The average employee lasts well less than a year at a fast casual; this had little to do w/her background.

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I'm not sure that was ever the case for starting salary. I'm at a 6 figure salary now with a CS degree, but it took me nearly 20 years to hit 6 figures. Right out of college I started at around $30k per year (moved to $45k pretty quickly, but after that it's been quite incremental).

I am absolutely certain many of those kids are great at writing code; what I have found in the last ~3y of hiring candidates out of undergrad and/or masters programs is that they DO NOT interview well.

They can answer esoteric technical questions about software dev (I *assume* this is because they study for coding interview questions) but they cannot possibly answer more general questions about themselves, how they would operate in a real-world business setting, and/or how they might build something from soup to nuts.

I'm not asking them to give me real-world experience; but, I expect a college graduate to be able to think about questions asked critically and provide a coherent and thoughtful reply to that question. Even if it's technically 'wrong', the conversational nature is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for any work I have done in my 25+ year career.

Anyone can have AI solve most esoteric technical coding problems now; interfacing ability w/others on the dev teams and the rest of the business is what is important in getting shit done.

Colleges need to start investing HEAVILY in leveling up their students in how to interview well.

"Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle."

I think this single sentence says more about it than anything else in the article.

Almost all aspects of the "old" Internet are still available to use for those who care.

If you want to run an IRC server and communicate that way the technology still works. If you want to telnet into a BBS there are still thousands of them out there for the curious. Spin up a server running phpbb if you want a place to discuss something. If you don't want to run Windows 11 or enable secure boot then use Linux.

You decry that money and non-free software ruined the internet but realistically the parts that they ruin are the things that involve . . . money and non-free software.

The "old" Internet is still there to be used. I'd wager it'll continue to be that way for a long time. And if the whole thing gets locked down then I'd wager hobbyists will have other ways of communicating even if it means going back to analog modems or wifi mesh networking.

Only if its something you don't want to be doing. You're not billing yourself for your hobbies.

No we're not going to die, but its nice to have things to do in such situations. When I was a kid we had a hurricane come through that knocked out our power for over a month.

That's not ideal unless you want to self-host a web-enabled local one. Most people need access to their password manager while on multiple computers and devices.

Most of the big ones have browser plugins, web management, and mobile applications.

If you subscribe to just about any VPN service (I do ProtonVPN) most of them have a good password manager.

I watch dogs (primarily overnight--most for 3-7 days but some 1 day and some >7d) via Rover. I make around $1500/month (pre-1099) and after their ~20% cut (of which most people give back to me in tips).

I WFH so the largely passive income is nice. I wouldn't have found as many people w/o a platform to do the heavy lifting for me in finding new dogs.

I am not advocating that we need to have these sorts of things in the market, but it does make for nice extra cash. YMMV.

They're just being a bit charitable with the definition of "void." They don't mean completely—or even mostly—empty; just that the density of matter is lower here than in most other parts of the Universe.

if I recall correctly, its on the scale of the Local Group that we are in a void. There are only three galaxies of any note nearby: the Milky Way (us), Andromeda, and Triangulum. All the other galaxies in the Local Group are relatively small and insignificant. Most other large galaxies have more massive neighbors within their respective groups than we do.

From my understanding, the solar system itself is also currently in a region of lower stellar density within the Milky Way, though that's a transient phenomenon that changes as we orbit the galactic center. I.e., if I remember correctly, around the time the dinosaurs went extinct, the solar system was passing through a denser region. One theory suggests that gravitational interactions with nearby stars may have increased the likelihood of asteroids being deflected into the inner solar system.

When looking for a picture of something, you're looking for a light reflection. The planet 110 light years away is close enough to its host start that it reflects a lot of light - to the point where there's still a tiny bit visible this far away. We also know exactly where to look - from this distance its basically right beside its star.

Any hypothetic planet 9 though, is much, much farther from its parent star, and will reflect very, very little light. And what light it does reflect would have to travel dozens to low hundreds of AU back to Earth again where it would be further reduced. Also because it is gravitationally bound to our own star but outside of our orbit, it could essentially be almost anywhere in the night sky.

Nothing would be confusing about it if that's what was written. The summary says "400m years ago" - which is apparently incorrect.

RISCV has ambitions greater than microcontrollers. Its a royalty free architecture as apposed to ARM which requires licensing fees.

There are already RISCV ITX motherboards (the Milk-V Jupiter) and small SOC computers that can run more complex setups.

Basically, this.

Degrees aren't magic. Someone without a degree can know a hell of a lot more about a subject than someone who does have one - even for advanced subjects.

What a degree is though, is some level of proof to the rest of the world that the person has at least some baseline level of knowledge. If I'm hiring a programmer: 1 has a Computer Science degree and one doesn't. The guy without the degree MIGHT be significantly better, but I'm taking more of a risk because he also might be clueless. Now there's some risk in hiring the degree guy too, but there's LESS risk, because an accredited school has said that he has taken their classes and passed their exams to demonstrate at least some minimum level of proficiency.

They also show some level of commitment. A person who is willing to attend a school for 4 years and see the process through to the end has at least in 1 facet of their life finished a long and complicated task.

I'm personally in favor of the degree approach. That's what I did. Now when hiring I'll interview both sides and give everyone a fair shake. I've had good and bad results from both groups (degree and non-degree), but for younger people I still advise getting the degree as the better option.