This sounds a lot like the rust foundation is trying to either leverage its position into making money or influencing the rust community by giving out the "only real certificate".
Creating a revenue stream that's not dependent on member subscriptions is definitely a motivating factor. The Community Grants Program suffered this year because members were far less willing to donate funds towards it.
I'm not sure that I agree with the notion that the foundation is attempting to influence anything. The influence flows the other way. It acts in support of the project.
Employers, particularly large employers, are asking for "official" certifications. The only org that can realistically offer this is the foundation itself. There are gaps in the labor market. Companies complain that there are too few developers, and developers complain that there are too few jobs. The program is in no means a complete solution to the problem, but it does bias the situation in a positive direction.
German car manufacturers already have unions. Unions don't help against overmanagment and leadership without technical (digital) understanding. "Creative" parts of the company are often praised (while mostly badly stealing ideas from the competition) while devs are seen as a "resource". Experts usually get asked AFTER the project is on fire or already crisp.
I signed into o365 a few days ago and it recommended a random excel file of a completely unrelated department to me. Not sure why an office application needs to "recommend" files.
Indeed. The Sharepoint app for iOS is particularly fun for this.
I have gone to the trouble of installing a Sharepoint application. The idea that people are doing this who do not want a directory tree as 99.99999% of what they do is insane.
Because none of those plan on taking over europe. Russia still has the goal to directly control all slavic countries and indirectly control the rest of Europe. Most europeans remember the USSR.
I grew up in a more rural area and we always played in a old stonequarry in the woods. I went back there a few years ago and was quite shocked how high that was. I dont think our parents were aware of that. Well - we all survived (not without some injuries to teach us a lesson).
Ha, me too! It was a pretty dangerous mix of falling and drowning opportunities. The quarry I went to was flooded by a natural spring.
I never knew people personally who died in it, but there were several people who had throughout my childhood. As I recall, it was mostly teenagers drinking and swimming. If you add alcohol, even a staircase can be dangerous
“Each year, several tons of unexploded shells are recovered. According to the Sécurité Civile agency in charge, at the current rate 300 to 700 more years will be needed to clean the area completely. Some experiments conducted in 2005–06 discovered up to 300 shells per hectare (120 per acre) in the top 15 cm (6 inches) of soil in the worst areas.”
“The iron harvest (French: récolte de fer) is the annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and congruent trench supports collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields. The harvest generally applies to the material from the First World War, which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front.”
These also fairly frequently include unexplored poison gas shells.
American University in NW Washington, DC, had an army chemical warfare station during WW I. After the war, they suitably disposed of the remaining ordnance, according to current protocols: they dug holes, dumped in shells, and buried them. The area where this was done includes some of the most expensive real estate in Washington. Years ago one would read of old mustard gas shell unearthed at the South Korean ambassador's residence.
There’s a discovery of an unexploded WW2 bomb in and around Nuremberg at least every year or so, followed immediately by the evacuation of the neighborhood around it before the experts come in to defuse it (hopefully not have to explode it).
This is particularly exciting when they find one near a major train station, like in Nuremberg about six or seven years ago, especially midday or afternoon…
They’ll be finding those things for the rest of my toddler’s life.
