He can afford a house of the quality that the guy in the 60s could afford: a tiny 2-bedroom track house with no AC (and no appliances). You can't ignore technology - people have just decided they prefer to spend on the big screen with PS4 and lots of other tech and bling over the house. Fair enough.
And you have savings if you want to have savings, though you might not also have the TV and PS4. The Silent Generation were raised to save above all else, as their parents lived through the great depression, so they had savings. I didn't get that religion until 30, but I started living on half my take-home pay at that point - just a matter of what you sacrifice for higher priorities.
You'll find most actual libraries trash books very quickly once they hit low turnover. They don't have the space for a rarely read book unless it has some historical value.
Libraries are mostly used as daycares these days, a function for which Starbucks would be particularly ill adapted. Unless of course your kid needs the free heroin needles.
That plus the death of Unions and the end of collective bargaining is why wages are declining even though productivity is way, way up.
Thing is, all this shit changed in the 70s. It's not a recent change. And yet our standard of living went up very nicely from the 70s through around 2000. It's not obvious what changed, though political corruption has been getting worse since the 90s. Perhaps it passed some tipping point: the Bush/Obama bank "bailout" was the single largest looting of the treasury in US history, perhaps worse than all previous corruption combined. But that was many years after the change in ~2000.
That's not strictly true, as the corporate charter can spell out other priorities. But the board has to follow whatever that is (and by default it' the financial interest of the shareholders). You can, however, have a corporation where being "green" or "socially responsible" is a priority, as long as that's public before anyone buys stock. You just have to be clear about what "benefit of the stockholders" will mean, if it's not just money. Almost no one does that, of course.
You're talking about a different kind of "contractor". These aren't the kind that set their own billing rate - they're the kind that work for a contracting company for peanuts (aka outsourcing). They're W2 employees of the actual contractor.
Heck, anyone who's worked at a pizza delivery place knows 7PM is the peak. Most places are closed by 2AM though, even on weekends, so I'm a bit suspicious of that result.
You really seem intent to make sure everyone knows you don't have a TV.
I've never had cable - wasn't worth the money when I was younger, no interest now. I stopped watching broadcast TV when it went digital. But I still have a TV in my living room, and have never really had a lack of things to watch on it. Between NetFlix DVDs, various streaming services, and the occasional torrent there has been plenty.
I'm finding these days that very little interests me in new movies and TV shows, but there's plenty of stuff I find interesting on YouTube to make up the gap. And I still watch it on my TV, in my living room, for the most part.
I doubt that. When I worked there in the mid 2000s, what amazon had internally was light years ahead (pun intended, since it was named Apollo) of anything I'd seen outside of it. I highly doubt they haven't continued to invest in that.
You should doubt more. It's all deep legacy stuff now, most of it the same systems that were innovative 15 years ago. Most of the rest of the world has moved on to implicitly auto-scaling container-based solutions, where dev teams never muck with "servers" in any way. Google (which is hardly leading edge these days) has been containerized for years. Even Azure offers self-scaling fleets with some abstraction away from explicit server types.
And the stuff your remember was never made to work on AWS, so if you're trying to build a non-legacy system on AWS to get its benefits, it's an entirely different stack to learn from scratch.
It's a really shocking failure of senior management IMO. They should have started 5 years ago with an even better AWS-based tech stack for deployments and fleet management, then forced everyone to move over. But that wouldn't have immediate payoff.
No, the non-AWS stuff is pure garbage. But it would take engineering effort to move to AWS, and management would have to fund that effort instead of their own pet projects.
Anything that conflated "IT" with software development is BS to begin with. I have to wonder what a "Computer Programmer" is supposed to be, as I've never seen that as an actual job title. Especially since they also have "Applications Software Developer" and "Systems Software Developer" as different jobs (and I haven't seen those titles in 20 years).
Microsoft OS keeps the modified partition table in memory until it gets cleanly unmounted or there is "time" to write it out.
Partition table? Really? That thing that is written once and never changed? You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Interstellar travel is probably the hardest problem. I suspect we'll solve the problem of short human lifetimes long before we find a way to travel quickly between the stars.
It's also a problem of scale: unless there's some SciFi shortcuts handy, the smallest ship that would make sense would be billions of tons. When we're building in space at that scale, we'll be well on our way to not needing the Earth to survive.
In short, most of the great benefit to be found from moving industry into space, then following it, will come long before interstellar travel will make any kind of sense.
