What happened with previous way where countries (was it "Seven Eyes"?) would spy on each others citizens, as a way to workaround such "You shall not warantlessly mass-spy on your own citizens" limitations?
From the top of my head, I recall at least USA, UK, Australia and Netherlands were among those 7.
The countries involved in the 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes alliances and their partners
Five Eyes countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Nine Eyes countries: The Five Eyes plus Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and France
Fourteen Eyes countries: The Nine Eyes plus Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain
Partners of the 14 Eyes: Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, British Overseas Territories
Many countries changed from Julian to Gregorian calendar between 16th and 19th century.
When they did the switch - they skipped about 13 days (depends on when exactly they did it, for some it was 12 days).
And yes - the recorded monthly/quarterly/annual and hence min/max/avg temperature that we can find online [1] for the year particlar country switched is 0, NaN, YOLO, or maybe even negative ...
Hence combination of "average earth temperature" intially being set by just handfull of countries/records/rows would make you think that there was a small ice age, when it was just Christians (re)doing date math to catch up with actually natural seasons
PS [1] wife did some data analysis training during Covid lockdowns, students were given links to github "reference" annual temperature data and some outliers caught our attention
Because it makes no sense. An event that took place over hundreds of years obviously can't be a math error due to a change in calendar on one specific year.
For those of you that use DDNS for essentially homelab (say to allow friends and family to watch media on your self hosted Plex Media Server) - just use TailScale.
I would think about actual publicly know IP address (like it is for dynamic DNS) only for things like hosting your own mail server.
It was not until several years ago that software developers in Europe finally reached the mythical 100K per year compensation range, that's been common in USA for more than a decade before that.
And that's in rather expensive Western Europe (e.g. €1500+ per month for one kid/toddler daycare), and not "cheaper" Southern/Eastern Europe.
> Nowhere else matters.
Until the California people want to move somewhere liveable with good public transport, low crime, low poverty/homelessness and sensible social safety for their children.
Then - and only then - does Europe miraculously become interesting. Who knew?
Big companies mostly work on quarterly (so earnings call) cycle.
Hence depending on general economic situation (and of course specific industry/company). And just like you might be getting sweet offers to change your insurance/ISP/etc, recruiters/head-hunters might be encouraged to hit their KPIs a bit higher the closer to end of quarter/half-year/new years it is.
Also bigger companies might reorg (both teams/people and change plans/KPIs which is usually known as pivot) around new years - for those same reasons.
With all of that - January/February is usually "Let's see how the latest course of course adjustment is going to play out".
Obviously for me too N = "too small of a sample size" to extrapolate on whole industry.
What I've seen/heard - is that companies are not hiring (have fewer if any open positions for) seniors.
And in my experience companies focusing on short term (so basically next quarterly earnings call), was always a thing - just that sometimes it was more and sometimes less extreme.
Are you senior or higher role? And is it "general" software development (BE/FE/Full stack and even Mobile Apps included), sys/db admin or somewhat more buzzword things like ML/AI?
Since when I shared the link with my friend from Croatia - he commented:
"Ha. Tamo pak povijest ne bi išao gledati" (Losely translated as "Lol. Yeah I wouldn't be reading about history there")
To which I've replied:
"Eh pa to kao i vesti - pogledaš/proveriš sve verzije, pošto je 'istina' negde između." (Losely translated as "Yeah it's like news, you check all variants/versions, because the 'truth' is somewhere in between").
From the top of my head, I recall at least USA, UK, Australia and Netherlands were among those 7.