You mean the culture of cutting funding from under performing schools to enforce a downward spiral and divert money to private schools? If not you should be more specific.
I took the cpu architecture and operating systems class exam about six or seven times. It was incredibly frustrating and demoralising at the time but looking back it made absolute sense and was completely worth it.
I’ve been living off the learning from that course for the last ten years.
And believe me when i say it’s definitely visible when you’re talking with somebody that took that course (or an equivalent one from a different university) and actually understood the topics.
Aren't DC remotely managed for almost everything? How does a DC in Paris, Alabama benefit the locals if 99% of the well paid jobs for it are done in the Bay Area?
the law addresses exactly this. it greatly overtaxes datacenter in green spaces and lowers taxes in former industrial areas.
Regarding whether it's a good development drive... I can tell you, most companies could save a shitload of money by buying a few pallets of machines and racking them in a... datacenter.
I see our monthly AWS bill, I highly doubt we'd be spending that in datacenter bills.
Besides that, the us govt already has all your data and yet people are criticising it all around, in the open. They can, without repercussions, because the us is a free country.
i bought my home and went from paying 650 euros/month for a single room and sharing the rest of the flat with a roommate (in his own room) to paying 430 euros/month for my whole flat (in the same city, btw).
fast forward a few years and:
- the same room now goes for around 700-900 euros/month (post covid inflation)
- my mortgage price would have stayed the same (fixed interest rate)...
- ... except i paid it in full before time (and saved a ton on interest)
- my flat is now worth a lot more than i paid id (again: post-covid inflation)
nowadays i'll be kinda braggy, i'm leaving the dream: i work in tech, i have a very good salary and all of my fat paycheck stays in my pockets.
having a mortgage with a fixed interest rate meant i could plan around the payments i had to make.
and don't get me wrong: i'm 34, i'm not a boomer.
they say that renting gives you optionality. well... i can still easily sell my flat and move elsewhere OR, hear me out... i can rent it.
My home on 3/4 acre is worth 2.5x what I paid for it after just 7 years ago.
The best time to plant a tree... same for a house... Do it now or live with the regret of generations of "wait and hope" idiots. I waited and I see the folly of my ways. If I had done it 20 years earlier and dealt with the hardship of being "house poor" for a few years I would have been able to retire at an early age. Do not let fear control your decisions/actions! Carpe diem!!!!
> They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
Yeah, it was a shitshow.
The thing i hated the most were mods rewriting your posts, because they didn't like the wording. Years after I am still salty and convinced it was a petty way to farm points or whatever.
I have fond memories of playing with dyndns and having cool domains like <mynick>.homeunix.net … and having downtime because my home dns connection went down and came back up with a different ip address.
I did the same! back when DNS was new and exciting and not a full on requirement for everyhing you touch nowadays. I have been thinking about that since then really and finally thought I would bring some of that back!
Imho the problems are even deeper: they’re at culture level.
But that’s where things get controversial, so i’ll hint at the problems and stop here.
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