You’re all true until allocating scarce resources. These days economy is how to make scarce something that isn’t in order to profit from it. See copyrights and patents. In our society a replicator would be the property of a company and you would need to pay it to be allowed to use it.
Something can probably be done though with matter synthetiser and teleporters.
Another problem is about where to redirect the overcharge. In space there is no ground where the current can go. Yet you need to dissipate the energy somewhere.
They have their appartement and family on the ship though. Isn’t it their home at some point?
A dev work on some code. It works, great, job done.
An engineer comes to see this work. It hasn’t been thoroughly tested, it only works on the dev computer in his coding environment. There is no documentation. There is no comments in the code. Half the features are missing because the story didn’t talk about them. Installing the “software” is made by hand and only one person knows how to do that. Some libraries are used with various licences, some are outdated, some can’t be maintained, some will download stuff on their own. Performances are shit. I certainly forget a lot of stuff.
Now the engineer will work to solve all these non code problems.
Now the problem is that software companies don’t care about engineers because they have managers. Managers will consider engineers like developers and ask them to work like developers. They will also tell the engineer that his lunacies are too time consuming, which means too expensive, so they will go in the backlog and be forgotten.
Yes I’m disillusioned and depressed about working in software development. It’s not like this everywhere. Some companies have an engineering culture. Especially when they come from older industries, like electronics or car etc. But I haven’t had the chance to work in one for 5 years now.
To add to the other comments, honour is a notion that only ever hold among peers. You respect a peer with honor, but a lesser one doesn’t deserve honours. A honourable knight is buried with the honours, but a lowly peasant isn’t. A knight doesn’t have any trouble running down a peasant with its horse. But against a knight he will go down from his horse to fight his honourable peer.
There is an idea of valour in this. When you fight someone of equal value, then resorting to easy tactic doesn’t prove your worth against him, you merely used a loser tactic. But against someone you and everyone know is lower, no one care, you’re already doing him the honour by merely fighting him. A lower enemy doesn’t deserve a honourable fight.
This concept of value and how honour only apply to someone of equal or higher value is important to understand.
Applied to Klingons, they would be stupid to not use a technology like stealth. The question is whether they use it among themselves in fights where honour is a matter.
Oh indeed there are situations where honour doesn’t matter. If you need to kill a whole family (for matters of bloodline and right to a crown for example) then you’ll deal with honour later.
These questions of singularity amuse me. People focus on stupid fantasy questions like it means humanity’s doom. Yet, actual singularities are ignored and such part of our lives we have trouble imagining they were singularities.
The current singularity is internet: no one could imagine it 50 years ago, no one still grasp what we can do with it today or even understand it well, and no one can imagine what we will do about it in the future. The biggest fights around it are to fight it with copyrights, surveillance and corporation controle of the applications.
If you take a step back, this is actually the telecommunications revolution. Internet is merely a step after this one. Another big thing was the mecanisation. The shake from it was the industrial revolution. Agriculture may have been another one.
AI, it should be a revolution too. But we’re still in the infancy of this technology, and it’s far, far from what it will deliver in the future. The beginning was with algorithm. The end won’t be a machine revolution achieving sentience. It’ll probably be another era of feudalism because it’s what happens each time: those who possess the technology use it to enslave the rest of the world. And humanity grow and advance forward.
Ah it’s French for object oriented programming
Oh I agree that questions are two often badly answered! The exemple of “why don’t you use this instead” is the worst offender. I didn’t understand you were talking about this, and I’m still traumatised by javascript after 14 years.
For their credit basic javascript is a garbage language.
Just no. CLI can be automated, which makes it superior. It’s not a superiority complex, it’s a fact. I’m not a minimal wage worker pushing buttons I don’t understand. I’m not a technician who learnt your shitty software to do the most basic tasks.
Oh I have some!
Computer science is still a hobby and has a lot to go through before it is an actual industry.
Developers are too often bad engineers.
Short development cycles are a bad thing.
POO is trash. It’s a manager tool, not an engineering one.
I would say it’s how most softwares are done. And no, it’s not a good thing, and you should do what you can to improve things.
My boss and his boss told me that it is impossible to keep documentation up to date and too expensive, which is why we don’t have any. Let’s say I’m not the most engaged worker there now.
Exactly. In some way the software is a lock that ensure the property of the machine stays to the company that built it.