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I agree with all your individual points but I’m slow in understanding your overall message, sorry.

Think you're right, it's a mistake by the journalist. Here's a tweet[0] from Anton Nell, Andre's partner according to the journalist, saying what GP is saying: yearn.fi is shutting down but yearn.finance will continue to operate.

[0]: https://twitter.com/AntonNellCrypto/status/15004054752962969...

I work for exactly one of these product development consultancies / contract engineering firms - we are a team of ~10 EEs and SWEs who work with customers from idea to design to development and then manufacturing. To the point of "lots of subjects", the above includes but is not limited to: sales, project management, electronic schematic capture and PCB layout, design for and manufacturing support, web development, and mechanical/system integration. Often we'll collaborate with our mechanical engineering counterparts who've opened their own product development and contract engineering consultancy.

I can't speak for all firms but the way we find our employees is through networks of current employees and through LinkedIn recruiting. You'll want to emphasize aspects of your resume/work that mark you as a self-starting generalist with key skills.

An example on the generalist side: we had a candidate say, "I don't want to do design, I just want to be handed a schematic and do PCB layout." They were passed over in favor of another candidate willing to dive in and do schematic capture if necessary, PCB layout, and speak directly to customers about requirements, timelines, budgets, and other project planning logistics.

An example on the key skills side: the weakness of generalists is of course lack of depth, and we'll often contract out to SMEs based on project needs. If you know of a product consultancy near you that's, say, mechanically-focused, you can offer e.g. SWE expertise on, for example, frontend/backend development for a site that accepts RESTful HTTP requests from the IoT device they're building a mechanical enclosure for, whose customer needs software expertise that the MEs don't have.

To find these companies, useful search phrases are things like "product development", "contract engineering", "engineering consultancy" and so on.

Ah, makes sense -- thanks for clarifying.

Can you elaborate? This particular comment of yours reads to me as agreeing -- as in agreeing that selectivity accounts for some of the decrease in sex, but not all, which I think is what I stated.

Your other comment in this overall thread gives me the impression that you actually disagree though, so I think I'm missing something and would appreciate more explanation.

One possible explanation is that, as you say, "most people" are monogamous -- the rest are a group of men who have more partners drawn from the same group of women (excluding the monogamous women), and a group of men who are not having partners at all.

See this article [0] discussing a study, and specifically this quote in it which I think reconciles both your point and the GP's:

> Most women and men reported at least weekly sex, and most people reported having one sexual partner in the prior year. In the most recent surveys, men age 18 to 44 were more likely to have had no partners in the past year (16 percent) compared to women (12 percent). Men also were more likely to have had three or more partners in the past year (15 percent) compared to women (7 percent).

[0]: https://news.iu.edu/stories/2020/06/iub/releases/15-sexual-i...

This WaPo article and specifically the chart entitled "Young men driving the decline in sex": https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...

I read the chart as indicating a jump from ~15% to 28% of men 18-30 not having sex, and women from ~13% to 18%. So perhaps the simultaneous rise could be due to factors like less promiscuity overall or more selectivity, but I find that GP's reasoning is plausible for explaining why sexlessness in men rose higher and faster than that in women.

See this WaPo article and specifically the chart titled "Young men driving the decline in sex": https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...

It dances around the point but the GP's logic seems plausible, if exaggerated. If the increase in sexlessness among young men is ~twice that of the increase of sexlessness in young women over the same timeframe, it is quite plausible that the same men are having sex with more women.

On Android I use Markor to edit text -- it also recognizes Zim Wiki format if I remember correctly. And then Termux is nearly a full Linux distro with convenient touch icons for things like Tab, modifier, and arrow keys -- I installed the git package for it and used that to push/pull to my GitHub repo. Maybe that could be a solution for you?

Thank you!

Imapsync maybe? I haven't personally used it, though I did previously buy it thinking it would download to local machine -- it transfers between accounts using IMAP which wasn't my intent but sounds like it is yours.

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/

Yes, ordinary consumers are starting to use TOTP more but still may not be aware of what you pointed out.

To mitigate the risk of losing my 2FA credentials I use the FOSS app andOTP (Aegis is similar, but better UI, from what I hear). It can export your data as both cleartext and encrypted JSON so you can import into a new phone as desired.

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I think you could be a lot more charitable to EEs and MEs.

The EE/ME equivalent of what you're talking about for SWEs is not "work on button for a car cockpit or something" -- it's hardware/software/enclosures for things like space-hardened applications and payloads, industrial and commercial applications, or medical devices. Some of these are hellishly complex systems, others are just hellishly out of date, over-budget, poorly documented, and "shitty third-party [i.e. lowest-bidding contractor] services".

If you want to tell an EE or ME to just go work on buttons for a car cockpit, you might as well go tell an SWE that they can just go write AJAX calls to update HTML elements on a page, or update Wordpress plugins for businesses.

The electrical and mechanical engineering fields have far advanced past "button for a car cockpit" into much more complex domains, just like SWE has advanced far past writing vanilla JS to update HTML elements into things like JS frameworks, containers, (P/I/S)aaS.

You and GP might find ArchiveBox to have overlap with what you're describing? https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Edit: here's the description from their repo

"ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline.

You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser bookmarks or history, feeds like RSS, bookmark services like Pocket/Pinboard, and more. See input formats for a full list.

It saves snapshots of the URLs you feed it in several formats: HTML, PDF, PNG screenshots, WARC, and more out-of-the-box, with a wide variety of content extracted and preserved automatically (article text, audio/video, git repos, etc.). See output formats for a full list."