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“In California, we displayed a Pacific lamprey, and a kid from Hoopa tribe said, ‘That looks delicious.’”

Despite looking gross, they are indeed delicious.

I'm a software engineer myself so I don't know a lot about this, but there are a few patterns that are not far off of what you're describing. For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_shaping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...

Absolutely, and IMO the EU should be developing our own semiconductors.

It seems completely unreasonable to me that one pillar of modern society has to be bought from USA or China and doesn't have a locally sourced alternative...

I'm from Castilla y León (mid west) and the only people I know doing this are people who have to work at unusual times that wake up at 3-5 in the morning.

People with normal working hours don't take siesta.

Regarding what to do, the most important thing is to find a company willing to pay that amount.

1- Foreign companies usually pay more money than local ones, specially American. Obviously there are exceptions but generally speaking avoid them.

2- Outsourcing companies (the so called "cárnicas") usually are the worst places to work, for salary and for conditions in general... Usually companies where you build/maintain the product pay more.

3- For individual contributors technology matters a lot. Kubernetes pays well, crypto pays unreasonable amounts, rust in general is very well paid as well, AI, etc. Find your niche.

4- Experience matters more than education and open source contributions raise your value a lot.

I'd say those are the main factors that will determine a position's salary, so it's a matter of finding the right position and being the best candidate *for that position*.

As for the technology I've been doing kubernetes for about 8 years now (that's before 1.0 was released). For this experience my salary is not insane at all, counting bonus and stock I was making about 35% more in my previous job, but I was quite tired of being a sysadmin and moved back to programming and that involved doing a pay cut.

I'm not a manager and agree that in an office I'm more productive, but at home I'm much cheaper for the company and the company gets more for their money.

Realistically at Google I'd probably be an L5 or L6 software engineer so let's say I'd make somewhere around 400k USD. Working from home in Spain I make 80k euros and I cost the company around 92k euros with taxes, so let's round it up and say I cost to the company 100k USD per year.

I'm not 4 times less productive for working in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Spain, so even if I'm not in my peak productivity I'd say the company gets more for their money.

While the Northern European moose is smaller than the North American, we still treat it with a lot of respect if we ever come across them in nature.

Smaller deers are dangerous and you need to be careful with them. In Spain the largest deers are red deers (males over 200kg are very rare) and there are a few cases of people killed by them. Even small females are dangerous enough to kill healthy large man.

Even roe deers, which are quite small (maybe 30kg a larger male), can cause serious injuries because they are crazy agile and fast and their antlers are quite sharp. Here's a video of a man trying to feed one: https://www.club-caza.com/files/videos/Ataque-de-corzo-a-per...

Deers may not look dangerous because they are herbivorous and cute, but they are.

For this reason I use a virtual debit card for each subscription and only use it for that. If a subscription is hard to cancel I will just cancel my card instead.

He does, he's been many years and he's one of the best engineers I worked with :)

Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions?

OK, my previous comment was an overstatement. This is what's happening.

I'm not there anymore but there has been significant change in the company culture (which was great) and IBM is making conditions gradually worse.

One thing that is a clear change is that IBM is pushing for having a cheaper workforce, more employees but cheaper and therefore less qualified. Many short term goals of getting quick sales rather than get stuff that is sustainable over time not just technically but also burning people out.

Depecration of CentOS is something that really pissed me off, specially when we had acquired CentOS a few years back.

Some projects have been transfered to IBM. Others without being transferred directly were influenced by IBM in a negative way (I was a software engineer in one that was).

Significant changes in teams that deal with end customers, support has been affected, consulting has been affected. I know sales had some kind of merge as well (I don't any friend in sales but I've heard some stuff), etc...

Also there are loads of ridiculous changes in policy to save costs and they don't even save any money.

Something that really pissed me off were problems in HR. For instance I've seen problems in payslips (once I was paid THREE times with different amounts and the following month I got a discount on my payslip because I was paid too much, I know a guy who got paid 4 times that month and the month after he still got an extra amount because after 4 different payments money was still missing). I've heard of problems and delays doing the paperwork for paternity leave.

Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM.

As a former Red Hat employee this was painful to read. IBM is doing a Sun Microsystems to it, Red Hat used to be such a great company.

Odd, most pre workouts supplements include caffeine.

I use a pre-workout from a very famous supplement brand which includes 175 mg of caffeine and I can definitely tell the difference. I can't tell how much of that is because of the caffeine, because it has more stuff like creatine and L-carnitine among other things, but I cant I feel like I last more doing this and I have more energy.

