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Being a couple is 1.5x more expensive than being single.

It's because if you're in a relationship, you're considered a more valuable member of the society. Because it signals that someone has selected you to be around for a prolonged amount of time. Being single is more expensive in a big city.

Good point. Whenever I see a job ad advertising C/C++ together, it's basically saying "we do C with objects".

I miss C++ a lot. The modern standard library is a thing of beauty IMO. Such a shame that I could not find a good gig when I was looking few months ago, at least not where I am.

Looks like Tesla though are doing C with C++ features rather than C++. I'd also be interested in knowing what their "hardcore" questions are like...I heard that they ask a lot from your past experience.

It's a problem IRL, too. I am astonished by how much disinterested people are in each other. I am very good at keeping a conversation going, I become genuinely interested in the person and ask as many follow-up questions as possible. Unless I know what we're talking about falls into my experiences, I'd refrain from talking about myself.

But what I see constantly is that people have gone from a "what about you" mindset to "what about me" mindset. My conversations end as soon as the person is done answering my questions about them. Like, zero reciprocation, which is god awful.

If these people participate online, where they can mainly get away with being a shitty personality, then this toxicity is not that surprising to see.

Probably was before Tinder, even.

Now everyone has a TV in their pockets with infinite ads. IG, FB, Tinder, etc.

I am not surprised. She somehow was able to bleed her employees dry for business benefits. People at power love someone like that. Of course they're not gonna let her go so easily.

are you performing when you socialize with people?

I never said bald men cannot be handsome. I was saying "get a nice haircut" implies that.

My takeaway is that IG was always built to be performance based social media app. As in, the user puts up a performance for people to see.

Compare that to HN/Reddit/Blogs before and you can basically pinpoint when and how social media changed the way we connect.

Sure, but attractive people with shitty personalities have to lose things, whereas unattractive people with good personalities need to earn. And when there are many attractive people around, there isn't much left to earn.

This advice is throttled around here. There is an implication to this: if you're bald, you're fucking screwed as a man. Attractiveness would not be achievable.

Also, unattractive people would feel like shit in this environment.

beauty is not achievable.

Unfortunately I don't play games myself. But Anno 1800 is something my very good colleague plays these days.

Much like a codebase, some of the brilliant engineers I've met relish the video games that lets them scour around the universe, think about strategy, and get into action. It's like watching someone attempting an Olympic weight-lift move.

I don't do C++ anymore professionally, but from I remember, std::locale was very useful: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/locale

And QString had no magic to it other than wrapping its underlying data in ytf-16 which std::u16string does too.

It's not perfect but it gets the job done, IIRC.

oh yeah absolutely, ginkgo has its use. It was not suited to what we were after, though.

Play video games. I am actually serious.

At a recent job, people were advocating for ginkgo, a non-standard "reinvents the wheel" type of testing framework in golang. If you don't know golang, it has near perfect tooling out of the box, including a standard test framework.

I joined on the brink of this decision i.e. moving to ginkgo. I was the first and only person to ask what does ginkgo do that "go test" does not for us? Nobody could really answer that.

Turns out, much like myself, and most engineers who weren't Googlers at the time, didn't really know golang and its environment. They all kinda assumed that like any other popular language, esp. for system programming (like C++) golang in its infancy requires a test framework supplement.

Well, no it doesn't. "go test" is standard which if we're lucky, means we never have to re-write tests 10-20 years down the line because it's the standard.

right, wasn't looking for the company actually, by "where" I meant the location, which I think is NYC based on your handle! Congrats, that's a great gig!

where is this? also, how many years of experience?

All feelings are true, but they might not be valid. Invalid feelings are less actionable

I might be overgeneralizing, but I feel like 10-15 years ago everyone wanted to do wireless communications, now everyone wants to do AI, and probably in a few years everyone wants to do Blockchain or something else. I kinda find it hard to believe that those people are all passionate about the field, not the massive career opportunities.

Well, you just kinda answered your question. There is STL, Qt and Boost. Like all other languages. They do the same thing but in different capacities, you should select based on your needs. I think std::string can be supplemented for Unicode support, I am gonna say the fmt library was the supplement but I feel like I am wrong.

I used std::string and QString extensively for 4-5 years and find QString inexplicably bloated and un-intuitive for my use cases.

Modern c++ is pretty good, honestly. With the power of STL, you can so many neat things, and make beautiful code. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEnO6SvAMo

"Optimism Bias" improves our mental and physical well-being. Biases are irrational, by definition. Our mind is supposedly rational...and rationality is not always to our benefit.

This kinda blew my mind when I was reading up some philosophy. My key takeaway was that rationality and logic is not always helpful to make decisions, esp. when it comes to complex systems such as people (i.e. relationships). As an engineer, it's tough to get past this mindset. On a daily basis I am striving to disconnect everything as much as possible because of scale and performance, but the human brain is nothing like that.

Hmm, I think if you're good/bad at dating, you'd be like that anywhere. As in, big cities generally aren't great in dating for dudes.

this is why Toronto is one of the most multi-cultural and also depressing and coldest cities