Hello, software dev. from the US, but I'm originally from E. Europe and went through Soviet Union collapse, societal disintegration,rampant crime, poverty and seen lot of very high caliber people (PhD scientists/engineers) who unfortunately were thrown into fringe of the society or life completely side-stepped them. What you can do ?
You are 19. Get physically strong (exercise), have a skill(s) to do manual job (like welding) so in case things go bad, you can fall back on it. In the meantime, work on your programming, math skills & imagination.
Good luck !
I believe getting a job "just" to get by should be easy, there are plenty of entry and manual jobs to start from, specially if you are young. Construction, farming, auto-mechanic, or even flipping burgers. The true challenge is getting a good pay, or getting social momentum to get out of the situation, there is only a few careers that allow smart people to get out of the "shithole" (pardon my french). IT, for the longest time, was one of such careers.
Surely IT is still a solid career choice for the next 10 years, probably. But if in the past I couldn't find a way on how IT could get outdated or out of fashion, with all the current instabilities, and the sheer number of people getting in the field every year, I kinda see the end of the tunnel. It might be that in the next few decades IT work will be as basic as blue collars, which is not bad per se, but very different from what most people expect.
You know how much money Apple had to pour into processor R&D to build something competitive with x86? That bet paid off for Apple in the form of the M1 and its successors.
Intel is still profitable so they're covering their own R&D cost and they're still in second place in process technology. TSMC is undoubtedly charging a hefty margin for their cutting edge fab process so the economics might work out for Apple doing its own fabbing.
This is Jack Smith’s final report on the Trump election case, released to the public yesterday. I think Aileen Cannon and Trump cronies were trying to block it — not sure about the DoJ.
No, on iOS Sonos requires actual location services, and precise must be turned on. Pairing a basic Bluetooth device does not require that. I went to Sonos tech support, escalated, and they confirmed you can't just bluetooth pair to activate the speakers. Once you've done that you can turn off the location services, but I feel like it's a blatant violation of my privacy. I returned $800 worth of speakers.
Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.
I would be interested to hear about your experience transitioning to this line of work, since I want to do the same. I'm in my early 40s, software engineer.
Construction sites deaths are gruesome by nature. I feel terrible for those people. Thanks god, we have OSHA (& hopefully, it will not be dismantled as it has been touted)
