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You bring up an interesting argument: is it healthier to live Urbanely vs Rurally? I see many advantages & disadvantages for both.

Having grown up in a city, and tried both, I plan to live somewhere in the middle:

On the outskirts of a small city (For me, about 30000-80,000 seems to be the sweet spot, preferably with a university, and with large enough parks for a 2 hour hike, and/or a river) while also being within 45 minutes from a large city.

I work remotely, and I am interested in living closer to nature and keeping a few livestock.

At a 45 minute distance, a 2-day-hybrid work week wouldn't be too bad, especially since that city offers things I can't get in my town (specialty groceries and IT meetup events).

I love the simplicity of the Bulma CSS framework.

And its pretty easy to find SASS/SCSS versions of it.

Some would say Math is a language. And I agree-- teach a 2nd language to kids before they reach 12. But I would also want to teach my own children advanced math during that time, if possible.

From what I've read in passing, it seems some former soviet countries of Eastern Europe & Russia teach advanced math to students a few years earlier than the US does.

It seems that private South Asian-majority schools in certain cities-- such as Houston-- also teach advanced math earlier than public schools.

I've tried Slack and Discord. Of course, ICQ & MSN Messenger long ago.

IRC is #1 in my book. I always come back to it. I like its simplicity and its community. It has been immensely valuable to me, to get guidance and answers to questions, from software engineers with tons of experience.

Libera server all day!

Thanks for sharing. This site is a treasure trove-- including for machine learning concepts and guidance.

A couple years ago I checked those platforms, put my profile up. But got nothing out of it.

I get a lot more out of approaching small business owners, or promoting my skills at networking events.

I'd say... Visit a restaurant or cafe near you. Ask if they have a website and even if they do, offer to make an improved version.

Good to know.

Ya know... I posted that without experience in the current market. It was more of a "this is what it was like a year ago" sentiment.

Thinking more about it... I can see how 40% is too low an esimtate.

Thanks, good to hear what it is currently like out there on the job hunt. I am about to begin one myself.

I will never do cover letters-- "Hey, spend 30-60 minutes on this so we can slip it into the pile of 500 applicants where it will never see the light of day! Yay!"

Everyone? Nah that's Hyperbole.

In my experience about 40% do.

I've never had an issue simply showing an open source past project I created, going through my portfolio of other project examples, and my resume.

Apologies for assuming you were in the US.

The idea is basically: Move to the place which has the highest ratio of IT jobs to people. So, that might be your nation's capital city, or perhaps a different city with a history of technology or business innovation.

Or, if you're interested in a different field or occupation-- seek out the city in your region or nation which has a reputation for a competitive advantage in that field or occupation.

Silicon Valley is successful in IT, in part, because the semi-conductor industry began there. "In 1956, Shockley left Bell and founded his own company — Shockley Semiconductor Labs. It was the first company to make transistors out of silicon and not germanium. The company was founded in Mountain View, California"

what does "learned to code" mean? what did you learn? what did you code?

suggestions:

- have a github account

- have a portfolio of projects on your website

- Move to the San Jose area (AKA Silicon Valley). Goods & services are not uniformly distributed-- so you might have to move to the place which specializes in your given industry. e.g. Tourism -> Florida. Fishing -> Alaska. IT Work -> Bay Area.

- Demonstrate the skills by building a prototype product and keeping all the code in Github

- A web portfolio showing projects-- i.e. demonstrating skills-- such as prototype projects, or coursework from relevant classes (e.g. a database design, a statistics script, etc.)

- Have your resume on at least 5 different resume sites

- Consider making 2 or 3+ different resumes, each for a slightly different job (e.g. Software Engineer, Sales Engineer, Backend-focued, Frontend-focused, Full Stack, etc.)

For a Digital version of the binder, I recommend https://docusaurus.io/ + its MermaidJS theme for quick, codeable diagrams

For an easy, out of the block, self-hosted experience, allow me to recommend:

Docusaurus.io framework. Why? It's compatible with MermaidJS-- simply run 1 install command, and setup 2 config settings-- shown here: https://docusaurus.io/docs/next/api/themes/@docusaurus/theme...

Docusaurus provides: Docs, Blog, Pages. Via Markdown. And for pages, it even allows basic JSX (reactjs style components).

Lately I've really been enjoying the combination of Docusaurus & Mermaid to document my personal projects.

"It"?

Activities which proliferated nuclear waste during nuclear research activities in the ~1940s... became illegal in the 1980s?

I'm saying that we need retroactive prosecution. People are financially liable for polluting the planet. They knew they were working with toxic materials.

I'm saying: The individuals involved with the earliest nuclear tests should be prosecuted for spewing nuclear waste throughout the planet's air, water, and soil. Retroactively.

They are the responsible parties.

The US Military likewise should be heavily prosecuted for being the top global single-entity polluter

The problem is that the nations, corporations, and people who did the polluting are above the law.

A growing trend in corruption in the USA has nothing to do with secret societies or Nancy Pelosi?

"2. Early value delivery. But we're in the era of CI/CD, where deployments can happen multiple times a day. Are sprint deadlines just relics of a time when physical software delivery was necessary?"

The fact that deployments happen multiple times a day is not exclusive of the fact that multiple deployments can fit inside one sprint.

I'm not a fan of Agile. But I don't mind the idea of "Let's define things we can get done in the next 2 weeks. And see what we can get done by the 2 week deadline, then reflect on it."

I think there needs to be a defined timeframe (of estimated time-boxed phases or whatever you want to call them), in order to reflect and measure outcomes.

In life, in some cases, meeting a requirement by a specific deadline is extremely important because the consequences are potentially very expensive.

