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tl;dr: Education rant. If you don't like rants don't read this comment.

7 hour a day have no motivation other than preparing kids for 9 to 5 jobs and depriving kids of their valuable time and potential.

Software used in education has a lot of room for improvement. A 1 man operation like 3Blue1Brown has done more for education than man-centuries of work in education software.

Kids spend years learning inefficient arithmetic algorithms. An 8 year old abacus user wipes the floor with an American teacher in mental math.

With respect to civics, kids learn about democracy in Ancient Greece but don't learn about corporations and lobbying, which nowadays has more weight than democracy.

A lot of adults today don't remember that Americans were given free land grants in the Mexican states of Alta California and Tejas (now California and Texas respectively, top American states by GDP) and then revolted against the Mexicans to later be annexed by the US. Similar story in Hawaii. The US set a shitty precedent in terms of respecting borders, sovereignty and immigration, creating the crisis that is now being weaponized today by corporations to transfer their blame to laborers that spend all their money in food rather than the true reason for our economic situation: trillions of dollars taken from taxpayers to pay "Quantitative easing" to the financial mafia and more trillions wasted in wars that achieved nothing other than make private defense contractors richer.

Kids won't learn about how the US Chinese exclusion act started the opium poppy planting industry in Mexico that later evolved into the humanitarian clusterfuck that is the War on drugs.

Kids won't learn about mass incarceration and its legal foundations like the loopholes that are possible by the 13th amendment to the US constitution.

Kids won't learn about mass surveillance by corporations and governments and how their privacy is being taken away.

Kids won't spend a lot of time thinking about compound interest and how it can make or break their lives, or how population doubles every 63 years and what will happen to us if this keeps happening.

> that smallness-of-file or smallness-of-function is not a target to shoot for

I disagree. Unless you are methodical and know what you are doing (like NASA or the authors of Kubernetes), it is hard to create large functions and files by keeping levels of detail consistent and not repeating code.

How do you test a function that has 100 unique outcomes? How do you safely maintain it to ensure it won't break? How do you even know it's working?

If theory of mind is the issue, some pigs display some attributes that could be interpeted as theory of mind.

In any case, your argument fell apart because there is no metric you can pick to justify what we do to animals other than: it is wrong but it is the least of evils right now (from a legal standpoint), which is different to "humans are more important than pigs".

Your argument is a slippery slope that leads to very dark places: can the rich experiment on the poor?, can we experiment on the disabled or mentally ill?... if being "important" justifies abuse, we would live in a world of abuse.

That is important because when simulations can solve the problem, we could outlaw experimentation in-vivo.

Other cities offer one way tickets to CA cities to get rid of their homeless.

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The crimes of these kinds tutorials:

- Downplaying the role of error handling

- Treating the subjects they cover as a black box

- Not warning that the code examples are not suitable for production

Seems nice except for the developer art. Kids are exposed to very high quality material these days.

Have people use an app instead, problem solved.

The same people touched the entrance door handle anyways. And if you use cash you are exposed to the same germs.

A server can do way more.

If you define and implement all user stories, in the end what you will have is: a functional prototype, not a product.

A finished product can be sold ethically, a prototype cannot.

If you resurrect those technologies they would die again right after.

Nobody cared about Windows phone and nobody noticed when it died.

It enjoys the same prestige as Microsoft Bob.

You can reapply.

Too late for China.

If your sleep gets interrupted 5 times the same night because of tech debt you are not allowed to fix, or if you are having dinner with your family and you get paged 3 days in a row, I guarantee you that you will lose your shit.