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> if one drinks, it must be easier

I don’t think you are missing out, since in my experience you usually only find “pub” friends to drink with, who often have unhealthy drinking habits and don’t become actual friends (albeit I’m faux British: in New Zealand!). Any activity (sport, hobby, work) where you hang with locals gives you the chance to make healthier relationships.

For anyone looking to make friends in a pub, you want to find a pub that is social. Some signals to look for: (a) a very wide range of ages that go there, (b) casual drinkers who are there to socialise rather than get drunk, (c) a single woman can drink at the pub comfortably without getting hit on, (d) not heaving full but rarely empty, (e) no loud music - or even better no music - if any live music it is quiet enough to talk over, (f) not a “popular“ place but a place for locals, and (g) it “feels” like someone’s house rather than a bar. That style of pub is dissapearing, and they are hard to find in large cities, but they do exist and they have a completely different culture.

Edit: if anyone from the Isles can comment on their take on this, I would appreciate it.
What I'm interested in is that it's quite difficult today to find out how much you would be paid when you relocate. You need to jump through a lot of hoops to get the move approved in principle before you find out your new compensation. With this new system it should theoretically be fine to relocate anywhere, so if it is then you'd want to find out how much each area pays before you decide to move. Which means suddenly you know that guy who chose to go live in downtown SF is getting paid 1.4x more than you for the same job. The same is true today obviously, most big offices are in different areas and have different pay scales, but it's generally not as well known by the employees what those scales are.
What's that first app in Create FOMO, the logo with the Bill Murray lookalike's face? Honest question, not trolling.
Occam's Razor tells us that given that there's a bunch of facebook troll nonsense going around about 5G causing covid (which is trivial for you to find yourself, directly), and since that coincides with an upswing in both tower destruction and also threats of violence (often with assertions of causing covid) towards workers, it's probably mostly that.

Why are you interested in minimizing this or finding a media-based conspiracy to overreport?
And how exactly is that different than the current low salaries in Georgia compared to Connecticut?
executive compensation is not handled the same as rank and file vanilla labor compensation - which SWEs are, despite (seemingly, most of) their world views to the contrary.
Deliveroo offers a subscription service but you still order on demand — the subscription just lowers your fee.

Competitors have suggested options with regular deliveries to pool them. Few offer hot food, many it’s fresh but cold (Frichti in France), sometimes it’s frozen (AllPlants in the UK) and you might include food-prep kits (Blue Apron in the US).

Based on the growth and successes that I’ve seen, I’m not sure that warm food on a route is far cheaper to operate; dish to re-heated seems to work, but not as well as food prep.
I live in Lisbon. 10m walk from the riverside, 30m uphill walk to the center, gigabit fiber, (currently) 100% remote.

Would only trade for something directly on the seaside, or a little more to the West (Cascais, Guincho) for a slightly cooler climate, but those usually imply driving (which I detest) and lack “big city” amenities (most of which I can’t enjoy right now).

Have zero intention of ever going back to an office (have been remote on and off for years, hot-desked, worked at customers, etc.).

The current situation (despite the pandemic and weird working hours) is perfect for me since (nearly) all my colleagues and customers are outside Portugal.
I love that area.
The change in salary is not in proportion to the change in an employees cost of living.

FB (and other companies, in all fairness) is saying "If the COL is half that of SF, your salary will be cut in half". Whereas the employee is looking at "I only spend 50% of my salary on living, the rest goes to paying off loans and investments", which results in a net loss in their after-COL loan payments and investment opportunities.
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Disgaea.
If I could afford it, Toronto.

The multiculturalism there makes for good food and interesting people, and as an intellectual milieu it's not bad -- lots happening on University Ave. I don't mind the weather at all.

Unfortunately it's fairly expensive.
I paid for a mordida once, that's it.

For anyone else besides me who was unfamiliar with the term, it's a bribe: https://www.tripsavvy.com/definition-of-mordida-1588821
You can check out Slimbook (ES based) which has some nice Clevo ultrabook models (Intel-only). For those in the US, IMO System76 seems to be providing the most value add from the Linux system vendors these days.
Yes, but that's between me and payroll, not a condition of my salary. That's the line I'm trying to draw.
Yes, they're very open about how they descriminate and earn more off employees who live in cheaper areas... It's a very weird stance to take and always infuriated me. They adopt a policy of radical transparency in their descrimination. Quite shocking too in the amount of pride they take in it, truly the market leaders in virtue signaling and disonnance.

And for those who don't think there's a better way, take a look at Basecamp or Zapier's salary policies.
Because it’s an anecdote on the internet it must be true.

I can give you just an opposite anecdote - and from personal experience - not from what I found on the internet.

