I like to solve puzzles. Like landscaping or building with Lego or painting, it’s about getting that idea out of your head into a form that other people can share.

What would they call each other?

“If you can’t trust the governments of the world, then who can you trust?”
Albert Einstein, Young Einstein

Not disagreeing, but do you have sources? I wouldn’t even know where to start looking.

ADA or Jovial, I’m guessing.

Do you feel that your “customers” are the administration or the general public? Whom do you feel that you are serving in your job? Do you feel that the directions given to you by your administration are legal and safe and reasonable? Do you feel that the directions given to you by your administration cause a disadvantage to yourself or your “customers”?

You could try to clutch at straws to justify staying in your job. You might be able to reasonably determine that your feelings for your administration don’t affect the performance of your job. Maybe staying in your job is the best way to benefit your “customers” and obstruct the administration.

Only you can decide how you feel and what is an appropriate match for your own moral and ethical position.

Imagine you like the shape of the front of a Mini Cooper and the rear of a Ford mustang. You could take the paneling from the interior of a rolls Royce and the seats from a Lamborghini and make a really cool car.

Unfortunately, unlike modern standard PCs, phones are individually designed and built and even models in the same range can’t use each other’s parts or software.

Each component is designed to work with each of the other components and just slapping them together doesn’t necessarily make a new working product.

Labour and materials depends on your country and location. Do you need to pay a bribe permit to local government as well? Will the neighbour on the other side pay half? Does it need to be painted?

Get a few quotes, ask for references of other fences they’ve built, and compare locally.

Rescued my daughter in the cliched flat tyre in the rain scenario, the flashing light was good to alert other drivers. I think it’s something that could be useful very rarely.

I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.

It might or might not:

• arrive
• work
• be genuine
• be fit for purpose

Yes

Do people still use Chrome ?

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth

Memory isn’t infinite, CPUs can’t process all integers, and Santa isn’t real

Wait, what? Need a spoiler tag.

Ada

“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.”
— Steven Wright

Because the Olympics can afford the licensing fees.

Try asking !unethicallifeprotips@lemmy.world