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In Wholesome News Today:
"I had a couple of bills overdue," Castillo said. "My mom is sick, she just got out of the hospital Thanksgiving Day. Her medicine and hospital bills -- I can finally help with that. It's hard."
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He drove the half-hour to Mayfield with food, water, and his grill in tow and just set up in the middle of town and started cooking.
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That drain hole has an interesting shape.
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They could easily work for a company and get paid six times as much and get promoted
that's how it's sold to potential software development students. The reality of what software engineers get paid is very different. Apart from a couple bubbles software development pays well but not that well. You're not going to come across a cushier gig though. Maybe mattress salesman.
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@DogsB Six times is much. Double or triple of what a researcher makes? Easily, if you're in a STEM field and half competent (and possibly willing to move). Hell, a half-way competent MSc graduate has a good shot at landing a job where they make >1.5x as much as most of the instructors they had.
Being a researcher pretty much implies going down the normal research career. You're expected to do stuff other than just research (or engineering for that matter). This includes teaching and supervision, and at least some amount of admin and managerial work. Oh, and you're expected to keep finding funding for yourself (and all of your underlings) too.
There's an additional political problem. If you hire "support staff" how much do you pay them? They're not bringing in any money. So they typically end up on lower salary scales than the aforementioned researchers.
Now, some places are starting to recognize the problems, especially with respect to scientific software dev. But the number of places in academia where you can mainly be a developer and make a somewhat stable career out of that is still pretty small. Creating non-shit software is starting to be recognized to some degree in terms of research output as well. (Although there are fairly large discrepancies in this depending on where you are.)
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They could easily work for a company and get paid six times as much and get promoted
Probably 6 times as much as their grad student stipend
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The jokes are good once. It's not something that can be remastered or reimagined.
Haaaaaaave you ever been to Funny Stuff Thread?
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@Gąska
I hear it’s the best thread in the history of ever.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The jokes are good once. It's not something that can be remastered or reimagined.
Haaaaaaave you ever been to Funny Stuff Thread?
This is not "funny stuff".
This is extremely unfunny bickering about unimportant boring stuff.
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@kazitor that one never gets old.
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RIP goat. New record streak: 4 years of surviving.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
But the number of places in academia where you can mainly be a developer and make a somewhat stable career out of that is still pretty small.
Getting better. Getting much better.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Six times is much. Double or triple of what a researcher makes? Easily, if you're in a STEM field and half competent (and possibly willing to move). Hell, a half-way competent MSc graduate has a good shot at landing a job where they make >1.5x as much as most of the instructors they had.
Yeah 6x probably really only applies to a few outliers. In my case, I'm at about 2x what a similar experience would get me in public research institutes. When I started the difference was probably closer to 3x though.
The gap is smaller now, because in the public sector some of the pay rises are automatic after each year and it does increase a bit faster than what I got in the private sector. The faster rate of increase in the public sector is kind of, partly, "intended" to compensate for the lower entry salary, and the slower rate in the private sector is because in my company as in many other, to get large pay rises you have to get on the management track ().
Some time ago my wife was contemplating leaving her (private sector) job because her company had become shitty (or shittier...), and she had some very interesting opportunities in the public sector. One thing weighting quite heavily in the balance was the fact that she would have had to take a 50% pay cut, more or less.
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Not sure what to say about this.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Not sure what to say about this.
The Not sure if good idea, bad idea or evil idea thread?
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@dcon Ah, there we have it:
"We do make very clear that anyone who wants to use the ticket as an actual ticket, please only nibble on it or eat it after your journey as if it has a bite out of it, it is no longer valid," Schwentu said.
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@acrow my take is that it’s a joke, but Berlin is insane anyway so the boundaries are blurry.
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"Our little holiday gift to you, Vancouver," the park board tweeted with a photo of the sign. "No matter what storms life may send our way, we'll always be here for you."
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The jokes are good once. It's not something that can be remastered or reimagined.
Haaaaaaave you ever been to Funny Stuff Thread?
This is not "funny stuff".
This is extremely unfunny bickering about unimportant boring stuff.
*looks at thread title*
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
"No matter what storms life may send our way, we'll always be here for you."
They should teach about coastal erosion at school.
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@Gąska Double
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
"No matter what storms life may send our way, we'll always be here for you."
