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Average height isn’t the most useful statistic for this. A quarter of men are 6 feet or taller. When you factor in the fact that people aren’t likely to buy cars that their spouse can’t drive comfortably, there are an awful lot of people who just are never going to buy small cars. You could make a smallish car for tall people, but no one does.

The other issue is that modern cars are designed differently because of safety concerns—they have less interior space for the same exterior width. Plus kids have to use car seats until they are much older than they used too. Try putting 2 kids in car seats in a subcompact with a tallish driver with the seat pushed back.

Btw I’m 6’5” and it’s tough to even find an intermediate SUV where my knees fit comfortably.

It's not just technology either, the character back stories get updated too. There's an episode from the 90s where Homer feels old because he doesn't understand grunge rock. Then, more than a decade later, they made a flashback episode where his backstory was updated to show that he basically started grunge, and Kurt Cobain ripped him off.

Many states don’t have non-medical exemptions for vaccine requirements.

> What is "much higher" in a number?

The Pfizer vaccine as I believe 94% effective against severe disease, so around 20x higher.

They used a nebulizer to spray infected brain matter into the air. There was no aerosolized mouse to mouse transfer.

The game manuals always were pretty gritty compared to the in-game art.

I grew up on Warcraft 2, and to me the cartoonish look of WoW was a direct continuation of the art style from that game. I was in the WoW beta. The first time I played it my initial reaction was that it looked exactly like I had stepped into Warcraft.

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>Did you not remember the Equifax hack?

Of course I didn’t remember it. I explicitly mentioned it as something that didn’t qualify as an Quebec Bridge collapse level event.

They editing to make it seem like they realized that I mentioned it all along.

To your point

>it must be something real and visceral.

I agree that was exactly what I was saying when I started this thread.

Did you not notice that I referenced the Equifax hack?

Software engineering hasn’t had our Quebec Bridge collapse yet.

It will take an enormous visible disaster that does more than cost a company a few tens of millions, or exposes a few hundred million social security numbers before we start holding companies and engineers liable for security flaws.

I grew up in Lithia Springs. They still bottle and sell the water from the spring.

A former boss used to be a higher up at Kaseya before I worked with him. From his description of their development process, and his general lack of respect for developers, I’m not surprised.

According to him, they outsourced the majority of their development, and he had no clue that there could be any downside to this.

Within a few months of taking over, every single developer in the company left.

I’m in the US (Chattanooga municipal internet). $67 per month for 1 Gigabit symmetrical.

A quick google search shows around 5 billion goats, cows, pigs, and sheep, 1.5 billion cats and dogs, and 8 billion humans.

Compared to an estimated 130 billion wild mammals. That’s without the vast herds of herbivores that used to roam the plains of the world.

There were smaller populations of humans, but not smaller populations of mammals in general.

Your posts are clearly designed to elicit as much outrage as possible.

Either that our you need treatment for paranoia. Not only are your incompetent employees screwing you over, but your competent employees are also out to get you by “hiding” their abilities from you. Come on.

If you don’t have at least a small office where you can shut the door, I have no idea how you’re getting anything done with small kids running around.

But that’s really a requirement for WFH and companies should start offering some kind of stipend to support that.

Assuming you do though, why can’t you stop work and then spend 30 minutes reading something, or working on a side project? My wife would be fine with me doing that, and she doesn’t keep track of when I finish work that accurately anyway.

Personally I can’t imagine voluntarily choosing to spend any time on a daily commute.

I asked my wife if she was a stay at home mom, would she let me take a 45 min to an hour lunch each day away from home if I worked from home if it meant I’d be home more overall. She said sure.

My wife is a physician, so she works unusual hours. Many of her coworkers occasionally send their kids to daycare on their off days, so that they have time to run errands or just get in some kid free time.

Someone else is watching the toddlers—-no one is doing a full days worth of work while taking care of multiple toddlers.

If that person and/or day care can take care of the kids for x hours of work plus a 1 hour commute, they can take care of the kids for x hours of work plus 1 hour of “me time” if that’s what the OP thinks they need.

That’s what I meant when I said it’s not about the kids. It’s about the person watching the kids.

There’s no reason for someone to put themselves into a situation that forces them to spend an hour commuting each day in order to get some alone time.

So it’s better to put yourself in a position where you are forced to drive an hour to work each day and spend 10 hours away from your infant just to get an hour to yourself?

Also this isn’t about your infant, no one is getting work done while watching an infant.

Why don’t you sign up for a coworking space, or work from a library, cafe, or similar?

Or heck just tell your spouse you need some me time and get out of the house for an hour a day.

This looks pretty cool, but it’s windows only and doesn’t work outside of VS code.

If you want something more full features that works everywhere, I’ve used https://talonvoice.com/ for a while now.

$12 an hour is barley enough to live on in most of the country. In many places, it’s not enough to cover rent.

The average cost of community college tuition is around $3.5k a year. Add in books, fees, transportation, lost income from not being available for shifts etc..., and that’s just not realistic unless you can live with your parents or someone else is supporting you.

The cost of hiring the wrong person and letting them go because they can’t program in the US is very low compared to the price of running a SV style hiring pipeline.

And in other countries where it’s harder to fire people, there is a almost always a probationary period were most protections don’t apply.

Right but there's an assumption of all else being equal when making a comparison like that.

Obviously you can get away with paying below market rates if you provide some other benefits to make up for it.

> ability to explore different areas. When you are a contractor, you are expected to be top notch at what you do. Often that means you don't get to explore new things (except on your own time, which you should do). It's nice to get paid to learn as an employee.

I've also done both over my career, and I haven't noticed much difference in this regard. I've proposed we try out (and they accepted) a different language or technology that I would need to learn numerous times to long-term clients.

One reason for a senior engineer to move to consulting is that they are tired of being forced to prove that they know how to program every time they switch jobs.

Companies are far too risk averse when hiring, and the amount of hoops you have to jump through is getting more onerous every year.

I'm currently a full-time employee, but I've consulted for about a decade in total. Convincing someone to pay you 2 weeks up front for a contract is significantly less hassle than convincing someone to hire you full-time at a software company.

Contractors can be let go immediately with almost no repercussions, so the bar for engaging them is much lower than the bar for hiring a full-time employee.

When I was contracting, companies would generally contract me for a week or 2 based on nothing but me telling them I could do something. If I delivered on that initial result, they'd come back for more.

>With those 1 or 2 percent raises being a norm almost everywhere, it's hardly a reason to actually leave the company.

But it is a reason to leave the company because you can easily get 10% or more switching jobs.

>occasional hiring and training costs.

Hiring and training costs are enormous, and they aren't occasional when you're talking about software companies with very high turnover. If you're incentivizing job hopping every few years, the average programmer at your company could be spending 25% or more of their tenure ramping up to full capacity.

I have the 1Gb municipal broadband here in Chattanooga. The customer service is fantastic—night and day compared to what I had with Comcast when I was in Atlanta.

I haven’t had any outages in the year or so I’ve been here. Latency and packet loss are better than what I had with Comcast on average. There are no caps either.

I pay the same price here that I paid for 50mbps Comcast business class (business to avoid the data caps).