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I agree with you. The middle class is going to take all of the blunts. The rich people more or less are not impacted.

The thing is that Jan 6th was done by part of the "people", so it's now America versus America.

The key, IMHO, is to maintain the status quo of the USD as the safe haven which also has the ability to destroy other safe havens. As long as the USD is the primary safe have the amount of debt is irrelevant.

You are probably right, just saying in general...

Companies are outsourcing testing. I'm not surprised that they get rid of UI testing. Back in the day companies used to invite people to sit down and use their software. Nowadays they just push out whatever they have and then start collecting bug tickets. Then they let the community to vote on the tickets. It's basically a huge "pay for being a beta tester" scheme.

For modern Windows operating system, i.e. >= Windows 10, getting rid of ads, weather, auto-update and search bar can improve UI usability significantly.

Windows 95 was not stable enough back then. I believe Windows 2000 was the first OS that was easy to use and relatively stable. XP and 7 are both solid options too.

I have used both MacOS X and modern MacOS (15) and the UI of X is definitely way better than the UI of 15. It is more clean cut.

Great. Another company to avoid and I'm going to spread the news to every friend and every colleague and every Internet forum. I'll just them frankly that Vizio steals and sells users' data -- maybe not 100% true but whatever.

For a starter many large Chinese software develop their own in-house tools, including chat, planning and office. It is usually a complete suite so that everything interacts with everything else pretty well. For example you can directly open a file shared by someone else in a chat in office locally -- this was my experience in Tiktok.

And you probably already know Wechat and QQ.

And since China provides a lot of embedded devices to the world, there is a big chance that your doorbell or cleaning robot uses code written by a Chinese company.

China's threat is different from the US'. But anyway, the real threat to EU is in EU itself, as for all major organizations.

EU probably should start thinking about its own economical and security interests. Eu is not ready to be a true player at the moment, but at least she can think of ways to balance US and China.

I agree that it looks grim, but I do think preserving a full set of documentation for every industry helps the future generation to reboot. The resource part is not solvable, I have to admit that. The only hope is that with much less population and a forever mind of scarcity we do not need that much resources.

Actually, taking away the virus part, looks like we are dead if we can't get out of earth to mine other planets economically before the resources are depleted. But as far as I heard, that is super expensive. Maybe colonization with terraformation is the only answer? But we are so far from it.

Yeah I think that's the "pro" part. But I think potentially a virus can kill a lot more than a nuclear war (I could definitely be wrong) so there aren't many people left. Most resources online don't really teach common people to build factories anyway.

For example how does a community build a small steel factory? We need a lot more details than Wikipedia.

Thanks, first time heard about it.

I don't disagree with you, but I think we can do something to accelerate such process. Maybe not 1,000 years, maybe just a few generations? After all we already made the progress and now need to relearn and rebuild it. And hopefully enough technicians, engineers and scientists survive.

Yeah there are so many key knowledge that ordinary people just take for granted. But that's how we built up modern industries throughout the centuries.

I guess it is not realistic to ask for one generation to rebuild everything, and that's why I think we really need a lot of those "knowledge" and "tools" storage. I know many countries have such storage for wars, but are they accessible to ordinary people in case most of the population is wiped out?

He has a point. I thought about including this point into my original post but hesitated because I didn't really know how hard/easy to mine resources nowadays.

Optimistically, it might not be a blocking issue, because the much smaller population does not need that much resources. But we need to make some calculations. And I'm sure it's going to be very tough for countries that lack resources.

Man I love it. Back in 1999/2000 I was very into Quake mapping and Half-Life mapping. I didn't make any good maps but the community was great. I remember talking to other mappers on ICQ every night.

I believe the community is still thriving.

It's a good question and I have been thinking about it recently.

I think the biggest challenge is: if civilization does fall, e.g. due to a massive virus outbreak, and not enough people know how to produce industrialized products locally, it's going to be very tough.

So the immediately urgency is to bring some industries back.

Well since all people who suffered from job loss at that period was dead, we can probably brush it away.

Now it's our turn to enjoy progression.

I have found in life that the true art of doing things very well is to look into those countless small details that no one notices when they are going well, but everyone notices when a few are not.

Kinda like system admin or devops teams.

True. I was born in the 80s so had a few tastes of the programs of those early days when people still appreciated a smiling face, calm words and long explanations without flashy special effects. They were quite good actually.

Not much to do for most of the parents, TBH, especially if you want to get into a good school.

Me? I picked the public elementary school 10 minutes of walk away instead of the private one that is 20+ minutes of driving. I don't want everyone in the household gets frustrated pretty much every Mon-Fri.

Secondary school is going to be a bit of issue. We do have one that is adjacent to the said elementary school but it is not very good. But then my son would be 11 years old by then so hopefully he can just take the bus.

I realized there is little that deserves preservation.

- Business logic/knowledge changes every time I switched company/industry. And I want to be as far away from business as possible, provided I still get hired;

- Technical knowledge is best preserved in code, or design documents in Markdown or whatever.

I never read any SF magazines, but "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" seems to be a super cool name for a SF magazine.

What are the most popular Analog/Embedded hobbyist magazines out there? I know Pi has one or more, but I always feel Pi to be a bit too high level for my taste.

Oh, Win 2000...that was my fav OS. I stretched using it until XP is almost history. But XP was good for me too, especially comparing to 10/11.

Yeah, what a pity. I love reading vintage computer manuals. They were well written, sometimes even with a bit of humour. I can imagine myself carrying a Powerbook and some manuals going into the mountains to write some software.

I guess it is inevitable.

Thanks. MSFT at least is using C# though.

I'm using Ubuntu but it has a few issues. Overall it's OK because I treat it as a development machine for my side projects.

This makes me want to work for their hardware teams (as a software engineer), not their software teams.

But hey Apple would never hire me anyway...