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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
If you haven't already, perhaps try applying for non-engineering positions with adequate pay and of such nature that your SWE experience is useful. I think soft skills / industry specific knowledge will become only more valuable o
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
I don't see how being trapped within 7 kilometers of a city office is much better. Rural life has transformed anyway to such an extent that none of your points, except being bound to your farm, are really relevant anymore if we're
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Nowadays rural folk have cars, which means they can very much visit those libraries without need to actually live in a town.
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
If one happens to live in a big city, outside is not much better, and god forbid if you want to have a hobby like gardening. Just more concrete, traffic noise and people everywhere, no land that is your own. There's a reason why countr
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
I don't feel like MS ecosystem is that attractive to consumers. In enterprise for sure, everyone uses Teams, Outlook and MS Office, and Azure is popular for hosting. But in most people's personal lives it's smartphones that a
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
The Google staff responsible were clearly lacking imagination. I think next time Google should consider hiring a QA team consisting of teenagers from 4chan, I think they would excel at the job of figuring out ways to generate offensive cont
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Most people are passionate about things that require money, such as hobbies and family life. For such people the function of work is to bring money to support those things. Studying something for 5 years without economic benefit is basicall
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Standardized nationwide tests, or entry exams that are the same for everyone are the only fair and equal ways of choosing who is admitted to study and who isn't. Anything else leads to corruption and discrimination. Helping those who a
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Western countries should have paid more attetion on social media as a means of information warfare. It has been so easy for actors from Russia and China to polarize the political landscape. Both Trump supporters and the woke left are just u
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Sometimes the big picture is enough, and it doesn't matter if some details are wrong. For such tasks ChatGPT and LLM's generally are a major improvement over googling, and reading a lot of text you don't really care about tha
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
I recommend trying Yerba Mate as an alternative to coffee. At least for me it gives a way more balanced, long-lasting energy, rather than coffee which gives me a huge spike and then goes down fast & makes me anxious. Online I've se
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Yes, supply and demand matters a lot. In my country becoming a doctor is particularly lucrative even by Western world's standards, because a combination of our broken healthcare system (and doctor's association's successful l
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Most of those millions also have miserable lives in their new host country, and indeed do it simply out of necessity. If IT goes that way, I would rather move to the countryside and grow my own food, than become an international wage slave
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
But after enough time passes, lots of people do get interested in their ancestors. That's why DNA ancestry services are a big business - people get curious about where their unknown farther relatives came from. I guess there's jus
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Most Android phones get updates only for few years compared to iPhones. That alone is a good reason to choose iPhone over most (but not all) androids.
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
I have a 2011 Thinkpad T520 which still works fine, upgraded it to 16GB of RAM. There are high quality Windows laptops out there, but of course they cost as much as a Macbook. I'm okay with laptops being sold with 8GB of RAM, but I&#x2
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
I hope they do. There will soon be so much e-waste from entry-level devices with 8GB RAM that can't be upgraded.
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Nobody prevents you from using Freedom in your free time as well. I have it blocking addicting sites 24/7 on all my smartphones, it has worked fairly well.
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by weweersdfsd 3y ago
Yeah, and those Germans got their expensive energy bills because they believed in "Green" (like Soviet/Russian funded) propaganda about dangers of nuclear power, even though the risk of Chernobyl or Fukushima in Germany has a