We have a lot of microservices that are used by our relatively low volume website, but also used by our sporadic large batch jobs that ingest files from our clients and our APIs are sold to our large B2B clients for their high traffic websites and mobile apps.

When we get a new client wanting to use one of our microservices, usage can spike noticeably. We have deployed our APIs to both Lambda for our batch jobs so we can “scale down to 0” and scale up like crazy but latency is not a concern and we host them individually on Fargate (Serverless Docker). Would you suggest that it would be architecturally better to have a monolith where we couldn’t scale and release changes granularly per API?
PDX is such a lovely airport. I’m always excited to grab a blue star doughnut before my flight. SEA on the other hand... I suppose all of this is moot now anyway, I don’t see myself getting on a plane any time soon :(
Everytime someone says Portland, this article comes to mind: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

My friends in Portland are all intentionally dismissive about it and for that reason I'd never suggest Portland to anybody I care about as a place to live.
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I think the issue is that everyone already lives in the warm places. You have what -- Southern California (high taxes, very populated), Florida (it ain't cheap and gets wiped off the map by hurricanes every few decades), Hawaii (expensive), the deep South and Texas (not that warm in the winter really), the desert southwest (it is very nice in the winter, but it's 110 every day in the summer).

There just aren't a lot of places in the US that have nice winters. Those that do are already overflowing with people. Part of the reason that the bay area is so expensive is because the weather is so nice. People are on to your little scam of avoiding winter ;)
NYC which is where I am now and where I want to be forever but I’ll probably spend a bit more time in the Adirondaks than I do now.
amazingly persistent, same happens 2 hrs later
Then again, nearly all tech jobs are in the randstad metropolitan area, so there is really only one locale anyway.
I wonder how you figure what counts as "Seattle," for instance. Does Tacoma count? It's a 40 min drive - people do commute to Seattle. Or is Tacoma under "everywhere else, WA"? It's a $50k/yr question despite the CoL difference not approaching that.
"Staff picks": "seargent.ai"

What the heck is a "seargent"? I assume they mean "sergeant"?
How about never to buy new? Casio has cool, old synthesizers (CZ1) that would never give them another dollar if you buy used.
Other C coroutines

https://github.com/hnes/libaco

https://github.com/baruch/libwire

https://swtch.com/libtask/

https://github.com/halayli/lthread

https://github.com/Tencent/libco

https://byuu.org/library/libco/
You’re not taking home a pile of cash without paying a ton in taxes. That’s why you see more homeowners in the Bay Area renting rather than selling.
Did you already speak one of the primary languages before making the move?
I used to work on a software development team with James Somers and I can attest that he is both a great writer and able to handle criticism, valid or otherwise. I think he would appreciate the debates he is generating.
Clubhouse, apparently? Which is some kind of faddish social networking app that will never be heard from again after they run out of their current round of funding, I assume? https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-clubhouse-why-does-silic...
Jimmy Clitheroe - the Clitheroe Kid. That brings back some memories. It's also nice to see that England is suitably represented in the place names, obviously Scunthorpe is the classic. I'll tender Somerset for first amongst equals for daft and downright odd place names.
A few days won't matter. However some states like New York have laws that if you're physically in state and working (remotely or otherwise) for more than 14 days in a year; you owe taxes on that income regardless of 'where' it's earned. And pretty much all companies that have people who travel around keep track of it so the taxes are properly reported and paid.
Yep.. green threads were there, and not every platform had preemptive threading.

J2ME only had geen threads iirc.
I don't have the rules memorized. I didn't know what WP:TLA or WP:FLA was until you mentioned them, and I had to look up the rules for notability of events.

It's also worth pointing out that the conflict and tedium you anticipated just didn't materialize. An anonymous editor reverted my proposal with a one-line rebuttal and that looks like the end of the story.

I know the phenomenon you are describing, and it is real. I just don't think it's a fair description of what happened here. I made a well-intentioned editorial decision, and when I saw grumbling here, I went out of my way to acknowledge my fallibility and to point out my action could be reversed.

I wasn't expecting to be called out as an example of Everything Wrong With Wikipedia These Days, though that's exactly what the comments and downvotes in this thread feel like. I'm pretty bummed about it.
I work at FB, and yeah, I'm not too fussed by this. Lying about where you are working from goes under the "don't be a fucking idiot" category, and I don't have much sympathy for idiots making life harder for their colleagues. Re "threats", location tracking of company equipment is pretty much a necessity to handle regulatory issues w/ geographies under sanctions (want to be an even bigger idiot? lie about where you're working from, and move to crimea!). Beyond that, internal systems also react to your location to do things like change the timezone displayed in UIs, adjust notification preferences, etc. HR having access to that data would be entirely unsurprising - if you're trying to defraud your employer, this is already in your threat model.
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That's not a strategy to get new users though. It makes a social site more appealing to new users, but it doesn't attract them.

