Hi. I understand your rant. Yes, the quality of most frameworks in the wild is pretty low, especially if it is one of the more niche algorithm nobody takes care to audit, or the programming language lacks safety syntax, like C++, which allows writing mixed C and C++ code and only few people understand the necessity of idiomatic C++. And of course, inexperienced devs go the easiest way.

Don't give up and take this as a challenge. It is a skill to understand what the other guy wrote. And this skill takes years to develop.

Engineers are needed in all modern societies, capitalist or socialist.

Engineering education was really good. I read some Physics and some Math textbooks, and they are amazing. Same goes with Chemistry.

On the other hand, History education was all about how kings and grand dukes were bad, and how Lenin was great. Same goes with Arts, Literature and Philosophy (I once stumbled upon a book that says how class warfare was among the Greek elite, Plato was bad idealist and Democrites and Aristotle were good because they comply with the Marxist Materialism. And that was in a Math history schoolbook!) Plus a lot of discrimination, children of Party members were given good grades, even if one looks for Japan in the Africa (a real case). Ethnical discrimination (Russian chauvinism) also existed, the idea that "everything was made by Russians" and silencing the other USSR and foreign nations' achievements. We see a war in Ukraine as a continuation of this idea.

But, going back, yes, people knew knew how electricity, space travel, nuclear power and particle accelerators worked.

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You're welcome :)

As the others made a good point, Linux is the kernel (program that connects hardware altogether and manages processes). GNU is an organisation beginning in 1983 that made some vital userland programs (Bash, GCC, readline, GNOME, GTK, GIMP, etc.) as a replacement of the proprietary ones found in UNIX and Windows. Linux is created by a Finnish student Linus Torvalds and is not a part of the GNU project but it's been licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the first free software license.

Linux is used by a lot of companies, and some of the products that have Linux inside refuse to accept the paradigm of software freedom. Examples of this are: Chrome OS, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Google Android and some (but not all) appliances (like routers) that are locked-in and contain proprietary blobs.

Therefore, in technical discussions, I use the word "Linux" to refer to the OS, as "this software is compatible with Linux". But, when I want to stress out software freedom, given a large influence of the GNU project, I say "GNU/Linux".

Literally me 7 hours ago

Same. Yesterday, I found Vulkan drivers for virtual machines (vulkan-virtio) , but it's packaged only for archlinux. And I gave up trying to build from source yesterday.

Umm, Kongregate and Armor games used to produce famous games. I liked platformer games like Amberial or FancyPants Adventure, also Bloons TowerDefense or I Love/Hate Traffic. Rebuild was one of great ones (strategy survival after zombie apocalypse), etc. There were talented guys out there.

In Japan, a large part of the digital manga/anime/videogames are still being released only on CDs/DVDs, no online access.

Tea (either black tea or some native herbal tea) and wholemeal cookies, sometimes sandwiches with sausage or peanut butter or sweet equivalent, pasta with minced pork and ketchup, etc.

Growth of lynch law and political statements, primarily based on religious/moral motives.

In my opinion, you have to do anything as long as you're not hurting the freedom of other people.

But no, taboos exist for some reason. In my country, LGBT is a taboo, even though they're not hurting anybody. Moe/loli are also taboo for some reason, even though they're not harming anyone, in contrast to gore which gets its place on most movies. Alcohol & weed is a different beast, I guess, it causes a hard-addiction and damages people's minds. We're getting sensitive about small things and get completely ignorant about what is really killing people and nature painfully, like social inequality/injustice, lack of education, healthcare, etc.

Alienation is also a problem, it's been here since the 19th century, just that now it gets a boost 'If you're not on social media, then you don't exist'. Every public event is a public relations event now as well. It's damn important to get a checkbox that we attended a f...ing meeting. Attendance and formal presence becomes more important than social interaction, knowledge and problem solving.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that sexual abuse of people under the age of consent or sexual abuse of adults who didn't explicitly consent in any means equals to torture, which is against the other's person's will and it breaks the freedom of abused person and it shall be forbidden. Note that people under the age of consent cannot consent because they are not responsible for themselves and cannot make such choice. My point is that moe (including loli and shota, which can look disturbing) are stigmatized and did not deserve an attribution to obscenity or sexual abuse material. This stigma shall be broken.

TOUHOU!

OMG I travelled by train to Den Haag Central and haven't been inside..