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Yes. Hedging results in a middle-of-the-road answer that, at best, comes across as lukewarm. Companies want to hire people they're excited about and are convinced fit into their culture. An honest answer will get you more strong noes but also more strong yeses, and strong yeses turn into offers. Hedging, produces only weak yeses and noes, which tend to end in no offers especially in tighter job markets like the one we're in.
Both of those combinations pretty commonly used in other applications
cmd+shift+v -> unformatted paste
cmd+shift+p -> command palette
I use Karabiner and use right_command+v for the clipboard launcher without interfering with the other apps.
The statement "my options on who will hire me are kind of limited" is a bit misleading. Limited compared to whom? Your options are abundant compared to most people.
It sounds like you are waiting on a fantasy position that has both interesting work and pays at least the same as your current position, which you have 13 years of experience in. That's not usually how life works. There are trade-offs.
If you want to do a different type of work that you don't have any professional experience in, you are going to have to take a pay cut. As you mentioned, you're fortunate to be making 3x what you need. It's up to you whether it's worth "only" making 2x what you need in order to do work you find more engaging.
This is not a unique circumstance. People make this trade-off all the time. Maybe talk to some people who did.
I definitely understand the optimization of keyboards especially for certain types of work such as programming — It's what I spend 90% of my time doing. But I would argue that there are just as many use cases where a mouse is actually faster than using keyboard with shortcuts. Design work would be one of those examples, and it's not a small industry.
I guess what I feel is missing is "Keychron for mice". Keychron took the pretty niche mechanical keyboard market which was mostly targeted towards gamers or extreme optimizers and tailored it for productivity with their default macOS compatibility. I doubt the Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard would exist if Keychron didn't exist, which I take as a sign of their success.
It might be suitable and it's on my radar along with maybe two other mice, but from my understanding Razer Synapse 3.0 isn't supported on macOS, my primary OS for productivity. I know that there is third-party software that I can use so I may end up still getting the Naga.
Using third-party software isn't that big of a deal and is not uncommon in the keyboard world. I suppose what's most surprising to me is the lack of discourse and community around on the topic.
I think probably not. The majority of people aren't looking to live on the home row and optimize every key stroke. The arrow keys are a lot more intuitive than HJKL.
The caps lock key on the other hand... I would argue should definitely be backspace.
Came here to say this. It's definitely not the advantage it used to be for an employee given how commonplace remote is now. Most of the advantages of being there are for founders and investors.
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I think it's directly related to how easy it is to get support for specific policies. It's easy to rally the people around the idea that "it's AirBnB's fault".
Compare that to the reality that in order to solve housing you need to build more houses, and to do that you have to simplify and speed up permitting, allow more multi-unit housing next to existing housing, existing home owner's properties may not go up in value indefinitely and many will decrease in value, etc.
That's a much tougher sell. Also look a the politicians' incentives. Voters are more likely to understand and have an emotional response to AirBnB being banned than the permit process being sped up by 50%.
My biggest issue with these cancellations is that they don't seem to be fixing the underlying issue at all — that you can't default on your student loans.
Lenders are incentivized to loan as much out as possible because their risk is so low, and so there is no reason to NOT approve a $150,000 loan to a student earning a degree which will realistically net them $40,000 a year.
As soon as you let borrowers default, the math starts to make sense again. Lenders will have to evaluate how much they are willing to lend a student based on their expected earnings post-graduation. Universities won't be able to increase tuition at such an inflated rate since there wouldn't be infinite money being pumped into the system. College may actually become affordable again over time.
It's not a mystery what the actual problem is here.
edit: corrected "lenders" to "borrowers"
I didn't even realize DDG had a browser. I've been using Brave for a few years now which has also offered a built-in VPN (which I don't use). If anyone has chose DDG over Brave, what were the deciding factors?
An app that corrects your vision while using passthrough mode and makes it look like you're wearing glasses from the outside.
You might also want to consider pgTyped (https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped). It's supposed to make SQL and TS work together. I haven't gotten around to using it yet but I hear good things.
This is hilarious. I can imagine the person on the other side using the same app and the conversation just being the two AI talking to each other.
I think the wide range is appropriate given that the thread is trying to extrapolate an entire company's culture from a single word in a job posting title. It's up for interpretation, but I think the message the company is trying to get across is that their culture is not like that portrayed in the recent LinkedIn employee TikTok videos.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/linkedin-employee-reignites-wo...
We do have a better metric. It’s “years of life lost” (YLL) and it is a commonly used metric for the exact reasons you mentioned. My guess as to why you rarely see it being used outside of the scientific community is because “number of deaths” drives more clicks.
https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr...
I've tried doing the SQL dump on dbdiagram a few months ago and ran into some issues. Unfortunately I don't remember specifically what, but after testing out a few other programs I ended up using the free version of https://dbschema.com/ and have been very happy with it.
You're arguing that an incident involving three individuals of Japanese descent in Hawaii, a US territory at the time, somehow justifies sending almost the entirety of the Japanese Americans to internment camps. I don't think this story is being suppressed, it seems insignificant.
Can you imagine if the story read, "Three Puerto Rican residents of German descent — two of which immigrated to Puerto Rico from Germany — helped a Nazi pilot after crash landing his plane. Therefore the US Government has decided to send all German Americans across the continental US to internment camps."?
This is just a bad take.
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