> Nevertheless, an optimum seems to have been reached around 20 years ago, and since then more often than not I see only worse interfaces that make harder
A consequence of having "UI designers" paid on salary instead of individual contract jobs that expire when the specific fix is complete. In order to preserve their continuing salary, the UI designers have to continue making changes for changes sake (so that the accounting dept. does not begin asking: "why are we paying salary for all these UI designers if they are not creating any output"). So combining reaching an optimum 20 years ago with the fact that the UI designers must make changes for the sake of change, results in the changes being sub-optimal.
Appending is much better than prefixing, but having "." in the path, anywhere, can still open you up to running mistyped commands (arguably a much less common possibility, but still a possibility).
I.e., you have "." as the very last item in your path. You are in /tmp/ (so a directory other uses can write files to). You mean to type "ls -l something" to look for "something" files. But instead, you just miss the space, and type "ls-l something*", and some other nefarious user has left a /tmp/ls-l binary behind just waiting to be run. It could package up your ~/.ssh folder and ship it off to "nefarious" user, and then do a proper "ls -l" so that you may not even notice the typo.
And, if you happen to be root when you are in /tmp and mistype ls-l, and if the ls-l binary checks to see if it is being run as root, it could then do even worse. For example, it could leave behind an suid to root bash or sh executable in 'nefarious user's' home dir, so that 'nefarious' can now become root at some point later and proceed to actually 'own' the system.
> I take about 60 sec per crimp, and I don't have the exact tools in this guide
What tool(s) do you have?
> Buy better crimp tools
This is most likely your better path forward (as even if you go with pre-crimped, unless you can get all custom wires pre-crimped on both ends you'll likely still need to make some crimped ends). And not only "crimp" tools, but also better wire stripping tools (as you do have to strip the wire before you crimp it). The better tools significantly reduce the time needed, and for 15+ crimps per unit, may make a world of difference overall.
The issue is that the "over 70s" group, while on the whole averages out to moderate safety, includes a number of individuals that are very dangerous drivers (to themselves, and to others). If one looks at the overall statistics, the group as a whole looks ok, but those dangerous outliers are the ones that get the "press coverage" on the nightly news when they do cause an incident, skewing peoples view of "over 70s drivers".
> to the lucky ones able to afford living close to the city center.
Which is also, to some extent, the reality in the US as well. Some number of the "city centers" have better public transport and/or walk-ability [1] available than what is available just outside those city centers.
One big difference in the US is the massive land area difference as compared to Europe means there is a huge amount more land area (and therefore population) with little to no public transport or walk-ability available and a car becomes mandatory rather than optional in those areas.
[1] It's not perfect, I'm sure there are plenty of city centers in western states where even the city center itself is so spread out that walk-ability suffers and that a car tends to become more necessary.
Which is the same in small European towns and villages, there are only a couple of buses, many of which stop around 8 PM, and tend to occur once an hour in most cases, if not less.
Basic stuff like taking kids to school requires having a car, or being lucky to have some kind of Bus service collecting the kids, for some school levels, and doesn't cover stuff like taking them to other after school activities.
Want to go to the big commercial surfaces? They are all outside the town center and seldom have bus connections.
> What's your take - are living in this world from now on, or will it revert, and why?
I expect it will revert, but what I cannot predict is when the reversion will occur.
Why:
1) Eventually another "AI Winter" [1] is going to occur (again, no way to predict when). But the current hype cycle and endless money burn with no visible path to profitability is going to catch up to all of the AI's and an AI Winter will occur. When that happens, the AI demand for RAM/GPU's will crater (and, as well, some portion of the existing purchases will be sold off at bankruptcy discounts). Both will result in a reversion in pricing when the winter arrives.
2) The current extreme pricing will also encourage one or both of:
2a) existing players to ramp up their production capacity to meet the demand; (this will be sluggish, but as they begin to ramp up their capacity, the result will be a softening of prices)
2b) the high prices may encourage other players to enter the production market to capture some of the current profits, this will also soften pricing;
Once the current demand spike calms down (and it will calm down) both 2a and 2b will lead to a reversion in pricing.
What I can't tell you is how long we may have to wait for the reversion. It is coming, sometime in the future, but how long we have to suffer the current extreme pricing before it arrives we can't predict.
Archive links work for some percentage of WSJ, FT and Bloomberg. And for the ones that don't work, if you wait a while (few hours to a day or two) and try again, many of the ones that did not work begin to work after the delay. Whether the article will still be valuable to read a day or two later depends upon the content.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technol...
And, at least with Digikey, you can feel like you actually get the real part vs. some low end clone knockoff.
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