I feel like a lot of concepts are being conflated.
Plug and Play arrived. Windows abstracted everything. The Wild West closed. Computers stopped being fascinating, cantankerous machines that demanded respect and understanding, and became appliances. The craft became invisible.
I disagree with this. The craft is still alive and well, it's just specialized. As complexities in approaches grow, it's not possible for a single person to know every register of every subunit all the way up to high level application software in any reasonable manner. You can totally write your own bootloader for your current hardware. Nothing is stopping you. Is the argument that the financial utility is lowered? Is it that he chose voluntarily to focus on application layer development?
This is like someone who built their own bicycle lamenting they can't do the same for a modern EV.
Many protein powders were found to contain high amounts of heavy metals. Some of the pricier ones (ON Gold Standard, for example) contain less contaminants. I think that makes it worth paying for.
Stars yes, voyager is carrying a lot of that info already! But the delta between stars and galaxies is monumental. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. The time scales aren't even something we can grasp.
Asian superstitions are on another level (sometimes literally). My neighborhood is all condos in a dense urban area that caters to Asian investors for some reason. There are no floors that end in 4, along with the removal of 13. So there is a 12 then the next floor is 15. I guess if we close our eyes reality doesn't exist.
