Learned on the job. Previous professional background PHP, JS. Beginner to what I think to be competent ("full stack", a range between infra and clustered prod deployments to page layouts in Phoenix LiveView) in about four months.
I've been able to find high quality Elixir packages without trouble. I haven't had to fall back to Erlang packages for any holes but I feel confident because I could.
Real goods -- like pieces of companies (stocks) or tangible assets (housing, etc).
In my layman opinion -- the western central banks are in cahoots continually "soft landing" (optimistic) or manipulating (pessimistic) and at an accelerated rate since 2008.
The marketing isn't booming up. The nominal metric is falling rapidly.
> The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's.
This is a truism and from my experience it rings false. I ran an iPhone 5 for four years without feeling degraded.
FWIW, as background, I'm an ex-overclocking PC enthusiast and I consider myself very sensitive to any sorts of performance lag.
I don't buy a simple reliability narrative. I'm going to go with household income / cost divergence with a heavy salting of currency devaluation on top as "the real reason".
Yeah, I don't get it. The delivery of the talk is a little.. pointed.
But the perspective offered is incredibly compelling. And my work experiences -- both positive and negative -- are sympatico with so much said here.