Reddit used the "tell your friends" method first, and then "have PG blog about us", which really accelerated their growth, and falls under "Leverage Influencers".
Since we pretend there's no class divide in America we've got to use the tools we have to combat economic injustice.
Why not Far North instead - the county of never ending summer?

I'm too excited for Starlink capabilities for offshore sailing and working (though sailing is involved enough that working on the side didn't work well for me before).
I didn't downvote him, but his response isn't at all relevant to what was being discussed. I was discussing the API design of asyncio and how they had to add the "loop" parameter to ensure the reactor would be thread safe by default.
I love Lisbon! (as a tourist) So walkable and inexpensive, good seafood to be had at the marisqueiras, clean sea air, cool stuff happening in the Chiado and Bairro Alto neighborhoods. I still remember my meals there: sopa de legumes, sardinhas, leitão, percebes, etc.

How's the tech scene?
That question isn't better. Of course there is no absolute proof. That doesn't mean the situation isn't significantly better then on AMD/Intel.
I foresee the bar being raised for those wanting to enter a high COL city in the future. I’m already noticing an emphasis on companies wanting to hire more outside of the Bay.
A lot will depend on the area and church, but many organize social/community events that are non-religious in nature, including book clubs. There's a good chance they're looking for volunteers for a wide variety of things too, many of those will be quite social. Personally I prefer the drinking beer and watching football style of community my sports club offers and it sounds like you might as well, but there's more to Churches than the weekly sermon.
IIRC Java didn't support native threads until 1997 or so.
It says quite a lot about Facebook's culture and employees that they felt the need to be so explicit and public about this issue. Normally, this would be talked about on an individual basis, or an internal HR memo once it was determined there was an actual issue.

At Facebook, they apparently are so worried about their employees lack of ethics as a whole, they felt the need to just immediately threaten the entire company. From what we all know of Zuckerberg and Facebook, this shouldn't be surprising, but it's amazing to see it confirmed.
Who on earth actually wants to work for a company like this?
I did something similar with I implemented coroutines for C (both 32 and 64 bit x86).

[1] https://github.com/spc476/C-Coroutines
I don't know how the US works, but in Canada I've had jobs where the employer took no taxes off and I had to pay them myself at the end of the year. I loved it, I can understand why many can't handle it though but the increase in cash flow actually increases your investment opportunities short term.

If this is true for the US too then Facebook is full of shit and using this as a weak argument for why they have to know if you snuck out of the city to go live in a cheaper area.
I kind of think that IEEE 754 (or other binary floating point) to ASCII conversion should be its own project, or else in a language's standard library, since it is quite involved, especially if accuracy is important.
Someone who wants to make 400k-500k and will do whatever (legally) to achieve that.
The aggressive sound processing (mainly echo cancellation and noise reduction) doesn't help either. Works great for speach legibility, not so well for music.
what difference does it make to work you provide for them?

by your logic they should have full access to your bank account to accurately adjust salaries based on your expenses, you ride Tesla? here is bonus for you. you ride ford? bad for you...

it's none of the company business where I live if I work from home and provide same results like anyone else

salaries based on location make sense only with on site jobs where employer has to compete with other employers in area and potential employees with other employees in area. with no such thing at work from home, the offered salary should be fixed strictly based on productivity/results regardless if you are frugal or wasteful and to be able to attract the talent compared to other employers
True, but by comparison where the separate life stages of eels were believed to be entirely different species up until the 1800', salmon were relatively well known both in North America and Japan.

It was understood what Fry and smolts were. The different species and their specific breeding cycles, including which rivers would contain which species in a given season were known and there was generally a large 'industry' and culture built around them on both sides of the Pacific.

Likewise, from what that article says, eels were a heavy part of many cultures, yet the beliefs around them were fairly ignorant, for lack of a better word, by comparison.
I like to do winter hiking/tramping/camping too
> Facebook also uses its own apps' to track employee locations

Is this irony?
I just moved to a small town in Michigan from San Jose this week.

I love the lack of traffic, my giant backyard and deck, how completely quiet and pitch black it is at night and that I have yet to meet a software developer. Nothing against devs, but getting out of the tech bubble is nice.

I can go to Detroit, Chicago, the Great Lakes and many other places if I need a change of pace.

Of course it’s only been a few days at this point, but very optimistic. We lived in San Jose for 5 years and it just was not for us despite trying really hard to learn to like it.

I am still working for the same company.
Are there any 3000 year old Northern European languages we can still understand?
Anyone know where specifically this happened? In the form of a Google maps link, preferably.
People working remotely from Palo Alto are in the same labour pool as people working remotely from Eugene, Oregon... And the wierdo who lives in a goat farm in the middle of nowhere, Idaho.

