Digital literacy is important to every field. Email filters are not some arcane computer science concept, they are the modern equivalent of filing physical mail into the right folder/pidgeon hole/inbox/whatever.

Biology is a great example because of just how important digital record management is to experimentation in the field.

I don't think you've seen many biology field data sets.

All biology folks I'm interacting with are juggling excel sheets all day.

> Most of the chronically poor in US at least have underlying problems such as addiction, schizophrenia or other affective disorders. Most chronically homeless people have turned down multiple state subsidized living options or have been booted from them for anti-social behavior. Studies routinely show that 30-40% of food stamps are sold for pennies on the dollar to pay for drugs or other unnecessary things.

Completely unsubstantiated FUD. The underlying problem is the structure of the economic system they reside in.

A triumph of private ownership and stewardship over publicly traded corporate governance.

I get that the connectors are identical but I find it odd that people find it so challenging. Thunderbolt is the thick and short cable. If it's not thick it's not gonna work well and if it's over a metre it's not gonna work well. cf my pile of thin long "basic" usb c cables.

How do you define "thick" or "short" to a non-engineer/tech person? Relative to what exactly?

It comes with experience, you know it when you see it.

Are you talking about cables?

Lol, maybe?

Thunderbolt 4 passive (over usb) is 0.8m in length, longer cables are active, up to two meters I think, so they do exist.

Great, and what about non-Thunderbolt cables? How do I distinguish between power only, USB 2, USB 2+PD, and USB 3.2 cables? I've got a whole pile of cables that, without my Treedix tester, are indistinguishable re: functionality and support.

Why recommend single mode out of interest? I've just done some fibre in my house with OM3 because that's what I had, I couldn't really work out why you'd prefer one over the other for residential lans.

Multimode is probably fine, provided it's OM3 or higher. You might need to think about it down the road, 5+y out. Having a spool just lying around would make it a perfectly reasonable choice. The fibre itself is a little more expensive; the optics are cheaper. But multimode does run into physical limitations a little faster, so when you decide you want to go to 100G, or 400G, or beyond, you may need to pull fresh media.

Singlemode you just never have to think about again. It's likely to be more future-proof than your actual physical walls.

> It really is ten times less waiting than with plain old gigabit.

Man I wish I had the kind of money/hardware to get 10gbit disk io out of a nas.

€200 buys you a 1tb ssd even at todays elevated prices. That has no problem giving you 10gbit of sequential io.

Four or five 7200rpm disks in an array can also sustain it for sequential reads of big files. That costs less than a gaming laptop.

A potato can saturate a 10gbit line if the data is mostly in memory.

For lots of small files in random sequence and cold caches it gets a lot harder.

Not a very good one given the frequent data leaks from large companies. May not be fun but the bottom line continues along unabated.

4k 15mbps is arse. Try 100mbps and you’re getting close to decent quality.

Western society, for better or worse, is set up such that parents need to resume work as soon as possible. Saying the government has no responsibility in child rearing ignores the economic reality of parents.

"Because I have a job, it is now impossible for me to raise my children. I have to outsource this to a council of legislators because I'm simply too busy!"

Bad argument, bad outcomes. These are exactly the "bad parents" I was referring to in my original comment. The government HAS no responsibility in raising your child, but they would LOVE to change that. It's absolutely imperative for the human race that that does not happen.

Besides the bad reinterpretation of my point, how to solve the problem? It is simply insufficient to say "yeah both parents work full time with the sword of damocles hanging over their head but too bad so sad". Without changing the economic situation there is no changing the child rearing situation. One caused the other. It's all well and good to say this is imperative for the species but I see no solution offered. The economic situation must change and the government is responsible for this.

By western you mean America? Cause this is true only in America.

Absolutely true in Australia. The parents I know are either rich enough to outsource it or basically fighting for their life managing work and childrearing.

And to add salt to the wound, it's the people on the positive side of the economic bell curve that have strong familial support networks where grandparents and uncles and aunts can contribute to childrearing, while those on the other side of the curve can't always rely on having those support networks. A generalisation of course, but a relevant one.

what’s the maternity leave situation in Australia?

Better than the US, but that does not make it true that only parents in the US are struggling.

It's also true in the UK. High housing costs, high living costs and low wages means two parents need to work as much as possible.

what’s the maternity leave situation in UK?

Statutory Maternity Pay can be paid for up to 39 weeks.

The first 6 weeks: 90% of average weekly earnings

The remaining 33 weeks: £187.18 or 90% of average weekly earnings (whichever is lower)

So not much after the first 6 weeks

Some data for non-statuary maternity pay https://www.incomesdataresearch.co.uk/resources/insights/mat...

Later

From the people I know, the financial pressure seems to build around 6 months as their employer's maternity pay is fading into the distance, but they struggle on a bit longer.

I admit there may be different definitions of "as soon as possible" between the USA and other countries. Most people here would love to be able to afford at least 1 year if not more.

so we can’t really compare US (zero), with this, yes? not saying going to work after XX weeks is great either :(

Yes we can compare, and your original comment was wildly incorrect. You aren't going to get proven correct by digging into this further

Just because the the US provides zero paid leave by law doesn't mean women don't take maternity leave - it's often self funded of course. How about you look into that and compare, instead of trying to ask specific questions to arrive at a gotcha

heard it here first that extensive maternity leave and zero maternity leave is a “gotcha” :)

I seriously hate this “choose your adventure” way with new IDEs. Just install the language plugin, then spend hours making it work, and then it has crazy bugs anyway. Maybe just ptsd from the Java language server, but I’ve also somehow made editing json files laggy and unresponsive by installing the json language server.

Jetbrains “just worked”, but work isn’t paying for the license anymore because AI so I’ll just bang my head against these plugins.