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How accessible is this?

My mom loves sci-fy, but she probably doesn't have the math/physics chops to hit something too deep in those topics.

I'm interested in this too! I'm a CS student with peer anecdotes of $140k/year starting their first role this past year. Yet I was laid off in Dec 2022 and haven't had any luck even with some industry experience..

What's going on? Maybe I'm missing a public portfolio..

What's best for, say, my scientific glass bong?

Seriously, what's safe and effective?

I've reached out to recruiters on LinkedIn, but maybe I'm not an easy candidate, because they never seem to do much for me. Do I need to do something specific or hit up the right recruiter?

Yeah, f whatever your passion is.. just get a good job.

I understand it can be tough, but I didn't start my cs degree until I was 31. I'm now 34 and well over half way through. Go to a community college, then transfer to a state university, they are both cheaper and usually offer evening classes. I was able to work as a full time dev while going to school part time in the evenings, and that's as a (active and involved) single parent. Wfh and virtual classes helps a lot though. Not the fastest way to a degree, but it will get you there.

'Was' because I was laid off in Dec last year and have had a hard time in todays market with only 1.5 years of professional experience. But when I am not working, I just take more classes. Admittedly, I am staying with family, but with that extra support, this is all possible for me. Working full time and taking summer classes, you could finish in 5-6 years.

And yeah, because I truly love cs, and I've certainly learned alot about myself as an adult, I definitely feel like I'm getting more out of this education than I would have if I started out of high school. I'm not just here for the paper, I'm here to learn, but a degree is a nice prospect for a high school drop out. It wasn't the best path to get here, but I have no regrets. Coming from a decade plus of food service work, me and my kiddos prospects are drastically improved, and I feel like I've found my calling.

There are multiple proofs for this, but my favorite simple, yet informal proof, is that there is no real number you can add to 0.999 infinitely repeating to make it 1. So mathematically, they are equal.

Steam gets all my gaming budget, as I really try to stick to Linux.

If it ain't on steam, I don't play it, and they don't get my money.

Black markets are dangerous and people are going to do it anyway. Albeit unintuitive, legalization and regulation is the way to go!

As an average American, decriminalized drugs and sex work for the win!

In a corporate setting, I've experienced many problems with Microsoft and their services.

Just off the top of my head, we had a ms forms, a couple actually, that as soon as they hit 50k entries, broke in weird ways. Not accepting new entrys, dropping entries, etc..

That's just one example I immediately recall where I could code up a better solution in a short amount of time, that just shouldn't be a thing with a large cloud/service provider like Ms.

This book is why I went to school for computer science. Good sheet right thur.

I've always felt like laws should be reviewed every so often, maybe even re-passed, to be sure they are still relevant, make sense, and to see if they worked as intended.

There are at least some laws that don't make sense anymore or just flat out failed, but have big implications. Like blue laws, adultery laws, inheritance/intestacy laws, mandatory minimum sentences, sodomy laws, drug laws, etc..

But I do see problems in revisiting laws, it's expensive and time consuming. It would be a never ending battle for both sides, and we would get even less done.

I can fully get behind the thesis of this post. But I still love using my thin laptop.

My solution: run desktops at home as your own private cloud and use them in various ways from you laptop or phone. Create your own services or use oss services to fulfill your needs from your thin internet devices, no middle man/woman needed, use your desktop/s anywhere. This won't solve your uefi problem if you use modern laptops, nor will it solve your usb 2.0 problem if you stick to old laptops. But set up your own services, don't let them take over! It's quite a bit of work to setup, but maybe it'll get easier if more people take on the challenge. (Disclosure: this is my personal pipe dream, and I'm in the early stages of working this out myself.)

On a side note, the open laptops you refer to can be more pricy, but if that's what you believe in, then support the cause!

I second Charles Petzold's book Code! It was my first technical book and probably the reason I'm going to school for computer science right now. I recommend it to anyone interested in learning how computers work, even non-techies!

> Many more people are dying from toxic street drugs than are dying from COVID-19. It’s a “shadow pandemic”

In America, the worse year of the opioid crisis killed ~65k people from my recollection. The "real pandemic" killed that many americans in the past 2 months. Am I misunderstanding something?

Edit: I cannot spell.

Math is the foundation of science, right? Things in science are provable because of the rigorous mathematical proofs applied to data, correlating with reproducible results, is my perception.

There are many models of societies currently and previously in existence that can be measured, compared, and correlated with predictable cause and effects.

Society is not constant, it's probabilistic, like many topics in physics or other hard sciences.

Society has natural laws that can be mathematically derived and applied. Why can't science be applied to non natural processes? The point of science is to build a model that can be used to build other models, or ultimately be applied to game the subject.

Are you saying we learn physics just to learn it, not to manipulate it to somehow benefit ourselves? Don't we use research in physics as a tool to shape our world in exactly the same way we use research in social science to shape society?

Your definition of science seems to only exclude some folks from the term that are doing the exact same work in a different subject. The word science doesn't preclude a subject. I don't think your contrast is sound.

Haha, your right.

Reminds me of working at amazon doing prime deliveries and using an Android app where you can create flow charts to automate grabbing hours. The difference is amazon at the time didn't care. We even reported what we were doing as a bug, and recommended a queue system instead, yet we only got automated responses not mentioning the issue at all.

This automation included an annoying screen refresh, where you hit back and then reenter to see if the button is lit up to get hours. I remember feeling terrible sitting in the warehouse waiting for an order and seeing others clicking back and forth as fast as they can the entire time, all while my phone was silently, with the screen disabled, 'scanning' for hours.

I think they consider the warehouse drivers like what I used to do temporary, till they get their drone fleets up.

Regarding instacart, and these systems in general, a queue system is just the most fair option. Your take home pay shouldn't be reduced to how well you can click a touch screen or whether you happen to be aware of app automation. It doesn't even seem to benefit the platform itself, just degrade the experience of the driver's.

I would equate crypto currency more with trading collectables. If Haskell was financed with profits from trading magic the gathering cards, would it be different? Some people trading MTG cards might be unsavory, some might try to scam you, but that's the market, not the collectable itself.

Because this article, in my opinion, misidentified the scam, I just don't agree that crypto profit supporting Haskell is a problem. If there are unsavory actors in the community, that's also a different thing, and isn't the fault of crypto.

It seems this piece leaves no room between scammer and victim. It's certainly just an opinion that crypto is a scam, and it seems the author is projecting that opinion on individuals in the Haskell community, but it sounds like those individuals benefit the community more than harm it.

Are they Children's Online Privacy Protection Act compliant? And if they are compliant, are you saying their product is unusable if you refuse consent?

I would think their design mimicking Twitter would put them under COPPA.