For the most part, there just aren't that many entry level openings and haven't for millennials either.
My world is the skilled trades, and every time I see an apprenticeship, there's hundreds of good young people who apply (many of whom paid to go through accredited schools, contrary to the idea of "earn while you learn"), and only one person can get the job. Not only that, but because of the way apprenticeships are structured, typically once you get in a lot of places will push you through the program whether you're actually good for it or not, so positions that could go to talented people are being held onto by people who shouldn't become skilled tradesmen in the end.
The last place I worked, an apprenticeship came up, but the place was union so a guy in his mid-50s who was a really good operator got the job, so he could work 4 years and get his ticket, then work as a journeyman for a year and retire...
But that's just one little piece. Equipment operators are often aging, as well as plant operators, and often management.
For now though, it's important to learn all kinds of skills in society.
We don't really need a bunch of people in the service sector, we need people who can actually be boots on the ground and do stuff.
We're gonna need mechanics, light duty, heavy duty, industrial, as well as tool and die makers and machinists (CNC machinists sure, but also guys who can operate tools without a computer), electricians and instrument mechanics, plumbers and fuel specialists as well as designers and engineers. We don't need certificates either, we need people with the ability to either do a thing directly or to learn how to do a thing quickly and effectively. One of the major problems I'm seeing is people like licensed professional engineers who are embarrassingly incompetent, lacking knowledge of basic principles, and unfortunately there's a number of tradespeople who have the same problem -- they managed to fill out the paperwork properly, but they can't do the work. I think people who are competent will be at a premium, but not necessarily people who just have a piece of paper saying they're competent since such papers are being devalued.
We're gonna need people who can move ground and do earthworks, because stuff will need to continue being built on the ground.
We're gonna need people who can do board level repairs to electronics since it's likely the future will have significantly less manufacturing capacity.
We're gonna need carpenters and the like who can build from materials that aren't imported from China, because it's highly likely we're going to see an era of extreme deglobalization, particularly in the case of a China/Taiwan war.
We're gonna need computer people, especially ones who are willing to get their hands dirty in the field. In spite of everything, Gen Z is widely regarded as being "good with computers" when it's people looking at the generation as a whole, but is considered lacking tech skills when rubber meets road in the workplace. Being able to make a great post on facebook isn't really tech literacy, it's being able to understand what to do when facebook is down.
We're gonna need effective supervisors and managers, which are super rare. Any asshole on the street can be given a title, but a good supervisor supercharges their workers so they get more done than they could on their own, and a good manager makes sure the strategic vision is set properly and priorities are being properly set and risks are being properly managed so the supervisors and workers know their work is being impactful.
Ideally, this process would have started 10 years ago at the minimum so the skills of the previous generations could be passed on before all the old greybeards die of old age, but it seems short-sighted businesses and their buddies in government first of all don't care about the problems in the local market, and second of all think there's a magical supply of competent workers in developing countries (which is sorta absurd when you think about it)
The key I'd say is to try to do stuff wherever you can. Try to do maintenance on your own vehicles as possible. Learn how to do maintenance around the house if you can. Try to learn how to do stuff as a hobby such as being a maker. You never know what skills are going to be useful, but the key is to live in the real world and to try to have your hands on the stuff that makes our world work rather than assuming someone else will do it.
As things stand, a lot of the things we used to rely on are ending. The baby boomers are dying out, Gen X and the millennials were largely locked out of a lot of things dominated by those boomers so there was no pipeline for new workers so there's only a small number of people who can actually do things who won't be dead of old age in 10 years. Globalization is likely dying out, and so parts swappers are going to be in trouble as capital equipment becomes much more expensive and stuff you could buy off the shelf becomes more difficult to come by (this already happened during COVID), people will need to figure out how to make the stuff they have work, and they'll have to figure out how to make what they need from much less refined raw materials. There will likely be an impact on the Internet through all of this if we're not careful, since the Internet is built from globalized components and relies on relatively stable global relationships, so it'll be important to have the information in your head, on local storage, or on dead trees. Having and knowing how to use basic tools to get advanced results will be a big deal, but having specific tools is also something a lot of people won't be prepared with.