I think this is some of the disconnect between users on this site who don't understand why people would possibly actively choose iOS even with the lockin. Most people do not want to use a product that is constantly updating and adding features

Precisely the reason why I have an iPhone and an iPad is because they give me 5 years of updates and even more of security fixes.

I don't think it's so much not being allowed to be outside but the education that they got, the confinement ended 2 years ago and kinds have very flexible brains. My older niece will be 5 next month and she is NEVER allowed to have cartoons while eating and she doesn't do it and doesn't miss it. However one of my best friends has a kid born the same month and she always has a phone every time I see her.

I also tell you that if I have a child of my own they aren't trying fucking ketchup, the thing with my niece and ketchup isn't even close to reasonable. Kids can get a nasty habit very easily, youtube, ketchup, etc. Pretty much everything can become a problem if it's not cut down.

I know this is a paradox, but the fact that verb tenses in English are so simple and give so little context compared to Spanish makes them very easy and global. Pick this sentence:

Joe flew yesterday to Paris, he had never flown before, so he was nervous.

Pretty much every speaker no matter where from will use the same tenses here, past simple for recent past and perfect for older past. We have similar rules in Spanish and I'm pretty sure that another person from my region would use the same tenses as I would. But I'm not quite sure if someone from, say Costa Rica or El Salvador would pick the same tenses. In fact, I don't know if someone 500km south or west would use the same tenses. This is usually not a problem because usually you don't need that much correctness, but in engineering it can be a problem.

Because English verb tenses are so simple they are used in a way more consistent way and from Australia will use the verbs in a very similar way as a Brit, and even non native speakers can use them in a pretty correct way.

Another problem is that in Spanish verbs give you a lot more context and people rely on them, but again they are used differently across regions. In Englosh because they give so little context means that you're forced to add a lot more context in the rest of the sentence in a much more explicit way.

Yet another problem is that verbs in Spanish are super complex for non natives, and because we rely on the verb so much they may end up saying something that they don't mean. Also this is usually not a problem in casual conversations but in technical conversations it may be an issue.

Finally, English handles certainty well. It's very easy to tell how certain you are, if something is mandatory or not, how likely is something, etc. I can't explain why, maybe it's because I've read countless RFCs and not many specifications in Spanish, but this is a general feeling that I have even though I cannot give you an exact reason but I think it would be easier to translate a specification from Spanish to English than the other way around. Even if I find more often things that translate poorly from Spanish to English than the other way around.

I meant the same characters not the same sounds.

Portuguese has the same basic characters except for ç, in the case of vowels it's resolved with combinations of letters or by adding accents. For instance e and é have different sounds and ou isn't the same sound as o followed by u.

Well I'm far from a native speaker, but my English is certainly much much better than my French (I cannot speak French fluently) and I find French so much better for this purpose.

I have lived in Ireland for more than a year and I haven't heard anyone arguing in a really expressive way although I've seen a couple actual fights starting a couple times. I don't know, anger in English always feels like diet coke to me.

Spanish isn't particularly rich in sounds but other languages use combination of vowels or accents. French or Portuguese have much more than 5 sounds and the same vowels.

I know you're being sarcastic, but as a Spanish native speaker I'd say English precisely excels on how well it handles ambiguity and certainty.

I also hate with passion that it's not written as it sounds (I think everyone who comes from a language with very regular pronunciation will tell you this) but I don't think this is a real issue on a daily basis.

On the other hand Spanish handles other things better. I'd say Spanish is a much better language than English to express feelings, specially anger.

If 92% of the people live in the city this means the country side are only 8% of votes. If your goal is to be in the power rather than making good decisions in the long term you do decisions that will be popular in the short term at any cost. Extend it to other large groups and you end up with a recipe for disaster.

If politicians are conditioned like this (and I believe this has to be the situation for most developed countries even if it's with different topics), there is no way we can work well in the long term. This is a massive problem with democracy...

I want to clarify that I'm not advocating for dictatorships at all, period. I think that democracy is actually the best system that mankind has had so far.

Not myself directly, but about 5 years ago I was doing some work for one space agency and there were some Solaris clusters which were older than me.

I’m pretty certain most if not all are still running.

- I would love if VSCode could detect the technologies my project uses and just install/use the proper plugins for me

VSCode does this already, if it detects a new language it suggests installing a new plugin. I don't know the criteria it follows to recommend a plugin, perhaps it only does it with some official plugins, but it has showed me this a few times.

