I'm on your side that I'd rather see the tools at the school. At the same time, I took an auto-shop class in high school and the majority of students in the class were dipshits and were lucky not to get more hurt. The teacher managed to stop them just in time from trying to turn over an engine on a rack that would have crushed them if the teach had been 5 second later.

I'd even suggest that the fact that it's JS based has significantly changed the tech world because the editor itself will run in a browser so it's here https://godbolt.org/ , and here https://codesandbox.io, and here https://www.postman.com/, and here https://aws.amazon.com/pm/cloud9/ and 100s or 1000s of other sites.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/addi...

You can also declare a business as "woman owned/led"

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/empo...

and "black owned"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21348990/google-black-own...

Maybe I'm mis-understand but "Read the manual, read everything in depth" sounds like. Oh, I have bug in my code, first read the entire manual of the library I'm using, all 700 pages, then read 7 books on the library details, now that a month or two has passed, go look at the bug.

I'd be curious if there's a single programmer that follows this advice.

(1) social media via smartphones - letting everyone trivially post to everyone else on the planet.

This use to be nerd activity (blogs) and the audience was other nerds. First social media sites, then the smart phone completely changed this.

(2) follows from 1, influencer culture, by which I mean, Instagram, TikTok, X, Youtube all incentivize people performing to try to get as many viewers/followers as possible. Thinking back to the 70s/80s, even the top movie stars just got some fan mail. They didn't have 400-600 MILLION FOLLOWERS to whom they could say anything they wanted. A celebrity had a most a TV show with a crew and editors and a strong chance of getting fired/banned if they got to crazy. Now, any high school kid can have 100+ million followers

It's not just people with followers, 20% of my youtube feed is people trying desperately to have something to talk about. Some news happens, thousands of people "report it" on their "channel". The scale of it is insane to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os7cqJ5qlzo

This is both a blessing and a curse. Seeing the rust docs require 561 crates makes it clear that rust/cargo is headed down the same path as node/npm

     Downloaded 561 crates (50.7 MB) in 5.21s (largest was `libsqlite3-sys` at 5.1 MB)

I suspect at some point the new "Youtube" (3d volumetric video, holodeck, or something) will come out, it will be as popular as youtube and as "must have feature" such that 95% of the population will want a computer that can do this new thing and todays computers won't be able to do that new thing.

There is always new tech. Local LLMs and other high processing intensive things might be a thing people want. Not directly, but it may enable things they want. More viral TikTok videos. Maybe some kind of health monitoring. Maybe AR will finally get a compelling use case if it can identify everything in your field of view but it requires serious computing power. Maybe AR 3D movies where the characters show up in your house and adapt to your living room. Siri might suck, but lots of people want a "Star Trek" computer that actually understands them.

The point is not any specific example. Rather, it's that there's always something around the corner that needs more computing power. I have no idea what it will be, but I'm confident something will appear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngUCwEVtlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd3FFT7pnc

Now, 40% of my time is alone in isolation, working at home. Collaboration and design work happen in documents at best and not in social conversation like it used it.

All of this is making work a chore, "for me". Instead of work being an opportunity to hang out with people I like it's just a list of things to do alone.

I know this is not a related solution but just want to remind people that Google maps has a 3D mode. I do wonder if they are planning to get rid of it because they are burying it deep. you have to turn on "Globe View" and "Satellite"

https://i.postimg.cc/kMRMKvjc/Screenshot-2025-01-11-at-10-59...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

There might be other things they could do proactively. But, the ones they actually chose are derisive, racist, and do nothing to actually make the world a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive place.

This one : https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/949603040

White, plastic, 6 buttons (up, down, left, right, select, cancel). That's it. Worked great with Kodi on an Intel MacMini. Could easily do everything I needed to do.

Since then they first ruined it by changing it be a kind of metal that felt like chalk on my hands. It was horrible

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

Then they broken it completely by making it larger with a touch surface.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

It was impossible to use because trying to select (clicking the touch surface) would always end up also adding left/right/up/down events so you'd always select something other than what you wanted to select. I have no idea how that POS ever made it out of user testing.

They made it slightly better but still broken by changing it back to a circle.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

But the circle itself is still a touch surface and still always moves your selection as you try to select something. It's atrocious!

In any case, the 6 button remote back from the beginning was the best. I still use Kodi on an AppleTV now, but I use a separate remote and only use 6 buttons.

When something is playing, pressing the cetner button pauses, pressing again unpauses, pressing up/down adjusts the volume. Pressing back exits the movie, holding the center for 2 seconds brings up more detailed controls.

Kodi also has the best queing experience of any app. Pressing right skips forward 10 seconds, again within some threshhold, 30 second, then 1 min, 3 mins, then 10. I can get anywhere in a movie instantly.

Compare this to Netflix, or Apple TV+, or Crunchyroll, or Amazon, etc... They all suck. Generally left/right jumps +10 or +30 period. If you want to get to the end you're forced to hold right, wait for it to go into "fast forward mode", then press right for 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, Then wait forever as it slowly goes through the movie. So bad.