Spoiler: all winning entries this year were just snippets of Github Copilot generations.

It's not valid to test well-being when keeping the same pay for less work, unless you like stating the bleeding obvious.

Were a 4-day week applied globally there would certainly not be enough productivity to do this. Some jobs would stay over 80% productive, a very small amount of high-stress jobs may even increase in output. But many would be less than 80% since the overhead tasks remain the same.

It's also invalid to test dropping pay to 80%. That would create a lot of stress on the test subjects, but were it applied globally it could be unnoticed. Major items like housing affordability would probably stay the same, keeping up with the Jones looks the same, and we wouldn't notice to mourn the slower advance in technology and living standards.

I'm interested that Ubuntu Core beats out the mainline Ubuntu. A quick search doesn't reveal any device people would be Steam gaming on in this way.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenra.net%2F

Have a look at https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenra.net.%2F Runs natively on Linux with mono, but they package it into an AppImage.

Thanks, makes sense. Similar to openra.net, who reimplemented in .NET (including RA2), but of course requiring the original assets. Fortunately I've bought this game about three times over the years!

From the compilation instructions: To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game. The C&C Ultimate Collection is available for purchase on EA App or Steam.

Not au fait with GPL, but it talks about 'conveying' object forms, not running. Are EA not truly open-sourcing, or are they just talking about the assets?

Right, maybe it doesn't explain it. Note the Linux covenant is a relatively new change, replacing the original "expect criticism but you shouldn't be threatened" with the "protected class" identifiers, and did receive some of the same criticsm. Why do you think Rust gets singled out for this, simple social media irrationality?

It probably stems from the Rust code of conduct. The first item is about gender/sexuality etc. so places itself firmly in the political realm. That said, Go and Zig are similar, but maybe came later so didn't capture the social media reaction frenzy in the same way.

Ultimately Rust is a programming language. You certainly need mores around the community that uses a language, but there seems no need to discuss politics and I'd expect the forums to be 99% technical topics.

It's a slightly different case. There is no ambiguity in code* because we have a perfect judge/interpreter in the compiler**. You can write code that is more or less difficult to understand and modify by another coder (lawyer), but the code will mean one specific thing. The parallel is that both code and a legal document are 'better' when they achieve the goal of correct meaning with greater simplicity. Also complicated code/legal runs the risk of a loophole not achieving correct meaning, but it may be necessary to close a loophole/edge case.

* ignoring undefined behaviour
** ignoring compiler bugs

Right, that's a great example. 'The X Question' is a common phrase to describe political issues of the day, usually those that would involve great change. Just because one side of some of those questions became strongly accepted ("The Woman Question" in early feminism, "The Negro Question" during emancipation) does not mean any such phrase is offensive. It's used in a technical sense.

That's interesting information, I knew that software was highly optimised but not that there was an 'equality' network requirement.

However, where money matters, most software has the focus on being correct, not performant. Think accounting, banking, distribution and resource estimation. Even in your exchange example, if the software delivers an incorrect price milliseconds faster, they stand to lose money quickly (not that it's a necessary tradeoff).

High performance software is usually for the particular end-user task. Games require high performance but have almost no financial risk for the user. Music production needs low latency to produce the end result, but is not particularly lucrative. The exchange example is a bit of an outlier because the software is competing with other software for money.

My browser habits are the same as yours - thousands of tabs of work searches, various projects, discussion and music that I'm surely going to get back to...

My work laptop was recently replaced and went from 32GB to 64GB of RAM. I thought this would finally be ample headroom but Firefox just consumed to the same ceiling and I'm still forced to quit and reload every so often to reset its RAM usage. This is Windows, it rarely crashes. On my home Ubuntu desktop (32GB, less tabs but still over 1k) it definitely performs worse and crashes periodically (likely it is the desktop performing worse than Windows with limited memory).

It's possible the aged-tab unloading is hampered by websites constantly calling home. I'd like to see an option to pause JavaScript on a tab and just let me view the static HTML, as imperfect as that would be.

Yes but no. Inflation, or the price of what was produced, doesn't change the fact that productivity occured and society now has greater produce at its disposal. Society as a whole is not robbed, but printing money does function as a level of tax that transfers part of that wealth to the government. Compared to income and company tax I'd suggest this is relatively minor and constant?

And of course deflation is considered undesirable because it feeds into the paradox of thrift. Almost a form of prisoner's dilemma where economic interaction limits itself.

Agreed, but as above they can also do this with other forms of tax, and wars and corruption are (hopefully) not the majority of government spending.

That's what :e is for, just reuse the window you can't close.