Well yes. That is the problem with capitalism. It’s almost like there needs to be a functional government countering corporations for the public good.
With a few notable exceptions there’s not a lot of mourning for general programmers not knowing CPU instruction sets, or manually placing binaries instead of using the install wizard. At this point you’re lucky to get an install wizard.
Same as yours.
Different shops had different practices, who knew!
It was seen as training on how to use the machine and access to what the more experienced coder was doing. It was of course also back when on-the-job training still existed instead of just throwing the new guy in a corner and expecting them to pick it up themselves.
Can do you one better.
Automation Dependency is a legitimate worry. Aviation has also been safer post-1997 than it was pre-1997.
Once upon a time the junior dev’s job was to clean the mainframe and type up the punch cards.
It used to be that airliners had a captain, co-pilot, and engineer to manage the engines and other systems. With increasing automation and system reliability the engineer position was made redundant. No profession is safe from stagnation.
His crimes/actions are alleged. That he’s “involved in the Epstein Files” is not.
All of those are basically front-ends for the National Weather Service and other mostly(?) public institutions that have actual weather satellites and generate the actual data.
I’m a fan of Windy because it lets you choose and compare/contrast forecast models. You can even compare which model has been more accurate for your location in particular.
It’s absolutely a gimmick markup, but as gimmick markups on gravestones go that’s not that expensive. Not because that’s reasonable but because there’s so much guilting people into spending at least 4 figures while they’re grieving.
The conversion for eMPG (which yes, is possibly the most cursed of units) is ~33 kwh equals a gallon. My PNW home electricity prices are pretty low, but that puts an eGallon at ~$2.97.
If anything I think that number is misleadingly high, but that’s part of why it’s possibly the most cursed unit.
Absolutely, it’s not their problem or their business.
But the 2025 tax cuts saved just Facebook ~$11bn in 2025 alone. Meaning across all US mega-corporations there are trillions of dollars not being allocated in whichever way voters want, but going to pet projects and yachts because they have more money than they can reinvest in their business or know what to do with.
Just Facebook spent $80bn over ~10 years while paying less of their income in taxes than anyone reading this.
The WHO estimates $7-8 billion a year to end world hunger.
Hard no, but tinkering is fun. And being able to check from a distance without having to turn the car around or getting a friend to swing by your house for piece of mind is nice.
As long as you don’t use the default password on your multimillion dollar installation because you’re too cheap to pay for enough IT support, you’re probably fine.