My world is the skilled trades, and every time I see an apprenticeship, there's hundreds of good young people who apply (many of whom paid to go through accredited schools, contrary to the idea of "earn while you learn"), and only one person can get the job. Not only that, but because of the way apprenticeships are structured, typically once you get in a lot of places will push you through the program whether you're actually good for it or not, so positions that could go to talented people are being held onto by people who shouldn't become skilled tradesmen in the end.
The last place I worked, an apprenticeship came up, but the place was union so a guy in his mid-50s who was a really good operator got the job, so he could work 4 years and get his ticket, then work as a journeyman for a year and retire...
But that's just one little piece. Equipment operators are often aging, as well as plant operators, and often management.
For now though, it's important to learn all kinds of skills in society.
We don't really need a bunch of people in the service sector, we need people who can actually be boots on the ground and do stuff.
We're gonna need mechanics, light duty, heavy duty, industrial, as well as tool and die makers and machinists (CNC machinists sure, but also guys who can operate tools without a computer), electricians and instrument mechanics, plumbers and fuel specialists as well as designers and engineers. We don't need certificates either, we need people with the ability to either do a thing directly or to learn how to do a thing quickly and effectively. One of the major problems I'm seeing is people like licensed professional engineers who are embarrassingly incompetent, lacking knowledge of basic principles, and unfortunately there's a number of tradespeople who have the same problem -- they managed to fill out the paperwork properly, but they can't do the work. I think people who are competent will be at a premium, but not necessarily people who just have a piece of paper saying they're competent since such papers are being devalued.
We're gonna need people who can move ground and do earthworks, because stuff will need to continue being built on the ground.
We're gonna need people who can do board level repairs to electronics since it's likely the future will have significantly less manufacturing capacity.
We're gonna need carpenters and the like who can build from materials that aren't imported from China, because it's highly likely we're going to see an era of extreme deglobalization, particularly in the case of a China/Taiwan war.
We're gonna need computer people, especially ones who are willing to get their hands dirty in the field. In spite of everything, Gen Z is widely regarded as being "good with computers" when it's people looking at the generation as a whole, but is considered lacking tech skills when rubber meets road in the workplace. Being able to make a great post on facebook isn't really tech literacy, it's being able to understand what to do when facebook is down.
We're gonna need effective supervisors and managers, which are super rare. Any asshole on the street can be given a title, but a good supervisor supercharges their workers so they get more done than they could on their own, and a good manager makes sure the strategic vision is set properly and priorities are being properly set and risks are being properly managed so the supervisors and workers know their work is being impactful.
Ideally, this process would have started 10 years ago at the minimum so the skills of the previous generations could be passed on before all the old greybeards die of old age, but it seems short-sighted businesses and their buddies in government first of all don't care about the problems in the local market, and second of all think there's a magical supply of competent workers in developing countries (which is sorta absurd when you think about it)
The key I'd say is to try to do stuff wherever you can. Try to do maintenance on your own vehicles as possible. Learn how to do maintenance around the house if you can. Try to learn how to do stuff as a hobby such as being a maker. You never know what skills are going to be useful, but the key is to live in the real world and to try to have your hands on the stuff that makes our world work rather than assuming someone else will do it.
As things stand, a lot of the things we used to rely on are ending. The baby boomers are dying out, Gen X and the millennials were largely locked out of a lot of things dominated by those boomers so there was no pipeline for new workers so there's only a small number of people who can actually do things who won't be dead of old age in 10 years. Globalization is likely dying out, and so parts swappers are going to be in trouble as capital equipment becomes much more expensive and stuff you could buy off the shelf becomes more difficult to come by (this already happened during COVID), people will need to figure out how to make the stuff they have work, and they'll have to figure out how to make what they need from much less refined raw materials. There will likely be an impact on the Internet through all of this if we're not careful, since the Internet is built from globalized components and relies on relatively stable global relationships, so it'll be important to have the information in your head, on local storage, or on dead trees. Having and knowing how to use basic tools to get advanced results will be a big deal, but having specific tools is also something a lot of people won't be prepared with.
I've been thinking a lot lately about how there is a skills deficit among younger people. At least in my corner of the world, companies aren't bringing young people into their industries, they are hanging on to baby boomers who are incredibly highly skilled but they've been trying to retire for decades now, and some of them are just dying of old age.
