Yeah, they're not perfect examples, but those shows' characters live in the suburbs and spend most of their time even farther afield. The cities seem to serve as somewhat jarring juxtapositions to the places where the action and drama occur.
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Parks & Recreation, Schitt's Creek, Breaking Bad, Ozark, Sons of Anarchy, Dallas, and that's without even looking at the Discovery Channel.
IMO we need to talk to each other more if we want to understand each other better, though. Not through dehumanizing screens, but in person and in good faith. When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with a stranger in a train, airport, store etc?
- Bill Hicks
Everything old is new again; maybe we'll get lucky and have another '60s-'70s as covid wanes, if people are starting to put trip reports on Medium blogs under their real names without any "SWIM" disclaimers. If y'all like these kinds of trip write-ups, erowid.org has loads of them.
How long ago was your experience?
They even tried to set up a state-sponsored "cult of reason" to replace religions like Christianity. That was followed by the "cult of the supreme being", because not many people felt comfortable worshipping an abstract reification of "rationality".
None of the individual projects that were erected seem terribly egregious. There's the old nuclear reactor that the article discusses, but that's fairly normal. The huge series of hydroelectric dams isn't good for the ecosystem, but it's not an awful compromise for the power they provide. The sea of red lights eminating from the windmill farms look creepy at night, but they're not too obtrusive. The military firing range isn't loud on most days, but the freight rail tracks are.
All of those individual projects add up. You can't roam very far, and if you visit the cultural centers of the native tribes in the area, they tell a very sad story which extends well into the present. And those cultural centers were typically funded by the power companies as a sort of low-key bribe to grease their projects' approval and improve their public image.
It's tough to get truly "bare metal" code running on their chips once you want to dig more deeply into how things work. Everything is based around their development framework, which is open-source and quite easy to use, but somewhat difficult to read.
Part of why people like the Arduino ecosystem is that it supports a wide variety of platforms, many of which have excellent documentation and register-level example code.
But at the end of the day, the best way to learn about microcontrollers is to grab the first one you can find and treat it like a toy. Have fun!
As an example, I was surprised to learn that Toyota designed their own ECU chips rather than buying off-the-shelf automotive grade MCUs until 2019, when they spun that business off to a subsidiary[1]. They really take vertical integration seriously.
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversa...
The employee:HR relationship is fundamentally adversarial over here. HR's job is to protect the company, including from its own employees. They will throw you under the bus if it benefits the company.
Most people won't run into issues with them, but if you think that someone important to the company's bottom line is behaving inappropriately and you go to HR about it, how would you expect them to react? It's a matter of incentives.
If they go too far and impact day-to-day work, or if people complain, the executives understand what is going on and who they can talk to about improving the process.
And if it feels lacking in empathy, consider that the company's management needs to sign off on any (legal) phishing tests that their employees are subjected to.
Tesla does see a market in the Americas, so they actually sell cars here. That gives them a big leg up, even among people who don't like them.
Why not? We already did. 2000 was still in the era of "never give out accurate personal information online." 2005 was fully in the MySpace/Facebook social media era.
It is seamless, even the icons that show up in the Windows taskbar are correct.
If this new WSL2 experience works just as well, I might finally switch :)
"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Mark Twain)
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." (Ben Franklin)
Most of these people seem to be concerned about some sort of pedagogy rather than school in general, though. They largely dislike the way that schools treat students as fungible cogs.
Formal education is more valuable the more that students are involved in the teaching process. Lockhart's Lament is a classic piece on that topic.