Also, I had some SS credit so my net monthly payment is $2480 after Medicare Part B. Expect to pay another $70/month for Medicare Part D (prescriptions) and $630/month for Medicare Medigap (F or G usually), so that leaves about $1800.
Never get Medicare Advantage, it's a scam. Also, traditional Medicare in 5 states is a scam because of the care-denying, for-profit WISeR prior-authorization AI bullshit. Medicare doesn't include vision, dental, hearing, hearing aids, or long-term care.
Books have been replaced by DVDs at my library. I spent almost all my time at a book store for a year in Austin and can count the number of active readers I saw in there on one hand. It's depressing.
Reading is an independent activity by nature. I don't really see how other people not reading should affect you. There is nothing depressing about nature. It's natural that the majority of people would shift away from reading and gravitate towards easier forms of media consumption.
This wasn’t my experience at all. I read similar novels as friends, we talked about them, tried to replicate some of the stuff the characters did, have suggestion about books to each other, lent them out, went to the bookstore together, etc.
People read books on public transport before the iPhone and that was often the path to strike a conversation with a complete stranger who nonetheless shared interests (depending on the book they were reading).
Books certainly could be completely individualized experiences, but they offered a whole world of socializing opportunities.
CloudFormation and ECS are bright yellow flags for me. I'd be interested in knowing why you went with this proprietary tooling vs the open source Terraform and Kubernetes/EKS alternatives. Also, is paid relocation available if I wanted to relocate to NYC? Currently in Charleston, SC.
I launched a draw.io competitor to the point that it is in production, but there is little activity on the site as far as signups are concerned. Doesn't deliver enough business value.
Out of curiosity: What is your USP? Why should I prefer your product over draw.io?
IMHO (this may not apply to you!) a lot of people launch a "competitor" of a product which seems to be a clone of the product without improving something that the other product misses/is very bad at.
They don't, at least in the SRE space. I have been interviewing for 6 months without a single coding challenge or LeetCode-type challenge. Though I would passively avoid companies that offer them, as in I would avoid them if offered, I have yet to be offered the chance to avoid it in an interview.
Unfortunately this practice is prevalent still. Recently I’ve been applying to jobs in the two industries I have experience in (algorithmic robotics and fintech) and nearly half of the companies that I’ve heard back from start with either a timed leetcode problem or an HR interview which is immediately followed by a timed leetcode problem. It’s exhausting.
Interesting. I am going for a broad search rather than being targeted. Maybe it's as you say, an industry specific problem. At my last fintech job they just quizzed me a bit on Terraform and asked me about experience, though that role ended up being a disaster later on.
Q+a interview talking about past experience on the resume and quiz format of various technologies. The quiz format gets on my nerves, but not as much as leetcode and live coding rounds.
Definitely this. I like seeing issues reasonably populated with OSS projects. Otherwise, how am I supposed to contribute back to it? Granted it's a newer project so I will be keeping track in the future.
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