What's ludicrous? Having a career? Working for money? Following the prescribed visa processes for working in the US?

Ish.

I would not trust C++ for safety-critical work as MISRA can only limit features, it can't add support for contracts.

There have been other dialects of C++ - Aspect-Oriented C++ and Feature-Oriented C++ being the two that I monitored closely. You can't really do either by using subsetting, regardless of mechanism.

IMHO, it might be easier to reverse the problem. Instead of having specific subsets for specific tasks, where you drill down to the subset you want, have specific subsets for specific mechanisms where you build up to the feature set you need.

If that's the reason to trust a random twitter over a professional - that some professionals lie - then those people are just fucking stupid. The fact that some random twits also lie should slam the scales down back on the side of the professional.

Oh, absolutely. These days, I spend so much time checking the output from computers, it would normally have been quicker to do searches by hand. This is... not useful.

I can fully understand that.

Set up a computer that you type anything into and it names a fake library some distance away. Tell them it's ChatGPT, and it says to go there.

Then if they return, "defensive", tell them they must have not searched correctly, because the chatbot says it's real.

I'm an outside perspective as well. And I agree. I like the way things are shaking out. It's going to be rough... but positive.

We have W+ and Prime and these are probably the main 2 sites I cross-shop these days. They don't overlap entirely; Amazon sells a lot more variety under its own return policies etc, while Walmart is better for things like motor oil that they have locally (if you wanted to go into a Superstore). But there's enough overlap that it's worth cross-shopping, for now.

Since leaving my mega corp of the past 21 years, I've been working with startups. They uniformly don't give a shit where employees are. Everything is online and people are employed all over the world, where they are.

When you care about the costs, efficiencies and efficacies of engineering, WFH is the best option for design work. The data supports it and small companies are way more sensitive to costs. RTO is the preserve of large companies with lots of case and warped priorities.

>I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

I came in on an L1 for a temp assignment. I was paid competitively. I did bring specific skills that were unavailable otherwise.
25 years later I'm still here. VP of engineering in a tech company and doing ok.

I'm not Indian though, although I work with many. Skills tend to count over origin in my field.

The knowledge is free.

The skilled professionals to persuade the pupil whose civil rights include refusing to learn to absorb it are not.

You can lock a kid in a library but you can't make her think. When ignorance is virtue we have lost.

Hah hah. You think it's just 3 more years. That's cute.

It's not that I think he'll remain in the seat. I don't think he will. It's that it'll take a couple of decades to fix what has been done. And some things, like the destruction of the US dominance, will never be undone.

The one thing they really are doing well is making their changes systemic.

How to tell me you're an American without... you know...

Canadian credit scores go from 300 to 900.

"It uses less electricity than a modern frig"

So that seemed incredible; but after doing some research it is plausible (with caveats). I have a few questions:

1) What 'modern' fridge are you using for comparison? There is a substantial difference between 1982, 2002 and 2022.
2) What are the volumes of the two fridges being compared?

The average 1940s fridge looks to be only 6-8 cu ft; while the average 2000s fridge is 20+ cu ft. Even if it slightly beats the modern fridge on total electricity, it's probably only cooling 1/3 to 1/4 the volume

For example in the 1940s you might be around 400kWh; but if its 7cu ft, its only getting 57kWh/cu ft/year; and comparing it to a 550kWh fridge from 2002 cooling 21 cu ft for 26kWh/cu ft/year. (And that's a 20 year old not particularly efficient "modern" fridge... you could get that down to 300kWh annually on a new fridge if you buy specifically for efficiency)

Sure the 1940s fridge might beat that not particularly modern or efficient "modern fridge" on total use but it's still not really a win unless you only need 7 cu ft. And if all you need is 7 cu fit, in 2025 you can get 8 cu ft for 167kWh year. (60% less electricity)

cites: some data on 2025 fridges
https://shrinkthatfootprint.co...

data on refrigeration energy usage and capacity over time:
https://www.researchgate.net/f...
https://appliance-standards.or...

Fair comment, but the point stands that it's in there and sooner or later it will.

That's such an arbitrary calculation. The big turning point was in the 70s energy crisis when energy star became a thing. And there is a huge efficiency jump from 1970 to 1980; sure 2020s appliances are significantly more efficient than 1980s appliances but is a logarithmic improvement curve and there's no justification to buy one every 10 years.