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Comment Re: This should stop the abuse of H1-B (Score 1) 141

fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years

That one is actually illegal. The minimum on a H-1B salary is $60,000. But there is an additional requirement that the salary has to be at or higher than the prevailing wage for the job in question.

Government: So I see that your H-1B jobs are all for "Computer Programmer (I)" and your U.S. hires are all for "Software Engineer (III)" or "(IV)".
Company: Yes. We haven't had much luck in hiring level one programmers here in the U.S. We put the jobs out there, but nobody is applying.

Prevailing wage for the job doesn't mean what you think it does. A bunch of sleazy outsourcing firms made sure of that.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 90

Large houses in hot climates don't have enough roof space to accommodate the number of panels you would need to displace grid power.

Simply putting panels between the sun and the house substantially reduces the need for cooling, even if you didn't connect them to anything, because the back of the panel is white and the other side is dark.

Comment Re:Misleading headline (Score 1) 90

Ten tiny companies, ten meters.

So instead of paying higher prices for power they'll spend tons of money maintaining an incredibly inefficient system?

Surprisingly little money. As soon as the extra cost exceeds the cost of hiring one person to maintain workarounds, it is cheaper to do the workarounds. Tricks like that might ostensibly work for individuals, but they fail badly every time when you're talking about big corporations.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I only had so many choices as I wanted to buy something from costco so that I could easily return it if it failed. It was LG, Samsung, or Sony. The reviews all said that the LG was good except for the interface, and the other options were bad including the interface.

Comment Re:bullshit dude (Score 1) 37

the point is that legacy filesystems (e.g. Minix) and operating systems are facing doom because of the Y2038 problem

Oh no! This is of no concern to anyone but hobbyists today.

You could invent some ad-hoc replacement filesystem but then it won't be compatible with Linux.

Unless you added support for it to Linux.

There are still people out there hacking on 2BSD. I am sure they are aware that NetBSD is available as an upgrade path.

Again, hobbies don't matter.

Comment Re: Going for gold (Score 1) 239

I even have it set to never sleep for efficiency and it still occasionally tells me to wait while it gets its shit together before I'm allowed to change inputs.

All you need is to change channels and inputs

In fact, that is what I was talking about. You may read the quoted section at your leisure.

I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

This one is only a bit over a year old, so it's newer than the one you were using. The entire line has been panned universally in reviews for its laggy interface.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 37

If you say "which should be available in both architectures aren't" then I guess you're using Ubuntu not Debian.

Actually, I'm using Devuan. But I had the same problem on actual Debian.

As for appImages: they deserve no words other than an exorcism formula. Same for Snap.

AppImages work, which is more than you can say for snaps.

Comment Re:Two letters: (Score 2) 90

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

The problem is that distribution networks are highly regulated monopolies, many of them operating in the red because of fire-related lawsuits or government-mandated rate limits that don't respect the costs. They have no real incentive, and in some cases no funding, to expand to meet the ever-increasing demand.

There's a long backlog of electricity producers waiting to be connected to the distribution network, but that network is expanding very slowly.

Meanwhile, supply meet demand. Consumer demand is increasing, AI demand is increasing, all uses of electric power are seeing increasing demand. The supply is choked by the distribution network. Increasing demand, limited supply -> increased price.

Comment Re:Where is the like button? (Score 1) 33

Excel vs Calc is a battle with no heroes. Both have bad interfaces. Both use bad macro programming languages. Both are missing inexplicable functions, though Excel is missing fewer obvious ones that you would want than Calc is so I guess there's a slight edge there, and of course LIVE PIVOT TABLES are massively important to many spreadsheet users and that's an obvious Excel win.

Comment Re:Wrong Model (Score 1) 90

half the nation can't use home solar anyway

This is nonsense. Of course it can. You simply need to add more panels. Nobody wants to install used panels for money, because the way they profit is by marking up parts prices, and you get a bigger markup at the same percentage on a new panel. But there are absolute piles of used panels out there, I am actually seeing large numbers of them just given away, so this is absolutely a viable business. And that's never been more true than it is now with microinverters, because you can add panels in any numbers you like. One panel, okay. Ten panels, okay. Twenty panels, fine. There's no need for them to match, either.

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