Identity politics type news stories shot up right at the end of the Great Recession, around the occupy wall Street time, when people were the most infuriated that moneyed interests bailed themselves out at the taxpayers expense. Really makes you think...
I consider the roles you mention hands on fwiw. I'm talking about the self sustaining paperwork roles that once they reach a critical percentage of a project start creating their own "gravity". I'm not a feature Dev.
Forgive my nitpick but power generation doesn't generate electrons it pushes existing ones around, very slowly. Highly recommend http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html to anyone interested in discovering how inconsistently electrical concepts are defined and taught.
This seems to be the norm on software teams these days. For every one hands on keyboard maker there is at least one architect, security analyst, agile coach, tester etc. In reality it is one person doing the work and 10 commenting on it.
No, what's not reasonable is being expected to do creative, novel work in little 30-60 minute slices of time between status meetings or slide deck presentations.
Countries in Europe that are much whiter then the USA at this point have some of the lowest corruption on Earth. Countries in Europe that are much whiter then the USA at this point also have some very high levels. Maybe some variables besides white ethnicity are in play. Not that it matters in 2021 where saying "white people bad" can become a career.
Maintenance should be just that, maintenance - something you attend to regularly to prevent future problems. The problem our industry has is that every approach to software has become a religious like cargo cult activity. In my opinion the cause of that is the consultancy-executive symbiotic nexus, consultants promise exciting silver bullets and executives buy in because they can always blame the consultants if it goes wrong.
My experience with Walmart is poorly packed boxes handled roughly by FedEx leading to a bunch of damaged orders. At this point Amazon's delivery service itself is a differentiator for me, and I don't love the company or paying for prime.
The grid in general has a lot of old wiring especially in earlier settled parts of the country. I grew up in a house built in 1940 and it wasn't especially old for my area. These are real costs that affect real people when discussing a massive paradigm shift like going mainly to EV and comments like yours perpetuate the idea that EV's are for a certain wealthy disconnected from reality virtue signalling crowd.
If the electronics and computer industries are any guide the manufacturers will "recover" those savings through desupporting software / forced upgrades. Either that or go to a pure leasing model since the car's software driven propulsion is now completely proprietary protected IP that you won't be able to have fixed except through them.
Japan and Germany were barely allies; Japan signed a non-aggression pact with the USSR and the Germans were happy about it because they didn't want any competition for the spoils they thought they would have. This is one of the pivotal things that led to German defeat because it freed Siberian troops to reinforce Moscow and reverse the German advance in winter 41. Hitler compounded the situation by declaring war on the US after pearl harbor freeing Roosevelt to open supply and support the allies, I think this is one of his biggest mistake. I think you exaggerate the amount of support the Nazis had in the US but there was certainly a strong neutrality movement. If anything the Nazis admired America and manifest destiny and tried to emulate it with lebensraum.
It's pretty popular in South Texas. Beef is King in Texas and the parts of northern Mexico that it borders that may have something to do with it. There is also "barbacoa" which traditionally is a whole cow head slow cooked in the ground - tongue, cheek, brains and all.
I avoid all the middlemen gig economy food delivery apps entirely. One I do like is the Little Caesars smartphone app in combination with their pizza portal, it really is seamless and a social anxiety sufferer's dream. Little Caesars is an entirely private single corporate owner company; I feel like there is a Linux to BSD analogy somewhere in here.
I think it's fair to characterize the antinuclear movement as cynical and disingenuous in general,they are a political movement that has never argued in good faith scientifically. In fairness the original governmental nuclear program withheld from the public that the designs behind power generation were actually being driven by weapons needs and the long term storage issues largely result from that dual use design.
I wish I could use Debian at work, I run it at home on the same server for 8+ years through multiple full version upgrades with very little hassle or trouble. With RedHat I'm fighting satellite server and subscription nonsense and have to rebuild from scratch to upgrade, I've never understood that requirement.
Sounds like Amazon did misrepresent their relationship with elastic intentionally, which is abusive. It was also unnecessary in my opinion because the AWS service is so much easier to use - no licensing to worry about at all as an end consumer. Compare with running ELK yourself where you quickly discover that you will need to buy a license and possibly support to get any usable enterprise features at all.
For simple document or file type storage for an application I think solutions like S3 or azure blob storage are really great. In my real world experience we replaced a highly finicky way too heavyweight COTS CMS and all the associated database and backend SAN complexity with S3 and it ended up being way cheaper, easier and more reliable. To me object storage is one place where the cloud hype does deliver. Have had mixed results with the other services, even with things like RDS you have to do a lot of tuning and backup / DR work yourself.