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Maybe, you get to choose the point. What were the moments that made it all worth it?

I am interested to see what 2024 has in store for the Linux desktop.

Immutable distros seem to be the new cool thing, and for once I buy it, they greatly increase stability and reproducibility. It's about time we see the rule 34 of Linux desktop configuration, if you can think of it there is already a GitHub repository with a configuration for it.

Also, gaming has greatly improved! If a few years ago you said to me I could buy a PS5 controller to play games on my Linux machine, I would lose my mind. Well, the order is arriving on Thursday!

Some governments are making honest efforts to go full open source, investing in the libre office and other tooling they deem necessary.

Last but not least, nowadays most apps are browser based, they are cross platform by default.

The title is pretty self explanatory. Yes, I want to know if it's AI generated because I don't trust it.

I agree with the conclusion that it's important to disclose how the AI was used. AI can be great to reduce the time needed for boilerplate work, so the authors can focus on what's important like reviewing and verifying the accuracy of the information.

dude was frustrated, he quit and became a farmer

As a developer that has used OSM, I want to fix the place classification for nodes in my country. At some point I realized that many region capitals were classified as towns when OSM policy states that they should be cities. It's been on my backlog for the past few months, and I want to dive deeper, understand the classification policy and create a script to fix mistakes.

During that time, we felt quite stuck - unable to make decisions. Our daily conversations became centred around anxious what-if calculations. At one point we had reduced our budget for catering to a total of 5 USD per person per day, for breakfast, lunch and refreshments - even in Zanzibar, this is an unfeasibly low figure. We jettisoned one item after another from our budget

We started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help cover the cost of financial assistance. It was a comfort to know that members of the international Python/Django community would stand up to support us, but the pleasure and gratitude we felt about that was overlaid with a feeling of humiliation that once again, a major African open-source software event had been obliged to publicly extend a begging-bowl.

Eventually, we received the grant funding we had applied for, though even this seemed to come with a humiliation: it happened after a white European spoke up publicly on behalf of the African Python community.

Just do it, whenever you fix a bug, add a test case for it, the cost is not going to be noticeable. You may choose to not upload the test suite right away, but wait until someone notices and asks you about it.

Scientist:

That means: Either the clock works quickly or it works precisely – both are not possible at the same time.

Engineer: Explain that to my manager please!

Also, Engineer: Well, what if we accounted for error rate and fixed precision post-processing?

So they have around 9,500 employees, for a global corporation it doesn't seem that many.

You have to account for various positions like legal staff to handle contracts with artists and enterprise customers, across literally every jurisdiction in the world. Then, other supporting roles like marketing, sales, cleaning and management.

What really surprised me was that among those 9,500 employees around 6,000 of them are software engineers. 500 would have been my first guess accounting for the infrastructure size, the number of platforms they support, the complexity of the features, and the need for 24/7 support around the globe.

As a personal anecdote, the ratio of software engineers in the companies I have worked for was around 20%, ie 1 engineer for every 5 staff.

I would really like to see an organisation tree, how many teams are there and what are they working on???

Now, I cannot stop imagining gangsta Abed with a tattoo on his forehead!!!

My favourite character is Abed from Community. Wondering what other autistic people think of him?

I was wondering the same thing. What would that entail for the less influential countries within the EU?

Here in Greece we could use some help. Our legal system is broken, the freedom of press is non-existent, police brutality is at an all time high, we don't have a train network (in general bad transport infrastructure), to name a few issues.

On the other hand, gentrification is as bad as it is right now, having to move out of the city I was born in and have loved all of my life because I cannot afford rent won't be fun.