But that is the result of having multiple applications needing to enforce valid states in the database.
"Business logic" is a loose term. The database is the effective store for state so it must enforce states, eg by views, triggers, and procedures.
Other "business logic" can happen outside of the db in different languages. When individual apps need to enforce valid states, then complexity, code, etc grows exponentially.
Other than a few ill-advised attempts to implement microservices infrastructure by well-intentioned co-workers I've not encountered situations where multiple applications needed to access a single data store. While I'm sure there are valid use cases there I suspect they're rare and should be treated like the outliers they are.
It's not about good or bad times. All compasses are broken so any particular direction you believe you are walking deliberately might as well be uniformly random.
"Direction" and "design" are probably the wrong metaphors for careers.
I think it is better for your mental health to see yourself as having some agency. You certainly have some, though how much we can debate. But saying something like "all compasses are broken" sounds so defeatist that I worry you are experiencing depression.
It seems more odd to me you are placing as much value on career agency to infer ones mental health broadly. I'm not saying this isnt a norm in many cultures, but I'd like to hear your argument for supporting it.
The problem with translating between languages is that code that "looks the same and runs" are not equivalently idiomatic or "acceptable". It seems to turn into long files of if-statements, flags and checks and so on. This might be considered idiomatic enough in python, but not something you'd want to work with in functional or typed code.
It seems relevant that the categories healthcare, housing, and higher education are not paid by wages/cash but rather through various means of financing (in the form of insurance for healthcare). (In addition to not being outsourcable).
New cars not increasing looks strange but that might be a US phenomena, where most cars might be imported and the median car have "shrunk" in size over the period.
It highly depends on what your definition of a price increase is. The cars people actually buy have definitely become more expensive with more and more people choosing to buy SUVs.
The sedan hasn't become more expensive, but people don't feel safe driving them anymore between all the large SUVs, this pushing more people towards buying more expensive cars.
> MDF and veneers are inherently worse than hand-crafted wood.
Generally incorrect, but it depends. Wear can cause mdf/veneer to have "bad optics" compared to solid wood, but mdf/veneer can have more suitable physical properties and enables more consistent visual quality and design possibilities.
I suppose it depends on your definition of worse. It is more versatile. It's also toxic and fragile, and far more likely to break in ways that are hard to repair. I can only think of one object I own where the physical properties of particle board or MDF are a positive: a subwoofer where its consistency helps with acoustics.
A 2015 smartphone could be eight 2 GHz cores with 2-4 GB memory and 128 GB SSD. By far faster and more powerful than anything but the heaviest 2000-era servers if that.
A hidden markov model (HMM) is theoretically capable of modelling text just as well any transformer. Typically, HMMs are probability distributions over a hidden discrete state space, but the distribution and state space can be anything. The size of the state space and transition function determines its capacity. RNNs are effectively HMMs, and recent ones like "Mamba" and so on are considered competent.
Transformers can be interpreted as tricks that recreate the state as a function of the context window.
I don't recall reading about attempts to train very large discrete (million states) HMMs on modern text tokens.
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