Nothing wrong with paying for serious news, but when most viewers can't read the article it probably won't get much useful discussion.

I live in Michigan, and I have always struggled through the winters.

I recently learned that in the winter, in the North, the angle of the sun is such that UVB rays cannot penetrate the atmosphere and your body therefore cannot produce Vitamin D. Surprisingly few people who live here are aware of this.

I take Vitamin D supplements every winter now and I think it makes a difference.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2839537/

My mood has got better since moving from Michigan to Denver

I can see several reasons in that one line that have nothing to do with vitamin-D.

Let's not rush to such judgment - our desires change as we age, the field has changed (including what nose-to-the-grindstone coding looks like) and burnout affects many.

Plus, some people enjoy the rigors of solving in-the-weeds code problems and others enjoy building systems-level designs. This was always true.

Exactly, thank you. I'm much more interested in how systems interact gracefully, addressing failure modes and building for resiliency/scale.

Do you need good quality code to do that? Sure, but that's just another line-item on the laundry list of things to make it happen.

I'm very happy to let the robot handle any incidental React or other extraneous tools that end up adjacent to the core work I'm doing. It avoids getting blocked without interrupting teammates or spending time and cognitive capacity on stuff that has no lasting value in my work.

That's precisely my point when I say the field has changed even for "true code writing."

I think that's one reason - another reason is that people are time-constrained, backlogged and expected to do more than ever.

Monero is legal in most countries.

> I'd really like it if Linux was as rock solid as Mac or Windows. But it clearly isn't and it doesn't help anyone that so many Linux fans pretend it is (look at the replies!).

It is perhaps also possible that others have different experiences with both Windows/Mac and Linux than you do. It's common for people to not notice what's broken, or what they have to workaround, with the software they use every day. People also have different workflows and priorities that determine whether their use of a tool is "rock solid" or not. (Something I certainly wouldn't say about Windows—or Mac!)

PEBKAC

It is important for some companies. https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/admin/inst...

Is it more expensive?

Than Gitlab?

I'm not sure, you'd have to check their pricing pages.

It doesn't say does it? For self-hosted commercial use? Wish either were open-source.

I'm sorry, I think you're trying to make a point and I'm not quite following it. Yes, Github Enterprise requires a license.

Github Enterprise is $21/user/month: https://github.com/pricing

Oh nice that $21 includes self hosting. The point we were talking about before was the difference between the two and gitlab can let companies host it for free.

Gitlab Enterprise is not free (it costs more than Gitlab Premium, cloud, which is $29/user/month), and companies that would want to self-host something like Github Enterprise are not hosting the free version of Gitlab - so these are not comparable. For example, SAML SSO and audit streaming (SIEM support) requires paying.

As best as I can tell, your argument is "Github costs money which is bad" and I don't find it particularly convincing. Companies need to make money in order to continue producing products. That's why Gitlab sells their product too.

What makes those two features so important when using gitlab internally? Would Roku really need those features for its devs? To me they don't seem like things you worry about with normal Gitlab / Github anyways and all kinds of teams use it fine.

I'm sorry but if you don't think SSO and audit logging are important to companies, I'm inclined to believe you haven't been working long. These are typically table stakes for compliance reasons. Auditability and security of your code is incredibly important (this is your supply chain!) Yes, Roku would care. And yes, GitHub (and Gitlab!) offers these things.

Couldn't this be done by wrapping a open source service around gitlab or a git interface for it so it could be done for free?

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Thanks, really appreciate you bringing it back from the dead and hope it provides some helpful context that didn't fit naturally into the web site.

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