For example, if you're organizing an in-person event of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people. Clearly, your team must have produced the promised outcome by the deadline, resulting in as perfectly smooth an outcome as possible. Otherwise there is massive chaos, embarrassment, financial expense, and even legal consequences. The same consequences are present in even small & medium sized professional software companies.

Whereas, in software, if you're on a less important Proof of Concept consulting project... it might be OK to deliver 2 or even 4 weeks late-- there can be more flexibility, due to various factors.

The time period's name, its amount of time, its amount of work achieved... that's all fungible and flexible.

But to say "I got these 3 things done" vs. "...in 1 year" vs "...in 3 months" ...these are important details in the context of most peoples' work-- because time is a resource and a metric.

I really don't mind sprints. What I dislike is:

- Daily Standups that occur more than 3 days a week and last longer than 10 minutes. It's nice to see everyone occasionally. Forcing me to is a pain. For those other 2 days, I'd rather silently sit in on the Managers, Directors, and Architects' Daily standup (That said, if it's not genuine it could turn into a staged performance for the peons).

- Managers without Software Engineering experience leading standups

- Non-engineers not being required to give their Daily Standup report. Team Managers, Project Managers, others -- If I have to give a report, you should have to give a report as well. We should all feel the same pressure to be on point.

Very nice! I was looking for something like this-- A diagramming tool with plain ol' css.

Given the features I think it's a nice step up (flowchart.fun is $3/month) from an Open Source diagram tool like MermaidJS [1].

One suggestion: a link to the diagram-coding docs from the editor.

[1] Here's an example of how MermaidJS styles a flow chart:

https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html#styling-a-node

I went with the 32GB Ram upgrade ($400)-- mostly because I work with Docker (it seems to eat up about 33% of the RAM).

Never heard the fan. Stays cool to the touch, which is quite unexpected and pleasant.

Check out the Anker 737 Power Bank

I love the combo of my 14" M2 + Anker 737

Personally, for me, the best laptop ever made is:

14 inch M2 Macbook Pro.

Combine it with the Anker 737 Power Bank, and it's a match made in heaven.

I wouldn't do it if I were you. Perhaps you can hire someone with extremely good SecOps skills who is willing to.

Off the top of my head though my "idea-marketing" strategy for your case, would be:

- Contact narco influencers on Tiktok & other social platforms

- Contact narco lawyers & ask them to forward your message

- Take out entire page advertisements in main Mexican newspapers for 1-2 months

Exactly.

One of the cardinal sins in statistics is:

Self-reports are biased.

A corporation is telling you about that same corporation? You can expect some bias ;)

I find it quite telling this attitude of "If someone tells you something, it's got to be true! Especially if it's a corporation!!" quite telling, regarding those folks who are saying "Hey you can't criticize California! You conservative!"

It's like... Really? California is some gleaming pinnacle of perfection? It's with great hesitation that I say this: Californians... get out-- and ask people in other states how they feel about California & its citizens-- and then go right back and stay in your confinement zone lol (I kid! I kid! Dang plz don't ban me :))

I am mostly referring to the exodus of citizens who find California can no longer sustain them economically.

As a result, they're moving in substantial proportions to conservative states.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_exodus

There has also been a significant exodus of businesses.

"An exodus of California businesses is gaining steam, with the number of departing establishments nearly doubling from 2012 to 2019"

[2] https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/05/california-business-de...

From [2] ( June 5, 2023 )

"Companies that have moved their U.S. headquarters out of state in recent years include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle, Charles Schwab, CBRE, Toyota and Tesla.

Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Florida ranked as the top destinations for relocating California establishments, the data shows.

The findings resemble those in the Hoover Institution’s latest business exodus study, released last September. The Stanford University institution reported that at least 352 business moved their headquarters out of California from 2018 through 2021, including 11 Fortune 1,000 companies.

“Headquarter relocations are accelerating substantially, with no sign of reversing course,” the Hoover Institution report said. It blames the departures on a business environment “that ranks near the bottom of all U.S. states.”

"RELATED: Tesla’s Elon Musk follows 687,626 Californians who moved to Texas"

Best book on the topic for people w/o EE degree who want to learn practical EE (in my humble opinion):

"Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition"

Book by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk

Word on the street is that it can be found on https://libgen.is/

It would be about a $200k house in a low-medium cost of living area.

Or, a $150k empty lot and $50k house (with a later $50k-$100k expansion via cash, once the cash is earned)

While it is true that it's just an implementation detail--

Personally I think it's a cool thing.

- I like knowing the tech stack used.

- I like knowing where my data lives

- And on InfluxDB: It's well documented, & it was easy to get a PoC running.

Someone just told me about a construction business practice:

- Hire 5 guys, on the books.

- Those guys each bring 5 guys, off the books. (illegal immigrants)

- Those 5 guys on the books get paid for all 25 guys and distribute it within their team.

It's a bit sad to hear about this sort of thing happening, but it seems all too common in business.

That same person told me about another story-- regarding quality:

- At another job site, the company had a new project manager. The new PM approved moving forward into a new phase of the project without plans (plans didn't arrive by the time contractor arrived). The contractor of that project build something incorrectly (as you'd expect) due to lack of coordination with other contracting teams (i.e. lack of plans). The result: $1-2 mil worth of work needing to get fixed.

I'm so happy I have no debt.

Had $20k of student debt at one point. After that experience, I decided to live mostly without debt.

The only exception might be a mortgage of 25-33% of a house value, I'd put 75-66% in cash.

I'd argue that Vice News's website-news articles partially filled the void of NG, with their travel adventure content. It was basically the web-form of a magazine.