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My name is Stuart and I live in San Diego.

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That's not necessarily what this means though. Is it.

I bought a house while on H1B in 2014.

If the climate was like it is now back then, I would have waited for my GC or, for everything to calm down.

But I wouldn't have left...

Edit: BTW it was far far from a low-risk venture in 2014.

Still have my W800. It was a marvel at the time, still is really. The only thing that irked me what the proprietary connector - which has perished now.

Of course it depends on the nature of the business but push that too far and you can lock yourself out of projects that require work to be performed on US soil.

I work for a very small company and we've seen by that stipulation a couple of times on anything _remotely_ close to defense/MIC/security.

And the administration can tighten those screws further if it desires.

(I am the only H1B in the history of the company, now a citizen. It would have been impossible to have taken this path with this alleged financial burden)

They are surprisingly durable. I have a tape I made in 1990, it's followed me across continents and been in cardboard boxes, basements and attics. It still plays flawlessly.

Not wanting to push my luck, I archived it. On Minidisc.

I have quite a large CD collection. Two albums from the same era are unplayable due to oxidization, same band Banco De Gaia, pressed at the same plant in the UK too.

I wrote a token ring networking simulator with error simulation (token dropping etc) on a 6502. 128 bytes of RAM. It was a squeeze.

I used a Hewlett Packard development system with a 12" hard disk.

Good times.

That the TFA puts forward this as a proposed solution drives your point home

As the name suggests, a property tax deferral program allows seniors to defer paying their property taxes until death.

More direct pricing of police, fire, education, roads is likely the end game they're looking for - and it's kinda the case in California for new build via Mellon-Roos.

If this is what AI is going to look like in practice it's a big letdown.

Science fiction has been predicting what an AI would be like for over a hundred years, there was even one in a movie in 1927. We're so far from what we dream that, to me, it feels like a mere leaf blowing in the wind compared to the Wright Flyer.

This is adjacent to the post but most (software) engineers I have interacted with are amazing plate spinners and an interruption is just another (ephemeral) plate to spin and it's not even close to 20 minutes recovery time.

Unless it's an emergency (boohoo it'll take whatever it takes) or it tickles my fancy more than what I'm doing - which is a me problem.

multiple commands in a layer is possible in a dockerfile for a long time, since format 1.4(?) using heredoc, which is just a script netting you loop and branches etc.

I would like to try Zed, but it doesn't run on my system due to impenetrable MESA/Vulkan errors with Intel UHD 700, even though vkcube runs fine.

Running a text editor should not be this hard, it's pretty ridiculous. Sublime Text is plenty fast without this nonsense.