IMHO "Calc 1" is worthwhile to learn if you're in CS. You get an introduction to differentials and integral Calculus, and there is some everyday-relevant physics equations to be learned related to position/speed/acceleration, etc. Anything beyond that is only going to have relevance in more niche jobs. In which case, either take the extra semester or two of Calc, or book up on it on-the-job since you should understand the basics already.

This is the biggest "generational divider" I see rapidly creeping up over the last 5-10 years: People want "The Bag" but don't want to put in the effort to get it. They think the journey and the effort to get there is just in the way, and once they get their Bag, then they'll put in the effort. But it doesn't work that way. You can't flip on Effort like a switch if you've been half-assing things for a decade leading up to that.

Obviously, there are a lot of factors at play as to why the percentage acting that way are going up: K-12 schooling being mostly concerned with keeping grades up to retain funding so they pass everyone, abolishment of ACT/SAT scores for college entry as mentioned in this story, being distracted by the over-use of mobile devices/laptops in class, overuse of AI now so they once again don't really understand the material, etc. Not to leave out: Feeling like society is rugpulling them, so why bother trying hard when you're going to end up unemployed or underemployed no matter what you do?

As for why they lean into AI: I don't think we should discount the general lack of tech literacy these days as a reason they fall into the AI landmine. Kids don't use technology so much as consume it. The knowledge has never been easier to find and learn how to understand tech, but most simply... don't. It's not uncommon to have students entering college that don't understand what a filesystem is and how to navigate it for saving files, etc. In which case it's no surprise they fall for AI when the AI companies go out of their way to call LLMs "intelligent".

The ones working at nice restaurants making $50/hr are the ones ranting at city council. Certainly not the Denny's or Waffle House staff making a few dollars/hr in tips.

Given they ship the same sports titles every year, and would rather peddle gambling to children than produce a legitimate product, I'm thinking very little will change.

The thing I find most ironic about this situation is how these sorts of "random large invoices" are a super common scam/phishing tactic. Although anyone who preemptively cancels their cards without checking if they were actually charged kinda deserves what they get. The organization I work for probably blocks several hundred of these exact scams per week from mailboxes.

It's just heavily used by malicious actors for domain registration because of the cheap cost and their lack of vetting. So they register a domain, use it for 24-48hrs then dump it, or use it to pick up recently expired domains and piggyback on their clean reputation to send out scams and malware.

The irony is ICANN has enabled tons of shady and downright criminally managed TLDs and registrars to be introduced over the last ten years, which makes this pretty hypocritical. Registrars like Namecheap are mostly phishing and malware, TLDs like .pro and .xyz make no efforts to reign in the overwhelming amount of abuse coming from them, etc.

Funny how cheaply you can afford to manufacture things for when you eliminate R&D costs almost completely by ripping others off...

I'd also look at the fine print of those warranties: Generally speaking they often selectively cover only the stuff that isn't likely to break easily, but there are still a lot of routine maintenance parts that can give out long before that and cost you a maintenance call.

My Go-To for 3rd party controllers for Switch and PC is the 8bitdo SN30+ —looks just like an SNES controller, but with modern triggers and grips on it. Not only works with Switch, but PC and mobile as well. It has a removable rechargeable battery similar to an Xbox controller, but you can charge it via USB-C so there normally isn't a reason to remove it, but the option is there. (Can substitute regular alkalines, for example)

The issue with that thinking is that the GOP lumps themselves together. You either toe the line or you are the enemy. There is no compromise, there is no supporting them 95%. You either go all the way or nothing. So yes, people are largely going to group them together because of that.

Not on the phone screen itself, but there are phones like the Asus ROG Phone that already have their own dock to present a desktop-like experience. For anyone doing general business computing via their browser, email, Office apps, etc. we've reached the point where they could provide an adequate experience. I personally did my programming homework at school via RDP to my home desktop, and there were a few times in a pinch I even did it with my tablet and bluetooth kb/m.

Indeed. I refurbished my 3770K with a new case and a GTX 1660 Super for my friends last fall. The dad has been using it for teleworking since spring and commented on how surprised he was at how well it ran despite ostensibly being from 2012. Even if I had left the existing GTX 770 in it I'm sure it would have still been good: I was running The Division 2 @ 1080p high settings around 90fps shortly before building a new system.

Linus covers this flippant retort in his video: Nvidia isn't doing them a favor giving them "free GPUs": The transaction is them providing marketing to consumers and helping them make informed choices. If they want paid reviews with specific talking points, they can pay for that and have the videos marked as paid promotion. Nvidia essentially wants paid promotion disguised as unbiased reviews for their own benefit.

Do they? From what I've seen, raises are rarely given out and CoL adjustments are the new "raise". If you actually want a pay increase you need to quit and negotiate salary somewhere else: It's the only time you will see an appreciable pay increase worth your time invested.