TheHarpyEagle

Maybe because the choices are pay for insurance or live in agony/die? Maybe both, if you're lucky.

The problem is greatly unequal access to healthcare. I'm glad your insurance is doing well for you, but there are many out there who are struggling to pay for expensive family insurance with high deductibles that still leave them in medical debt.

I'm also currently in a situation where I'd like to find a new job, but I have some expensive medication ($750 a month for one of them) and I am worried about losing my insurance/not being able to afford the premium while I wait for benefits to kick in at a new job. I also have absolutely no way of knowing if another employer's plan will cover my medication or if my current group of providers will be in network. All this added stress, and yet I'm lucky to work in a field where almost every employer offers health insurance.

Ideally, there would be universal safety nets to provide the services you're benefiting from to all Americans. It's not even like we're saving money by relying on private insurance, as the US spends way more per capita on Healthcare for average results, at best.

So I'm glad that your insurance is taking care of you, truly I am. But spare a thought for the thousands of Americans out there who are struggling to survive under the same system.

Okay, but even if that's the case, what do we do about the very real consequences for trans people?

I guess the question is, what happens to the kernel when all the people who learned on C are gone? The majority of even the brightest new devs aren't going to cut their teeth on C, and will feel the same resistance to learning a new language when they think that there are diminishing returns to be had compared to what's new and modern and, most importantly, familiar.

I honestly get the hostility, the fast pace of technology has left a lot of older devs being seen as undesirable because the don't know the new stuff, even if their fundamental understanding of low level languages could be a huge asset. Their knowledge of C is vast and valuable, and they're working on a project that thrives because of it. To have new people come to the project and say "Yeah, we could do this without having to worry about all that stuff" feels like throwing away a lot of the skill they've built. I'm not sure what the solution is, I really don't think there are enough new C developers in the world to keep the project going strong into the future though. Maybe a fork is just the way to go; time will tell which is more sustainable.

Permissive licenses mean faster and more widespread adoption, it's up to project maintainers if the tradeoff is worth it. Ideally a company would realize that an open source part of their project probably isn't radically going to affect their revenue stream, but you don't just have to convince devs, you have to convince the suits and lawyers, and they will tell you to just build your own rather than give up any precious IP.

I have all my monitors at maybe 10-20% brightness and still use dark mode for everything. It's the way of the cave dweller.

Thank you!!

The most heinous thing is lack of required sick time. And who is it that's least likely to get paid sick time? Customer service, of course, the ones coughing and sneezing all over your clothes and food.

Just make sure you actually do get a payout, had a friend screwed over by that recently.

Being a Python simp, I find GDscript just different enough to nag. There's a lot of QoL stuff they don't have and aren't (currently) looking to add in order to keep the language simple. Honestly has me looking to use C# instead.

Being a Python simp, I find GDscript just different enough to nag. There's a lot of QoL stuff they don't have and aren't (currently) looking to add in order to keep the language simple. Honestly has me looking to use C# instead.

Honestly C# has grown on me quite a bit. Shakes off some of the bloat of Java and linq is pretty handy. God knows if I can't tell you what the distinction is between C# and .NET Core and whatever the hell ASP is.