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  • Yeah. I've been working in silicon Valley since 2009. I've worked everywhere from startups to Facebook. I was laid off a year ago. I did 25 applications a week for 6 months with 0 interviews or call backs. This was all stuff I have industry experience at and fantastic references for. Even the contract companies I worked with haven't been able to find me anything outside of IT roles that require 24/7 on call paying $25/hr. I was making that in 2010. The job market for tech is nonexistent.

  • Yeah. My wife and I bounced from the US 2 years ago. We cashed out our 401ks at the start of this year and bought a house. We're currently in the nightmare stage of remodeling where everything is twice as expensive as expected and takes 4 times as long as we were told. Outside of everything currently being hell, we feel it was the best decision we could have made.

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  • No link to a rip?

  • I don't think it's impolite. As an American migrant to a foreign country, it's one of the first things most Americans ask each other.

  • Paradigm speakers always had the best sound per dollar in my book. I've had my 7.1 set up using their speakers for a decade and they still sound amazing. Frequently their dealers will have a backroom with discounted stock. Scratch and dent, and good shit rich people decided to replace. You'll find amazing deals there.

  • I've been working on an eldritch themed intro to Albanian language book. This is one of my favorite images.

  • I contracted at plex for 6 months. The employees really care. The developers were very concerned with making the absolute best media server possible. The QA team was doing crazy stuff to try to keep everything working.

  • Or San Francisco. My longest commute was 3.5 hours each way. Average over 15 years there was 90 minutes.

  • No. I don't see any benefit in giving a bunch of fash more chances to worm into people's brains.

  • I jumped ship from windows straight to Garuda. It just works. Any question I've had DeepSeek has answered correctly the first time I asked.

  • Fun story time: I once got informed of a drug test for a job I'd just accepted after a weekend of hard partying. I was on prescription opiods, Adderall, and ketamine. They called Monday morning at 9 to tell me I had to piss within 4 hours. I hadn't even slept yet. I should have lit that test up like a Christmas tree for everything except thc. It came back clean. They never asked about my prescriptions. I have 2 theories. 1) they don't actually test. 2) if too many things light up, they assume it's a calibration issue.

  • Oh look, it's me. Except I've put in 600 applications in 6 months without a single response. 15 years as a Devops engineer at fortune 100 companies, and can't make it to round one.

  • We had a chance at Star Trek, we decided to aim for Firefly instead.

  • Find a few sheets of stickers that you like. Every time you do something thats hard, write it down and give yourself a sticker. Then when you're having a bad day, you can look at the list of shit you've accomplished, and the awesome stickers you've earned.

  • They allow up to 5 allergies/dislikes. The difference is cost. By putting together 3 meals with one set of ingredients, it really helps cut the cost of food down.

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  • Requesting your W2s from the IRS requires you to have the card, or 1 of 10 other documents that usually have xxx-xx as the first 5 of the number.

    As an aside, the first 5 can be determined if you know what state and year someone was born in.