It absolutely is, they just need to know how to write code. Same applies to H1B holders. They get sold on stories of the US, move there, and then they are on the 40+ hour treadmill. They get paid probably twice what I get paid, but the US is extremely expensive, so they give most of it right back by the end of the month. Most stay renters forever, especially if they live in a big city. If they just got my job, they could play my game and never leave home.
Nope, international company paying international wages. It's not satire, just go check out what such a wage will buy down here. I can retire in a few years if I want.
I am a US white guy, live in Ecuador, and work remote in tech. At the salary I can pull in doing this, I can buy a nice house here about every 2 years. I work maybe a few hours a week for this. Please keep telling people about how awesome the US and its lifestyle are, it is amazing how good these stories are at clearing out my competition. They go up north, work 40+ a week, rent forever. I feel like I'm literally watching modern day slavery happen, and it is all through hearing stories, they don't even need chains and ships anymore.
This will never fly in Germany. Those people still have internet cafes without surveillance cameras so they can do their computing anonymously. Paranoia is a way of life there, for good reason.
I disagree. From what I can see, it looks like they just replaced the old boss with the new boss. They still follow Trump just as slavishly as they used to follow the old elite, they even show their fealty by playing russian roulette with covid, and losing at a predictable rate, hence the "death" part of the cult. I see no evidence the anti-authoritarian nature of the movement is real at all, they just have a new boot to lick.
Same experience here going to school in the 90s, but I have the exact opposite take. I was taught to question authority and think this was one of the few really important lessons I received from school. I think that's why I was instinctively able to see through all the flag waving conformism after 9-11 and the current MAGA death cult. The lack of critical thinking I see from so many of my peers didn't arise from being taught to question authority, it's because many of these people are just dumb as hell and didn't learn jack shit at all.
> 2. It seems that education degrees are seen as easier to achieve than others.
They absolutely are. I taught math as a university lecturer while I was finishing my PhD. I taught one Algebra course and one Geometry course to education majors. These were both literally just high school math courses and the people I taught were mostly not able to do the work. Yes, literally high school math and over half flunked the courses outright. That is just pathetic. I was told to pass 85% of the class, so most got curved right into a classroom anyway, against my wishes. This is what teaches your kids. I can also anecdotally report that they were clearly the dumbest people I ever ran into teaching. Bad English, can't think in a straight line, and ready to argue at the first sign that you might enforce standards and fail their pitiful "work". They were perfect for a bureaucratic job that rewards idiots.
I think TDD is just busywork in another form. Managers seem to like to keep people busy, often just to watch them work and feel power or something from it. They might have a really good dev on the team who can smash everything in front of them super quickly and they can't keep them busy enough to get their power trip on, so they add a boat anchor and tell the dev to drag that around while they work. Instant slowdown in productivity, dev takes 3X as long, manager is loving it. I think that's also why you find this junk in megacorps where there is little actual work and everyone is politicking all day. Lotta power trippers in those companies.
I can't understand SETI at all. We have been listening to the sky for over 40 years with radio scopes and have found nothing, yet funding is persistently available to keep it up. Meanwhile, there are credible reports of UFO/UAP/whatever flying about and nobody will put sensors out to try to gather data on those things. Just recently the US congress has hearings about how the US does not really control its own airspace due to these objects buzzing about, many of which are reported to so radically outperform available human tech that there is only one plausible explanation for them. Yet the SETI community is complete crickets on this issue. Is the goal of SETI to fail? Is it just a radio astronomer job program? Is the UFO stigma really that great? I honestly don't understand doing something that fails consistently when there is ample evidence of a successful outcome by observing things right here on Earth.
Wow. If the comments here are any reflection on the broader society, the US is in a weird place these days. Come to Latin America guys, the women here want kids and love engineers, you won't have any troubles at all.
Isn't there substantial evidence that he actually was? The Wiki article states he got shot 3 times in the head at less than 10 yards range, then his unit actively tried to cover up the killing as death by enemy fire. That's pretty sketchy.
Yeah, I've yet to hear of NK sending submarines to tap undersea cables or storing essentially all internet traffic for future decryption efforts. Their little spy OS seems pretty quaint in comparison.
