johnny53169

> My advice for the young who don't want to do what it takes to pursue their profession is to put in an application at McDonalds. Smiling and burger flipping is an honorable career too.

If you actually think that you wouldn't write this condescendingly, these low effort comments with no source ("I know a guy") are beneath this forum.

> I don't get the mentality that people think they're entitled to be coddled.

This is pretty bad faith of you to interpret the argument this way, the OP said nothing about being coddled.

> Personally I'm glad there are places where academic rigor

Again nothing about lack of rigor, maybe you should put more rigor into reading their comment.

> Even so, a bricklayer who was the son of an Austrian village policeman and had a bloodline tainted by a bastard great-grandfather -- was able to marry into the Kennedy family. Why? Because Arnold Schwarzenegger became a successful multi-millionaire.

For context, Schwarzenegger met Maria Shriver after he had gotten the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for Stay Hungry(1976) while in an open relationship with another woman and married around a decade later after his big breakout in Conan and Terminator.

He was by then already a successful bodybuilder, she didn't really marry a bricklayer, and anyway it's not like you can't find similar example in European nobility.

> They'll also use this info to advertise to you, send you flyers and coupons in the mail, for example.

It would be good to say which country you are talking about, in Europe this has never happened to me outside of online stores or with loyalty cards (which is why they give those cards in the first place).

Does every human activity need to be productive? Why would you care what others think about your hobbies?

Are you seriously trying to argue there was less domestic violence back then?

Extended family can help, but they can just as well think you deserved it or turn a blind eye.

It's very interesting, did you and your mom ever talk about your respective programming career? How was it like when she was a programmer?

They fixed the font handling in this release

Cult of personality? Are we living on the same planet? As far as I know people talk about him a couple of time a year. No statue, no memorial.

Yeah people erase his flaws a bit, yes it's a bit annoying, but he actually tried to do something positive in his life instead of trying to get rich at any costs like that "genius" of Zuckerberg (genius for what?).

So people remember him, I doubt most people will care when Zuckerberg will die, he just didn't do anything to deserve it, your money doesn't make you a good person.

> In VR you multitask by bringing the computing environment into the virtual environment. So there is no deficit there.

Writing/typing would be really bad in VR though, and that's a major need for meetings, I don't see a good solution for that.

"Eat the rich" is a stupid slogan, I still don't understand how a Walmart greeter is a meaningful job considering it almost only exists in the US.

> Would you prefer those jobs just didn’t exist?

They don't exist in my country and people don't seem sadder for it.

We are all alive in the same way

> And there are also plenty of adults who don’t need to work who do those jobs.

Do you have any numbers on that? Your comment sounds like what an out of touch rich person would say, since only rich people can do without money.

> That doesn’t stop people who are doing just that to work those jobs.

And why is that do you think?

> then they go back to not caring about linux.

So they care so little about Linux they are going to release a subsidized console using Linux next year? Give me a break with your cynicism.

That's nice to hear, and to correct my previous comment, Australia is the biggest producer of iron:

> In 2019, the country was the 2nd largest world producer of gold;[1] 8th largest world producer of silver;[2] 6th largest world producer of copper;[3] the world's largest producer of iron ore;[4] the world's largest producer of bauxite;[5] the 2nd largest world producer of manganese;[6] 2nd largest world producer of lead;[7] 3rd largest world producer of zinc;[8] 3rd largest world producer of cobalt;[9] 3rd largest producer of uranium;[10] 6th largest producer of nickel;[11] 8th largest world producer of tin;[12] 14th largest world producer of phosphate;[13] 15th largest world producer of sulfur;[14] in addition to being the 5th largest world producer of salt.[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia

> Slaves sent to mines were basically sentenced to death.

It's less bad now, but being a miner is not much better nowadays, even more so since most of the mines are in poor countries with little care for the workers and rich countries would prefer not to think too hard where the iron for their eco-conscious steel bottle is coming from.

> Like legit half of it is drug use questions.

That's on purpose:

"Communities That Care (CTC)[1] is a program of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention"

"The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) aims to reduce the use of illegal substances and the abuse of legal ones.[14]"

> (3.) carbon capture, and one gets to 75% emissions reduction with less than one percent of cost increase

Carbon capture and less than one percent cost increase looks suspect to me

> It would take at least ten years to educate the nuclear engineers needed to build dozens or even hundreds of them. And even then they don't have experience, they are juniors building very complex multi billion dollar installations.

How did they do it in the past then? The first power station opened in 1956 when the technology was secretive and when there was no internet. The real problem looks completely because of red tape and NIMBY

Edit: You are also misinformed, there are Gen III reactors in operation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APR-1400

> What is the result of such spending?

Did they actually spend $1 billion? Or they did and spent on overpriced services? Without knowing what they did the amount is meaningless

> How about "I need to message other people in a way that doesn't make everyone I know have to change the current way they do things".

Isn't that the exact purpose of those walled gardens, so it'd be hard to change platforms?

What would be some of those issues for you?

Corrected thank you!

> Which is stated as fact when it’s not even true. Fat has been stripped out of everything. Even milk has the fat taken out of it. Look anywhere and you will see “fat free”

Stripped of everything including pizza, burgers and fries?

I'm so grateful for Shuttleworth ongoing support for Ubuntu for 17 years, it all costs a lot but Ubuntu has been a key contribution for Linux. It's important to praise good contribution IMO

If you're part of a small group of people, it's easy to call your buddy when something bother you or a point of view you don't like gets published

> Terrified, and behind by 10 years.

Terrified? When Tesla will sell more cars maybe, they are badly lagging against virtually any other car maker, let alone all of them.

> If the most legendary game developer of all time thinks Roblox is fine, are you sure he's mistaken?

If he was the most legendary game _designer_ sure, but in that area he hasn't been very relevant in a while, as a programmer I don't see what special insight he has.

He seems like a nice guy and he is obviously one of the best developer ever, but I don't get the near cult he has

Wouldn't that mean that people created a system that can be used with normal pictures? So your code was literally to flag an innocent photo?