I am 24 hours and 2 flights away from my hometown. I miss it every single day. I’m “stuck” in the new city till I can pay off my mortgage, at the very least. I try to make the most of what’s here and just remind myself of all the reasons why I moved in the first place.
Tell me you’re not Jesus without telling me that you’re not Jesus.
I’ve had this thought for a while and I definitely agree that a lot of software I’ve built is a net negative to society as a whole and the only reason why I get paid as well as I do is because I’m helping rich assholes suck value out of society more efficiently.
For instance, I’ve worked on CMSs that automated 90% of the processes for medium-large insurance companies. Sure, it may result in a marginal price reduction for insureds (lol), but it almost certainly has led to fewer staff being hired to the benefit of the overlords. If more and more middle-class white-collar jobs gets replaced by software, that helps put downward pressure on wages. At the end of it all, are the marginally lower prices worth it to society, when everyone has a lower wage or no well paying job forcing them to participate in the gig economy and such?
It’s a depressing thought, and I’ve been trying to break into research engineering roles or something of the sort to get away from my current role but it’s been an uphill task.
I say that I like “garbage pizza” because that’s how everyone around me treats the pizzas I like. I don’t like the “good pizzas” that everyone keeps raving about. I’ll take Domino’s or Pizza Pizza any day of the week.
I lick it clean before putting it in the fridge.
^^/s
I’m guessing that you were one of those “I won’t ever use all this math” kind of students?
Tldr- melting ice caps have reduced the angular velocity of the Earth so we need to make some changes to UTC to account for this slow down.
Libby for books from the library. Moon reader for other epubs.
At what point do you think it’s okay to punch a nazi?