Not true. In the colloquial sense, and actually every sense of the word, this is a pandemic. At the point it became undeniably a pandemic per the WHO definition, the WHO announced they were "no longer going to use the category pandemic." The coronavirus is on every continent but one now.
I'm surprised that Samsung didn't release a cheap model like the S10e last year considering Apple is doing so well with their iPhone 11 strategy as well.
It's only a problem at a really large scale. At the scale of Microsoft or Facebook, there are factors that lead to the use of a monorepo being more efficient. At that big of a scale, companies have enough resource to develop internal tooling to deal with the problem (e.g. the use of Mercurial at Facebook).
FWIW, in case of Microsoft at least, it's more a question of product size than company size. Microsoft doesn't use a single monorepo for everything, like Google (so far as I know) does - just look at http://github.com/microsoft/; and that's not even counting all the VSO repos! It uses product-specific monorepos for some large products.
It would be nice if you and everyone else stopped gatekeeping this problem.
We have 600 devs and face these problems. I can assure you we sure as hell dont have the resources spare to reroll git. We're way too busy rerolling everything else.
I’m listening to Carlo Rovelli’s book, “Reality is not what it seems”, and I’m still hung up on the concept of the “extended now”. The way he describes it, everything being relativistic, there’s no such thing as an “objective” point of view. So, if I understand his take on your example, we’re not seeing the sun as it was 8 minutes ago. It simply takes 8 minutes for the sun’s “now” to reach us.
UTC is a global clock. If I show the time in Sydney and the time here in UK, Sydney will be 150ms behind to me, and 150ms ahead to a viewer in Sydney, but I know the distance therefore I know if the clocks are in sync.
The time dilation between the two places is on the order of femtoseconds/second, a millionth of a clock cycle of a cpu.
CET and EST are also the same time in Miami as in Singapore. That's just how time zones work. The distinction with UTC is that it isn't tied to any particular physical location, it's not the "time zone" for anywhere.
But UTC is ultimately defined by consensus. We need a reference clock and we need to be able to measure or estimate our skew in order to sync to it.
GPS provides the correct time anywhere on the planet, it's a universal (as far as earth goes) clock, accurate to 10 nanoseconds (3m). The different reference planes that opposite sides of the planet (at the equator) gives you a precision of femtoseconds (micrometers at light speed) so makes no difference there.
The quality of GPS receiver of course is important, it may reduce your precision to to 100ns or even 1000ns, but it will give you the right time. Someone equidistant to two GPS synced clocks will see them both at the same time (within a microsecond)
By that definition there is no meaning to the word "now". If I'm five feet away from you, it takes time for light to travel between us.
Snark aside, using the phrase "now" to describe an in-motion event that is observed over 29000 light years is misleading and should rather say "is now observed as 29000 light years away".
> By that definition there is no meaning to the word "now".
Yes, exactly!
"Now" is an extremely useful concept on Earth, when we're all in approximately the same space going approximately the same speed. Now gets a lot done for us.
Now is not really a concept on the universal scale. "There is no meaning to now" is a great take-away from general relativity!
Technically the Sun is moving as part of the arms of the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is moving through space on a collision course with Andromeda, so where you point at will be off.
This would be unnecessarily pedantic but not wrong* if not that the heart rotates on itself, so you are pointing at a 8 minutes old direction.
*All these discussion make no sense at all, as neither synchronous remote events nor the concept of what rotates around what are meaningful. This is not to say that we should not have this conversation, but to say that you are being pedantic without bringing anything to the table.
"His room" and "his code" is not comparable in the context. "His code" is part of a business's product and can impact the livelihood of many people involved in the product including customers.
"His room" is a private space that doesn't affect other people. I don't tell my co-worker to clean up his side-project on github.
You could tell your coworker (or your direct report if we're taking this analogy seriously) to clean up his work area. A child's room isn't a completely private space, and it's where they do their "work" (getting dressed, homework, play time, etc.).
I got a chuckle out of it but honestly, we don't need to make this place like Reddit where serious topics were mixed with jokes and then it got so bad that its impossible to engage in a serious discussion without a [serious] tag in the headline. Vast number of places on the internet are enteraining, there is no shortage. Let's leave HN for serious discussions. Good joke though.
Jokes are OK on HN as long as they are genuinely funny. Unfunny jokes tend to get downvoted. As most 'jokes' are not legitimately funny this system works well to keep a balance.
I've been here 10 years and it hasn't become like Reddit yet. Every person saying that HN will become like Reddit has been wrong so far.
If the joke adds intellectual value, I mostly agree. The problem is defining what’s truly funny and what’s not and it is highly dependent on the individual reader.
I’ve personally feel/seen some erosion but it’s hard to quantify and measure.
The problem on Reddit is the huge amount of formulaic and reference-based humor. It's too easy and it becomes a race to see who posts the obvious joke first.
On HN jokes do get up voted - if they're original, related to the topic and actually funny.
It's now an epidemic, not at pandemic level.