HW self-test at all.
I'd only have 20 cents, which I guess is good. But I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting.
Related:
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964937
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985036