Not sure about Mac support but I suspect Outbound checks most / all of your boxes?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2681030/Outbound/

Honestly if you’re truly passionate about it, just do it.

I graduated university in 2007 with a B Sc. in Software Engineering because I was passionate about it and still going strong. I’ve been through 3 layoffs over my career and just find something else in the industry.

I’ll admit the AI stuff bothered me at first but I’ve seen how it’s a force multiplier in the hands of certain people and I’m slowly warming up to it. I’m learning flux, k8s, and helm charts and whatnot for my home server and it’s been a life saver. That’s a bit more on the devops side of things but I think it will be a good skill to have.

I know people who went into the industry for money specifically when they were deciding what to take a lt school and those are the people who are more worried about layoffs and whatnot. I also know people who started CS or Engineering and moved out of it because they realized it wasn’t for them. One particular person jumped over to history and sure they aren’t earning as much but they sure seem happy with where their life has ended up.

I think if you’re passionate and willing to learn there will always be some niche you’ll be able to find.

Are there problems in the industry? Yes. Do I think we should have unionized when we had the chance? Absolutely. Does it seem like that are laying people off to do salary resets? 100%. Is AI growing at a crazy rate? Yes. Will all our jobs be taken over by AI in 7 years? Nope!

The industry might shrink. Some people will change career paths. Some people will find their niche. There will still be rockstars (both passion and ability) and there will still be people who are just doing it for the money.

P. S. Maybe you can pivot to Engineering? Your first year or two is usually a solid base set of broad engineering skills, like matrices, calculus, chemistry, statics/dynamics, fluids/solids/gasses, discrete math, etc. Then in your second year you start specializing (my U people could do Computer Eng if they wanted to do more hardware design and embedded stuff, or Software Eng if they preferred coding). Your parents might see more value in that than a CS degree (which is usually more theoretical stuff though lots of colleges and universities also teach systems design and coding). Based on your listed skills and interests I think you might get more value from it too.

Counterpoint: just look at the Air Canada crash that recently happened where a controller let a fire truck cross in the path of a landing aircraft.

Planes may have all this technology but that only involves what’s happening in the air, not on the ground.

Now maybe all ground crew could have vehicles equipped with transponders and tracked as well, but there are also incidents of people randomly ending up on the runways / taxiways, or animals, or non airport vehicles.

What. New Adrian Tchaikovsky series dropped and I didn’t notice!? Brb.

Cachy has, at least in my experience with a Zen 5 processor, it’s own special Arch pacman repo with meta packages for various processor types. I believe for the most part mine uses Zen 4 packages.

Add your processor meta package and it adds the appropriate repo where packages have been custom built with feature flags / optimizations for that specific architecture of processors.

So it’s a little closer to Gentoo or LFS in those regards, without you having to actually build every package from scratch.

So while yes any distro could do this, in practice a lot don’t bother and only release basic i686/amd64/arm32/arm64 sets of packages. Whereas Cachy offers zen4-amd64 packages as an example, and I assume they offer various Intel architecture and other AMD architecture specific packages as well.

I’m not sure if you’re making a joke that the rockets are the explosives or if they actually have rockets they launch that are like cluster munitions that drop a bunch of mines in to the water.

Yep. Back in the day all the MUD servers ran on Linux. I wanted to set up my own. I knew my cousin used it so I asked him about it.

He never answered my questions directly. But he did show me how to look up the answer to my question using man pages and/or search for info online.

That first install was so painful… My friend and I didn’t know how to set up the network and it turns out the tulip driver wasn’t installed by default. So we’d boot to Linux, try something to get the network working, write down the error message on a sheet of paper. Boot to windows to research the fix to the error message. Rinse and repeat until we finally got it working.

The funny thing I’ve been reading / seeing is that the paralympics are still ongoing.

The Olympic truce says no one will start a war during the 7 days before the Olympics and for 7 days after the Paralympics finish.

The US and Israel should be banned by the IOC from competing at the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games (even though the host country is the US).

It won’t happen though.