> So when they're checking airplane parts for quality, do they just rank them all and throw out the worst 40%?
I have no idea about airplane parts, but I would not call an engineering student "perfectly good" if they couldn't make it through an engineering pre-med weeder. The level of technical ability I expect from an engineer is an order of magnitude greater than a doctor. They should be crushing it.
I taught university (big state school) about 10 years ago and it was department policy to flunk >= 40% of each calculus class. We curved to accomplish this and every class was told this was the policy on day 1. We got a mix of students at my school and this was to keep the dopes from designing airplanes and such. I personally would have been happier letting engineering do their own dirty work, but that was math's job and I like my plane flights to be uneventful, so yeah.
Have you actually tried to? I've been running my own server for like 3 years now, works fine. You need to actually set up your SPF/DKIM/DMARC/PTR records/etc correctly, but I've never had an issue with my mail getting delivered or being sent to spam.
Honest question, what would be the outcome in terms of chip manufacturing ability if China didn't invade Taiwan, but just decided to level the whole island with an eye towards repopulating later with Chinese nationals? Have Chinese fabs come along enough to allow them to just destroy Taiwan instead of mounting a costly invasion?
I really wish this board did away with flagging. It seems to just censor people far more than anything. I've had my own tech related submissions flagged because they obviously just piss someone off around here and it never gets unflagged or even reviewed from what I can tell. I know I am missing out on other people's content and opinions as well and I don't like having some self appointed "moral police" around here deciding that for me.
This has so much extortion potential I'm surprised all the major tech companies aren't doing it and milking it for all it's worth. It's amazing they have left this cash on the table for this long.
You think getting certificates is improving your mind?
My experience in corporate work is exactly as the comment you replied to. Endless drone work doing much the same things day after day. I did it for 3 years, learned basically nothing beyond what I came in the job with, then went out on my own. In the time since I have learned so much more than what I did in that corporate job, there is just no comparison. Also, I strongly suspect they literally try to keep you stuck in one spot and too dumb to move out of it on purpose; you are less likely to leave or ask for a raise. They want predictable drones in corporate work, and yes, getting certificates is one way you make drones feel like they are doing something.
> There is a massive contingent of people that HATE autistic people and feel like it's something to be "fixed". A lot of them frame that hate as helping.
I suspect this has something to do with the fact that many of these have grown up in environments where you are good at technical stuff or you are less than those who are (i.e. the US). They know that many autists will straight smoke their ass in all things STEM and they deeply resent being dealt a losing hand to those "weirdos". Others are just straight up sadists/abusers. The more I hear stories like this, the more I believe the courts practically seek out these sick fucks to be "caregivers" and such. Something is pathologically wrong with this entire area of society.
I live in Ecuador, so not a Coloumbia expert, but I have insight on this. In short, many latin countries do not have a very well developed legal system, so there probably just isn't any law on this. I don't think there is in EC at least, and prostitution is legal here anyway. Also, it is very common in latin america to hire people as contractors, which removes essentially all employment regulations. Every US company I've ever heard of that hires here exploits this fact. They all just give you money per month as a "contractor" and you get no benefits, health insurance, etc. Its okay though, more than a few of us are running the scam backwards and have multiple front people with all the right pronouns or whatever they want acting like junior developers, when really there is just one senior guy behind the lot. Exploitation goes both ways:)
1) Who do you think started this violence? Did Ukraine invade Russia or did Russia invade Ukraine?
2) Who do you pull for when one person attacks another? The bully or the victim?
To me, these two questions and their answers determine my sympathies. You were lied to about Iraq and you are right to mistrust the US government, but the world media is not the US government. If you see reports from multiple news sources about mass graves and such, you should believe them.
Former university lecturer here. In my experience, gen Z have ZERO understanding of history or geopolitics. I'm serious, they just don't know what happened before their lifetime and cannot hold a coherent conversation about historical events or the geopolitical realities which flow from them. So no, this is not true.
So you are saying that we can get another 3 decades of Moore's law by switching to GPUs made of silicon rather than CPUs made of silicon? Well fuck, problem solved then. I was completely unaware it was so easy.