>With VSCode, you type the name of any programming language in the extension search, click "Install", and you have a world-class development environment

Very minor feature. It is not usefull unless you are constantly hunting for new languages.

The big advantage isn't just installing but keeping them up to date without any actual effort. I used to know vimscript, used to understand how the vim package managers I used works and all. With VSCode I don't even know in which language are extenssions written.

I work mostly on golang, and now the environment is certainly more stable, but I remember that in order to have go extensions working on vim I used to have to be updating manually the extensions pretty much every release and it was some effort. Now I update the golang version and things just work.

More population sure raises the value of land, making housing more expensive which sucks for raising a family.

Actually this is not so much a problem for the amount of population but of excessive centralization around big cities. The earth, even if we only consider the places with reasonable climate, water and food supply and decent enough orography is pretty much empty.

Everyone agrees that as big cities grow the housing prices increase, but I don't see this happening in small towns far from big cities. Every country is different and obviously there are very good reasons to have some regions not very populated (I'm not saying Lapland should have the same population density as the coast of the Mediterraneum) but in plenty of cases places are unnecessarly crowded.

Spain is a good example of this, Madrid in particular is a city far too expensive for the salaries due to the excessive amount of population. The weather or the land aren't particularly good, it's not that it has massive water supply or anything like that, it's just that there have been centuries of centralization efforts by governments.

Gender in gendered language matter, unfortunately. The best advice I heard is to always memorize the word with its gendered article. (assuming language has articles)

For written language yes, spoken it doesn't really matter as people will cut you a lot of slack.

In Spain there was a football comentator from England, Michael Robinson. Robinson had an obvious English accent and even though his Spanish was very very good, but he still he messed some things -including genre- and nobdy cared. He was a comentator for many years and people liked him a lot.

In the US you have other examples of the same things. For instance I can think of Sofia Vergara and Charo to name the first that come to my mind. Both quite popular and I can spot their accent and some mistakes instantly and I'm not even a native speaker.

Also I mess gender a lot myself when I speak English and people don't seem to care.

I said it's the best *I've* ever seen. I never claimed it was the best in the market or that I had seen every other laptop in the market.

I don't know the criteria for rating the display quality, but scoring less than 2% from the best one is still arguably a very good rating.

I have a mac m1 pro at work and it's hands down the best laptop in terms of hardware I've ever had if you forget extensability. By a far margin.

It makes no noise at all, to the extent that I even checked a dissasembly video to check if they had fans or just passive refrigeration. The display is the best I've ever seen in any laptop. The trackpad is excellent, the keyboard think is very good, the speakers, microphone and webcam are also very good.

I've owned before a lenovo T530, T460s and T580 and quite frankly if we're talking about just hardware this is even better and my last experience with the T580 was just bad. My perception of the lenovo brand was that they made the best laptops until then. In fact I asked to get a macbook because the T580 was so so problematic and not just for me.

I have to say I personally dislike macOS. In fact because now I'm working on 100% FOSS software I'm only using the laptop for corporate calls or situations where I have to deal with customer data, but the rest I do on my personal computer with ubuntu.

That's not what I meant. Obviously thinking someone is gay is not being a prick. I meant in the context where someone is being a prick about it.

Many of us are victims of feminism to some degree.

A male doesn't have male friends and this is femenism's fault?

But after high school, I preferred to hang around straight people, and a straight guy won't get too close--because it might be gay?

Sounds like you have some serious insecurities... One of my best friends is gay, I don't think anyone ever thought I'm gay because I hang out with him, but if they did I just don't care. My mate is more important to me than some random prick's opinion.

Also plenty of activities considered manly and not gay are done in groups. Team sports are often perceived as manly not gay activities, things like hunting or fishing are also done in groups commonly and society percieves them as totally not gay, even after Broke Back Mountain. Men hanging out with other men are usually not perceived as gay.

I'm not saying that you are, but this sounds like a repressed gay man would be insecure of. And there's nothing wrong with being openly gay, but being repressed fucks people's mental health.

I was subjected to decades of gender-based emotional abuse and so my relationships with women are also poor. This is a direct result of feminists and feminism.

Honestly pretty much everyone is influenced by the society, feminists and feminism are everywhere. If it was something provoked by a social movement as large as feminism it would hapen affect everyone. It would affect me, your coworkers, your cousin, the butcher, etc. Now I agree that social interactions in general have changed, but most people still manage to have functional relationships.

Sounds to me that you have some internal issues to deal with... Perhaps professional wouldn't hurt.