My high school years were plagued by anxiety. My cousin knew a psychiatrist and convinced my family to at least see what he had to say. After diagnosing me, the doctor prescribed lorazepam and an SSRI. According to the doctor, it was just like having a small cold and would eventually go away after a while. At his office, he also told me that lorazepam should only be taken as needed because it can lead to psychological dependence.
Many years have passed. Every time I feel I’m losing control because of anxiety, I imagine taking a lorazepam pill or having one within reach. Even these imaginings bring me some peace. But I still know it’s a bit dangerous, even though it’s not technically addictive.
That’s how “good” the stuff is. And you should be careful with it.
> They can’t get a visa. They live in another city. The contract terms don’t work for them.
I have to share my stories. For a position I’m a really good fit for at a company I’m familiar with, I asked a guy to ask a guy, and they said they would only hire in the US because the team is in the US.
For another position, they reached out to me. They can’t hire in Japan but offered relocation.
In both cases, I’m super grateful that people are willing to help, but I could sense that times have changed since 2023. Globalization is no longer that strong; many, many jobs are restricted to certain locations, such as certain cities in the US or India. I don’t know about the EU, though.
This gives me some hope that if I’m willing to leave Japan, I can get a good job.
> Globalization is no longer that strong; many, many jobs are restricted to certain locations
It's not entirely clearly what time periods you're referring to, but when I entered the software development industry (Europe), almost 0% were remote, and it was virtually unheard of. Skype was just beginning to become mainstream around this time, and slowly more remote positions appeared, which culminated with COVID, and then slowly disappeared over time.
But today there is still a lot more remote jobs than existed even a decade ago, and a huge amount of remote jobs available today compared to two decades ago. Globalization seems to be going up and down but nowhere near as isolated as it used to be. But again, I think the perspective changes greatly depending on your reference here.
There’s an unofficial Garmin connect Home Assistant extension, playing along with Prometheus exporter you can get a quite impressive dashboard. That’s what I did.
This is what bothers me most, and it's getting increasingly frustrating. With the recent development of PS4/5 emulation and game porting, it will only get worse (back snatching or lawsuits).
This makes no sense to me. There are innumerable reasons to reverse engineer software that have nothing to do with security, some not only not prohibited, but in fact specifically authorized by law.
It'd make more sense to reject reverse engineering commercial software on the grounds that it likely violates the software's license agreement, and would therefore subject the user to potential breach of contract and copyright claims.
But this would also apply to uploading pretty much any non-self authored document to the LLM in the first place, albeit with fair use as a possible defense after the fact, so it still doesn't make much sense.
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