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Shell scripts were a mistake. The weirdness you have to remember to safely stop executing when something fails is mind-boggling.

nushell scripts aren't shellscripts?

Ehrengerüstbauer

exactly. Forking for any reason is the essence of FOSS.

Scenarios like OPs were taken care of right from the start. That's just the legal side, tho. But someone still needs to do the actual work which is why it sometimes fails.

Public funds.

There actually are lots of initiatives (e.g. https://bigdatastack.eu/european-open-source-initiative ) but it's still young and there are multiple problems between available public money and contributors actually earning a salary.

Money is not the problem.

Exemplarisch für den verkommenen akademischen Gedanken im Schulsystem: Nämlich sich mit einem Spezialgebiet beschäftigen, es vertiefen, Thesen aufzustellen, diese diskutieren/belegen/wiederlegen/verteidigen, gewonnene Erkenntnisse wissenschaftlich konform verschriftlichen usw.

Genau DAS sollte die (weiterführende) Schule eigentlich spielerisch vermitteln und fördern.

Egal ob da T-Shirts gefärbt, Stinkbomben gebastelt, Roboter konstruiert oder über irgendein Thema diskutiert wird - solange es pädagogisch wertvoll ist, erwarte ich, dass das Schulsystem jegliches freiwillige Engagement von Schülern bestmöglich unterstützt.

either earn a good living being a code monkey, or find a job in a small company that has passion

crazy idea: let's publicly fund FOSS projects so devs working on stuff they like with a passion can actually make a good living and enable sustainable non-profits to hire expertise, marketing and all the stuff a company needs

the result would be actually good software and happy devs

In deutschen Wohnungen produzieren sie normalerweise rasch tropische Schwüle.

Das stimmt, aber da es immer ein Feuchtigkeitsgefälle nach aussen gibt, funktioniert das mit Lüften ganz gut.

Mit "knochentrockener" Luft funktioniert es natürlich am besten aber Deutschland ist nicht der Amazonas und hier macht es zumindest für mich an heissen Tagen viel Unterschied und kost praktisch nix.

Wenn die Sommer noch heisser werden, kommt Klimaanlage mit PV her.

feuchte Stoffe zum trocknen aufhängen und viel lüften. Das kost nix und bringt viel.

Bonuspunkte wenn die nachts richtig auskühlen können und dann tagsüber mehr Wärmeenergie ~~aufnehmen~~ umwandeln.

...oder halt PV + Klimaanlage für cheatmode.

That was also the time where some classic tunes were created...

25 years in the industry here. As I said there's nothing against learning something new but I doubt it's as easy as "leveling up".

Both fields profit a lot from experience and it's as much gain for a scientist do become a software dev as an architect becoming a carpenter. It's simply not productive.

there is so much time lost in research institutes because of shoddy programming

Well, that's the way it is. Scientific code and production code have different requirements. To me that sounds like "that machine prototype is inefficient - just skip the prototype next time and build the real thing right away."

It's always good to learn new stuff but in terms of productivity: Don't attempt to be a programmer. Rather attempt to write better research code (clean up code, revision control, better commenting, maybe testing...)

Rather try to improve cooperation with programmers, if necessary. Close cooperation, asking stupid questions instead of making assumptions etc. makes the process easy for both of you.

Also don't be afraid to consult different programmers since beyond a certain level, experience and expertise in programming is vastly fragmented.

Experienced programmers mostly suck on your field and vice versa and that's a good thing.

why would using a cdn I don't control, from a non-contracted 3rd party and their "PageShield" app reduce my supply chain attack risk?

Am I not just increasing the attack surface since now my visitors can be victim not only by my servers being compromised but now also by the 3rd party being compromised?

serious question.