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From observing the career trajectories of the tradespeople I've known who likely match or out-earn me, yes, the ideal (and, from what I can tell, not terribly unachievable[1]) path…

Working in software doesn't confer social status and never has. Money, maybe, but not status. Lawyers' wages are badly depressed, supposedly, yet "I'm a lawyer" instantly confers b…

Pretty sure enough (doesn't need to be a high proportion of them, really) office workers can re-train as e.g. locksmiths or plumbers fast enough if the money is really there that a…

You could spend the time you'd have spent reading the news instead reading actual books on history, poli sci and political philosophy, ethics, economics, et c., and then figure out…

After a lot of consideration of this question (I have also all-but written off Rails work, after doing a lot of it) I think it's a combination of two things, one technical, one bus…

Can confirm, I'd charge a laaaarge premium to ever work on an existing Rails codebase again. Did it several times over a period of 15 years and they were always a wreck and unreaso…

Thanks so much for the response! I get it, that’s cool, just making sure. Will be giving it a try regardless.

It’s mostly a thing among kids heavily into sports, in my experience.

The way US cops talk is a whole thing. It’s one of the most-distinctive job-related American English variants. Even more so than white-collar “business English” (“let’s take this o…

Any way to run the Docker version without the external DB requirement? I have a bunch of things running on my home server and so far every one is a single image with no external re…

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