You are exactly right. You are most likely not getting a pay cut just because your raise doesn't match inflation. It totally depends on how much of your money you are spending and what you are spending it on.
> According to a 2017 study, approximately 38% of all children will be investigated by CPS by the time they are 18.
This seems outrageously high. The study says it is an "estimate". I'm willing to be their methods or assumption are seriously flawed. Would be curious if someone has looked into it.
> People gatekeep actual work and save it for political favorites and everyone else on the outside is stuck cooking up bullshit projects. If you do manage to find work on your own, people will immediately start scheming to steal it
So this applies to even, say, mid-level developers? Wouldn't you get work assigned to you after you're hired, or do you actually have to hunt for your own projects, like you might in some consulting firms?
There's a lot of good ideas in Spring and there have been some outstanding engineers working on that framework over the past ~25 years. But it has accumulated so much baggage and relies on and perpetuates so many patterns that simply don't make sense anymore... I would love to see what the team would do with a fresh start. I wonder if they have or are considering doing a complete rewrite or starting something totally new for the next generation that will take us through the next 25 years of Java.
> Last weekend I tried building an iOS app for pet feeding reminders from scratch.
Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive results at all yet. Just start using it for small time saving activities and then you will naturally figure out how to gradually expand the scope of what you can use it for.
Regarding the window manager and Finder; I had a better experience with the Windows equivalents way back on Windows 2k or even Windows 98 more than quarter century ago. Truly baffling.
> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)
There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?
> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.
It would be just like in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books (and probably other scifi/fantasy books)
I’m familiar with the gathering they are writing about. It’s really not a disturbance whatsoever anymore. It’s a shame there are people being so up tight about it. In years past it definitely got out of control sometimes and the bass was so loud it would rattle houses a quarter mile away. I definitely wouldn’t have felt comfortable having an infant exposed to that noise level during those times. But it’s been fine for at least a couple years and it doesn’t go too late.