Don't forget football. There are career slots for only a small number of college football players.
Last time I checked, colleges don't offer an actual major in football. It sure as hell may look like they do given how insulated the players may be from the rest of the student body and how so many only meet the bare minimums academically required in order to remain eligible to play, but the on-paper major isn't football.
The biggest abuse in the number of students versus the number of jobs in the profession are in journalism. There are more journalism students than there are jobs in the entire industry.
Music unfortunately has similar problems even with something that has more value. In far too many cases, graduates from college music programs can't work in the field because their teachers are the ones with seats in the local orchestra. They're literally having to directly compete with their instructors.
Free college sounds great, until you realize that college will be rationed, probably by academic achievement, which would block students from under-performing K-12 schools from entering college. Is that the plan? Or are we going to fill colleges based on racial, gender, or economic factors?
It would not entirely block students from underperforming K-12 schools, because college admissions officials do not solely look at the performance of schools. They also look at things like raw GPA, class rank, classes that are acknowledged as being more challenging, and on other aspects of scholarship like applications essays and standardized tests.
Certainly there would be fewer students from underperforming schools, because there would generally be fewer strong candidates from underperforming schools, through the sheer nature of the statistics of what led to those schools being labeled as underperforming to begin with.
Thing is though, that's why the higher ed system is tiered. No one looks on Truckee Meadows Community College as being at the same level as UCLA, and no one looks at UCLA as being on par with Yale. There are or at least should be options for many talented high school graduates who are looking for college. Not everyone gets to go to MIT. Not everyone even gets to go to the University of Arizona. Some end up at Chattahoochee Technical College. And that's okay. They might well be able to transfer if they excel in their new environment after high school. If not, they might well have to go through the programs that they can perform at.
What we do need is better assessment for certification of programs, and weeding-out of faux-colleges that themselves just exist to profit off of student loans for 'students' that will never graduate, particularly private for-profit colleges. They need to be held to minimum graduation rates based on original enrollment, and if that means compelling them to find fraudulent enrollments that likewise are attempting to game the educational financing system, then they need to step up.
Japan has been below replacement levels for quite a long time now. Adult diapers have outsold baby diapers for well over a decade there.
While the media might love to spin Japans actions as politically motivated and “anti-Trump”, the reality is they need breeders a hell of a lot more than they need brainpower.
That would be predicated on allowing actual permanent resettlement with a path to citizenship and birthright citizenship for one's offspring.
I could well see researchers that aren't in a having/raising family stage of life being interested in living and working in Japan for some number of years as an interesting and finite life stage, but I don't see those looking to permanently settle somewhere or to raise a family somewhere necessarily being up for it.
To address that, Japan needs to do more than simply provide some short-term incentives for researchers, but that would also mean a fundamental shift in the thinking of the population as far as what it means to be Japanese, what it means to be a citizen, etc. They do not appear to be willing to do this.
Please don't misunderstand me either, I'm not commenting either way on what other specific countries/cultures do or don't do.
Everyone is using OpenJDK these days, nobody in their right mind would pay for their licensing.
Well, the energy mix is the responsibility of the government...
I guess I'm confused, how is a technology with a decades-long service life and is basically a capital investment subject to the same sort of label of 'bubble' compared to the explosive growth of something using a commodity model with obsolescence measured in years?
In 2020 I had to occasion to have some OS1 singlemode fiber installed back in 1994 terminated into splice cases and put into use. That fiber sat for basically a quarter century and was then usable when I needed it.
Where I work now I no longer have primary responsibility to deal with cabling infrastructure, but we still light up metro-crossing fiber between locations that could well have sat dormant for decades. Costs to install pathways right now are RIDICULOUS, like upwards of $1000/linear foot for underground conduit work. Stuff installed for a tenth or less that price 20 years ago is paying for itself now even accounting for inflation if I'm not having to spend $50k to go fifty feet between buildings. And unlike point-to-point wireless shots there's no recurring licensing fees to the FCC, there's no service-subscription costs to the wireless equipment manufacturer, and there's basically no lifecycle costs to regularly replace the connection.
If there was any sort of fiber bubble, it was that those looking to profit off of it weren't thinking like a utility, where the ROI takes awhile to see, but the investment in the installation lasts for decades, not months or years. It's only a bubble if you're not a long-term thinker.
So reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic?
sounds like the sham nonsense isn't limited to the school kids.
I could see that happening.
And to be fair, I don't hate USB-A like I used to, or frequently disconnected and reconnected cables/dongles/ports I like it. It's not as durable as I'd like, but it's physically big enough that if junk makes its way into the port or plug I can clean it out. If the outer housing ends up bent I can bend it back. I can put micro-SD card readers into the socket that are nearly flush with the socket itself.
USB-C is more fragile than USB-A, if something gets into the connector it'll probably damage it. I've seen this happen to phones, and to cables, I could see it happening to computers as well.
I, like I assume you are, won't be holding my breath on that one.
True, but when I've been on committees to help make decisions, I tend to play east-german judge, and sometimes this helps steer things away from techbros that don't actually know the tech part of their business and are basically overgrown salesmen who've risen too high in the corporate ladder.
My field is networking rather than software, and while every vendor is usually pushing some new hotness when they do their bring-the-customer-to-the-experience-center, I'm the skeptic asking what they're using for themselves. When Cisco, for example, was leaning hard into their Software-Defined Networking replacement for Trustsec using what they were calling at the time "security group tagging" to basically add tokens that all access-edge and forwarding switches and routers needed to pay heed to in order to enforce end to end security for traffic, I asked them what they were using for themselves. Turns out despite them pushing SDN and SDAccess they were still using Trustsec and the SD- features weren't even functional for an org our size, it couldn't handle the number of endpoints. It couldn't even handle half of the number of endpoints that we saw on a regular basis. And it required basically full vendor lock-in for all access switches, distribution switches, routers, and firewalls to truly work. If you adopted it you were stuck with them basically completely until the end.
I've heard horror stories from other orgs that implemented it too. DNA/Catalyst Center problems, ISE problems, problems when working with endpoints that are not part of the SD- zone, etc.
This is like if art class, in the 1980s, had switched from teaching kids how to draw, sculpt, and paint to teaching them to clip pictures of other people's art out of magazines.
Or as artists call this, "Mixed Media."
So what exactly are these three Rs that you feel so strongly about?
Someone is unenthusiastic about your work.
