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Also, many of people actually like their jobs. But a lot of developer jobs especially at big companies are fundamentally boring hence the unstoppable chase of higher TC and the desperate need for hobbies.
Going by the Yelp restaurant review example, perhaps the people who rate a restaurant are either very satisfied or dissatisfied. In the case of Amazon ratings on Blind, it seems that no one is willing to advocate for the company.
Aside from that, the toxic work culture of Amazon and their high attrition rate has been well-known for years and years and famously reported in NYTimes etc.
Well, an argument is lost if it starts by referring to the people who post on reddit.
But do people really hate an expert contractor who is rich but does an excellent job of repairing their house? Do they hate a prominent surgeon or medical professional? Are they against being represented by an elite law firm? People hate John Carmack because he is a rich and prominent graphics programmer?
My point is that what some perceive as a hatred of the rich and/or elite in general is not that at all. Instead, it is anger towards a subset of the elite and as I said there are other underlying reasons for that.
The "eat the rich" mantra is a manifestation (although not really physical) of the incredible and widening gap between the middle class and the rich. Generally the life of the lower and the middle class has become more precarious while the top 0.x% have become obscenely more wealthy.
How many people would object to being operated on by a prominent Harvard surgeon because that person is part of the elite? How many would oppose their children attending an Ivy League or a selective and private university on the ground of being an elite institution? Do people hate engineering professors at MIT because they're elite or do they actually respect them because of their expertise?
"oh yeah they're all corrupt"
To be clear, I believe that the Harvard and Yale alumni and the other political elites who planned & supported the many coups of the 20th century, started the Iraq war (Bush admin), bombed Libya (Obama) into poverty, etc. are all corrupt and deserve our contempt. It does not have anything to do with corruption scandals either because it's a structural problem where politicians have to cozy up to the defense and oil industries among others to advance their careers and get paid.
I have never encountered an individual who claims to hate the "elite". And I for one will not complain if someone hates a person who holds your classist views.
And what do you mean by "elite" anyways? If people dislike those in the position of authority, especially politicians, they generally have very good reasons for that. To quote from the article,
"Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men. This number has more than doubled since the 1970s."
Do people realize that they essentially function as hype-generation outlets and are not intended to provide an objective and unbiased assessment of the research?
Please, do tell.
By the way, none of the other “chemical substances” celebrated in this website,
1- Have an industry the size of alcohol’s. A lot of money depends on normalizing alcohol consumption as much as possible.
2- Are as accessible and affordable.
3- Are involved in as many cases of violent crime such as domestic violence, DUI, etc.
4- Are linked to fatal diseases due to heavy use over a long time.
Some of the cherry-picked examples were impressive, but the others, not so much. The output lacks the deliberation & thought that an artist’s work would exhibit given the same prompt.
Not to mention that most of the results are not not completely cohesive (e.g. a rabbit missing an ear) so not sure about their usability.
“department must provide more than 7,000 student-seats per year in the upper division courses”
That’s crazy. Also amusing how the author constantly talks about scaling up as if the department is a startup.
As an international graduate student, I never considered Berkeley to be an attractive place to study a PhD: insane housing prices, expensive fees and insurance, huge bureaucracy, and all the while even the most popular departments are underfunded or barely-funded so low stipends.
I recommend watching the documentary “At Berkeley”.
Leave your job because tech companies have contracts with the government/"defense industry" and also pay taxes.
Don't buy anything from the grocery stores.
Cancel your flight if it's on an Airbus/Boeing.
Otherwise, it's all empty talk. To be clear, it absolutely is in my opinion.
Regardless of one's positions on the Ukraine war, I don't see how manipulating node packages could, for example, stop a Russian hypersonic missile or fortify Ukrainian barracks.
By the way, if you look at the damage to Ukraine's infrastructure and human capital, it has already lost the war. Also evident by repeated calls from Zelensky to resume negotiations. He badly miscalculated from the start...
To be candid: in some matters, the regulators should not give a shit about how you want your phone.
Good for EU and their mandates.
People don’t protest when they’re struggling to make ends meet and civil institutions are weakened.
The only effect of the inhumane economic sanctions has been tightening the ruling class’s grip. They did not work in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, not even Syria. They have however caused enormous human suffering.
However in many applications (e.g. robotics) where missing a single deadline will not result in loss of life it works perfectly fine.
The unmaskable interrupts on x86 can be a problem but long terms benchmarking can help with possible edge cases.
Other Linux-based solutions such as Xenomai & RTAI which provide even better performance deserve a mention.
2- Sorry you’re unlucky. But even fully vaccinated people there are going to be cases like this. Such is life.
But in my experience (math, science, & engineering), it is actually far less prevalent than in other places.
Forget the overzealous #sciencetwitter people. I have found that academia is one of the rare places where people the absolute top of their field who are often actually modest & aware of their ignorance about most things.
The computers in any sizable business already have the pre-approved restrictions set on the OS level. Employers can’t just install any software.
https://github.com/isometimes/rpi4-osdev
There are other courses/projects for other boards. The keyword is usually “baremetal”.
For Linux drivers specifically there are training material from Bootlin etc. They definitely give you a kickstart—the kernel is so complex that most of the device driver knowledge is organizational and cannot be found on YouTube.
When it comes to writing firmwares or an OS, nothing can substitute for hands-on experience with actual hardware.