I am being kind of forced to train in AWS and I do not like it compared to Azure. It is expensive and overly complex while Azure is gaining AI and will soon be integrated with ChatGPT and CoPilot. Azure is ahead in many areas compared to AWS and it integrates well with the Microsoft Ecosystem.

but I am skeptical there is BROAD appeal for watching other people play video games. There's clearly an audience for it, but I just don't get it.

For most games, yeah. However, I actually enjoy watching long-form "no commentary" playthroughs of games that have strong stories. With the modern graphics we're seeing now, it becomes very cinematic.

But I definitely don't want to listen to some dipshit ranting while waving a controller.

Lol. Not where I am at. We all use Python and node.js with a touch of typescript for our whole product stack across our AWS and Azure environment and have never seen scalability problems. I have not seen java servlets in a long time. They are quite niche like php these days.

Sounds like you need more senior level developers

Quebec has their shit together. But then cross the provincial border to Ontario, and marvel at a total clown show of government-owned electrical utilities.

I use uBlock Origin, and I haven't seen any new behavior yet.

I use uBlock Origin (and ScriptSafe, and other layers of tools), and I'm getting a mixed bag. Ad audio plays, but the ad video is black, and only at the start of a video, with no interruptions while watching. I'm sure I can update/kick uBlock to fix that if I want, but it's the least annoying YouTube ad behaviour I've experienced, so I'm not in a rush to discourage it.

Young layabouts prefer FREE over PAID!!

You're assuming teens are sticking to the free tiers of YT. You're also assuming teens are paying for Netflix (rather than riding their parents account). The survey didn't ask anything about the financial angle, so it's a bit of a jump to draw that conclusion.

It's just as likely that teens simply prefer a less curated experience than Netflix.

Look up "Reinheitsgebot" and "Maerzenbier" for two obvious examples.

That's where climate change will make a dent. The EU has a lot of legally-protected brands/styles (beers, cheese, wine, etc, etc) which are tied the climatology of a limited geographic range, and climate change is going to move those areas (and possibly make the style irreproducible through traditional methods).

Which sucks, but it's arguably one of the less troublesome aspects of climate change. Unless you're a producer of one of those protected products.

What I want from a car is a responsive gas pedal

Same, but I also like a responsive brake pedal.

Well, that and because they're accurate enough for the average person.

what's with preferring trucks over vans in America

Towing capacity, off-road capabilities, and easier maintenance would be the big ones. In North America trucks have vans beat on those categories hands down. And that's not even getting into the cab-chassis options.

Don't get me wrong, vans are awesome and not that unpopular (I have a full-size van, my farmer neighbour has one, and my contractor neighbour runs an EV van), but you have to live with some limitations.

but I just tolerate them because YouTube creators deserve something for the effort of making videos

I tried. I really did. But the sheer amount of outright junk or scam ads and the inability to flag/block them made it just unbearable.

Not greed. Population increase of 300% since 1990 made prices go up 300%> Add cheap free money by The Fed which caused inflation and risky loans and prices will skyrocket.

Look at the auto market as an example. Beaters went up 400% for broken salvage grade cars with 200k miles now. Too little car and too many people wanting car made prices ecplode

Increase supply and demand will fall. More apartments is the answer NOT the problem.

For the bos whinnying about greed remember 100 million illegal immigrants and a boom of millennials as big as the boomers entered the market. 1990 US population= 200 million. 2021 = 700 million! Population has increased 300% therefore mortgage/rent prices went up 300%. Increase th supply 300% and wait for boomers to die = prices to return. Simple 101

His point was thanks to inflation and free money from the Fed means companies could over hire for non productive employees that normally wouldn't happen. Iowa as a result lacked employees.

Maybe not from Meta specifically. Capitalism ensures the optimal amount of productive employees.

Please $70 more a month for internet and a $300 desk is nothing compared to requiring a $40,000 vehicle as a beater won't last driving an hour each way every day.

I know I lost a house I was going to buy as my 11 year old Kia worked until I had to return back to the office and I lost thousands in repairs forcing a sell so I have as 750 a month car payment now. I am furious my team forced us to come back in and screwed me. They all own homes and now I have to rent as I no longer qualify so they can look cool to management by sitting at that seat at 7am