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Someone recommended magnesium to help with my migraines (turns out it was an eye imbalance), so it's been sitting in a drawer but I also have a hard time staying asleep, and am wondering if I should crack it back out. I have some stuff called "Natural Vitality" and it is magnesium carbonate 325mg, does this sound decent to you?

I've noticed this as well, except with fast.com

I will fire up the laptop, be getting 3.2-12 mbps, all of a sudden a fast.com speed test starts of sluggish and ramps up to 120-200 mbps.

Go figure. It happens every time, on multiple occasions, devices, browsers, all using the same internet connection and frequency.

Doesn't seem to be the case. Average starting electrical work salary is right around on par for average starting web developer salary in my area (45k-50k for both)

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/electrician/salar...

Also, at least according to this union, you can make 10 more dollars an hour being in the union http://www.ibew.org

I realized I have worded it badly, I was pulling the figure from here: "The best-paid 25 percent made $71,430". I don't know why I added median there.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/electrician/salar...

If you note here, there also seems to be cost of living adjustments just like you would find in tech centers as well, so California and New York averages seem higher. A lot of Electrical work is also unionized, so I don't know if that is a factor in any of this, but it seems like some tech workers seem to think unionization is better so there's that. The IBEW (http://www.ibew.org) for example seems to claim their workers on average make 37.69/hr which is right at 75k. The statistic is a bit outdated, but if anything it remained flat, if not slightly increased.

Not in the tech epicenters they don't, but they absolutely do in most of the country.

I know an electrician that made 75k a year plus as much overtime as he possibly could want (also to show this isn't just a rare anecdote, the top 25% electricians make a median salary of 71k). If you are a solid tradesman or tradeswoman that knows how to a. show up on time, b. communicate well, c. do the job, congrats, you are already in high demand. That's at least equal if not more than most software devs get paid around where I am. I bet if we counted off hours worked and oncall time, and added hours to hours, the electrician would make more. That's 75k working a proper 8 hours a day and not a minute more.

I think you are confusing security with privacy.

As far as security goes, I trust Google way more than any other site to handle my credentials properly, follow security best practices, use the highest level of encryption where applicable, keep servers up to date and patched faster than anyone else, etc. Outside of Google+, I can't remember the last time there was a major security incident at Google, when they happened, the impact was minimal (contrast this to say the Apple Cloud leak which led to the infamous "fappening", the Marriot leak, the Equifax hack, Target, etc). Breaches and 0-days happen, but as far as I know, Google is going to be the best it gets when it comes to security.

Now when it comes to my privacy, no. I don't trust Google as far as I could throw them.

anecdotal evidence here, but our "comms specialist" (the person we bring in to help struggling tech teams communicate better) was a former improv actor and comedian, and she's great. She brings color to everything, makes the mundane feel less so and generally brings truth to laughter is the best therapy.

Then those investors are stupid. Hope is not a strategy. But more likely is this take is wrong. Also sounds to me like GP maybe missed another consideration: architecting your application in such a manner that scaling is straightforward (not easy, straightforward, there is a difference).

Using AWS as an example, at one of the businesses I worked at, we used Kinesis as an event bus. One shard handles 2MB/sec of output. This worked pretty well for thousands of messages a second, we even got up to the 100's of thousands by compressing the payload of the event message. After that, you can employ any number of strategies that work easily, such as shading and adding additional streams, and use a lambda to pipe the output of one stream to another. It scaled up to millions of messages by essentially pushing buttons in the AWS Console.

Take a look at your architecture. More than likely, outside of a FB/Google/Netflix traffic scenario there is probably an easier and more straightforward architecture you can use that scales to your realistic use cases. Worry about the billions when you get there, which you yourself probably wont at that point because you would have exited, or moved into a higher role most likely by now.

> the liberation of women from the home and from conservative sexual values.

Everyone is unhappy, married people on average are happier than unmarried, religious people are on average happier than unreligious people.

The sexual and feminist revolution got some 'splainin to do.

Of course, my view, the answer isn't "liberating women from the bonds of motherhood and family" but empowering women and supporting them in arguably the most powerful and most important thing one human can actually do in this world: bring new life into it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-...

Then why does it get the legal benefits of being a "neutral platform"?

That plus the unfortunate fact that Rust as a language has no specification, so technically speaking, all of Rust is undefined behavior. It's the only thing that holds me back from taking Rust more seriously. I'm enjoying using it on pet projects for now.

All of these can be viewed as fallacies to another who has experienced long stretches of remote-only work. It is simply one person's take.

Why aren't more companies remote-first? It isn't as popular as it sounds like it is in tech circles, it isn't a silver bullet to the "problem" of work, and it comes with its own set of unique challenges and problems.

