Couldn't agree more - I am not even comfortable with the term "Software Engineer". "If engineers built like programmers code the first wood pecker that came along would destroy civilization." I forget who said it, but it's so true. It reminds me of peons giving themselves grander and grander titles to stroke their egos. FYI - I am a programmer, and I take offense at being called a "Software Engineer". Engineers work for a living, programmers copy paste code from StackOverflow for a living.

Day -365 when the first release candidate came out. If it makes you feel any better (and why should it) ALL programming IDE's are memory hogs. Right now I am running an instance of VS, VS Code, Android Studio and PHP Storm (I have lots of RAM) and the one chewing up the most RAM is Android Studio, followed by VS, VS Code, and then PHP Storm. If you want to know why, write an addin for Visual Studio and get a look at the API. After that it will still suck up tons of RAM, but you will understand why. The only thing that seems to be as RAM hungry as IDE's are web browsers - ALL of them. But then if the have ever worked with the internal gubbins of Web browsers you will also know why.

Windows 11 has more adverts? MS needs more early adopters to iron out the bugs? Now that you have finally figured out where everything is in Windows 10, you miss the hours trying to find things that they have (re)moved for no obvious reason. You are tired of the same Windows 10 logo day after day. If you think your computer is running smoothly now then you should definitely try Windows 11, it will help point out all the bits that need upgrading (RAM, CPU, GPU, Storage etc).

Book was as boring as the movie, just took longer to complete. But to be honest I was never a fan of Arthur C Clarke to begin with. I also did not read it in my first language, so I had to do it with a reference dictionary, which probably didn't help.

One company I worked for rebooted their Red Hat box every day at 4 in the morning, otherwise it would inexplicably freeze and drop messages (ie. money). It was not the OS's fault though, it was the crappy java/jboss app that did the messaging from the mainframe to swift and back. The log files it produced were over a gig each day and everyone spent some jail time sifting through them to try figure out what exactly caused the freeze. AFAIK they are still rebooting them every day.