There’s a concerted effort across many dataholders (at least /r/dataholders for sure) to make a full site wide backup across at least 3 copies across volunteers machines before it shuts down.

Alongside the backup team, another team is working on the best way to distribute to others after that (magnet links, archive.org, etc.).

https://minerva-archive.org/

If I recall correctly compression, especially lz4, has been shown to impact performance negligably.

I recently learned one of the reasons they dye the river once a year is to do leak testing.

That’s gonna make for an awkward all hands meeting.

It was hard to get some real numbers of refineries but maybe I’m just not using good search terminology since I’m on my phone.

This paper has an appendix on page 18 that talks real numbers. https://researchcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021-Refinery-Report-Final.pdf

In 2018 the total output value of the refineries in WA state was 19 billion USD. In 2019 it dropped to 18 billion. I assume price fluctuations in the market.

Per https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-gross-domestic-product-gdp/state/washington-state/ in 2018 the GDP of WA was 562 billion.

That makes the WA refineries output about 3.4% of WAs GDP in 2018. It’s not nothing but it also isn’t really that much. Considering the boom in the technology sector it’s probably much less of the GDP these days.

I’m originally from Alberta and I do think Canada should have it’s own refineries but don’t try to press that WAs economy is make it or break it because of these refineries.

As someone who lives in WA state, people have been trying to get income tax implemented here for a while now, but it’s against the state constitution. It has nothing to do with refineries.

People want income tax here because the current sales tax system misproportions tax on only what people spend. This means lower income earners foot more of the tax bill, as they spent most / all of their income just to live. Higher income earners might spend more in general but they also invest that extra income, which eventually will have capital gains tax (but only on the gains) but will never be hit by sales tax until it’s spent.

Anyway, 99%+ of people can’t consistently tell the difference between a 160kbps OGG and lossless, because of limitations in either their equipment, training, ears, or a combination thereof. This has been blind tested many times and the audiophiles that ‘swear they can tell’ are always proven wrong, they then usually blame the equipment or test. There’s tests you can run yourself too, eg here: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html

Ooohhh I did that test when I got a new speaker / amp setup at my PC and as a musician I thought “I got this”. Plus I was trying to decide if Tidal was worth upgrading to from Spotify.

I did slightly better than average. Like just slightly. I might have the results somewhere.

I ended up doing Tidal’s free trial. I couldn’t tell a difference. Went back to Spotify. (though now my group of people are on an Apple Music family plan).

I mean I’m sure it was a mix. There are a lot of stories out there about how if you didn’t stay on top of your outsourced factory they would look everywhere to cut corners to save a few extra cents here and there.

You (used to?) have to constantly check production quality and make sure nothing was changed out for a low cost part or lower cost source material. Otherwise your product quality falls off and you’re losing money on warranties and repairs and losing customer goodwill.

The other thing that happened is these factories, once they had your design, would make the same thing with lower cost parts / materials as a knockoff and sell it unbranded, as they don’t care about US or European IP Laws. Word might get around that “hey you can get the same brand X product as brand Y or from Aliexpress and save 50%”. Now they’re undercutting you, and you lose customer goodwill because people think your product is overpriced. Then the knockoff fails and they are happy they never bought your product in the first place because they think yours would have failed too. Through word of mouth people say “oh that broke after a month” not realizing the offbrand was made with shoddy materials, less screws, cheaper batteries, an inferior screen, literally anything they can do to save money.

That’s because the poverty line is directly tied to the cost of goods and services (and to social services, tax credits, etc that those under or near the poverty line can take advantage of).

Effectively it will move up as goods cost more (inflation) and social services and other credits people can take advantage of are reduced / removed.

If more social services are added, i.e. Life becomes cheaper without your income increasing, then the effective poverty line drops as it’s only a number based on household income, and now you need less household income to survive at the same level.

The stock market is its own beast and is not directly connected to income, social services, or the cost of goods.

Mermaid diagrams, where supported, I feel are invaluable in tech.

I assumed this was the Onion or another satire site.

What the fuck is up with the huge “swipe for the next article”?

I can’t even read this one with that in the way why would I want to swipe for the next one?