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There is an app on iOS called "athlytic" that is basically this.

https://www.athlyticapp.com/

It really depends on the location. Every city has a different perception of their tap water in the USA.

Where I'm from we drink tap water with no filter etc.

As long as you can afford basic care for a pet, then you can have a pet.

food, water, bedding, the ability to keep it safe, vaccines(they're pretty cheap mostly and often done by animal shelters for free--neutering too).

There are so many pets in shelters who could live good happy lives but no one is there to adopt them.

Better a pet to live with an owner who cant afford their chemo when theyre 14 years old than to be euthanized at 2 years old.

Focus on how good of a life you've given your cat. Be there for it when it passes if you can.

My childhood dog had cancer and ended up having a seizure in my arms. Later I buried him myself.

Being there for him and burying him myself gave me a lot of closure and I'm proud I was able to be his friend and give him a good life.

That's amazing, I hope this works as it seems promising!

Interesting. In The US in The South(Southeastern US) when something is offered it's often polite to decline twice and then accept a third time if you actually want something being offered.

It actually does have a competitor, R. R has a superior ecosystem for quite a few data tasks. Mainly in the analysis/statistics space.

However aside from that R is vastly inferior.

In North America drunk driving is a huge problem. You can't get anywhere without driving a car so if you're drinking and not in your house you have to drive home.

Social pressure/not yet fully formed brain etc. leads to ppl under 21 being more likely to drive drunk. That's the rationale for not being able to drink until 21.

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that minimum drinking age laws have saved more than 31,000 lives from 1975 to 2017"

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...

Just some correction here for ppl who skim stuff:

The linked article says this was a trial in 2001. Only 1 school did it and it seemed to go well, but no other schools were willing to try it.

Leangains is a relic of time. Martin Berkharn(the guy who made it) was a VERY prolific poster on the bodybuilding.com forums around 2005-2012 or something like that. The tone of his entire brand is born out of that forum and style of communication. You had to fight for your life on there if you wanted to communicate.

I'm not excusing his tone btw just explaining.

I think the process of getting a car into the hands of a consumer takes much longer than 1 year so I wouldn't put this up to Elon being less involved.

When I was doing my CS degree I was watching youtube lectures in Hindi(I don't speak Hindi) and following along with what was on the board. I did my degree just before the wave of Indian teachers in English was a thing. Respect to these people.

Generally the "replace reddit" combo is:

Discord to function like an IRC chat and a Wiki to store the important information on the topic of the forum.

My entire online social life(which got really big due to friends moving and covid) is 100% on discord.

Many of my friends also don't have social media and we all exist within a discord server and share our lives and game together very often.

Discord has this buy in like a social media platform for a lot of people.

It's what I've described above--plus communities moving to discord and away from reddit.

If you do an online game now you will end up on discord if you're even halfway serious about the game.

One of the big things discord has allowed for my friend group is it's the first platform like this that has brought in the "normies". People who would never visit a forum and didn't even know teamspeak or ventrilo ever existed.

It's a smooth experience at almost all times on desktop and mobile.

If you go to college nowadays most of the majors have discords--and study groups have discords.

My friends don't even text me anymore, they DM me on discord and have for years at this point.

You can do whatever you want. As long as you're employed enough to meet your bills and retire one day.

I also haven't done the switch, but consider getting into a physical hobby AND also perhaps switching to a lower hours less stress role in your current field that will free you up to spend more time on your hobby.

I worked manual labor through high school and most of college. Be careful of a job that has repetitive motions that can cause you overuse injures. They're very common in the 50+ crowd in the blue collar area I'm from.

Good luck!

IMO, just make that 3 day retreat during work days so you don't require people to work weekends. With that small change I think this would be great for software teams. Perhaps too, every month is too often for anyone with a family. Consider making the interval larger.

If your best friend abandoned you because you got a 55% raise and tried to give lots of notice, then your best friend was a jerk.

Good luck seriously in finding new and more quality friends! You'll find some!

Python is out of this world more productive in the Science space and Data space.

The only thing that can compete with it for productivity in the science space is R.

Most would love to, but the rent is too high and they need a car to be able to get to their job so they can tread water. Owning a primary home as a means of "lazy wealth generation" is only accessible to people with family money or career titles like "Software Engineer" and even then the homes are much lower standard than before for older people working the same job.

If they're American, then there is something like a 95%+ chance that they NEED to know how to drive.

I have a friend who only reluctantly learned to drive at 22 despite living in a car dependent suburb. It blew my mind.

There is a very interesting thing happening in the "car knowledge space". At least for young people.

Myself and a few of my friends drive exclusively Honda/Toyota and drive them to 200k and then sell them to people who know how to do their own car work.

A few of my friends are from well off families and they buy cars brand new and drive them to 60-80k and then act like the car isnt reliable anymore for some reason despite the fact that I usually buy my car with 60-80k miles on it.

* all distance here is miles sorry for confusion

You just don't. Their adoption of Whatsapp(at least in Spain), seems to have been driven by a period in time when WhatsApp was coming up that the plans sold by cell service providers were near unlimited data, but only X amount of calls/texts allowed to be sent per month.

In the USA we had opposite plans during this time. Unlimited talk/text, but strict data caps.

Any athletic shoes that fit properly. Nike, New Balance, Adidas, Puma all have options.

Are you sure you weren't just under-eating calories when you fasted? Just checking.

I'm in Nashville. Our salaries seem to be the same or lower than ATL and our cost of living is for sure higher. I think we are getting a bad deal here compared to ATL.

It's possible that I am hilariously underpaid and need a new job.

Mainly military budget if you google it.

A common American complaint is "subsidizing" European defense off of our tax dollars.

America is also a big spread out place so maintaining it is more expensive than small Euro countries.

On my first point, I think we get a rather strategic advantage from being the "Western" police. However I'm just explaining a common critique you'll hear.

I have to post this every time we talk about salary and Europeans get in on the convo. This forum is absolutely DOMINATED by SF/LA/Seattle SWEs. Their cost of living is extremely high and their salaries are extremely high.

The US is huge.

I work in the Southeast. Where I'm working Junior SWEs start around 60k. Mid Level Start Around 75k. Senior start around 95k. Manager/Our new "Super Senior" level start around 120k.

Our cost of living is still higher than yours. In my area a 3 bed/2 bath home with a small yard within 1 hour drive of my work costs 450k minimum and that would be a full hour out and the siding would be vinyl.

We have horrible public services, many of us are in debt to have obtained our CS degrees, child care is soo expensive, healthcare is crazy expensive even after we get our employer healthcare plans. Going to a local soccer match costs me $50 for nosebleed tickets, a beer is $14, and nachos are $15. Parking costs me $25 at the game and you have to pay for gas here too which is close to $5 a gallon(but keep in mind we drive further, to EVERYTHING, and owning a car is a requirement unless you're in NYC or SF).

I just want to represent for what is probably the majority of US SWE's.

The entire US isn't Seattle or SF though.

They can recruit very good software engineers out of the Southeast & Midwest for under 170k just fine. It's still going to cost them 6 figures, but they are going to be able to hire good talent.

I will admit though, they're going to have trouble retaining the tippy top of the seniority ladder at 170k.

Don't fall prey to these tales to yourself.

I worked full time thru college for bad pay and still needed 30k in student loans to make it out with my degree. I went to a state school, nothing fancy.

I hardly ever had fun in college, it was awful. The working world is waaaaaaay better for me.

Not everyone who has loan debt just partied away on borrowed cash.