TimeSquirrel

I would not have guessed electronics. Usually I think of China, Japan, and South Korea as major suppliers.

You’re the kind of person that tells someone that got shot that you also stubbed your toe last week and it hurt really bad too.

You obviously don’t give a shit enough to become an activist for your own opinions, otherwise you’d be out there too. Instead you’re here hijacking unrelated threads for it. You probably just get off on online controversy like so many other useless trolls.

Welcome to geopolitics. The whole world runs on unsaid statements and ulterior motives. Up is down and down is up.

I forgot what it is that we actually export. Tires? Oranges/Almonds? Military hardware?

We went from fixed-length elements that don’t scale with the browser, to the golden era, and then back to fixed-length elements that don’t scale with the browser.

We aren’t taught or encouraged to explore or experiment by our educational systems. We are taught how to do something, and then don’t question it. There are tons of people that cannot meaningfully play with Lego without assembly instructions. The idea of trying something out of the norm from what they already know never enters into their head.

Like, back in the day, I literally discovered I could drag and drop files directly into the “upload” area on some websites and it would automatically post the file to the site. I didn’t even know it was possible, I just out of the blue wondered if a browser can work like a drag and drop file manager and just went ahead and did it.

I’m getting annoyed that every damn thing is turning into a web app now and JS/Chrome is even infecting desktop programs that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++. The technology world feels janky and bloated now, built like a house of cards where one thing is relying on 20 other things, some of them in the cloud, to work right.

Programming these days seems to be more about glueing various services and APIs together to come up with a solution instead of actually coding it.

KSP. I colonized almost the entire system on chemical rockets alone with bases and ISRU fuel depots orbiting the smaller moons (I’d have to go to each base, do some mining, and refill the orbiting tanker station before every long mission so it’s ready when I got there). I’m not at my PC but last I checked it was a couple thousand hours.

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20 years ago:

“Hey I’ve got a great idea, let’s take all these little local decentralized things and put them all onto one centralized massive thing that needs 99.99999% uptime or the world’s fucked. Nothing will go wrong.”

Reminds me, back in like, 2007, Nine Inch Nails did a promotion for their new album where they left “mystery” USB drives with media from the “future”, themed from album, in public areas at their shows. People couldn’t wait to find them and jam them into their computers to piece the story all together.