It’s been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.

Now you better have a good use for it, since it’s a good chunk of money.

1 million is the net worth of the person. Assuming the wealthiest person of your family has 50% of the family’s wealth, the wealthiest person is still not in the top 1%.

You work because you need a pay check. However, there are thousands of professions out there. All of them give pay checks. If you’re a chef it’s because you chose chef out of the thousand options.

So there might be something about it that made you choose it. Some might have chosen it because it was the least worst paying option available for them. Others might choose it because it makes it easier to get laid. Some (as the post suggests) might choose it for the love of the art.

The post is asking if there are some that choose it for the working environment.

They are annoying even if you write in English. One such example is “library”.

In Spanish, there are two words: “biblioteca” and “librería”.

Library = biblioteca

Book shop = librería

When speaking about programming libraries, everyone says “librería” because it’s just easier to translate that way. But it just feels wrong every time.

The CEO of the franchise doesn’t hurt at all from stolen products. If they see a product is being stolen often, they just increase the price so everyone else pays for it.

Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don’t even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.

This is actually true though. Basically every country has done it.

If printing money results in enough value created, there is no inflation.

Of course, you have to create a lot of value per money printed, which no country has achieved. And that’s where taxes come in and fill the gap.

Many of the “economic miracles” involved printing a lot of money. But since their value output increased so fast, (and again, taxes) they experienced little inflation.

It is theoretically possible to print money without taxes and not have inflation. That would be more than a miracle though. If you get even more efficient with money, even deflation would happen.

It’s the same reasoning behind debt. Debt is “bad” because you have to pay more than what you were paid. But if you are smart with that money and create more money from it, you can pay back the debt (including interests) and get some extra money for yourself.

Not USAian so can’t comment on 1 and 5.

4. And 2. I believe are too recent for this. That’s more of a gen alpha thing, gen z already went through most of school before 2020/2022.

5. Directly causes 6.

I believe 3. Is the root of all evil. And no, 5. Does not cause 3., since I went to a public university. In my case, 3. Was influenced by something similar to 5.: the political party in power encouraging their side of culture instead of focusing on education.

3. Is not easy to fix though. Low standards create bad students, which lowers the standards even more. Creating a downward spiral that is at a pretty low point now. So low in fact that 4. Happened. If the standards were higher, AI wouldn’t meet the standards, and only students that genuinely put in the effort would pass.

This is not in isolation though. The reason standards started to fall is because higher education became a NEED. As portrayed by the media, if you don’t go for higher education, you will end up in a stagnant job that pays minimum wage. So everyone needed to get higher education, so there was a lot of pressure to let all these new students pass.

Yes. Dying your hair crazy colors will get you attention. But it doesn’t mean that you dyed your hair because you wanted attention.

If my dog goes too far away, I will shout its name very loud so it hears me and comes back to me.

Doing this will inevitably draw the attention of most of the people around me. But that was not my intention though, I just wanted the attention of my dog. The attention of the other people is just an unavoidable side effect. It may even be an unwanted side effect.

When standing up it’s definitely harder to get the last drops out. Sitting is easy as fuck, just use TP. On urinals there is no TP, so can’t get rid of the last 1-2 drops. Never have that problem when sitting due to TP.

They were (mostly) safe when manufactured. Who knows after 80 years. Things degrade

California, home to the most evil and powerful companies in the world. Lmao.

I don’t think the difference is the minimum education for entry.

I’d say the difference is how much of your paycheck is because of you specifically and how much is for just general labor.

So a physics researcher job is “skilled” because most of the pay is because the specific researcher knows about physics.

But a waiter job is “unskilled” since the skills needed to do the job are the skills needed for basically any job:

• Basic maths skills
• People skills
• Willingness to work
• Physical endurance
• Enthusiasm to work
• Memory
• Handling stressful situations
• Other relatively basic skills

Of those, only physical endurance and people skills are “exclusive” to being a waiter. There are some actual jobs that require no physical endurance. And some jobs don’t require as much people skills as being a waiter does. But the rest of them are general across basically every job.

Of course, "unskilled job"s do require skills, I just listed a bunch of them. But most of those skills, any other worker that does any other job would have. Therefore I count payment for those skills as payment for “general labor” and not “payment for you specifically”.

What the fuck

You guys don’t pay with cash?

So every purchase you make, doesn’t matter how small, you give a cut to the payment processor? I’d be fucking pissed if I were a small shop selling to you. In fact there are many shops that just refuse to sell if you buy something too cheap through a payment processor.

Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.

As I said, USA is no good, but it’s not the worst.

You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.

“Bad” is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.

“Worst” is relative and you have to consider the other ones.

The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it’s not the most brutal.

Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I’m going to USA. Even though I’m a non-gay male.

So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?

Do people just do that? Do people just go “eh, I’ve had enough, maybe I’ll just turn my brain off for a while”.

There are many C++ features that make the language worse. Exceptions is one of them. It’s not strange to have them banned.

Critical systems often only allow you to use a subset of the language. Dynamic (heap) allocations, recursive functions, exceptions are features that are often banned. In medical devices, safety is critical, so it makes sense. Otherwise you could get a Therac-like scenario due to an unhandled exception.

Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

EDIT: so you would have 2 half pair of scissors? A pair of half pair of scissors?