Well, the CEO of the company I used to work at is still in touch with me and giving me advice. I just tell him my view of the situation and he tells me what to do. I guess at some point I’ll switch from engineer mode to CEO mode (I already “feel” it a little)

Happened to me once in Thailand, I was very surprised.

Truly USA is an overpriced country with the only good thing being that jobs are high paying… and that’s it.

I think the best thing in life is to have a remote job somehow + travel 50% of the time + stay w friends and family 50% of the time

> USA is an overpriced country

The USA is ranked sixth in purchasing power in the world, meaning we are definitionally underpriced.

The countries that have even more purchasing power are: Norway, Macau, Bermuda, Singapore, and Luxembourg.

https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php

Let's see... two tiny countries that specialize in finance, a city-state that is the historic trade hub for the region, another that is the historic gambling hub for the region, and a low-population country that won the oil lottery and has been smart enough not to let its residents get high on their own supply, thus avoiding the worst of "the resource curse."

Idk, as an European, coming to US 20/10 years ago was cheaper than traveling Europe.

Today? You're easily paying 3/400$ per night in Manhattan and other cities. Same is true for dining, museums, transport.

Everything is insanely expensive compared to what it was just few years ago.

Services are even more expensive.

What do you mean, one of your « submarines »? I don’t understand the meaning.

It's a reference to an old article by pg http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

They deter newbies but this is not a problem for experienced developers.

Yes. I am so worried as well. This is why I installed an AI to double-check if the password I entered is correct when logging in. Fight fire with fire

If they don’t, I will.

Why does everybody hate systemd so much ?

There are countless answers to that question online. And basically it boils down to... again, countless answers to that question, too.

Disclaimer: I am a moderate systemd hater.

Sentry isn’t really a full on observability platform. It’s for error reporting only (that is annotated with traces and logs). It turns out that for most projects, this is sufficient. Can’t comment on the vendor lock-in part.

Sorry, but what was the change? Adding corticoid inhalers when treating an asthma episode? Curious since I have asthma and didn’t hear about this change yet.

The short of it was that they decided salbutamol was overprescribed and shouldn’t be given to anyone who isn’t taking a corticosteroid inhaler at the same time. The advice has changed from “if you feel like you need your blue inhaler take it” to “your asthma should be managed by your corticosteroid dose, and if it’s not you should adjust”. Obviously not suitable for everyone but for people like my dad it got him from using his reliever once a week to not having an active prescription for it anymore.

That was a worldwide change after they figured out long acting beta agonists were basically killing people because they don’t treat the underlying inflammation like inhaled corticosteroids do.

Yeah that doesn’t surprise me - I just don’t have enough knowledge of outside the UK to know if it was advised elsewhere. Anecdotally, my breathing is so much better since I’ve adjusted to the correct dose and never missing one, I’ve gone from needing a reliever with me at all times to not using it once in a year.

Shit I should talk to my doctor again. Although probably for exercises induced things might be a little different.

Very possibly, although I wouldn’t be surprised if the advice has changed. Asthma is an inflammation of the lungs and the learnings seem to be that any inflammation is bad, so we want to prevent inflammation rather than respond to it.

Definitely worth a conversation!