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> “In California, we displayed a Pacific lamprey, and a kid from Hoopa tribe said, ‘That looks delicious.’”

Despite looking gross, they are indeed delicious.

Absolutely, and IMO the EU should be developing our own semiconductors.

It seems completely unreasonable to me that one pillar of modern society has to be bought from USA or China and doesn't have a locally sourced alternative...

I'm from Castilla y León (mid west) and the only people I know doing this are people who have to work at unusual times that wake up at 3-5 in the morning.

People with normal working hours don't take siesta.

Regarding what to do, the most important thing is to find a company willing to pay that amount.

1- Foreign companies usually pay more money than local ones, specially American. Obviously there are exceptions but generally speaking avoid them.

2- Outsourcing companies (the so called "cárnicas") usually are the worst places to work, for salary and for conditions in general... Usually companies where you build/maintain the product pay more.

3- For individual contributors technology matters a lot. Kubernetes pays well, crypto pays unreasonable amounts, rust in general is very well paid as well, AI, etc. Find your niche.

4- Experience matters more than education and open source contributions raise your value a lot.

I'd say those are the main factors that will determine a position's salary, so it's a matter of finding the right position and being the best candidate *for that position*.

As for the technology I've been doing kubernetes for about 8 years now (that's before 1.0 was released). For this experience my salary is not insane at all, counting bonus and stock I was making about 35% more in my previous job, but I was quite tired of being a sysadmin and moved back to programming and that involved doing a pay cut.

I'm not a manager and agree that in an office I'm more productive, but at home I'm much cheaper for the company and the company gets more for their money.

Realistically at Google I'd probably be an L5 or L6 software engineer so let's say I'd make somewhere around 400k USD. Working from home in Spain I make 80k euros and I cost the company around 92k euros with taxes, so let's round it up and say I cost to the company 100k USD per year.

I'm not 4 times less productive for working in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Spain, so even if I'm not in my peak productivity I'd say the company gets more for their money.

For this reason I use a virtual debit card for each subscription and only use it for that. If a subscription is hard to cancel I will just cancel my card instead.

He does, he's been many years and he's one of the best engineers I worked with :)

> Is IBM really doing that to Red Hat, or just suffocating it slowly the way that happens in many acquisitions?

OK, my previous comment was an overstatement. This is what's happening.

I'm not there anymore but there has been significant change in the company culture (which was great) and IBM is making conditions gradually worse.

One thing that is a clear change is that IBM is pushing for having a cheaper workforce, more employees but cheaper and therefore less qualified. Many short term goals of getting quick sales rather than get stuff that is sustainable over time not just technically but also burning people out.

Depecration of CentOS is something that really pissed me off, specially when we had acquired CentOS a few years back.

Some projects have been transfered to IBM. Others without being transferred directly were influenced by IBM in a negative way (I was a software engineer in one that was).

Significant changes in teams that deal with end customers, support has been affected, consulting has been affected. I know sales had some kind of merge as well (I don't any friend in sales but I've heard some stuff), etc...

Also there are loads of ridiculous changes in policy to save costs and they don't even save any money.

Something that really pissed me off were problems in HR. For instance I've seen problems in payslips (once I was paid THREE times with different amounts and the following month I got a discount on my payslip because I was paid too much, I know a guy who got paid 4 times that month and the month after he still got an extra amount because after 4 different payments money was still missing). I've heard of problems and delays doing the paperwork for paternity leave.

> Red Hat was 26 years old in 2019, and then they were acquired by IBM.

As a former Red Hat employee this was painful to read. IBM is doing a Sun Microsystems to it, Red Hat used to be such a great company.

Odd, most pre workouts supplements include caffeine.

I use a pre-workout from a very famous supplement brand which includes 175 mg of caffeine and I can definitely tell the difference. I can't tell how much of that is because of the caffeine, because it has more stuff like creatine and L-carnitine among other things, but I cant I feel like I last more doing this and I have more energy.

> I think this is some of the disconnect between users on this site who don't understand why people would possibly actively choose iOS even with the lockin. Most people do not want to use a product that is constantly updating and adding features

Precisely the reason why I have an iPhone and an iPad is because they give me 5 years of updates and even more of security fixes.

I don't think it's so much not being allowed to be outside but the education that they got, the confinement ended 2 years ago and kinds have very flexible brains. My older niece will be 5 next month and she is NEVER allowed to have cartoons while eating and she doesn't do it and doesn't miss it. However one of my best friends has a kid born the same month and she always has a phone every time I see her.

I also tell you that if I have a child of my own they aren't trying fucking ketchup, the thing with my niece and ketchup isn't even close to reasonable. Kids can get a nasty habit very easily, youtube, ketchup, etc. Pretty much everything can become a problem if it's not cut down.