I've been working remote for well over a decade. I've had jobs where there wasn't even a physical office. We just did a zoom and showed them our identification. Onboarding, orientation, training, etc. That is all done remote.

Even when I worked for a large cloud provider I was onboarded remotely. The time I worked for one of the big 3 insurance companies I had to drive to an office to present ID, but then everything thing else was remote. In my current role at a very large private equity firm I was onboarded completely remotely and they didnt' even meet me in person until about 6 months in when I attented a corporate event.

It's very possible today to get a job and never meet a single co-worker in person. My sister works in a CS role for a company based 3 or 4 states away and has never been to that office or met a single person in real life. In fact this year she even turned down the team building event to Vegas so it will be another year without seeing a living human in person.

If if you meet me at a conference, I dont' know you. I am in no way going to recommend someone I don't know. At best I'd tell you to check our website and see if their are open roles. Honestly if you haven't already done that, I'm not sure I'd want to hire you.

The best way to get a job in tech today is not network and know people, but that takes years of cultivating relationships with people who may or may not help you. Team members who leave, college friends, professors, mentors, etc. The second best way is to have presence. Github repos, give talks, be active on domain specific social media, etc.

Even with all that you are still going to strugle in this market. Three years ago I could have found a new job by simply posting on linkedin "I'm thinking of a new role" and someone would throw 200-300k at me for existing in my field. Now with 10s of thousands of people who do what I do suddenly on the market, I get someone reaching out every single day to see if I can help them find a role. Job postings have hundreds of qualified applicants in minutes. It's the toughest market of my lifetime for people in technology and security roles.

I didn't say they wouldn't be available. I'm saying that if you think the price of cars is going to be out of your reach, why would the price of parts not be?

Do you think the parts also will not be impacted by inflation?

It's already 8 years old, so you are expecting it to last at least 20 years with just basic maintenance. Because those rising costs are also going to be the rising cost of parts. So if it needs anything besides some filters and oil you can expect that to also be reasonably out of your reach.

Unless you are super mechnaically inclined and can junk yard hunt for parts.

How long do you plan to live? There is always a point where keeping a car going costs more than a new car. Especially if your car has computer components. I guess though if you plan to die in the next decade then you are probably correct.

AI is controlled by a human via promps. AI is using content originally played by a human to develop it's response.

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Well they did moan about those quite a bit.

BGP?

How is chosing not to be beholden to foreign interests a political statement? We (the US) have made it clear the rules are wildly variable and you can't trust that what we tell you today we will do tomorrow. It would be foolish to depend on us to provide software your government runs on (or cloud etc). This the sovereign movement.

Big providers see this which is why AWS and even MS have sovereign clouds in the EU ran only by citiens of EU nations and seperate from their US counterparts.

Countries shouldn't see using US-based software and services as a national security risk, they should KNOW it is a national security risk. Hell isn't that the point of removing our reliance on other countries in our manufacturing?

Every company I've worked at including my current one run their own smtp servers. Never any delivery issues. I run my own personal email server with no issues.

"And officials want to speed up the final stages of making a drug or medical device approval decision to mere weeks, citing the success of Operation Warp Speed during the Covid pandemic when workers raced to curb a spiraling death count"

I thought that is how we got terrible covid vaccines that have killed everyone who took them or at the very least gave them autisim?

Right I responded to the question that asked what happens if we completely stopped emmiting them today. How long would they exist. Obvioulsy that can't happen.

With half-lives of 2.7-5.3 years for major PFAS compounds (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS), it would take approximately:

5-7 half-lives (~15-35 years) to reach DuPont's 1991 internal guidelines
10+ half-lives (~30-50+ years) to reach undetectable levels

At least from what I can find using search.

You could a interface you prefer. That's wonderful.

I hate using a keyboard outside of work. If I have to type more than a small url or 4/5 words then it warrants a phone call and not a message. In the event that I did need to write an article there is a computer, but I'd rather never use it. Not becuase it's difficult, but because I use one all day and using one feels like I'm back at work.

I am still of the age where the bigger the purchase decision, the bigger the screen needed to buy it. So I will connect the laptop up to the TV if something I'm buying is big enough.

I guess the question is "does that matter?"

What do you need your computer to do? For work I need very few things. I need my computer to browse the web, to have a semi decent text editor, an email client, a chat tool, a compiler, and a zsh shell.

For my personal life, taking gaming out of the equation (which I almost never do anymore) I need a email client, web browser, photo manager, and chat tool.

Sure it's great to have all this freedom, but do I want the complexity that comes with it? At the end of the day it's a tool for a purpose. I'd rather not use a computer if I could help it. I get paid to use one so I do. I understand why others wouuld want more. When I was younger I loved tinkering, and building labs, compiling my own gentoo desktop, etc.

Now I just want to get done with the work I'm paid to do and try to not use a phone, tablet, or computer in my personal life unless it's the only way to get it done.