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We use it for upgrades and patching events that have team members from multiple departments. We are all on the same campus (a university) but these events don't require a dedicated meeting room. Slack is perfect for that.

Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope that does not work that way for my daughter. Her UG college library staff recommended Fla State for the MIS which used to be a MLS degree. She hopes to move from local government libraries to academic in the next several years.

I hope you find the employment you are looking for. And I hope she does as well.

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Realistically, and I mean no disrespect to the profession or your daughter who is studying it, but why is a degree required here? And a master's at that? What exactly do they do that requires knowledge?

My assumption is they shelve books, maybe make recommendations, and hold weekly community events? And nowadays, help with social services like helping people create resumes and what not?

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No offense taken. The ALA (American Library Association) and libraries have deemed a Master required for as long as I can remember. In community settings, a Masters may not provide that much benefit, other than in getting the job. In academic settings, a Masters helps with taxonomy and other data classification issues and more. Reference librarians face sometimes challenging research problems. Digital librarians need exposure and some practice to tools and techniques. While a Masters does not guarantee that exposure and also that experience can be gained without schooling, libraries seem to like (as in require) the stamp of approval.

It's hard to make a proper living as a librarian when you have to get what is typically a liberal arts UG degree ($$) and a Masters ($$) for jobs that start at the low to mid $40s (US). Crazy huh? My daughter is lucky, her UG degree was 100% free other than room and board, she got in-state tuition for her Masters (VA to FLA because of an agreement that schools have) and earned some significant scholarship $ at Fla State. So her ROI will be more favorable than many other newly minted librarians.

A masters in Library Science or equivalent is almost always required. Typically (from my casual research) people are hired that have other prior library experience and can show a lifelong love of books. New masters degrees (master in information science at Fla State for example) have an ability to have more exposure to UI design, media creation, digital metadata and more.

My oldest daughter (26 years old) works at a library part-time in circulation. In December she will get her masters and be able to become a librarian. Libraries are more than books, they are maker spaces, community spaces, learning pods and so much more.

We are bullish on libraries. However, libraries have to keep updating their services and offer community engagement services.

I'm a boomer at 64 and will work at least 3 more years. I have friends my age that are retiring and ones that are working. I don't even know what "retire en masse" means.

The eMMC for me is worth the price. Too many corrupt SD cards.

Thanks. I will have to look into that.

I am 64 and am approaching the date I can enroll in Medicare. I am getting 30+ robocalls a day at home and a handful at work and on my mobile phone trying to sell me medicare supplemental plans.

We just let the home phone roll to VM now. I don't answer the work phone and only my mobile phone if I know the caller. Grrrr.

I'm on a mac and use slack an vscode. Neither has crashed on me. I'm wondering if there is something about your mac setup.

I don't like that slack consumes some many resources. I love vscode so I don't care.

Many entry-level lawyers have historically been involved in document discovery. AI-based software and having a significant impact on the job market for freshly minted lawyers. Software now performs ediscovery.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609556/lawyer-bots-are-sh...

I'm 64. Kids are grown.

Most days, in bed by 9 and up by about 4 am. So 7 hours. Sometimes a little more. Usually get up an hour early and go to the living room and sleep in a chair for the last hour.

I have some back issues and use an adjustable bed and sleep upright sort of for the first 1 to 3 hours. Then on my side. When I go to the chair it is just right for upright sleep.

I go to the gym at 5 am and need 30 mins to an hour before doing my gym routines.

At 64 I love a good nap. At work at lunchtime for 10-15 minutes. On the weekends for 20 - 25 minutes. Naps are always upright just like a meditation sitting posture.

I have lost ~50 lbs on a keto diet. I test for ketones almost daily and only fall out of keto 1 out of 10 days or so.

My blood chemistry is better than it ever has been. My A1C is great. My LDL and VLDL are very low. I eat saturated fat and olive oil. I eat fish 2 or more times a week. Some white fish (cod) but mostly salmon and a little tuna. I have more weight to lose, maybe another 40 lbs. I was trending towards metabolic syndrome before keto. I exercise for 40 to 50 mins a day, 5 days a week. Strength training walking and more.

Since going keto (2 years ago) I have had no colds, no ear infections, no sinus infections. I have had the flu once. That is it. I used to get a lot of ear infections and colds and more. Several times a year.

I have heart disease. I had 4-way bypass more than 10 years ago. I take a statin and aspirin.

I am under two doctors care, a primary and a cardiologist. They support my keto diet. My primary says my systemic level of infection is very low resulting in less sickness.

I am a sample size of one so take that for what it is worth.

I had the asian flu when I was very young (1957 I think). I was so sick as was my mother. I remember it. So far only my youngest daughter (she is 19) got the flu this year. She is better. We all had the shots. I'm carrying a paper towel to open doors with and washing my hands a lot.

take care everyone

What is this "Oak" app you mentioned? There are a lot of Android Apps with Oak in their name. Thanks.

