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Comment Re:Basic Life Skills? (Score 1) 224

It absolutely never did for "most jobs" other than "unskilled labor". There is a long histor until recently of appreticeship systems and on the job training for anything that's more complicated than menial manual labor.

Not sure what you're on about with your immigrant non-sequiter. Virtue signaling perhaps?

Comment Re:Basic Life Skills? (Score 1) 224

Way to invent wht the OP said out of whole cloth and make it about you. Bravo!

Just so you can better make sense of this: it 1.) wasn't about you 2.) it wasn't infantilizing because it's largely true of most people 3.) again, it wasn't about you 4.) nobody said an "intermediary step" was "required".

Comment Re:Is corruption happening? (Score 1) 125

The number of college attendees vs. college age population is higher than it ever was, including at the school in question. It is predicted that population decline will overtake this higher rate of college attendance in the next few years.

In light of those two facts, what bar are you talking about exactly?

Comment Re:AWS is starting to slip (Score 1) 25

AWS is a terrible place to work (by design) and has a brain drain problem. The system is now so complicated that the people remaining no lnoger have sufficient intitutional knowledge to reason about it in an effective manner, so issues are being sorted out by rediscovery rather than knowledge. This creates consistent new issues as code is deployed that nobody thought could cause issues in a system they don't truly understand.

Comment Re:Whatever your opinion of Amazon or Bezos.... (Score 4, Interesting) 25

I'm not saying a agree with it, but for your very first complain you need to understand: you're doing it wrong. That's not how public cloud is intended to be used. VMs are herd not pets. There should never be a reason to rename a VM. You spin up another and move on.

"But I need it to....." Nope. You're doing it wrong. It's not what that system was designed for and if you want to use it you need to design your workloads to operate within the theory of how it's intended to function. It's really that simple. Things will continue to be hard as long as you continue to attempt to use the wrong tool for the job at hand.

Comment Recycling is mostly a farce (Score 3, Insightful) 70

This is well known. So are all of the warehouses full of CRTs that someone got paid to take and then abaondoned them in their leased warehouse. Plastic recycling barely happens. Paper and cardboard batches are routinely thrown out because of greasy food containers.........

We've all been getting this BS recycling thing pushed on us for decades. I'm not saying nothing is happening, but its in very few places and very few things that are actually getting recycled. And, surprise, it's the easy stuff. We're just trucking and shipping the rest around for no good reason (but people sure are making money off of it!).

Real recycling programs are difficult (for the processors and the consumers) and expensive. SF is (or at least was) a good example of what a more meaningful recycling program looks like, but even they can't do much of anything with most of the plastics and e waste other than shit it off to someone who pinky swears it's getting responsibly taken care of.

Comment Re:It should (Score 1) 82

It's like you don't work in tech or something. Because nobody who does would have typed that out. And it's incredibly laughable that you think people are flocking to government work for a currently shut down and dysfunctional government.
Was this an attempt at comedy or satire that I missed?

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