You seem to forget that most artists enjoy it but due to the structure of our society are forced to either give it up for most of their waking life to earn money or attempt to market their art to the masses to make money. This AI stuff only makes it harder for artists to make any kind of living off of their work.
While there are plenty of cases where good artists make most of their money from the art, there are plenty of other cases where good artists have a 'real job' on the side.
I wish they would release a dc low power version. If it does any more than 22kbps than its already beating certus and that costs $7/mb for the devices we use them in.
I work for usv company. Most of the interest we receive for boats is either multibeam work or illegal fishing enforcement in marine protected areas. We nearly ended up doing some naval work but there was a large internal backlash and the contract was turned down.
We have lost candidates at my company which we had pretty much already decided were a fit after 1-2 interviews but we're still forced to go through the rigmarole of these extra interviews over several weeks. It's not just crazy it's also a waste of time and resources.
I was interviewing with a company a year back. I had gone through 3 interviews and there were 2 more left of various song and dance required. The process was going well and I liked the company, but I was getting burnt out with the process across all my other interviews and I had received 2 other job offers that were good, so I just sent an email to the company that I was going to withdraw myself from consideration.
I ended up getting an email from the team within minutes asking for a zoom where they literally begged me to keep going because they liked me the best of all the other candidates but are forced to have me go through the other interviews. They tried to get an exception for not doing the other interviews. They ended up being allowed to have only one more interview and they said that they could have an offer letter together within 24 hours of that interview. So I knew they were serious, but I was too tired and didnt love the bureaucracy of that place, so I just moved on.
I've lost out on numerous jobs after the 5 interview mark, often only receiving an automated "thanks for your interest". In one case it was multiple consecutive shorter interviews with random people on the team, after a take home assignment, etc.. it's incredibly defeating.
And how many of these company's core source of value is "we have a web page". I hope that having a bunch of unemployed developers out there will disrupt things. I suppose either way wages are going down though.
Ya their comment does not match up to my experience at all. When I update my lockfile it very rarely breaks and if it does I just roll back a commit and wait a day and it's usually fixed.
This is... sort of the point, too. Rolling back is insanely easy - and it's version controlled so even if something obnoxious happened you (should) know the exact commit that broke something as well.
In the very worst case, you update components individually until you find the offending one.
I've used both NixOS and nix-darwin for 2 years professionally now as daily drivers, and have had generally nothing but great success. I'm not fearing an OS update actively breaking my environment (which I can't say the same for macOS, as much as I am a fanboy of Apple).
I feel this big time. I'm in the top 10% of income earners in Canada and yet me and my family are stuck in a small one bed apartment. We can't buy property as everything in the area would leave us very house poor, if we even qualify for the mortgage.
Me too. My parents made significantly more in their entire lifetime from the appreciation of a house they bought in the 1980s than they ever did earning a lower middle class wage. It's quite common, but not talked about in polite conversation.
If you have even a half hearted belief in meritocracy that represents a failure of epic proportions.
As a top 10%-er wouldn't qualify for a mortgage to buy the house I grew up in.
This wasn't an accident. The country has been on the road to serfdom and ever since Thatcher violently crushed the Labour unions.
I am in the top 10% and live quite comfortably in a house I own, provide for two children, and have some disposable income. I would say I live a similar quality of life that my art professor father did, who was making ~$35/yr over most of his career, which was a comfortable but lower middle class income at the time.
Part of the difference may be that none of us have lived in HCOL areas.
The most desperate people ive met in the UK are those that grew up in a HCOL area to lower middle class/poor parents, went to university and did average jobs and paid 60% of their take home on renting a bedroom.
They would tell me that their retirement plan was a bullet.
>If you have even a half hearted belief in meritocracy that represents a failure of epic proportions.
I'm curious, what do you think "half hearted belief in meritocracy" consist of? From the rest of your comment, it sounds like any sort of economic system where you can earn money without the effort of yourself (ie. investment) isn't meritocratic?
Pretty much. If that type of income dominates your economic system it murders the incentive to actually create value.
Doing well in your career means nothing because the benefits are a rounding error on the rewards of having wealthy parents or getting into bitcoin early or whatever.
Quite apart from being grossly unfair it's grossly inefficient to structure the economy so that unearned income is privileged and dominates.
I'm in the same boat and was so confused until I did the math what my lower middle class parents made adjusted for inflation and they had more real purchasing power than me.
Yeah I think the the number that clicked for me was the ratio of home price to entry level wage 50 years ago.
E.g. an entry level job on Wall Street might have paid $15k/yr and a really nice apartment was $150k…a 10x spread - today that entry level job is say $150K but the same apartment is like $3-5m closer to a 25x spread…
I've been writing C++ for 4 years now professionally. I don't claim to be some kind of god at it but what am I supposed to do? Leave it off my resume because I don't know every intricate detail? I've used it to get shit done and make a company money, everything else is fluff.
> I've used it to get shit done and make a company money, everything else is fluff.
I find it so frustrating how hard this is to sell in an interview. I understand how important it is to avoid bad hires, but I'm a self-taught web developer so I just flat out don't know a lot of CS "basics". I've been a professional SWE for 5 years, have made all of my teams very happy, have accomplished some very good work, and have dug into the docs enough to get the most out of the many tools/libraries I've had to use.
But, sometimes there's a coding challenge on a topic I've just never seen before, and I'm dropped. As unrealistic as it is, I wish interviews had options for demonstrating my ability to learn a new tool quickly and make use of it. I'd spend a work day taking on a mock ticket for some new security procedure I've never touched before if it showed them that I can actually get the job done.
Every place that uses C++ uses some narrow fraction of the capabilities. Teams try to find an intersection of features that hopefully a majority of the team can understand.
In an interview setting, keep answers contextual and tight. In my previous professional setting, we would solve the problem like this : <however>. Try to solve problems using only the subset you know.
if you're pushed into a corner and they really want to overload [] or whatever, be clear that because, c++ is a large and sprawling language, for production code you'll need to check the spec, or consult with a teammate. With that understanding in place, you can take a stab at it.
If you get dinged for that, you probably don't want to work there anyway.
I suppose it depends on the work the interviewer's company is doing, but when I last had a C++ job, knowing what a copy constructor was and the implications involved was important.
I agree that asking details related to syntax are not good questions. But copying objects is a very natural thing to do in most languages, and if you don't have some idea of the implications, that's a red flag.
Also: Some understanding on default copy constructors. I think it's OK not to know whether a default one is created for you or not, but just knowing that it might be is worthwhile to probe in an interview.
Of course, these concepts are due to a poor language design, but what can you do? If your team uses C++, you need to deal with the poor design, and need people who understand the poor design.
I felt your pain. I live in Victoria and also make $100k but can't afford much more than a 1 bed without destroying our savings goals. Unfortunately my current job is hybrid and they won't let me go full remote. We plan to leave as soon as I find a new opportunity - despite loving living here by every other metric.
Victoria has an even more scarce rental market from what I understand too. It's one of those things that I hope will make it harder to keep people around if salaries don't go higher at an average company. $100k is great for a huge portion of everyday niceties and even some larger things—I didn't need to worry to much that a decent coffee grinder would damage me too much, or a trip—but not that one thing.
I'd also not necessarily describe it as pain, as much as like some hypothetical existential crisis. I'm not looking to buy a place at this moment, but when I consider the prospect of what happens if our landlords sell (giant house in east van), there aren't too mamy viable options.