I just took a mac book pro that was no longer in use and loaded Ubuntu on it so that I have a linux system to play with. My staff is not very linux knowledgeable and they will do the same this summer with their current mac book when IT swaps it out for a newer model.

Note that I am a IS staff worker so my perspective is limited but I also have a recent grad from my school in my family with my oldest daughter.

So some of what I speak of is personal and up close.

I work at a liberal arts university and hear this from faculty: "We don't care about skills, we care about the ability to learn". The problem is that today's learners need to be super learners. They need the ability to do divergent thinking, then need to work collaboratively in teams. Working this way is a skill. They need to be able to solve a wide body of problems safely where failure does not impact grades.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_pa...

But they don't encourage this sort of learning. And don't even mention the "skill" word which is considered evil. I hear the 500 year old liberal arts model woks just fine.

While our business school quietly is working on these skills and the students are finding great jobs and starting businesses successfully and more all while the liberal arts side is ignoring the future.

I wonder if the presence of automated everything, be it through software or AI or robots is going to be a long cycle self titrating process. If we automate too much, there will be less money in people's hands to buy goods and services and so less demand. The problem with this is that the lag time to seeing this effect is high. Then many people will be impacted.

Don't most IOS app developers use macs for app development? How might this change the equation?

I work on a small public web team and we use macs for development. Increasingly we are moving towards vagrant and docker for our development of the backend code. We are all mac users and I think we would hate going to Windows. Maybe we would go to a linux laptop and run Windows in a VM for the occasional word and excel work we would have to do.

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I was in Atlanta from '78 to 2000. From '80 to '93 I owned several businesses. I had clients come in and ask to go to the strip clubs. I declined. We offered cab money. I suspect some of my employees went with them but I was never in the know.

It says I own 86 domains but is using my given names and not my email address. My name is not unique. Hardly a valuable service. I own less than 10 for the record.

Thanks. This is helpful. I'm thinking about doing a programming blog.

My dad's doctor and not mine. Keep in mind this was antidotale from my dad. I'm sure the conversation was longer but that is how he (my dad) represented it.

I can usually drink coffee within an hour or two of bed. I don't normally do that but I can. On the weekends I drink 2 to 3 cups in the early morning around 5AM. Then around 2 pm I usually drink 1 to 2 more cups.

At 70 something my dad watched a TV show on ADD and said to my stepmom, I think I have ADD. He want to the doctor and told him the same. The doctor said, we don't test for ADD, instead we have assessment questions. He asked my dad, first question "How many cups of coffee do you normally drink?" Dad said 15 to 18 a day. Doctor said we are done. You have ADD.

He was on ritalin the rest of his life. I don't agree with having him on ritalin but that was not my choice. He died of old age at 83. Until a year before his death he had been very healthy. NEver got colds, the flu or anything like that. Had a little spring hay fever. That was all.

I always drink my coffee black. I don't drink the stronger blends like you might get in a French roast or at Starbucks. I do dring espresso however a few times a year.

How do you determine you are a slow metabolizer of caffeine?

I'm 64 years old and still work. Will likely work full time until I am at least 67. I plan on some form of work part time or otherwise till I'm 70.

I got hearing aids a year and 1/4 ago. I did not need a prescription. I live in the states. I have a blue tooth device to listen to podcasts and music. I can also plug in a direct cable since my laptop has crappy Bluetooth.

Having hearing aids and the Bluetooth device has been one of the best things I have done for myself in years. They take getting used to but the downside is worth it since the upside is so great.

My primary care doctor says she has many patients that need but won't get hearing aids. My audio doctor said I barley needed them. I say bull to that. I hear things now that I was missing for years.

I convinced my father in-law to get a pair at 80. He too thinks it is one of the best things he has done.

To be clear, at 64 I have pain, soreness, don't sleep as well as I would like, etc. But I also think I have the potential to enjoy life for many years.

There is a big market in the aging population.

I don't know. But he is so deep and broad in his knowledge that he may have a memory that exceeds mere mortal memory. This is a book he is working on now http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/index.html

From the description:

This book is intended for a different audience, and it has different goals. I developed it for a class at Olin College called Software Systems.

Most students taking this class learned to program in Python, so one of the goals is to help them learn C. For that part of the class, I use Griffiths and Griffiths, Head First C, from O'Reilly Media. This book is meant to complement that one.

Few of my students will ever write an operating system, but many of them will write low-level applications in C, and some of them will work on embedded systems. My class includes material from operating systems, networks, databases, and embedded systems, but it emphasizes the topics programmers need to know.

At Olin everyone is an undergraduate. Olin is about reinventing engineering education. They consider faculty as very important to the process but they are guides not instructors. The students most of the time have to seek information and approaches out.