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Immigrants don't work?

> Companies want the best candidates they can get, and the larger the recruitment pool, the better.

Did you write this with a straight face? Companies want candidates that are good enough for the lowest possible price.

Yes, US citizens are more entitled to be employed for US based jobs than importing someone from a different country to do the job. If Google wants an office in Zurich then Swiss candidates there should be more entitled instead of asking Switzerland to import foreign workers to fill the positions.

Yes, the world today is not as it was 26 years ago. That seems pretty obvious. Countries change, governments change, national interests change. What was good for the US 30, 50, 100 years ago may not be good for the world of today. How is that a problem exactly?

> I think one of the fundamental problem with h1b is that it is labeled as "non-immigrant" whereas for all practical purposes it is really an immigrant visa.

The fundamental problem is people spreading this lie. It has a path to permanent immigration, but it is a non immigrant visa, it is very clearly define and describe as such.

It is idiotic to build a life in a country where you only have a temporary visa. I've lived in 4 countries and I never assumed I would forever be allowed to stay in any of them.

The US do not owe a path to permanent residency to anyone.

> One thing I have heard of in the USA is the need for a "business licence"

Where have you heard about that? Because there is no concept of universal business license.

> If history can predict anything it’s that the price hikes are permanent.

There was a massive spike of RAM prices from 2016 to 2018 followed by a price crash in 2019...

And for the ultimate twist: the "both version" thing works for every single country! Damn! Nobody saw that coming!

What are the other metrics? What metrics did you use to make your statement?

Dude, don't play the "moving the goal posts" game please, this is not X/Twitter. The guy is creaming his pants over Mexico and he calls Americans fat.

"junior engineers are more likely to understand and use AI tools, and quickly become more performant than their senior engineers asking questions on stack overflow"

Anything to back up this claim? SO is dead, senior engineers don't use it. Why are junior more likely to understand and use AI tools than senior? I would counter with "senior are more likely to properly use and keep AI in check than junior".

For now that won't work, based on my experience with LLMs, you still need a very senior engineer to prompt and review what was produced by the agent. A junior wouldn't have the experience to identify the flaws/issues.

In the future, yeah maybe, when LLMs are not as dumb as they are today.

The author is beaming about Mexico where the obesity rate is on par with the US.

The US rank 9th in terms of tertiary education in the world, so no, not "average'. And even average wouldn't translate to "uneducated".

Completely agree. I've lived - as in truly "lived", having a job, staying at least a full year, and having to do "real life things" - in 3 different countries before coming to the US and Americans are exactly like you said.

I always have to laugh at people who form an opinion on other countries based on their "2 week vacation" there.

What nonsense. Of course, everything always looks so great when you're on vacation. Living somewhere full time and visiting for a few weeks is not the same.

There are plenty of kind, generous, happy people in the US. Wasn't there a gazillion memes about it during the World Cup?

This reads like twitter-level rage bait seriously.

I'm sorry, but this is an incredibly silly comment. The "shit show" was systemic at the strategic level. Of course, people who went to see a game had a good time, the "shit show" is at the competition level.

- 48 teams is too much. 32 is a great sweet spot. 48 is ridiculous, it genuinely felt like too many games. - The completely inconsistent application of VAR was scandalous. I've always been a huge opponent of VAR in soccer, and I really feel vindicated. It felt like it was only used for very pointed decisions. Either you use VAR to make no mistakes at all, or you don't use it. - The "h2o breaks" were stupid as f. They were clearly only implemented to fit in more commercial breaks. - as usual, getting the tickets is always a nightmare, but it's been like that for 20+ years

There was some good football, I'm not even bothered by the pre/mid-game shows. There were a lot of good things, but honestly it did feel like it was in spite of everything that was done to make it unbearable.

I've just accepted the fact that every tech company is just a dumpster fire.

That is incorrect. When you start a new job you have a few weeks to enroll.

However, you sometimes have to wait for the plan to begin coverage. Something like "after 30 days of employment", or "on the first day of the first full month of employment". These are indeed idiotic limitations.

