I have to think this is intentional boomer-satire.

Newspapers don't exist anymore, not functionally. They haven't for over a decade, and aren't relevant to anyone under 50. Most are now online-only. Tech jobs are not posted there - ever.

"Pound the pavement"? You mean past the biometric double factor authentication required to get into the building and onto the business's floor? Or do you recommend climbing the building and rappelling down the building?

"Call a company or organization" - there's this thing called LinkedIn, it's been status quo for over a decade... nobody shares their numbers, or even has business numbers available anymore unless you work with them directly. Most people will not answer a call from an unknown number.

This is the reasonable approach to this, but I suspect the way that LLMs work makes it difficult if not prohibitive.

Oh, so I can {checks notes} do the same kinds of things I actively block and avoid, like take polls and watch ads, in order to have to search for content amongst a sea of monetized garbage?

No thanks.

Can I ask what level developer you're hiring for, and what you're paying? That might be why you appear to be only getting Indian scammer applicants.

Yep. That's the way it's gone for the last quarter century, at least.

They will, also, invariably seek out people to do 2-3 roles that were previously done by 2-3 people. And they will likely pay only slightly more than skilled labor for those jobs, expecting them to be able to be done by runbook and day contract hires... but it won't be so.

They'll just do the same thing they did last time - continue to flood the market with H1Bs at a lower pay than they can get domestic workers, and make up for the quality shortfall in volume.

A lot of these problems would be solved by going to cardboard- and natural wax-based solutiosn, and would usually contribute to more convenience in the long term (ie buying in bulk = having things available when you want them = cheaper).

That requires people with long time preference, unfortunately.

The Saturn V rocket stages were not reusable and were not designed for re-entry. Kinda an important distinction.

The temperature resistance requirement is due to being a reentry craft.

You're comparing test flights for SpaceX (of which most of them have been) to, what exactly?

SpaceX has a success rate of 25:1 vs 18:1 for NASA - if you include test flights for NASA. Which is a more accurate way to represent things.

You realize the Space Shuttle had little to no aluminum exposed, right? It was coated with all sorts of other things to thermally insulate it because it wouldn't survive reentry otherwise, and it needs an overhaul after every flight, too. It also has/had a very different mission objective and purpose than Starship.

Every single competitor to SpaceX has: a worse launch success rate (except ULA, which is using archaic disposable launch vehicles); a far lower launch volume; a far higher launch cost (about 2-4x for comparable payloads). None of them are capable of orbital launch.

I'm unclear as to whether you had an actual point.

You're off on this... Aluminum is largely unsuitable for spaceship construction due to its temperature sensitivity and the fact that it makes anything constructed of it unsuitable for thermal cycling. Aluminum, unlike stainless, becomes extremely brittle when it's thermally cycled. It's an almost 5-fold temperature difference (150C to 1500C). That's not a small difference.

It also has additional cost savings over any other forefront material (eg. CF or Ti5) - like 30x for similar capabilities. If cost was no object, inconel would be the clear winner in most regards, but since cost is a significant factor.. We've known (NASA has) since the 50s that SS would be the superior metal used for such things, and here we are.

There is, arguably, nobody else in the space/rocket industry doing what SpaceX is doing, so I'm not sure how you could even have that criticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemMFXNXRIg

Yeah I would love to see an NFC standard that didnt extend the range, but instead specified where in the (*^^*&^#@ the reader was on the POS system, or at least a lit up nfc logo where you want me to tap.... Every POS I go up to has it somewhere else, and finding it is a pain

I've been doing the same for almost 20 years. The first one I made with light cardstock (leftover high grade 'artisinal' paper from wedding invitations that looked antique / unbleached), and I sewed up 3 mini-books with a sewing machine, which I then glued into a spine made out of cardboard from a cereal box. Then I made a 'cover' for it out of some scrap deerhide I'd bought from the 'junk' bin at Tandy leather for like $5 that sleeves over the cardboard.

Now, anytime I need a pocket notebook, I just make another insert, and I've got a stack of "used" notebooks on a shelf that someone, a descendant maybe, might be able to page through and see how banal my life is.

But then, I think I'm probably a bit different than the populace at large. People frequently ask me (even my wife), "how did you learn how to do this?" or similar... well, I didn't learn how to do this, I just did it... but I did learn how to do a dozen+ other things that lead me to having the skills to do this, and I'm using techniques and process I learned while figuring those things out to do this.

Ya know what? It's typically not Democrat states like CA which get called out for being overly conservative - and this absolutely is, verging on neophobic.

This is along the lines of conservatives wanting to ban the Internet because it allows people to communicate (this was a thing for a hot minute in the 90s).

Do that many people have such a problem with temporal permanency that they're not able to realize how rapidly things have changed over the past 5, 10, 25, 50 years? You can't hold back progress by banning it. Hell, there's nothing you can really hold back by banning it, and in many cases, banning it only makes it more prominent and more desirable.

In the specific case of AI, it's out of the bag. Anyone with enough computing power - something which becomes increasingly irrelevant as time passes - will be able to run any of the publicly available models, and anyone with enough money will be able to train them to do anything they want. Our governments (eg. groups like DARPA) have all started exploring how it can be used to kill, monitor, and control people in ways we can only now guess.

I fail to see what benefit the fearful approach provides here except feel-good placation of busybodies. Bad actors will do whatever they want, and the above-board businesses which weren't going to (intentionally) do anything that would be dangerous to their bottom dollar - and that's what keeps them (mostly) ethnical. It's just like every other time they try to ban or heavily regulate things, whether it's knives, emissions, drugs, guns, or porn: good people are unreasonably jeopardized and inconvenienced and the bad actors "cheat" (as do many/all major corporations on almost everything that impacts them) or outright ignore the system itself and operate in the black.

(Forgive me if this was autistic, I'm offensive. )

The biggest three issues I've experienced in years are:

1) different formulas and way of doing them than Excel, so there's compatibility issues.
2) The UI is hideous on Mac (and Windows, presumably) at this point.
3) It's very slow to start (on Mac and Linux, haven't used Windows in years).

It's my go-to when I need to do things that I can't do in google sheets/docs, at this point.

I sympathize with your situation - this used to be a hard scenario to deal with, and there are a couple things you can do to make an upgrade break... but I don't understand how, frankly. I've not had an install break that wasn't my own fault in years (eg. specifying an arbitrarily small /boot partition).

apt update && apt upgrade, update the sources.list to the next major release; apt update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y and.... wait. Accept all defaults (unless you know better).

This has been foolproof for years for me.