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i could stand maybe ten seconds tops of a DRD sadly singing 1812 Overture as it died of radiation damage until I'd have to climb into the fuckin condiut myself to save it

he was just doing that because it's a neat trick

This pattern is driven by an increase in unhappiness among young people both in absolute terms and relative to older people.

also look at the graph in the article, the yellow line representing 2024 is signifigantly lower before 35 than any point on the blue line representing 2005-2018

as someone approaching my 30s in america this sounds consistent with both my experience and many of my peers. our education system is more or less a trauma machine, and couple that with the demise of "third places" (places that aren't school or home for kids to hang out in without having to spend money) and the general state of the world being hard for even adult minds fo wrap around... our world is a difficult and unpleasant place to be a kid. it ain't a cakewalk being an adult either but it is relatively better with a relative increase in agency and more experience dealing with everything

actually either i would probably have to switch seats with O'Brien halfway through because Mariner keeps poking the back of his head and then turning away when he turns around

3 feels like the "right" answer but 7 would absolutely be the most fun

i THINK he went through these guys but i'll double check tomorrow and let you know if i was wrong https://www.franklinapprenticeships.com/

if you have an edu email, IBM also does a "master the mainframe" program every fall that takes you from zero experience to developing a full application, which is a great way to learn the whole stack

yeah, at least where i am the cowboy days are long over. we have a modern change control system on the box that ties into our company's broader service management system, and methodologies like agile are used (and misused) just like in the newer departments. the software and hardware are also constantly being updated by IBM and keeping up with them and other vendors is a full time job all on it's own- really the only things ancient about it are the oldest parts of our own codebase and the terminal interface. we actually have a product that lets us bypass the terminal now and do everything in eclipse but the old timers don't use it because the terminal is easier for them and then the newbies don't use it because any time the oldbies teach them how to do something, it's on the terminal emulator lmao

i have a mainframe (the type of computer that runs COBOL) IT job after four years of school majoring in CS and minoring in mainframes. my most recently hired coworker got the same job with no college and an aprenticeship program. if i could do it all over again, that's the route i would take in a heartbeat

i can remember all of them from when i was a kid, but that number has since tripled. if i was a kid now i don't think i would be able to learn all of them in the first place!

what antivirus are the cool kids using these days? i feel like whenever i finally settle on one it ends up embroiled in this or that scandal

you'll pry my END command from my cold, dead hands...