Worst case scenario, if you are changing job and something really bad happens during these 2 weeks where you don't have coverage you can retroactively enroll in COBRA.

It may just be a me thing, but when discussing a job offer I always ask for details about the health insurance. I want to see the premiums, what is covered, the networks, etc. All the details given to current employees when they go through open enrollment. And I can count on one hand the times where it was difficult to obtain from the recruiter or "HR lady".

That being said, nothing tells me the plans won't completely change in a few months of course. That's just the "game" and I also hate it.

Just give me the money directly and let me pick my plan from a marketplace that doesn't suck balls. If employers still want to give some incentives to be more competitive fine, but I shouldn't have to time my job switching to avoid coverage gaps.

> We can decide to just... you know... do things.

OK, this is Twitter-level conversation here, not interested. But hey, stay positive, more power to you.

Oh! Damn! Stupid me! "We have to collectively decide this", when is the meeting to vote on that again? When is the last time we all decided something collectively?

WTF does the pandemic have to do with this? "dark time", oh yeah, people stuck at home watching Netflix, what an incommensurable suffering!

Buddy, I can admire the naive childish optimism to a degree, but come on. "We just have to all decide". Do you live in a Disney movie?

There is no lack of imagination here, there is realism. You think you display "imagination" by just regurgitating all the tired tropes of old science fiction? Oh wow! Robots to clean the ocean! How novel! Nobody has ever thought about this!

The reality is nobody is going to build robots to clean the ocean because there is no money to be made. There will be robots to clean rich people's pools, sure. And it will put pool boys out of a job, great.

I admire the naivety. I'm sure CS grads are delighted...

Humans just want to be able to work and feed their families. Notice how this is something that is never addressed for example in Asimov's writings where robots do everything. How do people do anything to be able to afford these robots? How do Solarians make money to maintain their massively gigantic estates? It is never explained, but we always jump straight to the "robots do everything, everything is free, nobody works". How about the in between?

If anything one wants to make is now possible to make, how is anyone supposed to make a living?

Can I make food with LLMs? Can I build a house and make clothes? This is stupid. No real wealth is being created for the general population here.

I noticed the same thing. Another thing that seems to have disappear: lunch and learn focusing on the tech stack. And I mean specifically about "how to do this in <programming language", not product/company focused.

SO's downfall started way before AI. A decade or so ago it was always full of interesting questions, people were giving detailed answers, there was sometimes some debate in the answers, etc

And then it started being stupid questions. People who clearly had barely tried anything and just rushed to SO with a half baked question. Answers were just pointing to another thread that already provided the answer. It definitely started before LLMs. I think it lined up with the aggressive "learn-to-code" push.

The logo for the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies is a masterpiece :-)

A process is significantly more expensive than a thread on a Linux system. The main cost is memory. Processes own their memory which forces the system to duplicate resources, as opposed to threads that are able to share resources.

Where have you red that "the cost between a process and a thread is relatively small."? I would be curious to see a link because the most cursory internet search would show you that it is not true.

There are studies explaining the appeal of the "chore simulators". You should look them up because I may not do them justice, but in a nutshell it's basically that they are very satisfactory because they present clear rules, they allow you to "do a job" and if you do it well, you progress. There are no tricks, no unexpected crisis, you do the thing, you get money, you get better gear, you do the thing better. This is escapism for people frustrated with "real life". Real life sucks. Sometimes you work hard and you still don't get "better gear".

Driving simulations - be it planes, cars, trucks, boats, etc - are maybe a bit different, but essentially it's just a combination of chill vibe, romanticized experience (the classic "I wish I could be a farmer", no you don't) and a degree of what I described above. Obviously there are also people who are just passionate about trains, planes and such.

The chill cozy games are a real trend, and it's due to what I described in the 1st paragraph.

"I could enjoy", "How it'd entertain me" - have you even tried a few?

> You don't magically get language skills by living in the country. You still have to put in the time and effort.

Did I say otherwise? How do you live 6 years in a country without putting in the effort to learn the language? You're there, watch TV, talk to people, read books, take a class here or there. Come on, how do you put yourself, for 6 years, in a situation where you don't learn the language?