FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS, I HAVE MOD POINTS ON SLASHDOT!!!!

I was going to mod you up, but I must wait for something truly inspiring!!!

Only people with > 4M slashdot userIds are mirthless cunts around here...

I use slashdot daily, logged in, and I haven’t had mod points in over 3 years. My karma is supposedly “excellent.”

"In order to be eligible for Singapore's Tech.Pass visa, candidates must meet two of the three criteria: a last drawn monthly salary of at least $20,000 in the past year"

Does anyone know anyone who makes $240,000 being a software developer? Can anyone get me one of those jobs?

Anyone with an IQ above 60 can be a worker at McDonalds.

Very few can invest the time, energy and have the basic brain power (110 IQ?) to be a programmer. Very very few can become great code craftsmen / architects.

The great ones produce relatively bug free code with near-zero maintenance costs over 10 years that pays for their wages many, many times over.

Great software craftsmen of 15+ years experience should be paid in excess of $300,000 or even $500,000/year with 1 to 2 of them instead of 4-5 $85,000 5--10 year range.

This happened in real life.

Almost all of the Navy sailors (all but 2) became enmeshed / "fused" with the ship's metal floors / walls /etc.

Research The Philadelphia Experiment.

You DEFINITELY didn't read the article.

It totally discusses all that.

First world problems.

After my brother ignored my advice and went to a pool w/ 6 friends in west Houston (Katy) in mid-June and got sick with #coronavirus and ended up hospitalized on 3 July thru 29 July, and will need kidney dialysis weekly for life, I can confirm:

A social life is a WANT not a NEED.

I self-isolated all of July and then chose to do it all of August and now I'm half-way into September :-/ I leave the house maybe once every 3 weeks and haven't had a one-on-one conversation since I forced him to leave and go get tested.

There is substantial evidence of alien encounters....

Slashdot is just barely hanging on. It's the same 50-300 of us every day.

Hasn't the United States had universal suffrage since the 19th Amendment, a 100 years ago today?

I gave up hoping for UTF-8 years and years ago. I hoped for a while that pipedot.org would succeed, since it has a better interface and full UTF-8 support, but sadly no posts in over 2 years.

Still, it's very shameful to post UTF-8 in submissions that show up funky, especially in mid-2020.

Why does this article have a purple heading?

I have been on Slashdot since the late 1990s and I have never seen that...

I'm a covid researcher, and I'm fuzzy on what the Taiwan model even is??