I used to think this before I became a parent. Daycare exclusively communicates through an app. Registered kid for developmental kindergarten and immediately received a link to download the app for elementary school communications. Afterschool classes and teams communicate through apps and sometimes email, but you better have email on your phone because they will make changes hours before the event is going to occur and expect you to check your email.

At least my work still allows SMS messages for 2FA.

If "investment with high interest rate risk" is not "risky" in banking parlance, maybe we have discovered why these banks are going under.

No, this is a textbook example of Interest Rate Risk:

"Interest rate risk is the risk that arises for bond owners from fluctuating interest rates. How much interest rate risk a bond has depends on how sensitive its price is to interest rate changes in the market. The sensitivity depends on two things, the bond's time to maturity, and the coupon rate of the bond." -Wikipedia

Yes, i5-4590 here. Finally upgraded to 1440p and a 2019 GPU rather than my 2014 GPU.

I had everything ordered for a new, 13th gen Intel build. And then I realized "Why?". And took everything back to the UPS store.

My plan is to move to AM5 when the next-gen AMD CPUs come out and 7600 prices drop. And motherboard prices drop. And DDR5 prices drop.

And then perhaps move to the beefiest reasonable CPU from the last AM5 gen, whenever that comes out. And then wait 10 more years until I can build again.

Those of us that read the article know that Semiaccurate's assessment is that the one word is: Russia. As in, driver work was being done in Russia, and those teams are no longer accessible to Intel due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Who knows if their assessment is fully accurate.

Citation needed.

So you wouldn't be willing to say, go to the store or the library for a few hours on the hottest days of the year, for $1000 or so? Or get a fan and open your windows? Or use a window air conditioner?

I plan to do this once I have kids. I am a software engineer in a low cost of living area. Even at 75%, my salary would be still be twice the median income in my county.

Once our new robot overlords do all the jobs, we better hope this is a common arrangement. Otherwise we will be in for difficult times.

We were founded 10 years ago as a software consulting firm, running and pushing Linux. Workstations were built in the office and ran Linux. Laptops were Dell and usually ran Linux.

Last fall, we stopped purchasing Windows machines and building desktops. Now, all new employees get a Macbook Pro. Our owner is a FOSS advocate so that change was hard for him, but the change has been a significant improvement:

• The workstations running Linux were a major pain keep updated. It seemed like whenever packages updated, at least one of the projects would break and someone would spend an hour or two fixing the problem.
• The machines we got from Dell were unreliable. The last couple of orders we made had several machines that required hours of troubleshooting within the first few months. Several machines less than a year old are stacked in the corner of our basement, unused.
• OS X has all the Unix-like features developers need.
• Macbook Pros are great machines. We do not have to spend time that we could be billing clients to maintain them.
• Given the same specs, Macbook Pros are NOT significantly more expensive than Dell, HP, etc. Those manufacturer's laptop lines start at a lower price point than Macbooks, but once you find the model with similar specs as a Macbook, they are more expensive.
• We do some Windows .NET, and it is so easy to run Windows on a Mac. When I was doing this, I had a Bootcamp partition set up that I could also run in VmWare Fusion if I happened to be booted into OS X.
• Our developers run OS X at home.

I have 20Mbps DSL at home for about $30/month. How is that not viable?

This is absolutely common for many large commercial companies. I have several such companies as clients and getting any FOSS approved is a major process. In fact, one client preferred to send a check to one open-source project for a license even though legally it grants them no benefit. The project's website even says that the project "is in the public domain and does not require a license." Companies with large bankrolls will glady shell out thousands of dollars for some peace of mind.

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As a rule, I never used code directly from SO to avoid any licensing questions for my clients.

In 5+ years I've never experienced anything like this. Maybe you need to look at yourself and your position and figure out where the real problem is.

I've had three employers: one Fortune 500 company and two 50 employee consulting companies. At the big company, I worked 50-60 hours/week in a high stress environment, but the work was exciting and I really enjoyed it.

At the two smaller companies, it is rare that I would work over 41 hours/week. I've never done it in 6 months at my current company. I think it is easier for small consulting companies to offer a balance like this because our clients won't pay for more than 40 hours/week except under exceptional circumstances, and our company does a great job being realistic about timelines so we almost always deliver on time.

You can find work-life balance, but you have to look for it and prioritize it in you job search. I would probably make 10-20% more had I stayed at the large company, but the relaxed hours are worth it to me.

I'll also note that this is in the Midwest, where all you tech people from the coasts complaining about not finding jobs should move.

It may make you look elsewhere, but there are still hundreds or thousands of medical school applicants that aren't accepted into a program and move on to a different career each year.

Maybe I've never worked with a good one, but all BAs have ever done on my projects is muddy the message and bill hours.