But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.
Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.
Why? My parents couldn't teach me how to get a modem working, so when we bought a 14k4 modem, I had to install that thing at age 12. Granted, I didn't have to compile them, they came on a floppy, but it wasn't exactly userfriendly
I parttimed it as a teenager and in my early 20. It was really great and I enjoyed it a lot, but it's not a fulltime carreer if you don't have a degree in it.
As someone who works in materials/workplace safety, I can absolutely vouch that there are stupid regulations that should be scrapped. I have no doubt there are stupid regulations in food-safety, because there are stupid regulations everywhere. Recently here in the Netherlands we changed regulations for toxic residu in soil to distinguish between "Things that are bad for plants and animals" and "Things that are bad for humans". That made things more complex, but it also means you don't have to wear a hazmat suit to protect yourself from a dose of zink that's roughly equal to a multivitamin a day (which, funfact, will absolutely murder fish).
But you know who shouldn't get to decide which regulations are stupid? The people who stand to make money off of scrapping regulations.
This is already happening a lot. Take poultry for example.
In the USA, you can chemically rinse chicken (usually in acids, but in the past in chlorine) so that it won't have any Salmonella or Campylobacter bateria on it.
The EU, you're not allowed to do that, but you're also not allowed to have those bacteria. That means you have to raise the chickens in a MUCH cleaner environment. The same goes for eggs, which you can't wash, so they have to be clean from the farm.
As a result, you can't export US chicken to the EU, because it doesn't meet the safety standards. And that's about to get worse. You can absolutely export EU chicken to the US, but it likely won't be competitively priced.
heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and drug-overdose.
Infant mortality is steady,
under 25 mortality increased very slightly.
over 65 went up by 20%, that's where you find most of the heart disease and covid deaths, and it doesn't decrease the life expectancy that much, since they're already old.
The big problem is in the 25-55 bracket, because they're dying from overdoses a LOT, and that's hugely decreasing life expectancy. There's alcohol consumption too, which increases cancer risks and deaths. Cancer screenings have dropped off in this bracket too, thanks to cost, so "preventable" cancers like breast-, lung- and colon cancers are killing more people.
It seems to be less of a direct regulation issue, and more of a "life sucks, so people do drugs". Which one can (and SHOULD) argue is also a regulation issue, just less directly.
The system works fine in, say, Conan, or Ark, or whatever survival game because those are small groups. If you've got thousands in a server, it's going to be a mess.
Hell, even Ultima Online had the brains to keep player houses to specific areas. This is not a new problem.
Depends on the type of questions. Are they "my outlook isn't sending email?" or are they "when I look Ms. Johnsons adress, it shows 123 StreetRoad instead of the correct 234 AveLane".
Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.