Is there any cryptocurrency that is not a PoS?!
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Wireless protocols are inherently more complex, there are crappy Wi-Fi hardware out there, too.
BT and Zigbee have one additional disavantage over Wi-Fi: they are slow, so they are more heavily affected by packet loss and interference in ISM band. This probably lead to more complex protocols, you cannot do things TCP/IP-simple if you don't have bandwidth to spare in order to retransmit losses.
A career break may happen to anyone by infinite reasons beyond motherhood. Most people have such career-pausing or career-delaying events (health issues, depression, fatherhood, taking care of an elderly relative), most conceal it, motherhood just happens not to be concealable.
And things don't change as fast. Not even in IT. And even if changed, legacy is always there, begging for someone to take care of it instead of going to the newest shiny thing.
People out of the market need some warm-up time? Yes, they do. Even machines need to warm-up, dammit.
What people should understand, is that the economy turns because there are mothers, fathers, and kids. I would be retired at 35 if didn't marry and hadn't a kid. Once upon a time I was buying a car, the saleswoman was worried about her job because of her pregnancy. I said "I am buying a new car because of the kid. No pregnant women, no car sales." (If I were single or divorced, would have a couple vintage cars.)
Reality: a RPI 4 costing as much as a whole Intel NUC, but slower, without upgradable RAM, without native ports to mass storage (SATA/M.2), and not as reliable.
Didn't even have to think that far to see that SBC computers are a joke^W^W not there yet. Considered buying a NanoPi or a Raspberry CM + some board to build a router, with at least 2 physical Gigabit ports. Tallying up all components (sbc, case, power supply, heat sink, etc.) made the NUC with 4 gigabit ports look a bargain.
I really wanted to go the !x86 route, but...
As I said in the other comment, I am moderately optimistic because some indicators are already moving e.g. you mentioned that more men will go childless. This is already happening.
To my son, I teach that there are no gender roles set in stone. If in doubt, stay single and childless; he has many, many decades to opt out if the Right One shows up.
As the other commenter said, we see different families in very different mindsets.
I have been personally affected by sexism type B: was expected to work, to be a provider someday, to pay my own way to university, if you want a car you buy it, etc. etc. My sister had the second family car at disposal and the tuition was paid for. There was this undercurrent interpretation of feminism that "women will eventually suffer so they should be pampered when possible".
There were other factors at play: I have a tendency to self-indulgence, my sister does not, so it is prima facie difficult to separate what was proper, individualized upbringing and what was sexism. But sexism was a part; many male friends of the same generation have the same complaint and some could be better off today had they have more support at home.
Then there is this relative of mine, that simply threw his daughters out at 18, since they are supposed to get a wealthy boyfriend and marry rich, so they don't need any further support. BTW they are disowned, too.
This is sexism type A, and make it a big A.
Not necessary to say this strategy did not end well: both are stuck with less-than-optimal partners and careers. We are in 2022 and a nice, wealthy and rational guy won't commit to someone without a career and finances in order.
My LG 34" is a bit limited in vertical size, so would buy a 38" or bigger next time. The 1080p resolution is limited but not a dealbreaker for me since I look at it 70cm away (corrective eye surgery = focus locked to infinity).
The doctors I know still make many times more than a software engineer with a remote job. And they deserve it.
But there is this deeply rooted notion that software engineers are not supposed to make as much a judge, a doctor or a higher-rank bureaucrat of the public sector. The current bewildering is more cultural than anything else.
Another instance of that misleading lowpass filter: "if that happened to group J, the J people must have been doing something to deserve it".
To get angry when there is a mess-up is not to be difficult. Difficult clients are more like abusive partners. They create the situations that allow them to exert abuse e.g. ask you to drop other clients, then ask for an impossible deadline, then assign side tasks all the time while pretending they don't know this will impact the deadline, then withholding payment, while saying that $1M is just around the corner.
The big problem (in Brazil at least) is, the bozo president and his entourage elected this medicine as a silver bullet, saying that we didn't need vaccines, didn't need any social isolation (let alone lockdowns), etc.
These bozos created a false dichotomy: one thing is to take a chance and swallow some medicine as last-ditch attempt when you have no other known option. They use this reasoning to say nothing else was needed.
Semi related: Using some Unix flavor in PCs was a desire for many, but always postponed because it took twice the RAM as Windows. First heard about Linux in 1996 but started to play with it in 1998 when I could afford a separate PC with 64MB of RAM to run it comfortably.