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The 747 for example eats about 1 gallon per second (~3600 gallons per hour) according to this source: https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/qu...
A lot of the people who say this doesn't affect them seem to be bored video gamers with no career focus and no stress.
I feel like they'd feel it too if they had to work 12 hours a day and had some moderate stress.
I remember the first month was fine, but by the second month I'd started to hallucinate in the day time.
The reason this happened was that I took a night job suddenly (midnight til 8am, but sometimes as late as noon because the overtime was good). I couldn't get used to the schedule and seem to get more than four hours of sleep during daylight.
The job was a truck driving job, delivering huge pallets of newspapers out in time for the paperboys/girls at 5am-7am across a few cities from the printing press. I remember it was a sweet job, relatively high pay compared to what I'd had recently and very low stress since the factory was empty, you grab the clipboard with your route, forklift the pallets onto the truck and listen to music the rest of the night.
I started to get extremely tired while driving sometime in the second month. I fought it hard and would stare straight ahead jerking myself awake every couple of minutes eventually. Not long after that the lines in the road would insidiously become snakes and I'd be following a river in a half dream sort of zone.
By the end of the second month I knew I had to quit or I'd end up getting myself killed on the road, no matter how good the job was. I forced myself to stay on the extra two weeks because two weeks notice is something my parents instilled upon me that you always have to do. I kind of agree but feel like I should have made an exception then.
I was probably 20 at the time.
Some points I'd like to raise: 1. I don't believe two weeks is long enough to feel anything. Particularly not if you're young. 2. Loss of cognition is really really obvious if you're operating a large metal box that can kill you. The ability to play video games seems like it could easily fool you into thinking you're coherent. 3. Lack of sleep amplifies stress. If you don't have much stress, it's going to be way easier. Someone falling behind on their loan payments, working overtime, and taking care of dependents would likely see a much bigger effect on their life, even with smaller margins of sleep lost.
Maybe coronavirus is different though. I would check up on sources.
I agree we should look out for the older generation though. For me, it's my parents (boomers, who fought no wars) I worry about, my grandparents (who fought) have passed already.
Second, for people without educated parents (which most people who go to college can't comprehend because most people going to college had parents who also went to college), I believe a STEM education has way more value and you do in fact learn valuable things in programming, electronics, biology, chemistry, etc. from experienced people very very rapidly. It's hard finding good intro books on your own, and even harder finding people with expertise who can answer questions (if you look at a circuit and wonder what one particular capacitor is doing, it can be a rabbit hole).
Third, software, is (perhaps an unpopular opinion), not that hard to pick up. You can basically Google everything. Using Google you can even solve problems in languages you don't know. A ton of people do this. That's also part of why you see so many people programming who don't have a C.S. degree. I personally don't have a C.S. degree and feel like a lot of the projects I work on I would have been capable of learning back on middle school. You don't need years of scaffolding like you do in in physics, where each year they layer on more math and theory until they finally build up to the ability to grasp the concept you're interested in.
I think if you want to be a chemical engineer and you don't go to college, you're going to have a bad time. Same for physics. Same for electrical engineering.
For the humanities (and I'm lumping in software, because for Christ's sake, we even call them languages), I'm not really certain college provides much education. The real value is getting hired by a tech company that requires a degree (for the actual humanities... not even that I imagine).
It's not a big thing but little stuff like makes it more cumbersome to use.
Serverless lambdas on AWS are more functional. Google does not have comparable functionality yet.
Auth and IAM permissions are far more configurable on AWS. Google's ACL does not have the same depth of tools there. Making the ACL do the same thing as AWS's IAM generally feels cludgy and a pain.
Working with AWS there is a deep ecosystem of tools there and I only use maybe 30%. Working with Google, there often are tools and logging missing that I took for granted in AWS.