And those are used to excuse hating on many others who are just in a bad place.

I'm doing fine now, but grew up in a poor family. We were constantly judged for it. I recall hearing from a classmate that we couldn't be friends because his parents told him I would steal from him.

And yes, if you're seen having anything even vaguely inessential or middle-class coded, you're judged for that, too. Taking your kids to get ice cream once in a while demonstrates how wasteful you are. Or my absolute favorite was someone trying to shame me for wearing nice clothes one day. I was on my way to a job interview. So which is it, am I too stupid and lazy to lift myself up by my bootstraps, or am I to only get work at places that will hire someone in rags?

All of which probably helps explain why I can be extremely contemptuous about this sort of thing. People are complex, and the finances of many people at the edge of poverty are largely based on interpersonal relations. Without a fair amount of personal detail you simply won't have a lot of the time, you really just don't know how responsible they're being.

In my experience Home Depot has some pretty primitive security. I'm not sure what troglodyte is running their ecommerce but it's kind of embarassing. I've had experiences where they just block certain useragents, and if you try to access it via a VPN you just get a 403... no messaging, no throttling, no challenges... just blocked. Sometimes it goes away after a while. I have a suspicion their network security team doesn't really know what they're doing.

The Future is Fuzzy

Consoles have been PCs for a while now, just locked down, so I'm not sure what this will really mean. Will they try to lock down PCs even further, with more devious rootkits now that Windows 10 is dead and TPM2.0 is mandatory? Or will they embrace Linux and follow Valve's lead by giving players the freedom to actually play the games they paid for? I'm not sure this guy has the answers, but I guess we'll see.

my son's teacher told us that it helped with developing fine motor control, particularly in children that had below average motor control.

For one, is this based on research or speculation? Second there are different kinds of motor control. Following an existing pattern or shape is one type, while cursive is another because one tends to develop patterns based on personal preferences.

Are the loops male, female, or something else? (ducks head in FL)

In 5th grade my teacher wanted to wring my neck because I was growing quite skillful in drawing and art, yet my cursive writing was worse than a drunk doctor's. I didn't see them as connected, but it was in the teacher's mind. I had a semi-impressionistic art style such that stroke precision mattered less.

CursiveGPT

By definition, conservatives prefer much of the past

I'm banking on that

The talk about space being cold, having more light, etc. is pretty much nonsense. More like it has less regulations and bigger budgets. However, I could imagine some kind of low latency compute being needed for applications like:
- Luna: Automated robotic exploration and construction drones wanting 2 second lag, different countries are working on it
- Asteroid mining robots: Onboard compute, or lower latency needed on arrival / when opposite Sun
- Telescope on other side of the sun: Maybe not needed
- Solar system / Oort exploration robots: Maybe needed years from now
- Deep space exploration robots: Maybe needed years from now

Just an armchair guy but it seems like:
- Setting up in-system relays alone should be sufficient for delivering AI+Human based commands when low latency is sufficient, i.e. in transit. And will be required for operation in planetary shadow. We have something at Mars, and for the Far Side of the Moon we are apparently working on Lunar Communications Relay and Navigation Systems (LCRNS) for Artemis.

- Moving compute nearby for lower latency (1 second) will be needed when robots actually touch rock or enter planetary shadows, if we want them to move with any kind of speed. For the Moon, libration points would give 400ms round trip which is probably enough, or in-orbit is better.

- There will be a lot of advancement in processor capability/size and to a much lesser extent space propulsion over the years robots are traveling the deep dark, so it may be better to wait as long as possible so that a miniaturized, low power, high compute package can be delivered on a fast rocket to be there when they need it.

I'm glad Oracle is keeping the async pollution out of Java. Java is more of a business or admin domain language, and less for systems software. You don't really need that for biz/admin coding, and there are ways to still implement for the rare cases.

I guess I'm not working on "typical CRUD apps" then?

Based on your description, no, you are not, other than maybe "data stores". Sounds like systems programming. And it's rare to need such for app-level database access (unless you did something wrong or bad).

other than async and await keywords here and there.

It tends to force the need to parts that have nothing to do with asynchronous programming other than being referenced by parts that do. It pollutes and spreads like prions in a brain.

Elon likes his rocket toys, and thus needs money.

Doesn't Elon's pay depend on Tesla revenue? If for example BYD kicks Tesla's ass, Elon gets lackluster pay.