Can I ask where are you from and where are you living/traveling? What you describe seems to be just the standard way of living and interacting with people almost everywhere here in Italy. Well, it is more common in smaller communities and in the southern part of Italy. Of course it is a generalization so it isn't an absolute truth. My point is that even with this kind of interaction I find it very very hard to find friends even remotely comparable to the friends I have been growing up with. It feels like the word "friend" is misused if I use to describe people I have know for 30+ years and people I have met in the last couple years both.
I buy Nike running shoes because they are cheap, durable and comfortable, I don't actually use the to run.
The other obvious answer to this question is "because they are status symbols", for some people anyway.
Shoes, sure, because they do make great running shoes, and I suppose - forgive me - if one doesn't care about making a good visual impression, they are quite comfortable for everyday wear. I'm more confused by the visors and shirts and such. Any ostensible status garnered by being an ad is immediately overbalanced by the questionable taste and decisions of its wearer.
You seem to be going to great lengths to avoid confronting the fact that most people simply don't care about logos, or, if they do, are doing it to fit in with whatever crowd they're a part of.
I think the OP was more focused on basic clothing items and accessories like tee shirts with logos.
I would give their running shoes a pass as my downshifters are amazing - they make me want to run - so quite comfortable and functional. A Nike branded shirt or pants however are just decorated cloth.
I don't know you so the following could be wrong or condescending, please take it as a general consideration towards people in a similar state of computer science fatigue and it really talks more about me than you: before learning a new language only because of a latent feeling of guilt please consider there is a world of knowledge not directly related to CS and STEM that could literally broaden your senses or at least the way you approach reality.
Think of learning a musical instrument: you will literally perceive new nuances in an aspect of reality, akin to see new colors.
You have only one shot at this, are you sure, in the end, another programming language will make any difference at all?
Today they rolled some kind of upgrade and my backend become unreachable for hours, this is not my first problem with them. I assembled a quick docker-compose.yml and moved to Hetzner.
Fly is pushing a lot of blog worthy stuff but it is not production ready.
There are many cars on the road today that are 15 to 20 years old. There are some cars on the road older than that. Things do get more complicated with recent cars, which have more specialized computing, but you'll be able to burn repurposed dinosaurs for a very long time, regardless of restrictions on new sales.
This may be a naive tough but the unfolding of the ukranian events had me wondering again and again if more attention should be used when buying items coming from China and TSMC. The rise of the Ryzen CPUs had me switch to AMD from Intel after many years. Next time I could actually prefer the worst CPU as long as it is built in the west.
Is this an oversemplification? Am I wrong? Anyone here share similar toughts?
TSMC is actually a Taiwanese company and its most advanced fabs are in Taiwan, a democratic country (more or less, with its own passport, military, government, etc) that is not under the control of China.
If country A depends on the products of country B and vice versa, then a war between A and B may be ill advised. Untangling your supply chain is a prerequisite for successful war.
To add to that: If country A depends on products of country B, then country C could want to attack country B to hurt country A.
Funny -- going on a decade ago, Blender had OpenCL support, but the AMD drivers were so bad that OpenCL support was only usable on NVidia cards. Still not as good as CUDA, though. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
AMD Blog: "Our AMD Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.12.1 or Radeon PRO Software for Enterprise 21.Q4 (or newer) drivers are required to use Cycles in Blender 3.0. Support is currently validated on AMD Radeon PRO W6800 and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series desktop GPUs and enabled on other AMD RDNA™ and AMD RDNA 2 architecture graphics cards."
https://community.amd.com/t5/radeon-pro-graphics/blender-3-0...
