I've made the job hunt continuous for this very reason. You can't expect loyalty, or even be loyal, but you can expect the role to end so I personally feel it's better to be the one choosing when that happens.

It's well past time that IT was unionized, mostly because the young people coming into IT don't really know how to negotiate. It's not their fault however it drags IT down salaries for everyone else. Then there are more subtle things like ergonomics and people over-working and importing that fucking brain dead 996 attitude as if IT work is comparable to a production line.

Maybe union isn't the right concept to some however the biggest issue that all techs have is an under representation in political circles so no one that matters gives a fuck about our concerns which means that all of us are ripe for exploitation from the moment we start our careers.

The churn you see is the externality IT professionals face because we have never got our house in order.

Exactly my point.

Time is already 0 at midnight, epoch time is a pretty good global time. We could standardised time on the amount of degrees in a circle. 0 for midnight, 360 for 6am, 720 midday, 1080 6pm and back.

I'm within about 5 years of being able to take what I would consider to be a fairly comfortable early retirement. Which means I've got a few options.

1. Manage to stay where I am for the next 5 years.
2. If #1 fails, take a couple of years off and then see if the job market has changed in favour of older developers who don't rely on AI (because the vibe-coded house of cards fell in a screaming heap ... but civilization still kinda survived).
3. Die a bit earlier than intended.

There seem to be a few assumptions built into to your argument:
1. There is only a marginal net reduction is NO2 from EVs + fossil fuel power plants compared to ICE cars.
2. All (or almost all?) power plants in California are fossil fuel power plants.
3. Fossil fuel power plants are located in heavily residential areas, so there are no gains to be made from shifting NO2 from residential cars to power plants.
4. You are more informed than these researchers.
5. The researchers are green-washing, acting in bad faith or otherwise biased.

Even if we leave aside your claims 1, 4 and 5, I can't see how 2 and 3 could be true in general. Claim 2 is especially easy to disprove, given that the study was done in California, which has significant renewable energy in the electricity grid.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

There are lots of games that use an oval ball and don't wear helmets. All of those have made major moves over the last decades to reduce the likelihood of concussions by making certain moves illegal in the game, with significant penalties. Spear tackles, grabbing around the neck, dumping people head first, slamming the back of the head into the turf, etc.

So why doesn't American football do the same? Penalties can be percentage of salary, reduction of team salary caps, etc to take into account the ridiculous money involved esp. with some players.

Is everything ok at home? I was making a joke about how "Ozempic" sounds like "Olympic" FFS and then pointing out what worked for me. My Achilles tendon has ruptured four times this year and I CAN'T work out right now even though I want to, I have to fast to control my weight.

Junk food companies pour billions of dollars into marketing and employ teams of psychologist to get people to eat. If we had less advertising, we'd have a lot less fatties is probably a more reasonable argument.

Having withdrawn from opiates I can tell you that working off the weight I gained is not comparable.

Fuck dude - my sibling is morbidly obese and I'm mostly lean - can you explain the genetics of that?

No it isn't. Being fat isn't cancer, it's being fat. Some people have excuses and others have reasons but to compare being fat to cancer is a lie designed to draw people into your hopelessness by telling them there is nothing they can do.

An Ozempic Assleet.

On a more serious note I use small bouts of fasting, like skipping a meal, which helps in keeping both under control. You also get mental clarity. This helped me avoid the diabetes my siblings acquired.

Can pay their respect's appropriately.

Thanks, that also explains why gnome terminal bug of detaching and reattaching bash sessions has not worked since 2018. I liked Gnome because it was uncluttered (at least in Mint) but the downhill progression in usability is what I've noticed.

Windows Terminal has this feature and you can enable it in the settings. If you want it in the desktop you can add X11 functionality and it will work. I've done both because it is probably one of the most useful computing features apart form workspaces. As I recall it works in MAC if you enable X11 functionality - but it's been a few years since I used Mac everyday.

You mean raise your standards and learn something new.

AND ctrl-c + ctrl-v (or command for you) still works so you get two cut and paste buffers. Asides for workspaces it's probably the most useful used feature for me.

It's seems this is a trend to dumb down power user features so that GUIs become a productivity obstacle appealing to the lowest common denominator of "entry" level users.

Let's try that again.

Doesn't mean it isn't true or that he's wrong. He's hardly going to trick kids into reading his article, to trick them. I think reading is the vehicle into learning things in your life that unlocks what you'd really love to do.

It seems that the only two sides of politics that exist is the agonist and the antagonist. Left and Right have become obsolete as a consequence of their absolute polarization.

Intelligence can manifest in different ways unrelated to reading, math, music, painting for example. I'd also say that language could be considered a limiter of intelligence when you're restricted to words. I seen high intelligence is as much of a curse as a blessing, thinking can be addictive especially if you have hard emotions that you're avoiding feeling.

I can tell you from reading thousands of pages of proposed Acts of law; it's a fucking tedious slog that takes weeks out of your life and is absolutely vital component of a functioning democracy - way better than just voting. What's magical is the patience to do it or face the consequences of not doing it. The best way to solve that problem is log onto your government's page where laws are proposed and start reading AND writing about a portion of law that interests you.

That's what democracy needs.

Freedom of speech carrys with it an inherent responsibility to figure out what the reality is and make a judgement call. Respect is earned if someone can be civil, polite while they express that freedom.

Hopefully it's something that really offends them.

opps - That's not the comment I wanted to make.