Speaking from experience, Safari seems to be very good at defeating current fingerprinting techniques

Government finally had it with the amount of power they have over culture and messing with their 3 letter agency initiatives?

I am one of those pessimistic folk who views everything on a geopolitical stage as a power struggle, so..

> Or until you're at the scale where you're working with datasets/queries simply too big or too complex for Sheets to handle effectively.

At which, again from my perspective and view of things which may be wrong, startups are more likely to automate/productize that so they can better maintain and dogfood it if possible instead of letting someone's Excel workbook grow into a pet ML tool that only they understand.

Startups hardly bother with licensing excel/365 these days, and just pop into sheets. From my experience, you don't usually start bringing excel into the equation until you hire that one sales manager that insists on it, or the "Microsoft guy/gal" that just keeps asking "why aren't we using excel?" over and over again.

Another good article from the same site about this issue:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/apps-social/article/3002533/no-sle...

Some are trying the "996" every other week thing now.

GitHub was viewed as independent with a vested interest in keeping open source going. With Microsoft it still feels like a means to some sort of end.

The poll asks what is most important to you, and they failed to leave out salary and other more obvious ones as one of the options.

It would be a much more sound poll if it was framed as "Among these options, which one is the most important when looking for a new job"

I don't care about sounding clever mate, especially not to internet strangers. The more obvious answer to me is the wealth of the globe has increased YoY as well, mainly thanks to capitalism, so America isn't the primary destination for opportunity anymore, which is a good thing.

As a Greek with Armenian in laws, my grandparents and great grandparents would quite literally spit in the face of someone who tries to tell them that wasn't genocide, and deservedly so. I have family alive right now that remember what happened then. If we can't call what was carried out by Turks in the early 1915's throughout WW1 genocide, we might as well retire that word from language all together.

Kind of related, but Turkey just as much tries to bury/deny the Armenian-Greek-Syriac genocide over 100 years later. I sincerely hope that any resolution that would admit Turkey into the EU would involve admitting and paying the price for those atrocities.

The same way you get charged for murder when you weren't the murderer.

No I am talking about more directly. As an obvious example, in wartime everything goes to support the defense of the nation and is shifted to support that goal.

A government also can and should prioritize amongst multiple simultaneous priorities.

Mentorship at the highest level (principle to senior and below) is desperately lacking. I vow myself when I reach that level to pass it along the best I can, but something I desperately searched for when I was starting.

I pair programmed for 3 months (which I consider apprenticeship / live action mentorship) with someone who was a way better engineer than me at my first "career job" out of college. I learned more in those 3 months about software engineering than in my previous two.

Wait, but you just admitted it was in depth, and not bad, parent gp said similar, so my question to both gp and you and those that think like this: why does that automatically equate to propaganda? Because it's not 'your side'? Why is the fact that it is a conservative think tank relevant? Evaluate the content on its merits and evidence. The fact that it doesn't cover one angle as extensively as you would have liked doesn't make it propaganda.

Quoting a tweet from my feed:

"Married people are happier than single people. Frequent church attenders are happier than people who rarely (or never) attend. "Liberation" from religion and marriage has made millions miserable. Sexual revolutionaries have some explaining to do."

And the quoted article which it is in reference to: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-...

There was also research done to try and show that the “gender pay gap” will continue to rise due to an increase proportion of single/unwed mothers. Turns out when you have a support system consisting of a spouse and their families, you are able to also have more economic mobility as well. I couldn’t imagine my wife climbing the ladder at her Finance job without me to help take half the parental responsibilities, and a very supportive grandma and grandpa.

Turns out maybe marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all.

I'm sorry to hear that. Alcoholism or just an expensive habit?

If alcoholism, luckily it is taken "more seriously" than video game addiction. Although now as I get older I just realize addiction is a trait we all have the propensity for, and some people just manifest it in healthy ways where as some of us in not so healthy ways. I have people in my family that were compulsive gamblers, alcoholics, workaholics, and drug addicts, sometimes a combination of all four -- all different forms of addictions. Sometimes I view my video game addiction in that light: "well at least it wasn't drugs or alcohol" but, who knows, maybe in 50 years we will find out that it harmed me just as much.

I wonder if this is a good thing.

Really random aside incoming:

I once was only able to quit my League of Legends video game addiction because I gave my account away that I had so much vested in (skins, all characters, rune pages) by basically messaging a random stranger, changing the account to their email, going to a random password generator site, changing the pw copy+pasting the password without me looking, and sending it off -- in effect "suspending myself".

I was unnerved for a couple of weeks, but eventually, the itch to play died off. I tried starting up a few times, but it wasn't worth it especially knowing how much time I sank into it previously.

I wonder if I got myself permanently suspended from Google, (I want to quit Google given how unethical they have become) would I rid myself from them for good?