It is double the average salary.

The average is enormous and is more than double the average HOUSEHOLD income. Those are payroll salaries as well, many of the jobs come with equity that the government doesn't track. I've worked with 100s of H1Bs and never heard any of them complain about their pay.

The only real thing that truly sucks is that the visa is owned by the company instead of the person. If it was owned by the person, you'd see pay double. (Because pay is 100% really just about retention.)

Despite what the other person replying to you said, there's no real material change to how anything works and in reality, the pay situation has improved enormously - $96k minimum pay and $168k average pay. People act like they are using H1B visas to employ Amazon Warehouse employees.

The absolutely lowest anyone on H1B is paid currently is $96k US. The top SALARIES are a bit over $1mil US - those people of course are also being paid extensive equity packages as well. The average is $168k US. There's some depression of their pay vs Americans in the same roles, but again those roles generally lack sufficient people.

The real goal of the H1B Visa program is to encourage immigration of people who bring LOTS of value to the US.

The whole entire program is entire convoluted for no good reason. In my (now) home country, we have no limits on quantities, you only need two things: a sponsorship (job) and sufficient education (a 4 years equivalent degree). While you need sponsorship, after you are sponsored, you own your own visa and can leave the company and go somewhere else, so no H1B lock-in problems.

Weird, Nepal has higher rates than India.

I cannot speak to what Microsoft is paying, but for sure all my Chinese engineers make almost identical to what the Indian engineers make. Also, they typically don't leave the company, I have Chinese co-workers who I've worked with for 20 years, but Indians all leave.

We do have Nepali engineers but they live in Japan and get paid Japan rates.

But suicide doesn't actually require this level of motivation. At the moment the audio + actions suggest it was suicide.

Nationalists might actually prefer if it was a Jihadist or if they can somehow swing the proof of that.

Google implemented most of DeX in Android 10 and has been improving it since then. Since Android 10, DeX runs on top of that framework.

Currently they just released a fully developed desktop mode with Android 16 which put Android above Chrome OS for being a "desktop" OS.

I think these are two different things.

This is the merger of the Chrome OS and Android OS Teams inside Google. (Aka fire everyone involved in Chrome OS except for a few key players who have real value.)

From what I heard, this actually mostly already happened in 2021.

Current Android desktop mode actually has slightly more features, so I believe mostly it will be make sure Android is 100% compatible with ChromeOS education "stuff" and that will be it.

People were creating stuff in their own minds around Fuchsia. The kernel design always made it obvious it was for small "single purpose" devices.

Replying to my own reply, but energy plants are shutdown and turned up on a fairly regular basis because energy demand is mostly daytime.

They use large energy storage to deal with this, typical very large oil and paper capacitors historically, but shifting to batteries.

Also interestingly all that chemical energy is really just energy from the sun converted by moss to carbon chains which convert to mud which converts to peat which coverts to coal/oil/etc. Fucking crazy man, it's solar all the way down. Even those nuclear fuel rods came from stars.

Except in most cases the Artists are getting paid little to nothing.

The system for handling this is completely broken.

Because they cannot reveal it until some date in the future.

We have >60k users using remote access. They all seem fine with it.

I've never noticed any real latency difference between ssh, RDP, VNC, or the like unless my OWN local Internet connection is starved for bandwidth. Compressed RDP and VNC are relatively small, like 1-3Mbps with a 4k-ish display. It can sometimes peak up to 6-12Mbps because there's some stupid full screen video.