Innovation at the expense of crushing workers and increasing the gap between parasitic management compensation and worker wages. No, thanks. Europe may need reform but it’s not the USA way of doing things, except for the elite for which “ the economist “ is a already known and tired sockpuppet.
Because their cost of living is insane, the social safety net is shitty, labor protections nonexistent, and they don't get any holidays, among other factors
Labor protections are indeed less, but this is actually a good thing. Like with many free-market topics, "labor protections" are a very dangerous thing, because they are a policy that sounds extremely good to the voting public, but many economists can tell you it's actually bad. US just got lucky, that it tricked the public to vote against it.
The pay difference is not a factor 2. You are paid 300-400% more than in the EU easily in the US, and the difference grows if you compare net pay vs before-tax. Cost of living bay area vs center Paris is a wash. Hell, I'd say the food is actually cheaper in the US. Frankly, unless you know your way around to avoid tourist places, food is cheaper and better in the US compared to center of Paris, although I'll agree that if you look around you can find much better in Paris than in the Bay Area.
And if you're employed, especially as a SWE, medical care is better in the US. If you're not ... EU >>> US.
The entire point of the article is to compare Europe to the USA. Even the illustration at the top makes that point immediately obvious and unambiguous.
Originally, Windows NT 3.x was more "microkernelithic" as graphics and printer drivers where isolated. NT 4 moved them to Kernel mode to speedup the system.
Windows NT 3.x had graphics and printer drivers in user-mode for stability reasons. Windows NT 4 moved them to Ring 0 to speed-up graphics applications.
I remember looking at MSDOS binaries with hex editors and seeing "MS Runtime Library", like many tools were written in C -- may be my memory is completely failing ... but probably MSDOS 5.0 included many utilities written in C? I used 5.0 with a 386, circa '93.
If you are already at systems level programming field (C/C++) you can tackle on Rust, which is becoming more and more popular (Linux Kernel, Microsoft in the future, etc)
Similarly, you can probably learn Python and (given your interest in math) data science, or TypeScript and web dev (may not be the most rewarding career but it can buy you time to pivot to something else). If you have been writing code for a while you should be able to pick up a specialization to a junior level in a few weeks, and some places will let you do that learning on the job. Good luck, and don’t give up.