I think that this is going to be the big thing that we need to make sure our sons are focused on. A lot of people think that you can just sit in a drum circle and sing kumbaya and somehow society is going to continue working, but at some point someone needs to be able to do something -- somebody needs to be able to fix the machine, somebody needs to be able to build the machine because otherwise the machine is going to break down and you can have all the drama circles you want and all you're going to get from it is a stone age civilization.
I think that this is going to be the big thing that we need to make sure our sons are focused on. A lot of people think that you can just sit in a drum circle and sing kumbaya and somehow society is going to continue working, but at some point someone needs to be able to do something -- somebody needs to be able to fix the machine, somebody needs to be able to build the machine because otherwise the machine is going to break down and you can have all the drama circles you want and all you're going to get from it is a stone age civilization.
Lezi ziphukuphuku zaseMelika ezimnyama zisebenzisa amagama esiNgisi, ulimi olwenziwa amaNgisi, abanye babantu abamhlophe kakhulu emhlabeni!
I had a really witty post planned, but then voice recognition heard "femcel" as "stem cell" and honestly that's funnier than anything I was about to say.
I thought it was pretty impressive just how and manipulable they are. It'll be really nice if he finally figured out that he could do this sort of thing LOL
The thing in question was talking about how Canada Post should not be allowed to send copies of the Epoch Times since it's such a dangerous and evil newspaper, so my intel wasn't bad at all.
I saw a similar article in the CBC which cemented my belief that it must be totally defunded.
The CCP can propagandize a billion people, they have no business propagandizing the rest of us.
The CCP can propagandize a billion people, they have no business propagandizing the rest of us.
Seeing the ultrasound of my son early on was a game changer for me. Look at that face, look at those fingers. It had a brain that was operating and a face and a beating heart, and watching a video ultrasound you can see it moving under its own power...
He still does the little kick thing he did in the womb today, even though he's a walking talking toddler.
If that's just a clump of cells, so are we all. To deny that fact shows that abortionism is just a religion that cares not for reality as long as they're allowed to create life when it's fun and destroy it when it isn't.
He still does the little kick thing he did in the womb today, even though he's a walking talking toddler.
If that's just a clump of cells, so are we all. To deny that fact shows that abortionism is just a religion that cares not for reality as long as they're allowed to create life when it's fun and destroy it when it isn't.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/wiley_journals_ai/
Trust peer reviewed science, buys -- I mean guys!
Trust peer reviewed science, buys -- I mean guys!
I was just reading an article about how because mozilla's federation experiment failed, federation obviously can't work.
Considering that Firefox is something like 4% of global market share, I don't think that the Mozilla foundation failing at something is really an indication of anything other than the fact that the Mozilla foundation isn't the same organization it once was. I wouldn't be surprised to find that they struggle with free ice cream.
Considering that Firefox is something like 4% of global market share, I don't think that the Mozilla foundation failing at something is really an indication of anything other than the fact that the Mozilla foundation isn't the same organization it once was. I wouldn't be surprised to find that they struggle with free ice cream.
The moment we learned about people who got covid multiple times, it should have been immediately apparent that this wasn't the sort of disease you could just vaccinate away.
But how many people do you know that got vaccinated and then shortly after got covid? In my case the number is super high. Once it started happening commonly, they had to move from a claim that was easily falsifiable, that the vaccine would protect you from getting covid, to a much fuzzier claim that can't really be falsified, and that even though you got sick it definitely would have been worse if you hadn't complied...
It's like as everyone's two eyes disproved their claims one by one as we went, which was always going to happen when you are making people take an untested experimental vaccine, since they really weren't able to do long-term tests before it started to become mandated under the law for many situations.
At that point, then gone in too far, and couldn't admit that they were wrong, and so they started to assemble a completely unfalsifiable "God of the gaps" style explanation for the benefits of the covid vaccine. Sure you did get sick and sure you did get others sick, but there's a terrible risk just outside the range of our most sensitive sensors, and if we hadn't all complied then that horrible thing would have happened to us all!
But how many people do you know that got vaccinated and then shortly after got covid? In my case the number is super high. Once it started happening commonly, they had to move from a claim that was easily falsifiable, that the vaccine would protect you from getting covid, to a much fuzzier claim that can't really be falsified, and that even though you got sick it definitely would have been worse if you hadn't complied...
It's like as everyone's two eyes disproved their claims one by one as we went, which was always going to happen when you are making people take an untested experimental vaccine, since they really weren't able to do long-term tests before it started to become mandated under the law for many situations.
