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I can't find too much direct historical data on this, but this article says the price to income ratio for Seattle in 1998 was 2.5, and their chart says the 50th percentile was around 3.0 in that year. https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/price-to-income-ratios-are...

Edit: This page has a historical slider that you can go back and see the price to income ratio of various metro areas over time. If you go back to the late 90s you will see overwhelming dark blue (dark blue is <3.0). https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/son-2025-price-to-income-map

"dmv metro area" is not unsearchable

Rule number one when you get fired is don't sign anything on your way out the door. Crazy that a Facebook exec wouldn't be aware of that advice or ignored it.

I got offered a small severance after a recent layoff. Severance agreement contained a non-disparagement clause. I didn't sign. You don't get corporate goons coming to your house to threaten you if you don't sign your severance/termination agreement.

You just pay the tax. 10% early withdrawal penalty plus about 10% federal income tax up to about $50k. Obviously it would be nice to not have to pay that tax at all by waiting until retirement age, but depending on your cost basis and your other income, it's less than you would have paid in income tax at the time of deposit plus short term cap gains at the time of withdrawal if you had not put it in the 401k in the first place. If your previous wage was high enough and cost basis low enough, then it might even be less than income tax at time of deposit plus long term cap gains at time of withdrawal.

Do you do this often?

I'm hitting 2 years after a massive layoff at my previous job. I've worked in more or less all the major languages and tech stacks doing fullstack web + cloud infra + desktop apps for startups in various sectors.

First year was an intentional "sabbatical" after never taking longer than a 1 week long vacation in seven years of full time SWE.

Second year... Well, I've applied to probably around 500 jobs this year, from the smallest to the largest companies, and I've gotten ONE video call interview. And as much as I would want to thank that one VP Eng at that one company for even interviewing me, after the interviewer directly told me that I aligned with what they were looking to hire for the role, and that I would be scheduled for technical interviews the next week, I ended up *ghosted*. Not even a rejection email.

Of my IRL SWE friends, I know many like myself who have been laid off and can't find new work (it seems like the longer the gap gets, the more it self-reinforcingly leads employers to think you're damaged goods); I know others who have been laid off and found new work within a month or two; and I know a few who are continuing to climb the comp ladder at big saas corps, seemingly completely unaffected by the job market.

The strangest thing to me about this wave of SWE unemployment is that it seems to be totally violative of supply and demand. Yes, I know that all SWE workers aren't equal fungible goods, but I would have thought that there are tiers or specializations inside of which there can be some rough supply and demand. Yet, I haven't gotten any lowball job offers - just complete lack of interest.

For past context, I didn't even have to apply for my last 2 jobs - a technical leader at each company (CTO, Dir Eng, etc) reached out to me unsolicited after finding my resume on a job board.

1. Does this mean I have to disable IDE autosave so it doesn't attempt to run tests when the project is in an intermediate, invalid state?

2. How does it detect what tests need to be re-run when a given file changes?

If you cannot achieve basic subject-verb agreement, I have zero faith in your ability to do anything at all with competence, much less build the world's largest floating structure.

"The project extend his length for 550 meters" "Once dried the terrain will possible to start preparing the basement area" "This space provide an unsinkable floating solution" "it's capable to guest up to 60,000 accommodations." "Immagine to join together the world biggest yacht firms in an unique project."

The difference here isn't the instrument, it's musical composition vs performance. You can compose and edit piano works in a DAW, or you can perform those piano works on a piano.

Ouch, today I learn "blue-green algae" isn't "algae".

I've eaten 4.6g of spirulina in the last 24 hours in the form of the Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness smoothie. No taste issues to speak of. I for one welcome our new algae overlords.

Meanwhile in Italy, you will pay typically €1 for an espresso and €1.50 for a cappuccino. No option to tip. And the drink is ready 10 seconds after the 30 seconds that it takes the machine to extract after you order. No latte art and no waiting 5 minutes after you order only to realize they completely forgot to start making your drink _after you've already tipped them_. Back here in the States you will pay more than $1 in tip alone on top of a $4.50 cappuccino.

This guy Zens and the Arts.

Uncompressed 2ch 44.1kHz 16bit PCM is only 1.4Mbps. Even 7.1ch 96khz 24bit is only 18.4Mbps. Should be plenty of headroom even on "only" 100Mbps.

Strictly speaking, there's no reason anyone "needs" generator functions. Instead of pausing the function execution at each `yield` statement, you can just write a regular (non-generator) function that returns a struct including all the local variables used in the function, and repeatedly call the function with the returned struct as the first argument (or `reduce`). Admittedly this is just writing the exact mechanism of yield in a different way just to avoid using `yield`, but that's the point, it's not necessary to have it built in to the language.