People in space is the point of the exercise. I don't expect that to be cheap or safe until launch technology evolves quite a bit. However, if all you need to do is get people up to LEO, where they'll transfer to the real space ship, there's room for craft heavy enough for airplane levels of safety.
Cheap cargo to orbit and safe humans to orbit are really different problems though.
Only if the threat is credible, which is the whole point. Internet threats aren't (usually) credible. Game devs, particularly, get death threats continuously from outraged players - and it's just noise.
Yeah, the same would apply to Colony Wars or the various Wing Commanders
Did you ever play these games? They're not at all alike. Tie FIghter and X-Wing were a real 3D environment, with shots modeled flying through space, and other sim-like elements. You could fly anywhere in a very large volume of space, and engage with anything you could see. Most of the game was actually secret objectives, involving destroy capital ships and the like.
Wing Commander was a rails shooter. Not even the same genre.
I don't think there is an actual space sim beyond KSP
Which is on console now.
Heh, sort of. Almost. Nearly. But the shit from the sewers of the PC Gaming Overlords is valued as gold by filthy console peasants, I guess. Well, at least we can all unite in looking down on mobile gamers.
I still long for a Babylon 5-themed space sim, though.
Something Wing Commander-ish?
Obviously not a rails shooter. What would be the point. Bab-5 is the only TV SciFi with space fighters that don't turn like jets (did you ever see it?). It would be a neat setting for a space combat sim, as the lore would be consistent with an actual sim.
We're all pretty much playing the same games now anyway.
Only in the world of "AAA" games, but who wants to play those? It's all filthy console trash these days.
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For all its many faults, India at least has great food, much of it vegetarian.
All of my favorite foods are vegetarians as well.
He can afford a house of the quality that the guy in the 60s could afford: a tiny 2-bedroom track house with no AC (and no appliances). You can't ignore technology - people have just decided they prefer to spend on the big screen with PS4 and lots of other tech and bling over the house. Fair enough.
And you have savings if you want to have savings, though you might not also have the TV and PS4. The Silent Generation were raised to save above all else, as their parents lived through the great depression, so they had savings. I didn't get that religion until 30, but I started living on half my take-home pay at that point - just a matter of what you sacrifice for higher priorities.
You'll find most actual libraries trash books very quickly once they hit low turnover. They don't have the space for a rarely read book unless it has some historical value.
Libraries are mostly used as daycares these days, a function for which Starbucks would be particularly ill adapted. Unless of course your kid needs the free heroin needles.
That plus the death of Unions and the end of collective bargaining is why wages are declining even though productivity is way, way up.
Thing is, all this shit changed in the 70s. It's not a recent change. And yet our standard of living went up very nicely from the 70s through around 2000. It's not obvious what changed, though political corruption has been getting worse since the 90s. Perhaps it passed some tipping point: the Bush/Obama bank "bailout" was the single largest looting of the treasury in US history, perhaps worse than all previous corruption combined. But that was many years after the change in ~2000.
That's not strictly true, as the corporate charter can spell out other priorities. But the board has to follow whatever that is (and by default it' the financial interest of the shareholders). You can, however, have a corporation where being "green" or "socially responsible" is a priority, as long as that's public before anyone buys stock. You just have to be clear about what "benefit of the stockholders" will mean, if it's not just money. Almost no one does that, of course.
You're talking about a different kind of "contractor". These aren't the kind that set their own billing rate - they're the kind that work for a contracting company for peanuts (aka outsourcing). They're W2 employees of the actual contractor.
I've lived in a half-dozen large cities, and never seen a pizza place deliver past 2AM. Is this some NY/Chicago thing?
Heck, anyone who's worked at a pizza delivery place knows 7PM is the peak. Most places are closed by 2AM though, even on weekends, so I'm a bit suspicious of that result.
Web games are basically dead now, anyway. Sites like kongregate only work on niche browsers like IE and Firefox.
elf signed certs are fine, but they cause all sorts of issues in Gnome environments and Men in the Middle-earth attacks are possible.
Whoever modded this down .... just needs to stop modding.
What the AC said: getting rid of cable in no way implies getting rid of "TV". That's the whole point, You can watch things that are not cable on a TV.
You really seem intent to make sure everyone knows you don't have a TV.
I've never had cable - wasn't worth the money when I was younger, no interest now. I stopped watching broadcast TV when it went digital. But I still have a TV in my living room, and have never really had a lack of things to watch on it. Between NetFlix DVDs, various streaming services, and the occasional torrent there has been plenty.
