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If you care then just do something. I've said enough. It's cost me enough.

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Join an organisation and work actively with them (just joining is doing nothing). Contact MPs or other representatives[1]. Contact relevant bodies and pressure them. Give cash (making sure it gets used wisely). Offering your skills as a professional, where relevant.

[1] Despite what people say, this works, if slowly.

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> To combat this lots of people need to do activism. Those people need to devote your time and energy to prevent such thing.

I did the activism. I did the walk so I'm going to talk the talk here.

The problem is only an utterly microscopic number of people will actually do anything. A larger proportion will, to some degree inform themselves of the issue but still do nothing. An even larger number will simply complain on a forum and call for other people to get stuff done but do nothing (looking at you@irusensei).

It takes a remarkably small number of people to make a difference, but IRL the number who will do something is even smaller so nothing happens. Those that do, like me, end up exhausted and despairing, feeling we've wasted a fair chunk of our lives, and had there been just a few other people willing to involve themselves things might be different, but that didn't happen.

If you want change it's there for the taking. But you won't.

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I reported a probably Windows perf bug. Nothing happened. I reported it again. Basically they weren't interested despite my careful spelling it out. Time wasted. Fuck them.

Maybe it wasn't a bug (hah!) but they could have come back to me and at least told me they'd looked at it and it wasn't. I'd have appreciated that. But no.

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Read a lot of this kind of post. Years ago I recall someone bleating for 8 cores when 1 or 2 was the norm. Now you want 256. Next generation will ask for thousands. All for nothing because you have no idea what to do with it except give the handwaviest justifications. A computer's a tool to do an actual job. You can and probably do have more computing power on your desktop than all the world's supercomputers put together from the 1970's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_X-MP

   Price US$7.9 million in 1977 (equivalent to $38.2 million in 2022)
   Weight 5.5 tons (Cray-1A)
   Power 115 kW @ 208 V 400 Hz[1]
   CPU 64-bit processor @ 80 MHz[1]
   Memory 8.39 Megabytes (up to 1 048 576 words)[1]
   Storage 303 Megabytes (DD19 Unit)[1]
   FLOPS 160 MFLOPS

In 2070 it still won't be enough for you. It never will be enough.

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Firefox allows you to use / to start a conventional search.

As a bonus, in Firefox if you hit the ' key (apostrophe) you get a search that looks only within hyperlinks and ignores all the un-clickable plain text. Give it a try, sometimes it can be very useful

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

I followed the link about arrays of foreign keys but couldn't see what it was saying. Could you briefly summarise for me?

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