Certain tasks have deadlines - can you really have one of those without some concept of time? Creating a calendar entry for those doesn’t make any sense to me - they are not events happening at a point in time with a given duration, but things that need to be done BEFORE said point in time.
I do have a diploma, but it’s not a STEM university degree. I got a technical pre-university diploma in IT, which included a bunch of software engineering classes. I got quite good at most classes that involved programming things, so I tried my luck at finding a job straight as I graduated and landed one. It’s been a bit over a decade I got out of school now, been working as a tech lead for the last 5.
It would be weak if that was actually mutating the first “a”. That second declaration creates a new variable using the existing name “a”. Rust lets you do the same[1].
It feels like you're suggesting that someone being better off than most in their country necessarily means buying a new laptop is not a large purchase for them. I'd flip it like this: is a single item hitting multiple units of percentage of one’s income ever a small purchase?
Sure, maybe. In the end, what makes an expense big or not is which proportion of their income goes towards it. Most of the rest of the world has (much) lower salaries, and as you pointed out, often higher cost for equipment. Therefore, the purchase is/feels larger.
Comparing my problems to other people’s problems don’t make mine go away. A single purchase hitting a unit of percentage or more of anyone’s income is a large purchase regardless of what they’re making. Professionals being expected to shell out their own money to make their boss money is another problem entirely. A decent laptop is a big expense for me, their tools are an even bigger one for them, and none of these statements are contradictory.
Eh, even just “countries that are not the US” would be a correct statement. US tech salaries are just in an entire different ballpark to what most companies outside the US can offer. I’m in Canada, I make good money (as far as Canadian salaries go), but nowhere near “buy an expensive laptop whenever” money.
Assuming they have offices at all. My previous employer didn’t even have an office until 6 months after I was hired, and half the employees in the country were at the very minimum a decent 3-4h drive away from the office anyway. I’ve only ever met a handful of members of my team in person. The remaining employees were split up on 3 different continents.
How? Do these 5 companies even operate in the same places? Around here we have DoorDash, Uber Eats, and that’s pretty much it. We have SkipTheDishes, which was present before the other two outside urban areas, but I don’t even bother talking about them, most restaurants in the area have switched away from them. The other alternatives just never existed outside highly urban areas or have simply been pushed out by the bigger players. Where are the effects of this highly competitive market, exactly?
I should try and give that book another chance… I couldn’t get past the first couple of chapters, as I found the French (France) translation I had borrowed to be extremely annoying to read as a Quebec French speaker. I’d describe myself as fully bilingual, but I’m apparently still not good enough to really appreciate the nuances in writing style.
Canada is unusual in many ways, I’d say hehe. We never separated from the British like the colonies did, so the languages (quebecois French, too!) have kept a lot of British influences. About 2/3 of its relatively small population of 41 million lives in the first 100km north of the US border - an individual in British-Columbia is 8000km+ and 5-6 time zones away from someone in the Atlantic provinces. We’re similar to the US in how different every province can be from one another, I think.
“Zee” is getting more popular especially with gen Z (unintended) who were raised with more widespread access to American media, social or otherwise. Like many Commonwealth countries, most of Canada uses “zed”, however.
> Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do something more productive that AI can’t necessarily do
That’s a lot of big assumptions - that the job getting replaced was tedious in the first place, that those other “more productive” job exists, that the thing AI can’t necessarily do will stay that way long enough for it not to be taken over by AI as well, that the tediousness was not part of the point (e.g. art)…
It’s a bit surprising to hear nix described as “not as comprehensive”, considering they’ve basically built a whole OS around it, but I’m curious about your take on this specifically.
I fully agree with you - "YMMV" is the one true take. Visual Studio has never been particularly attractive to me, my whole workflow is filled with POSIX tools, and my code mostly runs on Docker and Linux servers. Windows is just another thing to worry about for me, be it having to deal with the subtle quirks of WSL not running on raw metal or having to deal with running UNIX-first tooling (or finding alternatives) on Windows. If it wasn't for our work provided machines being Windows by default, and at home, being into VR gaming and audio production (mostly commercial plugins), I'd completely ditch Windows in a heartbeat.
I do some maintenance myself but not oil changes - mostly from a time/cost perspective, I don’t really wish to go down that road and deal with spills in my driveway, etc. However the oil collection part isn’t particularly hard around here. I don’t know if there’s something similar in the US (or wherever you are located) but in Canada we have UOMA (Used Oil Management Association), a nonprofit which partners with garages to coordinate the recycling of used oil and related byproducts. They have a handy map which shows me 5+ garages in a 10min radius from my place which participates, including the shop I already go to - and I’m in a medium sized agricultural town, surrounded by corn fields, an hour from the nearest metropolitan area.
I was curious about what they did with oil when I drove my first car, so I asked my garage. They showed me the tank behind the shop, someone came to empty it once a week or so. I always assumed that was the usual practice, but I legitimately have no idea haha.
Anecdotally, working in profit centres (and being a productive member of said centres) somewhat protected me from large layoffs, but that’s pretty much it. There isn’t much otherwise that ever shielded me (or any of my team members, as a team lead somewhat involved in these decisions) from being expensive line items, in the eyes of people some levels above my pay grade taking business decisions looking at a balance sheet.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I basically have a 440Hz sine embedded in my brain which I can use for tuning stuff and figure out the rest through relative pitch. Perfect pitch sounds actually extremely distracting as a listener...
Not sure I'd call Korea and its countless cases of political corruption with Chaebol more and more appearing to be basically running the show "not-so-corrupt".
How is it a step in the right direction? If anything, it just sets a precedent - this is how much you should expect to pay in fines for committing atrocities.