They should teach about coastal erosion at school.
Reminds me of the time about twenty years back when Toyota was having a rash of "unintended acceleration" incidents, where the car would lunge forward when the driver swore he was standing as hard as possible on the brakes. The company wasted no time in running full-page ads in newspapers all across the country saying they were aware of the problem and were vigorously investigating its cause out of their obligation to public safety.
At the bottom of the ad, they closed with their then-current corporate slogan....
Toyota. Moving forward.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
"No matter what storms life may send our way, we'll always be here for you."
They should teach about coastal erosion at school.
But then they couldn't
blame things onteach about rising oceans.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Gąska Double
It deserves to be posted thrice.
Three times shall it be posted, not four not five, six is right out....
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@Tsaukpaetra Three times shall be the number thou shalt post, and the number of the posting shall be three. Four times shalt thou not post, neither post thou two times, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number of posts, be reached, then thy worthy opponent shalt be known as Hanzo, for being the mightiest ninja in the night.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
worthy
Thanks, I couldn't remember the quote sufficiently and kneeled instead of actually looking it up. 👏
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@Tsaukpaetra I do feel my revised ending isn't as good as "and thy enemy, being naughty in My sight, shalt snuff it" but that wasn't appropriate.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I do feel my revised ending isn't as good as "and thy enemy, being naughty in My sight, shalt
snufffuck it" but that wasn't appropriate.
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@topspin This is old news. The article is from December 12th and the ship passed the canal without issues after they reserved a pair of tugboats and some of their best pilots to guide it through.
However, the reason why I originally wanted to post this in the "Not News" thread (see ) is because it has actually passed through the north part of the canal before, after it sailed through to be inspected for damage.
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The global chip shortage worsens...
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The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has accidentally transferred around $800,000 into the bank account of the Afghan Embassy in Tajikistan and is now asking for it to be returned. The mission, whose head has professed his allegiance to the deposed government and firm opposition to the Taliban, is declining the request.
A Eurasianet source at the Embassy confirmed that a transfer had indeed been made, but they put the figure at somewhere closer to $400,000.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has accidentally transferred around $800,000 into the bank account of the Afghan Embassy in Tajikistan and is now asking for it to be returned. The mission, whose head has professed his allegiance to the deposed government and firm opposition to the Taliban, is declining the request.
A Eurasianet source at the Embassy confirmed that a transfer had indeed been made, but they put the figure at somewhere closer to $400,000.
Hey, maybe the US is starting to rub off on the Taliban.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
Hey, maybe the US is starting to rub off on the Taliban.
Hopefully they bought the Taliban a drink first
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If I could fake a positive result I could have a nice quiet Christmas.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@GOG said in In other news today...:
Hey, maybe the US is starting to rub off on the Taliban.
Hopefully they bought the Taliban a drink first
Possibly a Pepsi, 'coz yer typical "drink" is, y'know, haram.
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Chew, who denies common assault, appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday via video link from his bedroom in a dressing gown which slipped down to reveal his bare chest. His lawyer Peter Fallen told the court he had tested positive for coronavirus.
Shortly before the hearing started, Fallen told the court he was withdrawing from the case because he was “professionally embarrassed”.
During the hearing, Chew became increasingly exasperated and insisted Whitty should be at court for the trial. “The law is that I have the right for him to come,” he told the court. “I want Chris Whitty there.”
“I suspect I know a bit more about the law than you do,” Goldspring replied
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I don't expect it to appear in web browsers, where compression ratio is much more important, anytime soon
losslessy compresses images to a similar size of PNG, while offering 20x-50x faster encoding and 3x-4x faster decoding
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Status: I forget do we have an audiosilly topic yet?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
but...
I thought it might have been posted but I was thinking of the network switch one....
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I forget
Clearly
But that's not news. 😘
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@DogsB this was posted here a week or so ago from a different source. Dominic (the author of the format) is a good guy who is kinda experimental in his ideas at times.
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Local are not so amused:
This year's holiday display in Mears Park features projected images of snowflakes and lights placed at the base of the birch trees.
[...] some neighbors have complained about the changes to this year's display.
"People look down from their condos or apartments and they want to see the twinkly lights. Well, we can't have twinkly lights. It was probably this or nothing. It's gorgeous when you walk through it, but it's not as pretty from up above," she said.