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Africa as well.

No apparent covid in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=222G8VV6hx4

I don't think it's Twitter, I think it's the weather/rolling blackouts and the Internet. YouTube has been giving me more problems just loading thumbnails for days, and I'm on fiber.

All I see is people hiring programmers and IT workers. Basically the younger worker bees. Not managers who aren't programming or people with more experience than being a serf. The lesson is you're expected to start your own company at a certain point or be a construction worker (programmer, IT worker) the rest of your life. If you're not a manager on track to be a senior manager by your 40s, and you aren't just a programmer, you're screwed.

If you've never read his "Out of Control" book (for free on the web site) it's a must read. Really great stuff.

Someone's probing the grid. They only need out take out the right stations to take out the east, west or central grids and if all grids go down getting the them back up becomes exponentially more difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kMkmxC7HU

The takeaway I got from him was positive. First, start buying real estate and renting. THEN, with that financial security try to build a business of your own if you are motivated. The first part is hard to fail at, and you can do it while working a full time job.

I recommend this book, but it's pre-smartphone. Still the best book for telling you what design elements should be used under which circumstances.

https://archive.org/details/guidesignhandboo0000fowl

You're right, it's not user-centered design, it's creator-centered design, like those god-awful lightbox overlays for subscribing to newsletters that are the most horrible interference ever. And no, I don't care that they have huge conversion rates, they piss off the user, so they are bad design. This is the kind of garbage designed by marketing people, not tech design people who know anything about good UX.

Know your hierarchy of oppression. That's sexist. Clearly it would be code for His Girl Friday.

The notion that immortality is a good idea fades with age. Youth is more important, because as you age opportunities and options vanish and ailments and limitations arise. If you can give me immortality, health and my youth, I may reconsider.

Automata https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1971325/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

and Total Recall 2070 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159920/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6

Sure it is. Suing gun manufacturers set a precedent for the misuse of their products.

Yes, and you can't search your drive without searching the Internet

If you're not familiar, read up on how things went down in Greece and Italy and dare I say, Argentina with their economic collapses. The concern becomes getting your money out of the bank and prices skyrocketing between the shelf and cash register. The good news is I think Greece (maybe it was Italy) got rid of their government for 18 months to cut wasteful spending. No government = no government spending which is where all the debt came from.

Maybe the results would have been different if it didn't involve the government or more specifically, trusting the government and anything they say. If anything the Internet and FOIA requests have proven just about every conspiracy theory about the government to be true, from false flags to fluoride in the water, often revealed by government actors themselves in books they have written years later. All this study seems to have revealed is government and political actors have succeeded in dividing the nation to reinforce parties for their own ends and not The People's benefit, and the government is interested in lining the pockets of it's corrupt officials and not representing The People.

We NEED offline apps that only sync when you choose to.

Scientific American was once like reading well illustrated research journal paper. Today it's the "science" equivalent of People magazine.

That one thing you tell yourself, "If I was smart, I'd..." Do that and start right away.

Become a master of something you know better about today than you did when you started out. Seek out a mentor and ask them what that one thing is they would tell themselves to do so you can anticipate being here again. I've tried restarting careers 3 times and every time you lose your job you have to reassess your interests as well as skills because they change without you realizing it. That's why there's supposed to be growth path for individuals to move from individual contributor, to team leader, to supervisor to manager etc. It also helps the workers knowing they have someone who did it themselves and has been there too.

Right there with you. Been unemployed/self-employed for 8 years. Circling the drain can't get a job because I was working towards being a manager who worked their way up but never got the title and without it and the connections that come with it and keep getting discarded when the company pivots. Everyone else my age and experience became a manager and/or started their own company/studio and is all about schmoozing and has no time for anyone who can't bring them business or is competition for their own.

I like working in production, but unless you are the programmer doing all the work, it's not sustainable without an aggressive growth path.

Excellent book and a must read. It's all about narrative control and how everuthuing is a narrative (because our nervous systems have evolved around storytelling as a framework for communication) in an age when we know companies like Google and Twitter buried information from being found in real time for political reasons. We don't need to get our news and info from a faucet anymore. Also, people often attribute "politics is downstream from culture" to Andrew Breitbart, but it was Neil Postman who said "culture is downstream from media/technology," a far greater point in the face of the aforementioned Google and Twitter examples.

Does he realize his life is over?

MS had a great solution back in the day with their Dynamic HTML. The anti-MS community opted for what we have been left with instead of adopting what MS came up with. DHTML was pretty awesome.

https://archive.org/details/dynamichtmlrefer00redm

> imagine if the software decided by itself that it is too old to run or to replace itself with a new version against my wishes

Why I will never buy another Apple product. Had a great video editing station I would author DVDs with until one day Apple decided I needed to upgrade my OS to continue using the software which of course required a new computer. Apple's dead to me.

This week, Gabor Mate's documentary The Wisdom of Trauma.

I'd add Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb to that list as well.

This is how I started going about managing complex design processes, BEFORE agile and whatever buzzwords they use to describe the same problem discovery, identification, positioning ad solution proposals. You go as deep as you need to THINK through the details involving all people who know the details. When you do it right all of the correct people fully inform the process and any TDD that is derived from it, all while keeping everyone in consensus about the goal and the decisions being made to get there. But it can all be worked on paper first if you don't cut corners and have the right people involved (like GUI designers and not marketing or the client should be designing interfaces).

http://www.dubberly.com/articles/managing-complex-design-pro...

They use Unity for a wide variety of purposes, including cyber-security and educational training in general. BE glad they are making jobs available for the thousands of kids graduating with Unity certification in an oversaturated game market. There's a huge demand for "Unity Engineers" (read: actual programmers who also know how to use a GUI/IDE like Unity).

Had this same problem, I think it's just the web sites. Every now and then you can find pre-builts with all the features you wanted and just the features you wanted so you may just have to order it through a human being. Case in point I couldn't customize a Camry on the Toyota to have a factory installed alarm system and one day I was browsing their inventory and there was one. Od course someone bought the car and probably sold it to Carmax for a few thousand profit, but the used car market scam going on now with car hoarding and price inflation is another story.

I feel the same way about job boards, but we're the product in both cases.

I just use Beyond Compare from Scooter Software. Best program ever. Been using it for 20 years now. I swear by it as an evangelist user.

Diff images, Excel documents, PDFs, whatever.

People are also buying up all the inventory of available cars and flipping them at CarMax for a profit. Look on CarMax and you see loads of brand new cars with 3-6K markup. That's who the dealerships are competing with.