At that point, then gone in too far, and couldn't admit that they were wrong, and so they started to assemble a completely unfalsifiable "God of the gaps" style explanation for the benefits of the covid vaccine. Sure you did get sick and sure you did get others sick, but there's a terrible risk just outside the range of our most sensitive sensors, and if we hadn't all complied then that horrible thing would have happened to us all!
Excellent point. My first computer was an 8088 without a hard drive, and it really didn't compare in any way to late DOS games running on a Pentium. There was hardly anything remotely similar about the two platforms.
On the topic of Megaman 1 for PC, some people think the problem is that it was developed for MS-DOS. I developed a bunch of games (crappy and amateurish games) for DOS, and can say that in that respect really it doesn't matter that it's DOS. DOOM was made for DOS. Jazz Jackrabbit was made for DOS. One Must Fall 2097 was made for DOS. It took a really long time for games on Windows to match or exceed what was possible on DOS.
The problems with this game are 3-fold.
1. It was made for EGA graphics. EGA was a digital graphics standard consisting of an R, G, and B line, and an intensity line, all of which can either be a 0 or a 1; So you had 16 colors total, and they were hardware defined. This is contrasting to the 16 colors you could display at once on the NES where you could choose from a palette of 64 colors, so you could choose colors that complement each other. Games on PC that looked good came about in the VGA era when 256 software definable colors became the standard.
2. It wasn't made with Megaman's art style. There have been dogs or insects or birds in Megaman games, but they tend to follow the same art style with large expressive eyes and big animations. The fact that megaman looks nothing like megaman is really relevant, there's no reason they couldn't have made a pixel perfect set of sprites given the colors they worked with and the fact that the game was fully licensed.
3. It really wasn't made with Megaman's enemy style. There is a huge reliance on enemies that are too short to shoot (such as the dog in the introduction), which there were some in the Megaman games but they weren't all of them. We also saw attack patterns being quite different than a typical Megaman game. The bats in this game just come towards you and will stop when they hit you. Contrast with bats in an official Megaman game where they tend to swoop and attack then go elsewhere.
It's impressive for what the one dude working on the game was able to do, so you shoudn't be too mad at the guy, but those are the essential problems it faced.
The problems with this game are 3-fold.
1. It was made for EGA graphics. EGA was a digital graphics standard consisting of an R, G, and B line, and an intensity line, all of which can either be a 0 or a 1; So you had 16 colors total, and they were hardware defined. This is contrasting to the 16 colors you could display at once on the NES where you could choose from a palette of 64 colors, so you could choose colors that complement each other. Games on PC that looked good came about in the VGA era when 256 software definable colors became the standard.
2. It wasn't made with Megaman's art style. There have been dogs or insects or birds in Megaman games, but they tend to follow the same art style with large expressive eyes and big animations. The fact that megaman looks nothing like megaman is really relevant, there's no reason they couldn't have made a pixel perfect set of sprites given the colors they worked with and the fact that the game was fully licensed.
3. It really wasn't made with Megaman's enemy style. There is a huge reliance on enemies that are too short to shoot (such as the dog in the introduction), which there were some in the Megaman games but they weren't all of them. We also saw attack patterns being quite different than a typical Megaman game. The bats in this game just come towards you and will stop when they hit you. Contrast with bats in an official Megaman game where they tend to swoop and attack then go elsewhere.
It's impressive for what the one dude working on the game was able to do, so you shoudn't be too mad at the guy, but those are the essential problems it faced.
If we set the painting of Dorian Gray on fire, there's a lot of consequences. First and foremost, it becomes a lot more obvious that we can't just consume our way out of this -- if you actually need to burn the carbon to create the things that are supposed to reduce carbon, and you can't just let someone else do it and pretend everything you're doing is carbon neutral, then the calculus of certain decisions become much more complicated in terms of actual resources use you can see, and not in the quasi-academic way we're discussing here.
It also I think will help the somewhat racist view that western civilization has that somehow everyone else can make stuff and our job is to be designers and managers, like that's sustainable.
It also I think will help the somewhat racist view that western civilization has that somehow everyone else can make stuff and our job is to be designers and managers, like that's sustainable.
Just imagine that when Chris Farley was talking about living in a van down by the river he didn't even own the van!