And it costs what, $600-800 more than the original OP-1?
The "field" reboot is such a sad joke. All that fans had been asking for, quite literally for decades, was for Teenage Engineering to fix the supply chain for OP-1 and produce them in-volume. Instead they upped the price and made it even more rare.
If you're looking for the who, Rhonda Patrick points the finger at rampant corruption in nutrition research and public policy. For example the American Heart Association being sponsored by Cheetos.
The thing is that most HN folks, competent IT people see tools like Terraform, ansible, docker et al as neat tools that simplify and speed up annoying chores, so you get to spend your time on solving actual problems. What it means to managers is that task X has become so easy that you can hire complete idiots who would've failed without the tool but now manage to cobble something together quickly that appears to work well. Except you now have passwords and keys in repos, open s3 buckets, ...
Multiple hamburger menus with a scattering of cryptic icons stuck at arbitrary places on the screen. What does the swirly icon with up arrow do? No text label for you!
Oh and let's move the next button to the top left of the screen and not highlight it. Mmmm that's some good UI design.
In creativity, unless you are a savant it takes grinding to increase your ability to match your taste.
If you started very young, then bravo, the grinding is out of the way and you were likely to be able to focus on the fun parts and have fewer distractions.
If you're starting as an adult, then it's gonna take some grit to get to a level you're satisfied with.
It isn't so much that it is hard, it is a case of how much you are put off by the potential hard work. How much drive you have regardless of the challenge.
It is some religious monasteries or teachers they use this to weed out those that they figure might not be up to it. They come to the student and say "You know if you are to get this, it will take over a decade or more before you will even begin to get the ideas we are working with!". If the student is not worried about this and see it as merely what needs to be done to get to their goal - then they will be a good student. The barriers are not seen as a problem but a process.
Corporate and education is infested with Oracle due to an army of salesdroids and large technical platform decisions being made by upper mgmt instead of infra staff.
I've also observed that Oracle stack people generally don't have experience with other platforms, so push it in whatever org they're working for.
