The secret is to have your employer buy you a brand new top spec MacBook Pro every two years, then it's fast enough and doesn't bother you. That's also what all the Electron devs are doing.
> “Your grand-granddad was a torturer for the KGB” should be public knowledge, and it should be to the youths to decide what to do with that knowledge. It is not anybody’s to hedge.
Why though? If the great grandkid isn't torturing anyone, why should they be held responsible for that? They literally were not present and could do nothing to prevent it.
The dry goods store seems poised for a comeback- no customer access to goods, you order at the counter.
You could do it all with people, you could run it like a giant vending machine, you could do a hybrid thing- but you reduce exposure for your workers, and if things get real bad you can always install those giant bulletproof plexiglass things.
The Java problem is that you wind up in a blame game where one team blames the code and the other blames the GC settings and you wind up doing a lot of fruitless flailing. No knobs really cuts down on that nonsense.
Being forced into the cash economy means being victimized by crime.
The flower, vegetable, and mushroom farms near me don't have to deal with that. The farm that grows baby Marijuana plants has to hold a bunch of cash and gets robbed. This is California, so it's all theoretically legal, but it's not equal.