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by shams93 4y ago
Well with the savagely frayed state of the social safety net if you're not born rich, basically if you can't find work in California you're unlikely to get food stamps especially if you are able bodied and healthy otherwise t
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Its actually worse, imagine all that with no social safety net, no functioning medical system. Here our medical and educational systems are so destroyed that not even the wealthy have a good outcome, wealth just enables their kids to get in
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I turned 50, you hit middle age and then there's a huge negative wall of discrimination. This layoff hit me after I had been unemployed in the same year so I got no unemployment. I had moved in with my mom to help her during covid so
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by shams93 4y ago
It doesn't take AGI to do away with jobs, I saw them going away from simple spread of word processing software, even something as primitive as word perfect for apple IIe was enough to put a whole chunk of typists out of work in the 80s
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by shams93 4y ago
In california the social safety net is so shredded that basically if you cannot create a profit for a company as a human you're dead. They'll pay half the population to kill off the other hald until police can be automated and the
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by shams93 4y ago
Being laid off at 50 is fairly brutal but hoping to find something using my django experience and get back to work. Fortunately my mom is still alive I had to move in with her, I had already been laid off once, when you are laid off 2 times
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I was there in the early 2000s metldown. What is different today is lack of easy money, also these jobs are likely never coming back, having so much automated is changing the world very rapidly and the powers that be have no plan it would s
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Right now with an oversupply of PCs and a shortage of macs I'd say you have a lot of options whether its windows 11 or chromeos.
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What makes it unique is being able to have fully interactive debugging etc in the terminal.
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Reaper isn't bad however qtracktor is really good and now supports the CLAP plugin format.
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Yeah this is why linux phones would be great, we have manjaro with rolling updates, a fully upgradable linux phone would go a really long way in getting control over the ewaste issues.
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I took a series of photos of a group of them flying on the side of the plane I was on
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No
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yeah people demand this overkill without understanding what they are demanding. Everyone seems to use react so we must also use react, then the site no longer works for mobile so then you also need react native. All when you can use vanilla
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How are we supposed to learn from history if reading historical documents becomes a crime?
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catch (e) { const error = e as <Your custom error type>; }
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Sometimes I have seen people making more money selling hotdogs from their own hotdog stand than some people get killing themselves in tech.
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In my experience showing up is 10% of the battle.
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Its political warfare in that Apple wants to own both the hardware and software and ultimately ideally has a complete monopoly over all hardware. Ultimately they want to own 60% of every developer's pre-profit income, they're stra
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by shams93 4y ago
Learning figma to move from pro-dev to pro-design, but then learning rust and golang for my own side products.
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Cities take a huge toll on the environment. in Los Angeles the week we had basically total lockdown we had the best air quality ever here.
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by shams93 4y ago
Another reason - the strong dollar taxes companies for hiring US workers. Nothing wrong with people from other countries but its harsh when your own government does all it can to destroy your ability to make your own way on every single lev
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by shams93 4y ago
I'm 50, this is really screwed up for me not sure what I can do they have blocked me from getting any unemployment but here in LA the economy is breathtakingly horrific.
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It can't help you reach suicide prevention services. If you tell it you're depressed it blows you off in an especially cruel way, it can write code for you but will do nothing to help you find help when its prowess makes you extre
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by shams93 4y ago
Funny I was just thinking about htmx I must not be the only one with react/vue/angular burnout.
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by shams93 4y ago
Why isn't the federal government investing in driverless trains and robot card load/unload to drastically drop costs of moving stuff to and from markets?
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by shams93 4y ago
Its hard to move i found unless turning it into cash and then sending to a regular bank they blocked me from moving my eth to mew.
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by shams93 4y ago
We're hitting a ceiling based upon how many hours a single human can work without dropping dead from sleep deprivation, when you talk about 90 hours a week that means living at the office, over 90 hours a week and you're looking a
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by shams93 4y ago
exactly!!!
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I've seen that too, ironic since most scripting languages are written in c++, but languages such as go and rust are now self-hosted so there's finally meaningful aloternatives to either c++ or java/c# (in the case of go).

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