As much fun as it is to blame Oracle ( dog knows they deserve it ), this reeks of incompetent project management government-side. I can almost guarantee not a single person knew even a fraction of how their existing system worked or what it delivered, so during requirement gathering meetings would rattle off insane "wants" and "needs", while ignoring the real needs and requirements.

Oracle, happy to charge you as much money as you authorize, just went along with it I'm sure.

I've had this argument with a number of public institutions; the bias should be towards opensource products due to the ever present threat of vendor lock in.

Seriously, who is asking for this? Anyone? Is this useful for anyone?

I know I'm probably being a bit paranoid, but I'm good without stellar excitement, thanks.

Imagine what's lurking nearby that, when it goes boom, can cause quite a bit of the wrong kind of excitement on Earth.

Won't happen. Why? Because the government uses the future of their students to guarantee a seemingly unending flow of cash. Lower prices? Ha! They will raise them until the government cuts off their funding.

Or, apparently, when people stop going to college because of how expensive it is.

Colleges are toxic cesspits of ideology, where education often takes a back seat to politics. The ROI on most degrees has been non-existent for some time.

The entire higher education culture is due for a correction.

I'm tired of dealing with substandard IT services, from both India AND China. The language barrier is one thing, but I don't think I've ever spoke or worked with an agent from either country that could do anything other than read from a script. Once the problem deviates from the script they were useless.

Granted; US support is a mixed bag. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it sucks, but at least sometimes it IS great. That's not something I've ever experienced with Indian or Chinese support.

I concur. The unemployment rate is about 4% and even the more padded U6 unemployment rate is below 5%
Those are normal.
Under condition when unemployment rates are normal the primary job of the federal reserve is to bring down inflation. It's not simply a good idea. It's their mandate

The fact that there are more jobseekers than jobs is also close to normal. There's always a mismatch between jobs and jobseekers.

It may well be that those jobs are demotions or involve moving etc..

So the Fed has done everthing correctly.

But now they are on toes because we have the immigrant labor leaving and hightarrufs.

While those might increase the number of jobs available it might not fund takers. And both will cause supply side inflation. Simultaneously extending the tax cuts and the debt ceiling means the high rate of pumping debt into the economy will continue.

So the Fed is in an uncharted territory . It could mean high inflation is coming. Most likely. But it could mean a recession. You love the rate in opposite directions there! Most likely is both: stagflation. Which is awful. We did the stagflation experiment in the early 70s and tried both spending into it and later raising interest rates sky high. Only the latter worked.

Fed is exactly doing the right Thing by being watchful

It's worth noting that current nutrition guidelines pegs recommended protein @ ~50 grams a day for an adult male, which is far below the 1.6 grams discussed in this article.

Let's take your average 160lb dude. That's around 72kgs. The article says there's no benefit beyond 1.6 grams per kg, so he should be eating 115.2 grams per day, far exceeding the "recommended" amount of ~50 grams.

Kind of an apples to oranges comparison. There are a lot of fundemental differences between Denmark and US which would impact the outcome.

Instead, let's take a look at government funded healthcare right in the US: The VA. A quick look should tell us everything we need to know about expanding such a system to cover all citizens.

Oh...oh no. No no no no.

Mind you, the VA is aimed at our soldiers. The people we depend on to defend our borders. Look what we do to those we should be celebrating! Now imagine what would happen to your average, ordinary every day joe. Or worse; imagine it gets politized by "the other side" ( which ever side you don't like ); can you imagine the republicans in charge of universal healthcare and you need an abortion? Or the democrats in charge and a heart attack victim comes in with a "Donor" dot on his DL and a MAGA hat on?

Thank you, no. There are far too many horrible, yet likely outcomes to this idea.

I have two theories
1. Other languages are falling faster than Perl making Perl rise

2. Perl is what smart people use instead of bash. So for all sysadmin tasks or ad hoc system scripts or gluing you'd be crazy to use bash when you can use Perl.

Hey MS, I have an idea: How about you FINISH BAKING YOUR OS. It's a radical idea, but it just might work.

Streamline your control panels, make sure they all *work*. That'd go a long way in making your OS better.

Then you could take a quick look at usability; it shouldn't take me a dozen clicks to do something I routinely need access to. Oh, and stop fucking with the start menu if your so hot on people using it.

I could see voice input being a niche ( for those with accessibility issues ), but it's not going to replace the mouse and keyboard, anymore than touchscreen did.

...but charging speed improvements would minimize the importance of this metric. I don't care if I can only go 200miles on a single charge if it takes less than 3-5 minutes to recharge it.

does 2x shift the frequency?

Right, I was ignorant of something...so I asked a question. That's generally how things work.

whataboutism is an argumentative fallacy. Doesn't apply here.

So...yes, you were just being a cunt.