THIS. Voting in America seems completely disconnected from rational policy discussion, people don't seem to care anymore. The average voter gets so caught up in the sensationalism and the most controversial candidates seem to appeal strongly to both Boomers and GenZ. Sadly, I think any successful Democratic candidate in the future will need to appeal to voters in this way.
What's most wild about all of this to me is that EA has claimed for years a "technical impossibility" to unlink an existing Xbox account and re-link with a new one. (See https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxGamePass/comments/12gsy4i/ea_xb... and many other forum posts on EA). I ran into this wall and after spending hours on support calls with EA they were unable to link a very old Xbox account I had, meaning I can't login to any EA games on Xbox, making the majority of them unplayable on the platform.
Yet, here, we see, it is very much possible.
You might be surprised as to how many are willing to make the splurge. Anecdotal, but I'm married to a high school teacher. She and several of her coworkers have been willing to eat the cost personally just to avoid using dated district-provided assets, which are often clucky and make the job worse.
Does anyone here have insight as to the differences between the various versions of Apple's "Smart HDR" feature? Interesting to see it took the leap from Smart HDR3 (previous model) to Smart HDR 4 (new model), and yet the latest iPhones released last month apparently use Smart HDR 5.
Are some combinations just not possible, or am I doing something incorrectly here? For instance, "Dragon" and "Yin-Yang" do not seem to merge (yet logically seem ripe for combination).
YES! There is always "hope" for nearly everything and everyone. The first step is to actually try to define what type of "hope" that you're looking for. Set goals, aspiration, and a clear vision of what you want so that you have an attainable mark. It's okay if this changes over time, but to light that fire you have to have something to strive for, even if it feels unobtainable at the moment.
> Is there a reasonable path to starting over?
Well, what do you define as "reasonable"? Everyone's path is different, and if you're comparing yourself to peers who have never veered off the straight and narrow path then you own path might seem unreasonable to you. Your path might make you the 30 year old intern or apprentice, and that's okay! Success and satisfaction doesn't always come from taking the "reasonable" path.
> Where do I even begin?
For lack of a better vocabulary, you need to find some way to "spark the fire." I was in a similar position to you. I spent years dragging out a degree that I wasn't passionate about, felt less than my peers who had moved onto successful and fulfilling careers, and felt down on my luck. After a series of poor decisions I finally found my spark while sitting in the dirt after a long day of landscaping. No car, no ride home, could barely pay the bills, I finally realizing exactly where my life was headed and I knew I needed to change direction. I spent weeks researching jobs that I wanted to aspire to but that I knew were unattainable at the moment. But I bit the bullet, applied to schools, completed a degree related to the roles I was passionate about, and have gone on to work in roles that I couldn't have even fathomed just a few years prior. So for me, it was the realization that life is short and what I contribute to it is up to my that really sparked my fire, but you have to find some way to get out of the mindset that's dragging you down. It's not easy, and you will face significant challenges on whatever path you take, but find that spark and commit to your goals.
> Will tech co’s ever consider hiring someone like me?
Someone like you now, lacking passion, down on your luck, self-loathing, and without a direction? No. But you won't be presenting who you are now to these employers. It's your life–you can be whoever you want to be! As someone who comes from a less than favorable background, the imposter syndrome is always knocking at the door in my head. At the end of the day, you are who you choose to be, so choose to be the person that those tech co's will hire if that's what you desire.
I agree with the notion of ridding noncompetes entirely. Former employers should be limited to bringing cases against former employees who actually take something of legal value-i.e. trade secret misappropriation claims which require a higher standard of proof, as opposed to the broad restrictions that noncompetes impose on employees.
I can attest to the pains of using Windows containers first hand.
I'm currently working on a project that requires mixing Windows and Linux containers. The deployment and development process since the addition of the Windows containers into the mix has become so cumbersome that we're actually seriously considering using Wine in a Linux containers just to avoid the integration of the Windows containers altogether.
This is great. It brings me back to the early days in my undergraduate trying to get a grasp on programming.
The "Intro to Programming" i.e. Java 101 was my first experience with programming in general, and nearly made me drop out of the CS program altogether. Something about the high-level learning and lack of understanding what was going on behind the scenes made it very difficult to grasp. It wasn't until I took a course in C the following semester that I finally began to grasp the actions behind the code I was writing. Although the code was much more difficult to write, I found the laborious process of writing C made it much easier to grasp the underlying functionality.
There's benefit in not having to understand the underlying intricacies of the code that you're writing, but there is something about that knowledge that makes it just so much more engaging.
Second for raindrop! Having a dedicated app outside of any browser was initially what pulled me over. Simple UI that does just enough, without trying to tack on endless features that I would never use (like many alternatives do). The webpage archive feature itself has also saved me a handful of times.
I have used GoDaddy in the past and thankfully did not have these kinds of issues. That said, I've heard many similar (or worse) horror stories about them. Around 4 years ago I switched everything over to Google Domains. Been extremely happy with the service and find the UI and configuration process much more user friendly.
The blockchain solves a big problem for distributers: it makes DRM attractive. I don't necessarily see the case for textbooks catching on with consumers easily, but in other industries, like film, having the NFT "collectible" version of the item is attractive to some consumers. Of course the DRM protections could likely be trivially bypassed, but consumers could more easily make back a return on their original purchase after they're done with an item, and for collectibles, could display these purchases for others to see. This incentivizes the consumer to desire the DRM-protected item over the off chain asset. The film industry has already begun to explore this with distribution platforms such as https://vuele.io . Definitely not in support of it, but it seems a logical way for blockchain tech to be adopted into these industries.
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessel_Run