Then, at your new job, you see garbage code and wonder what dumbass would put global variables everywhere
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I wish the world was better at just giving a ton of money to science and space. It's such an obvious use of money, if you ask me.
Especially since the future of humanity, given that we survive, is in space. There is a lot of potential for space-based infrastructure.
If a train fails, at worst that will happen is it will stop. When a space station fails, the worst that will happen is everyone inside dies.
In addition, a space station is far more expensive, and it may be simply too expensive to still maintain old technology. Ideally, at some point, one will replace it with a newer, more modern, space station. Which will both be cheaper, and allow more, novel, science to be done. Although I don't know if there is any plan for that.
I'd like to see a space station with a rotating ring, that generates artificial gravity through centrifugal acceleration.
Yes, but the problem is, we are stuck with the system until we force a societal level change. Capitalism works plenty well enough for the powerful, and they aren't willing to let go that easily.
But a lot of jobs did get automated away. And serious consequences did occur from that. Sometimes places rebound from it, but sometimes they did not. And at some point... there will be more people than jobs for them to do, as we continue automating.
In the end, the base foundation for capitalism will be broken, and we will be in an economic crisis of unprecedented scales.
It won't for as long as all the power is in the capital owner's hands.
militant vegans
Well, then don't. But don't be surprised when things keep getting worse.
My biggest argument for Linux is: Windows isn't going to get better, but Linux will.
Paying for a service ensures your incentives (mostly) align. Kagi's incentive is to make a good search that makes you want to pay for it, google's incentives are to gather your data to either sell or use themselves, and show you as many ads as possible.
..that they ask you to actually pay for the privilege. Because remember, windows isn't actually free (and you pay for it if you buy a pre-built).
Good. Free and Open Source Software should be the standard.
Hopefully I don't need to point you towards the endless list of enshittification for why.
Except that's exactly what it is allowed to in algebra.
Sure, in most equations you solve in early algebra school there is only one possible value for the variables. But in many equations there can be multiple, or even infinite. It's an unknown, and the contents can vary (depending on other constraints, ie. The rest of the equation(s)).