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my TC last year as a new grad was $200k

UPS drivers make $170k. I'm not saying you're unsafe in the short term, necessarily, or that driving for UPS is safe in the long run, either... but I think they are far less likely (or likely to be later on down the road) to get replaced by technological developments, as compared with pure software dev. And, they don't have loan debt to pay down, and they have a union to protect them against the employer suddenly realizing in the medium-term a cheaper way to get it done and picking up the axe with no hesitation.

Long term, I'm assuming that there will be very major changes to the world. There are lots of memoirs you can read of people in a sudden upheaval situation realizing that all the money in the world couldn't save them. That was part of the thinking behind my comment that I didn't really spell out in detail.

CS bachelor's degree to software engineer is a solid career prospect long term

Why long term? Short term yes, but you seem to be assuming that climate change and AI developments don't produce any major changes to the landscape.

trades destroy your body in ways that cause long term issues

Depends on what. Construction, yes, absolutely. I was thinking in terms of more like electrical or plumbing, crane operation, things like that. But yeah I'll agree with that for some things, definitely.

They’re about 20 years too late to be doing that. Current clever-person play is to learn a solid manual trade, build good relationships with people in your community, make sure you’re directly connected to where the food comes from, travel if you can and make sure you’re familiar and have connections in a few different places in the world.

People who are today getting into CS and going into debt to get a Bachelor’s in it are in for a rude rude awakening if they observed that that would be the ticket to a comfortable life.

Meta is trying to interconnect with every Fediverse app; Threads isn't specific to Mastodon. Mastodon is just shorthand for the fediverse as a whole since it's the dominant platform.

I cannot figure out whether this is important or poppycock

Do you have a source that is a little more reliable?

You are correct. Some of the largest instances block bot traffic, but most don't, meaning your posts have been seen by AI crawlers and will continue to be so.

Short of not participating in federation and only discussing things within a private non-federated community on a personal instance or something, I don't think there's a way to prevent it.

The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.

Yeah agreed. All the people in here talking about signals... you're not, like, wrong, but you missed the nature of the question i.e. "hey it seems like this GUI application doesn't deal well with Unix signals, so what else can I do"

My first thought would be to use xdotool. Does that work for you?

Hey, that's wonderful! Good to hear. Yeah I would just throw away the memory and do a certain amount of double-checking of what's on your disk, as some of it may have been corrupted during the time the broken memory was in there. But yeah if you can run and do stuff without errors after taking out the bad stick then that sounds like progress.

Are you overclocking / doing any other unusual hardware thing? That one-bit flip is clearly pointing to broken memory, but it could be either the system RAM or the CPU cache memory (which would be real sad, but if it's always on core 6 sounds pretty likely).