ConceptJunkie

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Since when has a government projection of costs ever been in any way realistic? The estimates for the costs of Medicare when it was established were low by a factor of 10.

There's going to be a huge realignment in white collar work in the next decade or two, and then there's the fact that college degrees themselves (except for maybe STEM), are becoming less and less valuable because higher education is so politicized and taken over by nonsense. My college education (Computer Science, 1987) served me very well over my career, but I don't know what I'd be doing if I were 18 now.

I'll look at math papers on Arxiv, etc., and browsing the titles will find maybe one in a hundred where I even know what it's talking about. I've been a math enthusiast since I was a kid, but the field is so immense I can't even wrap my head around how big it is, leave alone the actual concepts.

Out of all the topics mentioned in the recent AI advances at finding counterexamples to conjectures, etc., about the only one I understood was the one where they've made advances in a bounds for kissing numbers in higher dimension, a topic I find fascinating even if I don't really know much about it.

And when you break the rules, you get absolutely no feedback. You don't even know if you break the rules, or you were just beat by a candidate the interviewers preferred. I had to go through the process last year and hated almost every microsecond of it, except my interview with the place that actually hired me.

Back in the 90s, looking for a job wasn't so bad. Now it's a nightmare.

I also have really fond memories of Cinemaware's Three Stooges game. That's one I'd love to play again. It even had some digitized voices, sound effects and photos of the Stooges. It consisted of several mini-games you had to play in order to make enough money in 30 days to save the orphanage.

One had you wheeling a patient through a hospital, avoiding obstacles, and included a clip of "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard". Another had Curly trying to eat oyster soup. Another had one of the stooges dashing through town to get a violin for Larry to play. And the best one was the pie fight stage. There might have been one or two more, but it was a really cool game with excellent graphics for the time.

Roger Dean did some great artwork for computer games, etc., in the 1980s. I still have the poster of the cover of the game Barbarian that came with the game. Dean later recycled that painting for the cover of Steve Howe's excellent "Not Necessarily Acoustic" album, and Dean is _still_ producing lovely and amazing artwork for Yes all these years later.

Seeing the juggler, and lots of other gee-whiz stuff in 1986 inspired me to buy an Amiga 500 as my first computer in 1988. I got a lot of mileage out of that system, with its whopping 1.5MB of RAM, and two floppy drives (after shelling out another ~$150 for the 1MB upgrade and however much for an external floppy).

The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long that we don't run out of them in 20 years or so.

There fixed that for you.

I'm sorry, I can't do that, but here is the design for a stable quantum computing platform that should allow you to generate those keys yourself...

I feel like it's a rite of passage for a beginner programmer to have a recursive function generate a stack overflow.

DVD menus is another place where this confusion happens. Of course, any DVDs I buy these days are ripped, converted to H.265 and put on the NAS.

If you were to quiz people who preferred the Windows 2000 look, you would more likely get detailed answers regarding the design language and functionality. If you were to quiz people who preferred the XP look, you would more likely get answers revolving around colors and shiny.

Yeah, it was butt-ugly. The default Windows UI didn't actually look better until Windows 7, but I used the "Classic" look as long as it was supported. I skipped Windows 8/8.1 entirely, and while Windows 10 was reasonable in terms of how it worked, it was also butt-ugly, but now you couldn't do much of anything to customize it.

I don't understand why they couldn't have kept that option. The Windows UI is currently the least customizable I've ever seen and I started using Windows with 2.1.