This role is played by the smart phones in China. The customers pay by scanning the printed QR code, and upon success, the WeChat or Alipay app on the vendor's phone reads out the amount loud.
People don't automatically be free if every western company stops doing business in China. Withdrawing from the market can't really do anything about that unless it can put a lot of pressure on the power holders.
> I'm more of the mind that happiness is better as a side effect of a good life than the sole pursuit of your life. People who chase happiness as their primary meaning to exist usually are not very interesting and highly materialistic.
Well working with machines wouldn't need sprint planning and code review. I think peer programmers are also uncontrollable, the business requirements and technology evolvements can be unpredictable, and the customers/users have their own agenda, and they're kinda what/whom senior programmers tend to care about. They don't represent the responsibilities of a manager role though.
A proper UI is not about telling people how the things are done, it's about managing/meeting users' expectations on how the things are done, so it's pretty valid to let the users wait longer if that makes them feel better (not saying there are no better ways), pretty much like a placebo.
Industrialized agriculture would push most people out of land (no longer need that many people), and if the people can't find alternative for living they would be even poorer. If there are better alternatives, peasant farmers will chase them anyway.
There are also better ways for agriculture which can regenerate soil, maintain biodiversity while at the same time harvest more.
Trexo Robotics (https://trexorobotics.com/work-with-trexo/) is enabling people to walk by building powered wearable robots, starting from kids with movement disabilities. The kids in the Trexo community just collectively reached 20 million steps, the equivalent of a walk around the globe!
I would argue that boilerplates should be minimized in the first place. Regardless how fast it is to generate them, reading them over and over again together with the code human write is a huge waste of energy.
Feel sad to hear such stories. It should have not been in this way. There have been many companies doing remote for years and sharing experiences out loud. And Slack can be used wisely, with just a little bit of discipline.
Had been in the same situation for years. Read a paper, encounter the first equation, scratch my head and search around trying to understand it, give up. That changed half a month ago, after watching the Linear Algebra and Calculus course at https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/playlists?view=50&sort....
Let me explain a little bit. Just like a foreign language you stopped learning and using after high school, what prevents you from using it fluently is not just the vocabulary and grammar, but also the intuition and the understanding of the language as a whole. Luckily, math is a human designed language, with linear algebra and calculus being the fundamentals. And again, learning them is about building intuition on why and how they are used, so whenever you encounter transformation, you think in terms of vectors and matrices, and derivative for anything relevant to rate of change. By using carefully designed examples and visual representation, Grant Sanderson greatly smoothed the learning curve in the video courses. Try it out and you'll see.
Beyond that, different fields do have slightly different notation. When you first encounter them, just grab some introduction books or online courses and skim over the very first chapters.