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>Dear lord the job market is an absolute disaster right now.

Indeed it is, I don't know and would never like to know the levels of desperation one needs to reach to accept writing Python as a career. (I jest, I jest)

In all seriousness, Python (and the same goes for with Javascript/Typescript) is a popular language that is taught at many bootcamps. I'm sure that has lots to do with the number of applications for these kinds of roles.

>then you submit it and wait an arbitrary amount of time for the rejection

You get rejections? When I was jobhunting, half of the companies I applied to never replied to me.

My favorite one is the "Ministerie van Cyber" sticker.

But of course, I've also got a few yellow CYBER stickers in my collection

What's the point here? That everyone should use the n-nines notation? Sure. However, companies have no interest in doing anything that makes them look worse.

Also, is anyone else getting the bitter taste of AI writing from this page?

Most of the food the farmers produce in the Netherlands is exported.

Meanwhile, trash piles up quickly: https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/07/utrecht-garbage-strike-comes-e...

>I have used Codex (Sol 5.6 or whatever) to solve this problem.

>Personally, I did not learn that much from that experience

Fire is hot, water is wet, etc

Thank you, I didn't really understand what they were talking about.

Personally, I feel there is an easier approach: Take a regular 12-sided die, assign numbers modulo N (N being the amount of players). Now you assign the first turn fairly for 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12 players. Add a d20 and that covers 5 or 10 players, too.

The cynic in me would say that's just allowing market forces to set the price by supply/demand.

But obviously, a government service should give fair and proper service to everyone.

A lot of people with ADHD that have success with medication can tell you that it's not just about work.

It also helps with non-work stuff that's just not fun to do, such as chores or filing your taxes. It even helps you stick with hobbies you actually enjoy but your brain gets bored of.

>people had 1 year and a half to prepare for this (at least) or to protest this.

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.”

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I think this can be generalized even more:

Horrible if you got into engineering because you wanted to solve problems.

Amazing if you only ever wanted to see the problem solved.

It's pretty common where I live in Asia, and they almost always write it on their menu, too. I don't really see it as shenanigans as long as it's communicated in advance. We don't have a tipping culture, though.

Or the sales staff in the fancier retail stores that after I tell them I'm just looking around, will proceed to stand behind me and stare at me.

Maybe they judge me too poor for their products and it's an attempt to get me to leave...

>At the far end of the scale are bathroom attendants who want to help me wash/dry/moisture my hands after using the facilities.

I've never ran into these and I hope I never will.

I'm not American, but from what I've heard about the wait times at the DMV, I'm sure many would love the option to tip 20% for faster service.

If I see "service charge" I'm going to assume that it covers the tip. I'm not going to tip on top of that.

>European pride

Europeans tip, just not as crazy as Americans.

>It's important to remind that American restaurants work well

Japanese service is top-notch and tipping is generally frowned upon there.

The thing I hate the most is tipping at bars.

20% tip when all you do is pour my beers, which I have to order at the bar and bring to my table myself? Insane.

Dismiss button? From what I've seen, it's a "Custom" button, where you then have to explicitly type in 0.

I have got family living in the US. All non-US.

Before they got state drivers licenses, they could only show their non-US ID/passport whenever they got carded for alcohol. A few times, the venue would just tack on a 20% service fee.

One time, they asked the table next to them if they also got a service fee: They didn't. They complained, got the service fee waived, then told them to forget about getting a tip at all.

You might guess a person might be a non-tipper, but giving shitty service or forcing a discriminatory service fee will make that a self-fulfilling prophecy.

>Apparently having firmware engineers with even minor EE background and will think about analogue design is a little uncommon.

They often don't have to know how the nitty-gritty of the HW works. HALs are used everywhere, and some of them abstract a lot away. I've interviewed embedded SWEs that couldn't explain how the tri-state buffers work within GPIO.

Someone shared this great read with me that also agrees with this point of view: https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed-sp...

I've always interpreted as not actually caring about anything, as long as it looks right (The vibes are good).

Yep, take a walk around NYC, they're ubiquitous

120 hours of leetcode prep to get a job writing design documents

This is a huge cope

And those that did go into tech out of genuine interest would eventually love nothing more than to leave tech, but stay for the money.

Not just screenshots. Look at the modern social media trend of using "unalived" as a euphemism for "died", for example.

>But I always tell them I'd rather they write in broken English to communicate their own ideas. I want to hear what they have to say, directly from their brain. I don't have issues with parsing bad english. Usually its straight and to the point.

I work in FAANG at a non-US office, and this is what I tell my colleagues. I always get pushback: "They're too shy to speak English".

They'll often write messages in their native language, then ask AI to translate.

This is in a developed country, by the way. Engineers working for a US-based company refusing to speak English while getting paid handsomely.

>avoiding chronic stress

If I only knew how

I always bring up the example of how the atomic nucleus is taught:

Elementary school: Stuff is actually made out of tiny little balls you can't see.

Middle school: Those tiny little balls are actually atoms, they consist of a positively charged core of protons/neutrons with negatively charged electrons flying around it. An atom is the smallest thing matter is made of. (Rutherford model)

High school: Those electrons don't just fly around, they actually orbit within specific energy levels. Also they're not really particles, but waves, but also particles, all at the same time. Also subatomic particles exist. (Bohr model)

University: "Electron orbits" are actually orbitals defined by the wavefunction of those electrons, like probability distributions. (Quantum Mechanics)