You nailed it, IMO. However, I would like a real artificial sentience of some sort just to add to the beautiful variety of the universe. It does seem that many of my fellow humans just want chattle slaves though. Which is saddening.

JFC. What is wrong with people? I just want to write code that works, is interesting, and doesn’t have memory problems.

any change to shell scripts that isn’t posix compatible brings opinionated people out the woodwork.

Yo. Did I hear someone breaking POSIX-compatability over here?

First, I would like to give you some major props. Installing Arch, in itself, is a big deal. It is not a beginner-friendly distro. It is a very power-user friendly distro and has an incredible wiki that is helpful, at least to some degree, for many distros.

For a beginner distro, I would recommend Linux Mint for its easy transition and great focus on user experiences or Bazzite if you really want to install and get gaming.

When taking drivers in Linux, most are provided as either kernel modules (integrated into the kernel, so you don’t have to worry about installing anything) or packaged for the distro, in which case, once installed via package manager, they’ll auto-update whenever you update system packages. They are so much easier to deal with than Windows drivers (for the end user). For example, to use a Wacom drawing tablet, all one has to do is plug it in.

Fuck. My wife did work with Hanger 13 a while back. Really cool place and good people.

Someone downvoted because they don’t want to remember Bethesda’s shenanigans?

It’s really not just that it is/was cheaper. There are cases where, all costs considered, it was actually measurably more expensive. The main reason for off-shoring is purely ideological. Amercan capital has nothing but disdain for workers and hatred for organized labor. Off-shoring was intended to crush unions, while giving a temporarily lower price to goods to prevent the populace from understanding how much they were getting screwed.

Chip production is a highly specialized field, where workers could readily demand concessions from capital, were they on anything resembling stable ground. That was not too be allowed.

It’s the principle of committing wage theft, engaging in a contract (possibly verbal) and then keeping the promised compensation instead.

Lifetime plans are no longer available so, we’ve done you a favor and enrolled you in the pay-per-joke plan without your consent.

There should be criminal penalties for that kind of shit. Letting management off the hook without any personal consequences just encourages it.

It is a way to go but there are still cons there. Guaranteeing memory safety isn’t free. You have to pay for it somewhere, either at compilation time, like Rust, or during runtime like in Go. Both are solid approaches but GC will cause problems in cases where the extra runtime overhead is not acceptable.

I agree and disagree at the same time. Bars/clubs/etc can be good for quick hookups. Social hobbies can lay groundwork for much greater depths of sustained sluttery.

Honestly, one doesn’t really have to have low standards when taking that approach. Just go to bars that fit one’s vibe and talk to people, and don’t be judgemental on superficial things. Either it’ll click with someone or not.

To be fair, it does help if one finds the majority of people of their preferred gender(s) to have something beautiful about them.

And being a bit of a slut. I can state from personal experience that that helps. Embrace your inner slut (ethically).

But Salvation Army is anti-union and damn near anti-homeless. So, they can get bent.

Thank you for candidly answering people’s questions. It’s been interesting to read through. It also has made very clear to me that, while I wasn’t intending on it, escorting would not be a career that my brain could handle and demonstrating that you’re profession deserves a hell of a lot more respect.

where are all these Utopian “red cities” that people are apparently in favor of?

They do not and can not exist. Conservatism is an antisocial and anti-intellectual, authoritarian ideology. This pretty much rules it out of success in most conventional metrics.

This is exactly why I ended up in tech, despite actually getting a degree relevant to biochem/industrial microbiology. I graduated during the height of the Recession and decided not to go into academia, despite my love of data and research, because they stopped hiring tenure-track at most institutions, replacing them with adjuncts with minimal pay and benefits (even for academia) and poor bastards on the post-grad treadmill.

I fucking hate it and know that I’m not the only person who has been forced out of a research career by these objectively harmful-to-humanity economic policies.

Hah. I know likely comedic misunderstanding but, in case it was not clear, the 27-year-old pedo was the gross one.

Yeah. It sure was “fun” competing with people with decades of experience and advanced degrees right after graduation. I hope that our generation and those after us are able to course correct and undo the bullshit that Boomers have inflicted upon humanity.

Note: Not generation war (no war but class war) but unfortunate reality. Boomers overwhelmingly supported neo-liberal politicians that to pulled up the ladder behind them and robbed future generations in exchange for short-term gains.

Yeah. That was my experience as well. An adult dating a highschooler was a skeezy loser who peaked in middle school.