If the power went off tomorrow -- and stayed off for a year -- is there still credibility in what you do?
Yes. I'm a data scientist, so I would have to get out the pencil and paper and calculate by hand. Although at my rank, I would be managing human calculators to do it for me
Stress calculations for the Vickers R101 airship took 3 months, by hand.
You'd be handing out hand-printed flyers saying pencils are the instruments of the big govt. sent to chain us all to our desks.
Even software engineers by hand have no produced any thing relevant in years
You clearly know absolutely nothing. Relevant to what?
You have no idea what I do, although I have told you before, yet you assert it is of no value.
I get paid very handsomely by my employer for the results.
My problem solving pipeline goes quicker every day.
I have an idea while walking the dog, write up the spec, and a couple of hours later it's running code - all while making dinner and spending time with the family.
I'm using it but I'm not staring at it. It is both personally liberating and a force multiplier.
"happiness and pleasure are your goals"
nope, not me
but being prresent is something to aspire to
- video your child's first steps
or - share the moment with your child
my dad spent hours with his video camera on our holidays. no-one has ever watched the tapes
I'm from the time before computers and, obviously, before the internet.
I was part of the BBS world, phone a guy's phone number and browse his site - the true wild west.
Probably The Dark Web is the equivalent now. Eventually freedom always squeezes our between the fingers of the tyrant.
They claim inflation but that is only part of the story.
The Rate of Inflation is a measure of the rate of change, not a cause. It is not a force. So already you seem to have misunderstood the topic.
Prices of goods are set by the buyer. People either buy them if they consider them sufficient value or not. Even for goods forced on them such as vehicle insurance, some people opt to take the risk. If it is utilities they work out straegies to reduce consumption.
quoting Eric Blair, the British govt. propagandist married to a govt. censor is a bit cringe though