I don't think one can do a study using data exclusively from the University of California system and claim it applies to "research universities" in general. Notwithstanding New York, California is the current best example of a "liberal hellhole" state, so it would make sense that admission to that particular state's public university system is eventually associated with an increased left bent. Let's see this exact study methodology reproduced with e.g. Stanford admissions data where the Hoover Institution is a prominent presence, or the University of Mississippi/Alabama or Louisiana State University located in conservative hotbeds.

No need to put them inside the ground. A line array of 21"s sitting on top of the ground will do all the ground shaking you could ask for, especially in an indoor venue.

I read that line as deference to those who are dying of cancer and recognition that their plight is worse than his. I don't see how that's disrespectful to those dying of cancer or would make them uncomfortable.

"Some perspectives to help internalize this idea

* If you have enough money, you don't have a problem. (Simply find someone who can solve that problem for you)

* Operate with an abundance mindset (which emphasizes collaboration, not competition)

* Don't have a cost mindset, consider your costs as investments for a better future for yourself

* Always be the buyer - if you can't, don't do the deal "

Step 1. Have a lot of money

Step 2. Have a lot of money

Step 3. Have enough money that you don't have to worry about running out of money

Step 4. If you don't have enough money, repeat steps 1-3

This is really cool. Free explore is really immersive. The guided tour would be better if the movement was on rails instead of glitching through walls though.

It's no "error" (ha) that you can't exactly represent 5/3 in base 2 number system - it can only represent numbers of the form (-1)^a*2^b*c for integer a,b,c. If you are trying to perform repeated calculations that accumulate some arithmetic error at every step, then ieee754 probably isn't the best data type for the task at hand. Fractional calculators (which allow exact representation of fractions like 5/3 without being limited by base or precision) or "constructive reals" - or simply keeping track of the numerator and comparing if the sum of the numerators is equal to the denominator - would avoid such issues. As another reply to my comment said, it is about using the right data type for the task, and float is a pretty good compromise between many different needs but isn't appropriate for literally everything.

Am I the only person who thinks of IEEE 754 as a completely well-defined data structure with well-defined arithmetic operations, where two numbers are equal iff their bits are equal? Tiny discrepancies don't randomly appear during float operations, and two different black box systems written from the same order of operations spec sheet (given proper compiler strict math settings) should be able to output the exact same float value given the same input.

Public park yes, but in an Apple store is a different question entirely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama#Laws_aroun...

Dunno how the hell one would not expect this to be be highly illegal. The guy literally wrote a software tool that covertly sends images from an unsuspecting device's camera to his personal servers, and installed+activated it on target machines belonging to the US's 3rd largest company by market cap in 2010 (now 1st largest). I get that in the pre-Snowden world, it felt like you were building a cutesy proof-of-concept to showcase to the world the possibilities of invasive mass surveillance, but that doesn't change the duck test that you actually built the mechanism and deployed it.

What, you and I are typing right now in a comment thread precisely about increased CO2 resulting in lower nutrient density, so no, you haven't detailed how that will happen.

Sri Lanka is an interesting example as their organic fertilizer mandate would (I imagine, being less nutrient dense) fail to provide enough nutrients to support the increased growth of the plants in the new higher-CO2 atmosphere. The synthetic fertilizer ban situation also doesn't seem to indicate that they would be adept at implementing large scale agricultural changes without throwing the whole system into disarray.

Don't forget to factor in the cognitive impairment from higher CO2 as well - even if CO2 magically made the food both more nutrient-dense and with higher growth rate (instead of higher growth rate with lower nutrient-density) the overall health effect on humans would still be presumably a massive net negative due to the cognitive function decline.

I'm sure poor countries would love to turn their rice fields into soccer fields and feed themselves with more nutritious food, but they need to farm cheap calories to feed themselves with the amount of money they have.

We've had cloudseeding deployed in the wild for a long while.

That's an interesting take; I haven't ever heard that argument used a defense of the Jones Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920 , which is the classic example of protectionist/anti-foreigner-employment legislation.

I'm struggling to follow what immigration has to do with discrimination against US-born individuals. Is the connection because, without the broader pool of applicants available through visa programs, companies would be forced to hire an increased amount of US-born people who wouldn't otherwise have been hired, some of whom would have been potentially not hired due to discrimination? If anything, my discrimination meter would go in the other direction, that when a company explicitly doesn't sponsor any visas, they would be discriminating against non-US-born individuals.