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I was second in line behind a younger guy who asked to use his iPhone tap to pay, the clerk shrugged and pointed to the card scanner. Guy taps his phone and the scanner bricks, hard. The young man was somewhat embarrassed for holding up the line and sheepishly dug some old school greenbacks out of his pockets to pay before slinking out the door.

The clerk confusedly tried without luck to recover the register, before giving up and asking me and the other 6 people in line to move to another register. I had a little mini panic because all I had was a card, no cash, and about $20 worth of snacks. What do we do when electronics fail?

Thank god Mazda currently has the "driver first" mentality.

NO Touchscreen!

Main input is through a comfortable knob in front of the arm rest, where your hand naturally lands when resting.

Gauge cluster is digital, but analog type dials for spedo, etc.

AC, Power Cool/heated seats, driver assists, auto-park, all controlled via BUTTONS!

It's a modern miracle and one of the big reasons I chose to buy it over a new Tesla Model 3.

"Horse and rider" is truly a wonderful concept... Go Mazda!

Hoards of cash in drawers and bags?

Open laptops with logged in crypto accounts?

Maybe they only showed the few dummies on the team that didn't follow protocol, but all it takes is one idiot to ruin the whole "teamwork" vibe...

You need to start applying to other companies immediately. Please take this as a MAJOR warning that they are setting you up to fire you. There are many reasons why they might do this, but you've ALREADY TRAINED YOUR REPLACEMENT. Changes are good that other person is either cheaper or better qualified and they want to free the chair/pay up for them.

I've been in this exact situation and it's better to just hit the job boards as fast and hard as possible. Given 100 years, this manager wouldn't change their opinion of you. You were blindsided and scolded without your direct manager's involvement. If you "stay loyal" you'll either be fired or treated the same way over and over. If you have 6 months of Rust and Computer Vision experience it should be pretty easy to find new work right now. This is the best job market in decades, take advantage!

Clean up your resume now and start applying for new jobs.

I've worked 6 positions for 5 different companies over 12+ years. Two of those as a solo developer. Neither had upper management promising things I could deliver on deadlines. I was still fairly stressed out because I was always afraid I wouldn't be able to solve problems by myself. I can't imagine how torturous it would be to have someone with little understanding of code or my personal output making promises that I would have to keep! Look for an out, ASAP, in my opinion.

2. If you target very large organizations, you'll tend to have a lot more slack in delivery pace.

Nearly everyone that works in the Fortune 50 or at a major US university works slower.

I've worked for both, the feeling is just different. I think it's because everyone expects delays, paperwork, and process bureaucracy at every step. This gives you lots of breathing room to take a more pastoral approach to what's considered "productive". I think the work from home revolution has further enhanced that. I can say for sure in the 7 years of being a "senior full stack engineer" at a major org, I've worked after 5 pm less than 10 times.

This isn't a bad thing, as typically you can trade time for less risk to the company. "I need an extra day to make sure this won't embarrass us / leak data / hurt customers / etc."

"The metaverse will be social" and when you click "Watch the Keynote" it takes you to a login screen for Facebook?

I'm only thinking ethically, it's better to use technology to protect people from prosecution for victimless "crimes" than to support murder. ;)

I've been working 100% from home for the last 8 months and rather enjoy it.

Should I just hold out for another remote job? I have about 10 months of burn left in my bank account...

Best advice I can offer is "clubs", but I've had mixed success.

By clubs I mean, tennis clubs, golf clubs, social clubs, etc. This is where church used to have a big part to play in the social fabric of America.

Work for an NPO -> https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/haiti

You'll likely earn 3x what a Doctor would earn.

They spent collectively north of over $20,000 USD on Levi's, iStuff, Nikes, etc.

Packed it all up into 10-15 suitcases for transit back to their home towns.

Your analogy is so far off the mark on how wealth is created, it's laughable.

$10 billion in family wealth is almost never held in cash, it's invested in companies, land, and other ventures. Wherever an investment is made, people are put to work collecting salaries and benefits, generally speaking.

You've made a gross oversimplification, and a misleading one at that.

You may want to try some practice interviews like on https://interviewing.io/

If I were in your shoes, I'd definitely be targeting mid-level plus. Your experience plus age makes your decision making more valuable. It's possible you are undershooting the mark.

As others have said, maybe aim for some low hanging fruit dev jobs. Wordpress is everywhere, with your skills, you should be able to get one of those easy. Also, don't bother listing all that other stuff on a Wordpress application, just put that you have 11 years of experience and put a few Wordpress projects. You can replace "wordpress" with any other low hanging fruit.

Would it be better to just use something like Emacs org mode and store the data in .git?

Anki's implementation has some rough edges, but for $0/mon for multi-device use, it's an amazing way to get your feet wet with this learning technique.

https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chr...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury-idUSBRE...

An average global temperature increase of 4c is bad, but survivable easily with modern technology and good planning.

80% of the worlds population live within 50 miles of a coast line. There's still plenty of room inland.

You want a retirement plan? Buy land in the the Rockies or the Alps.

Bad move for users.

The landing page is a bit busy, but generally gets the message across.

Good to see some alternatives popping up to challenge the defacto surveillance capitalism model.

The two main suppositions are that "AI can be used to target racial groups." and "AI weapons could end up in the hands of ISIS, et. al."

While both of these are true, and certainly cause for concern, the author greatly ignores the game theory aspect of AI powered weapons.

Namely, if our enemies are building them, we must too.

I'm not trying to fear monger, but US and China are already engaged in an AI arms race. It's illogical for either party at this point to stop development.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/technology/artificial-int...

http://www.pionline.com/article/20180330/ONLINE/180339994/ny...