I doubt FEMA money is actually used for the immigrant stunt and Florida is not unprepared for hurricanes. Florida actually has pretty good stormwater management infrastructure, mostly because it has to. Homes in South Florida are also required to be built out of concrete block and have hurricane windows. Point being: Florida is decently prepared for storms. Could it be better? Of course. But I would not say Florida is complete unprepared. I do think there needs to be changes to insurance and government aid though. We're distributing (read: subsidizing) a lot of the cost of living in an expensive area. We're seeing ripples of this with insurance companies not wanting to insure houses in Florida. That or making it more expensive to get insurance directly (premiums) and indirectly (you can't have a roof over 10 years old in some cases because, by law, they have to pay to replace a roof if a few shingles come off).
I say Florida a lot because I lived there up until recently, I can't speak for other states.
Companies want to pay less to work with COBOL? I was always told you’d get a nice bump to work with COBOL because so few people are still around to maintain these critical systems?
If so few users care about security, why should the government regulate for that outcome?
I think theoretically the argument above makes sense, but in reality it doesn't. The market that exists doesn't provide a solution because the barrier to entry is basically infinite. Even Microsoft couldn't offer an alternative to iOS and Android because Microsoft couldn't do it alone. It's a natural monopoly problem, which means normal market arguments don't work.
I disagree on the importance you’re putting on what I think are edge cases for most development. When I’m building a binary, the biggest issue I tend to run into is the “machine” I’m building it on. Docker allows that “machine” to have reproducibly equivalent dependencies. Same version of Node, .NET, Java, etc. I don’t see how the kernel really matters that much here. I’ve never once cared what Linux kernel I’m on, but I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to figure which exact version of Cordova I need with Ionic or whatever mess of dependencies I need.
Management never seems to understand anything besides direct dollars. How much time has it cost the company to switch to Teams? It's definitely not zero.
Is it? I’m still holding onto my TV from 2014 because it doesn’t have “smart” functionality. Every time I look at new ones I can’t find good dumb ones.
I say Florida a lot because I lived there up until recently, I can't speak for other states.