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Complementary movie on this topic: "No More Bets" from 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

London has a special microclimate and pleasant weather all year around. No extremes and less rain than other parts of the country.

True. Generally whatever niche interest people have, they usually can find it in London. As a fellow passenger old lady once put it on the tube: "London might not be the prettiest but certainly the most interesting city".

Though personally I find it pretty enough.

Agree. Meanwhile the number of cars noticably decreased. Lower noise, better air, significantly more cyclists.

The 20mph speed limit certainly helped to achive this. (Too slow to move around with a car.)

Tax returns should be public. Like in Norway. That would sort out all kinds of "payment gap" issues as well.

Holding the option key allows exactly that. Menu item is called 'Zoom' for some reason.

and in London since 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54452835

That is being said, she managed to buy one soon after, when cars were still an exotic luxury.

“I will confess here and now that of the two things that have excited me most in my life, the first was my car: my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen at Buckingham Palace about forty years later.”

Agatha Christie in her autobiography

This pandemic is also significant a moment in history when antivacc views gained wide social acceptance. This will hinder future vaccination efforts. I agree with you otherwise.

Opt-in rate = 43%

Yes. By that age people getting tired of "being managed".

Large companies have more management positions though. What should someone 40+ do at a small firm? Start again at BIG Co as developer and wait 5-10 years to become manager or tech lead? Is that the only option? Can we say 40+ developers at small companies are mostly buried without carrier path? (I think it can be the case for many.)

I agree with you that inexperienced (lower paid) or young developers might find the US attractive if there weren't visa issues. The older better paid ones, maybe with families even, would probably still choose the social safety of Europe, the mix of people and ideas, the density of interesting places, cultural events, etc.

I mainly reflected on the current trend I observered. Did not consider a sudden change in the US visa policy.

To give an example: I was among the first airbnb users when it started. In the past few years I used booking.com more because I liked both their website and booking experience better. And yes, they offer private accomodation. Booking.com improved a lot while airbnb stagnated. I admit that I am not the target audiance for the airbnb "experiences" feature though.

The US and California in particular lost it's appeal. 20 years ago it was the dream destination for many. Now, even some Indians steer away. I don't know a single European who would want to live in the US. Not even from Eastern Europe. The go-to place is London, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, etc.

FAANGS were started 1-2 decades ago. In past 5 years the trend changed. Ask PG. He will never move back to the US.

And no, Texas will never be the next big innovation hub.

Living in the US is dull and uninspiring if you lived away for long. Also the missing social net makes the situation worse and worse every year.

"America" is losing the talent pool.

If you invest time learning Erlang everything around Elixir will make sense and it will be a pleasant experience not only to "write" but to test, debug and maintain as well. I would go through this slightly dated but gentle introduction before learning Elixir: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

Thinking in processes and knowing/using the GenServer abstraction is the core of Elixir programming.

So, one negative is that difficult to use without Erlang knowledge. Also some good libraries are Erlang only for compatibility/historical reasons.

One problem/feature with email is that that new collagues do not see historical conversations. While the typical chatroom is searchable.

AVAAZ is similar. I supported them monthly for years with a small amount, then this year I wanted to direct my funds to some other cause and they asked me to send an email explaining why I wanted to cancel my monthly payment.

Luckily my card expired shortly after so I didn't bother, and since then they send weekly emails telling me that updating my card info is just "one click away".

Sorry AVAAZ.

Since then I am very careful to only use PayPal for recurring subscriptions or donations.

This is from the book: The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

Actually BEAM and Erlang pre-dates Java. ;-)

As for compatibility: why is Java 8 market share so high in 2020?

Germany is silent as Hungary recently saved the German military industry by placing the largest order it ever received from outside. (Since WWII)

Russia is a friend of Orbán as the country pledged to spend 10% of its GDP for the next 25 years on Russian built nuclear power plants.

China likes Orbán as Hungarian taxpayers are paying for part of the new China-EU rail that goes through the country.

This scandal will fade away, but "illiberal" (quasi dictatorship) countries are more and more common. The new normal. As world leaders like to do business with them, they will stay.

Esc-. is more portable. Works on mac too.

Yes. Motion controlling a Mammography device of one of the largest healthcare companies with CANopen in the early 2000s where one of the selling point over Ethernet was that CAN allowed message prioritisation without collisions, so for example the “emergency stop” message would have the highest priority.

Perhaps AWS Certificate Manager certificates are deliberately large so more outgoing traffic can be charged?

Interesting idea from the post: "it could be a selling point for a Certificate Authority to use URLs that are as short as possible"

Referral by former colleague.

The following story might comfort you somewhat. Someone had bad luck with Ryzen:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2018-January/09...

"Germany is the land of cash." -- one of my German friends likes to say.

Last year's post updated for Erlang/OTP 20. This is the number one information source on Erlang's garbage collection. Well written.

When latency matters and serving requests one could just do the old trick (popular in the Erlang world): implement the whole request serving in one light weight (Erlang) process, allocate, allocate, and kill the process at the end without the need to garbage collect. Give a fresh process to each request.

There are not many Erlangs jobs, but as only the more determined developers bother to learn it, you can expect better qualified co-workers in an Erlang shop compared to an average/popular language shop. (Generally true with other niche languages too.) So, once you find an Erlang job chances are good that you will like it. Also it as a language to beat the averages TODAY. http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

MOTO Z PLAY

Battery life was the main selling point to me when I bought it half a year ago. With light usage it lasts 6 days (few hours screen time, few minutes of talk). Typically I charge it after 4 days when ~30% energy left. Recharges in an hour. Vanilla Android 7 after recent upgrade from the factory, no bloatware. One could even by an extra akku pack (as a moto mod) that integrates nicely to the back, but I didn't feel the need so far.