"They don't want to hire you. They want to hire an H1B."

That's mostly just a racist trope. Outside of a few well-known big companies that do lots of H1B hires, most of the time HR is gunning for their friend or some other associate to get hired. It's rarely a Visa holder HR is fighting for.

Pretty sure a single drive could store most of the UK's email throughout history, minus some particularly large emails with attachments.

Just accept that you are not nearly as smart or special as you thought when you decided to throw down in this conversation. Sorry, loser.

I am 45 years old. I retired a few years ago. You don't know shit about the software industry, bruh.

You're out of touch dude. Sorry I made you feel threatened cause I find your degree useless.

A software developer is someone who can do software engineering, design, architecture, and programming. I have spent much of my career in startups, several of which were bought by large companies who hired software engineers who couldn't program.

This is how job seeking has been for a very long time for most people. For a while, software developers in some metros were insulated from this. No more.

I definitely agree. I think one of the issues is Silicon Valley is no longer a good place to be looking for work. Look for some other place where the software industry isn't necessarily strong, but there are always jobs for software people at other types of organizations.

"CS degrees have become fucking cookie cutter"

CS degrees were never all that valuable for software developers. I've done enough hiring to have a strong preference for a high school graduate with a decent GitHub page over a CS graduate with their name on a research paper.

In fact, I'd also hire a physics major over a CS major if they demonstrated basic coding skills.

The problem is CS makes people good at getting through interviews and oftentimes nothing else. It means the signal gets drowned out by the noise.

Is it fair to CS graduates? No one cares.

It looks like the Apple remote that comes with Mac Books.

"frequent nightmares (occurring weekly or more) are less common, affecting only 2-6% of the population" - Google AI

Assuming that's not a hallucination, the 18% that experienced weekly nightmares in the study seems to be notable.

The comment I was replying to suggested that America allegedly believes in equality for foreigners. I was indicating that no, historically America does not care about equality for foreigners. While there are some notable exceptional incidences, as a rule America does not care about foreigners.

Sure. I mentioned the Cold War. But by the late 80s, after Iran Contra became known, people had a lot less taste for that sort of thing. By the Clinton era, we were ignoring genocide in Rwanda, and trying (but failing) to ignore similar events around the Yugoslav wars followed by Bush promising "humble" foreign policy to get elected.

The American appetite for foreign intervention is a relatively uncommon position, historically.

It's often better to not be first. Like places in Africa that skipped over POTS lines and went straight to mobile. No matter what technology we had, there are some structural reasons trains would have limited success in the U.S. No need to be at the cutting edge on such things before we solve the legal and cultural hurdles.

What I'm taking away is credit card users are subsidizing my flights. I - for one - appreciate that there's finally a credit card dynamic that benefits the correct people. Unlike retail where we're all paying a tax for people to use credit cards.