Wait what? If an economy is to accept an immigrant, that immigrant should be either contributing to society, seeking asylum, or both.

If you have some skill that they are short on. That is the main reason. In that way you aren’t just some filthy American, your a skilled worker.

Get a job that will help you immigrate. My company hired a third party to handle most of my paper work. I still had to get apostille for everything, but then they did most of the visa work. They also paid for relocation.

The language thing can be isolating but it also drives you to learn.

I have always enjoyed reading, but for the first 40 years of my life I just didn’t do much of it. It felt like a slog; difficult to focus and stick with it, though I always felt gratified when competing a story.

Then I discovered audiobooks. Something about the way my brain and lifestyle are, it just works. I read tons of books now. All fiction. I’m not crazy.

I love it. One the walk to work or bus rides I listen constantly. I take several hour walks in the mountains and listen the whole time.

This year I read The Expanse Series, Dune (Frank’s), Snow Crash, The Bobiverse, and part of another trip around The Wheel of Time. Audiobooks bring me so much joy.

Ugh! No lube?

Same time every night. Consistency is key.

It is sort of. Only events are the real source. Then there is the source of producing the news (which you’re meaning here). Then there is the source from which one gets their news, which Ground can be.

I prefer to get my info from a wire service like Reuters.

The best vim mode is the one not emulating it.

It’s detrimental to isolated pieces of metal.

You will be assimilated.

Also, that all non-trivial Riemann zeros in the critical band are at 1/2.

I got PRK several years past and for a while I felt the same way. When I saw my eye doctor recently and had to get glasses again, this time in another country, he said that was stupid. Eyes degrade always so you’re really just making it worse in the long term (me not you). I’m still considering doing it again. Expensive and slightly risky, but gods walking in the rain without glasses was magical.

I’m in my 40’s and I still vacillate on this. :)

Seems to me all you have to do is possess and lock all but one community with a link to the main one. That resolves all the comment and federation issues.

FlyingSquid is our mrbabyman.

That’s funny. I also posted Naomi Nagata. While I like Chrisjen and Bobby more, I think Naomi wins for strong independent. General of the resistance, self-marooned insurgent, and the escape of the Chetzmoka.

Susannah Dean and Naomi Nagata

And posts about how everything related to Apple is bad and that all AI is really just auto correct.

Now your wife can be wok fukboi too. Fuiyoh!

I didn’t say the source of failure. I said a source of ambiguity. And having also been in the industry for decades, I have encountered it many times, where a junior programmer or somebody new to a project read some documentation and assumed a behavior which in fact did not match the current implementation. So you may have been fortunate, but your experience is certainly not ubiquitous.

With respect to variable names, I’d suggest those too should absolutely be updated too if the name is given in a way that adds ambiguity.

I’m not saying comments are bad; rather that bad comments are bad, and sometimes worse than no comment.

And your colleagues are probably correct with respect to this sort of «what it does» commenting. That can be counterproductive because if the code changes and the comment isn’t updated accordingly, it can be ambiguous. Better have the code be the singular source of truth. However, «why it does it» comments are another story and usually accepted by most as helpful.