The labour pool argument only makes sense if you commute into the office.

With remote work, everyone in the same country + timezone belongs to the same labour pool.

Companies that will treat the remote labour pool as uniform will trivially be able to outbid companies that underpay people in low COL areas, and overpay people in high COL areas. Why would I work for Gitlab, with its 0.66 COL multiplier for my town, and a 1.2 COL multiplier for NYC, when I could work for Foolab, which has an across-the-board 0.8 COL multiplier?

Given that situation, you'll quickly find that the only people working for Gitlab are people based in high COL areas. Instead of a money-saving technique, it becomes a money-spending technique, as they end up subsidizing employees relocating to the highest-COL areas.
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No, e2scrub_all is a filesystem-level check which serves a different purpose.

mdadm scrubbing is in various states of broken across major distros. It used to be that each distro had their own cron-based scrubbing scripts. At some point mdadm introduced its own checks using systemd timers and there have been bugs upstream and in packaging.

I only noticed because I'm preparing to upgrade an old home server and carefully double checking everything. I'll probably end up grabbing one of the old cron scripts and setting it up manually. Very disappointing.

Debian/Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/1852747

RHEL/Centos: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774354
Is there any transparency on how "a moderation downweight" works? It sounds like a useful feature, but what does it exactly do, and is there a public log for these types of things.
I used to do that Apple store trick with reddit.
Still win-win depending on how much they scale.

$50k/year in Thailand or Vietnam is way more luxurious than $200k in SF.
Joshua Kerievsky wrote a Pattern Language for study groups that came out of the Design Patterns Study Groups that we were a part of in the 1990s in NYC and Silicon Valley. Worth a skim: https://www.industriallogic.com/blog/pools-of-insight-study-...
What definition of addiction are you going by? Most seem to include some mention of 'despite adverse effects' or similar. Otherwise isn't it just dependence?
I can do the same with my OnePlus 6 and Fedora 32 with GSConnect or KDE connect.

Display screen, you will need another program for that, but it's possible.
I wish instead of trying to force us to live in one place because of geographic tax laws, we would talk about reforming geographic tax (and other) laws.
I've been wanting to create a side project that I can expand and hire people back in my home country (there are tons of college graduates but because the country is a third world country, there aren't many tech jobs).

My goal is to bring a change on how software is developed using lean methods and based on user research and feedback so the devs aren't looked as sweat shop cheap labor from Asia.

I'm having trouble because I'm not sure how I should start. I don't think I'd want a VC to be involved. There are some great ideas here, I think approaching people and asking them about their problems and empathizing is not easy as an engineer myself but I'm learning.

Any pointers appreciated
This is lovely. I like both the approach and the output.
The only think that you need to make your code work with Lambda is a function that takes in an event body and a Lambda context. If you are following standard architectural best practices, your lambda entry point should just be validating your event, mapping it to your business domain and remapping the result. You should treat your lambda event just like you would an action in your controller in most MVC frameworks aka “skinny controllers”.

This is a standard “onion architecture” with “ports and adapters”.

Sound development principles don’t get thrown out of the window just because you “move to the cloud”.
I feel like I am looking in a mirror!

Ten years ago I did the same but in Java and JOGL (before Apple banned OpenGL graphics within Java Applets embedded within a webpage). Was used for AR Watch try on within https://www.watchwarehouse.com and Ebay. The pain of Flash and Applets still wake me up at night.

I'm also building something very similar but with the ability for custom codecs (https://www.v-nova.com/ is very good). Probably the same issues too! Could I know more about your solution?
I use this bullet-journal system for tracking habits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxIg3M_MHY

Now that I can get a cheaply-bound pad of bullet paper, I use it as my default stationary.
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A company that obeys tax law?

I'm not being facetious. Companies face significant legal liability for not paying taxes correctly, and they have to ensure that all applicable federal, state, and local taxes are correctly being withheld and reported for their employees. They can't just look the other way and blindly allow employees to evade tens of thousands in SALT taxes annually.
RNA-world seems pretty compelling to me.

Self replication and catalysis. That sounds like enough to go on.
You'll feel different after a winter with barely any sunlight. Norway is great for vacation, but I can't recommend it's dark winters.
I (unlike the OP) did present evidence, though.
> The company, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest employers, is giving U.S. staffers who are approved to work remotely until Jan. 1, 2021 to update the company on where they plan to base themselves, at which point their salaries will be adjusted to reflect the local cost of living.

So it’s about maintaining control over employees, not managing company expenses. You may be this successful, no more.
That’s pretty funny. I have an amazing home office setup, and even all that high-end kit cost a very small fraction of an FB engineer yearly salary. Are they planning on burning the delta by throwing in high-end telepresence hardware, or something?