I'm finding these days that very little interests me in new movies and TV shows, but there's plenty of stuff I find interesting on YouTube to make up the gap. And I still watch it on my TV, in my living room, for the most part.
I doubt that. When I worked there in the mid 2000s, what amazon had internally was light years ahead (pun intended, since it was named Apollo) of anything I'd seen outside of it. I highly doubt they haven't continued to invest in that.
You should doubt more. It's all deep legacy stuff now, most of it the same systems that were innovative 15 years ago. Most of the rest of the world has moved on to implicitly auto-scaling container-based solutions, where dev teams never muck with "servers" in any way. Google (which is hardly leading edge these days) has been containerized for years. Even Azure offers self-scaling fleets with some abstraction away from explicit server types.
And the stuff your remember was never made to work on AWS, so if you're trying to build a non-legacy system on AWS to get its benefits, it's an entirely different stack to learn from scratch.
It's a really shocking failure of senior management IMO. They should have started 5 years ago with an even better AWS-based tech stack for deployments and fleet management, then forced everyone to move over. But that wouldn't have immediate payoff.
Why not? The private dog food tastes better?
No, the non-AWS stuff is pure garbage. But it would take engineering effort to move to AWS, and management would have to fund that effort instead of their own pet projects.
Anything that conflated "IT" with software development is BS to begin with. I have to wonder what a "Computer Programmer" is supposed to be, as I've never seen that as an actual job title. Especially since they also have "Applications Software Developer" and "Systems Software Developer" as different jobs (and I haven't seen those titles in 20 years).
Microsoft OS keeps the modified partition table in memory until it gets cleanly unmounted or there is "time" to write it out.
Partition table? Really? That thing that is written once and never changed? You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
Troll on, brother.
They only way out is by exploring the stars.
Interstellar travel is probably the hardest problem. I suspect we'll solve the problem of short human lifetimes long before we find a way to travel quickly between the stars.
It's also a problem of scale: unless there's some SciFi shortcuts handy, the smallest ship that would make sense would be billions of tons. When we're building in space at that scale, we'll be well on our way to not needing the Earth to survive.
In short, most of the great benefit to be found from moving industry into space, then following it, will come long before interstellar travel will make any kind of sense.
Lower cost access to space helps us all.
It does, you know. Oh, it's a bit more long term than people generally think, but there's nothing wrong with thinking long-term.
Heck, the Earth will only be habitible for another 300 M years or so - not an immediate concern, but an inevitable one.
People in space is a silly stunt.
People in space is the point of the exercise. I don't expect that to be cheap or safe until launch technology evolves quite a bit. However, if all you need to do is get people up to LEO, where they'll transfer to the real space ship, there's room for craft heavy enough for airplane levels of safety.
Cheap cargo to orbit and safe humans to orbit are really different problems though.
Only if the threat is credible, which is the whole point. Internet threats aren't (usually) credible. Game devs, particularly, get death threats continuously from outraged players - and it's just noise.
Who in hell is paying $60 for this unpolished turd? Just people who like doing the same thing over and over and over and over and...
Yup - the bought the last hyped game for $60, and the one before that, and the one before that, and ...
Yeah, the same would apply to Colony Wars or the various Wing Commanders
Did you ever play these games? They're not at all alike. Tie FIghter and X-Wing were a real 3D environment, with shots modeled flying through space, and other sim-like elements. You could fly anywhere in a very large volume of space, and engage with anything you could see. Most of the game was actually secret objectives, involving destroy capital ships and the like.
Wing Commander was a rails shooter. Not even the same genre.
I don't think there is an actual space sim beyond KSP
Which is on console now.
Heh, sort of. Almost. Nearly. But the shit from the sewers of the PC Gaming Overlords is valued as gold by filthy console peasants, I guess. Well, at least we can all unite in looking down on mobile gamers.
I still long for a Babylon 5-themed space sim, though.
Something Wing Commander-ish?
Obviously not a rails shooter. What would be the point. Bab-5 is the only TV SciFi with space fighters that don't turn like jets (did you ever see it?). It would be a neat setting for a space combat sim, as the lore would be consistent with an actual sim.
We're all pretty much playing the same games now anyway.
Only in the world of "AAA" games, but who wants to play those? It's all filthy console trash these days.
Meanwhile, have you played Factorio?
It is certainly a problem, because it encourages the abuse of gamers by publishers. Don't be part of the problem.
So you believe that scaring someone should carry a criminal penalty? What about hurting someone's feelings? Micro-aggressions?
Your feelings are your problem.