The OS is definitely stable and perfectly fine to use.

Sure, a lot of them suck, especially on Nintendo 64, because of the 3d transition, but from the NES onward there are timeless classics.

My kid beat super Metroid several times, he decided to play it on his own on his switch, and he loved it. He plays the old pokemon games too. In other words, that's a terrible analogy.

Isn't this problem solved by CICD? When the developer is ready to test, they make a commit, and the pipeline deploys the code to a dev/test environment. That's how my teams have been doing it.

It would be impossible to create daily content if you weren't just rehashing, or taking, information from somewhere. Again, not defending it at all, just saying it's probably a very common thing. Like how some crappy news articles are just a bunch of reddit comments, like that qualifies as news.

But if the stock "shared" with the tax collector paid enough in dividends to cover the taxes, couldn't they just pay the taxes with the dividends to begin with?

How does sharing the stock help? Wouldn't the tax collector need to liquidate the stock to get any actually value from it?

It can definitely be a comfortable lifestyle on a budget, but it is by no means rich. Housing costs alone makes it blatantly middle class. Add in kids which brings it own costs, and saving for college, which is basically a 2nd mortgage if you save what you're supposed to, and that income range is just getting by like everyone else

They just might have a bigger house, nicer cars, and can take better vacations. But they are busting their ass for those slight luxuries.

We've gotten tons of blow back as other teams use the product and find it next to useless with tons of bugs, and I'm stuck trying to push it. Not a fun place to be.

Learned a lot about the software market and capitalism though.

For example, writing IaC especially for AWS, I have to look up tons of stuff. Asking AI gets me answers and examples extremely fast. If I'm learning the IaC for a new service I'll look over the AWS docs, but if I just need a quick answer/refresher, AI is much faster than going and looking it up.

Math is completely different than other subjects. You can't catch up by cramming or reading a book over the weekend. You have to consistently learn and use it over the years. And have competent teachers to teach it to you.

Once you get placed in the remedial math, where they are just corralling misbehaving teenagers, and slapping out worksheets so kids can pass, you are basically screwed, unless you can get out of that situation.

An important aspect I never see mentioned is most Cyber Security personnel don't have the technical experience to truly understand the systems they are assessing, they are, like you said, just pushing to check those compliance boxes.

I say this as someone who is currently in a Cyber Security role, unfortunately, as I'm coming to learn cyber roles suck. But this isn't a jab at those Cyber Security personnel's intelligence. It's literally impossible to understand multiple systems at a deep level, it takes employees working on those systems weeks to months to understand this stuff, and that's with them being in the loop. Cyber is always on the outside looking in, trying like hell to piece it all together.

Sorry for the rant. I just wanted to add on with my personal opinions on the cyber security framework being severely broken because I deal with it on a daily basis.

The entry level market is getting more and more over saturated. It is bleeding upwards to mid level slowly. But if you are a skilled senior you are still in high demand. If not your resume probably sucks or you are not as skilled as most seniors.

People are extremely susceptible to someone who sounds confident.

It's amazing they can still do it with voyager which is roughly 24 hours for one way traffic, 48 for round trip.

Indie games are awesome right now, but they don't have the budgets to produce AAA games. So there is a huge gap. Innovative indie games with cool, new gameplay concepts, but always simple or retro graphics, and AAA games with shiny graphics on the other end but gameplay that hasn't changed in over a decade.

I'm just waiting for any AAA studio to provide something new with the AAA games. Maybe AI to improve NPCs in an open world game? Anything besides the same old gameplay with new skins on it.

I'm glad I've been building a homelab and can move all my studying too that since it seems hyper-v is being shoved out the door by Microsoft.

But in general poor people have more kids, and as unpopular it will be to say, they can have more kids because the government subsidizes it. One parent doesn't work and gets all the benefits, so: no daycare costs, free medical care, welfare income, and food stamps/WIC.

Not saying we shouldn't have those things, but when only poor people get the government assistance when it comes to having kids, they'll be the ones who have the most kids.

Working class and above it costs a fortune to raise kids, not so for the non-working class. Now people will probably come say how wrong I am, but I live in a poor area and see this play out on a daily basis.