Flagstaff and Prescott are quite pleasant from extensive personal experience, but unfortunately they're not where the formerly-Bay Area jobs are flowing.
Yes. I watch fairly closely and nowadays there's basically nothing. When I moved here there was actually quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. But it slowly eroded away.
The Verde Valley area gets hot in the summer, but still ~20 degrees F cooler than the Phoenix area. About 2.5-3 hours north of Phoenix (north of the Mogollon rim, on Colorado plateau), our hot summer days are in the low 80s, and we regularly have several feet of snow in winter.
I guess you need to do a boot repair. All you need is the same bootable flash drive and follow instructions online as to how to repair GRUB. This kind is think l thing happens a lot, happened with me too. If the problem persists, contact me, I'll mail the steps.
Use your bootable Linux usb/disk and:
(easy way) : install "boot-repair" and run it
(harder way) : chroot into the linux partition and run "sudo update-grub"
The problem can be simple modeled as the prisoner's dilemma or more commonly known as the "Tragedy of the Commons".
Its quite unfair to ask Europeans and Americans to cut back on having kids when we are not setting some limits to the Pakistanis, Nigerians, Indians .. etc.
Fascinating. The Salton sea could actually provide a lot of productivity, due to its very low dept, it could be possible to create vast arrays of shaded crop covers on top like they are doing across Indian rivers with Solar Panels.
Water could be allowed to drain naturally from either the ocean or other rivers, no need of manual pumps.
You could also build homes on top that due to the surrounding crops and sea underneath be really cool when it comes to temperature.
Also you have have cool walk-able or (boatable !) paths like in Venice.
A modern day paradise in the middle of the desert.
The only way you're going to stop the evaporation in that climate is by moving the lake underground.
Another comment mentioned fixing the Colorado River - how about expanding that to include restoration of the entire natural river system throughout the Western US? In my mind, that's close to the economic scale of what would be required to keep this artificial sea in the desert from becoming a toxic brine pit.
For context -- total domestic production of salt in 2015 was 48M tons; there's ~128M tons of salt in a cubic mile of seawater; and
about 1.8 cubic miles of water in the Salton.
I grew up in La Quinta, right outside of the Salton Sea. It's also the middle of the desert. It's also one of the nicest places on the planet during the 9 months that it isn't averaging 110+ highs.
When it comes to sticking to gym I really like Terry Crew's advice.
If in your head you try to think of the "120Kg" deadlift you need to do, it might be hard to motivate yourself given that it might remind you of the pain involved.
A easier technique is to think "I am going to go to gym and browse HN on the sofa", 50% of the battle is to get yourself to the gym and once you are there its much easier to do the 120Kg deadlift.
After thinking about why I constantly fail to make going to the gym a routine - a big part of the problem is physiological.
I'm actually in the process of "discovering" bodyweight exercising, and am pretty excited to try it (waiting for a minor muscle strain to heal first. It should be good in a few days)
I always got bored with weights and hated going to the gym. Just too big of an activation barrier and it always felt a bit too competitive, especially when first starting.
Or, tell yourself you're only lifting 50+50+20kg. That way I run around 15km a day by splitting up the track into easily accomplishable lengths. I call it the Forrest Gump principle.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. You're really good at lying to yourself if the 50+50+20 trick works for lifting. With running, you can do 5km and then another 5km and then another. That can be a good psychological trick to keep yourself going. With weightlifting, you have to lift it at all once. You can use this trick for reps or sets, but not absolute weight.
Agree 100%. You just have to get yourself to the gym. Motivation does not happen at the house; it happens at the gym. Get to the gym, start warming-up and before long you are lifting.
£ 140,814 - Senior function head, practice director
£ 117,343 - Function head, practice head
£ 89,442 - Department manager, managing consultant
£ 80,664 - Section manager, senior consultant
£ 73,043 - Section leader, consultant
£ 66,118 - Senior actuary, junior consultant
£ 52,067 - Actuary
£ 36,241 - Student actuary
£ 33,130 - Recent graduate
Each level is incremental - X amount of work increases your salary by Y amount.
All you need to do pass the exams and you can work in USA + Canada + Europe + India + Australia !
Now being a Chief Actuary is quite improbable - but look at the salary ! how probable is it that
a programmer is going to earn that much after 25 years of experience ? we have all heard stories
of unemployed experience engineers.
Coming from a maths background I really want some answers as to why I choose software engineering
To me the rampant unprofessionalism, the lack of structure, the insane amount of discrimination that is normal due to age, race, gender.
I really want to rage quit and go back and became an actuary due to lack of options for career progression.
I just tried to look up what is an actuary. The first two results were the same forum thread from a forum for actuaries, where the actuaries were complaining that people don't know what actuaries are. The third result was a page of jokes about actuaries. https://actuarialjokes.com/
I'm no closer to understanding.
edit: I took the swear words out of my query and got a better answer.
"a person who compiles and analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums."
For reference, starting compensation for a 22-year-old fresh CS graduate in the Bay Area is $120k+ (higher than department manager in your list). 5 years in as an individual contributor or tech lead you'd be doing $150-$200k. My roommate was in actuarial and got the hell out when he saw the difference. Now he's a 'data scientist' and doesn't need standardized exams or accreditation to get a job.
It's not that easy to move to the US. The only viable pathway for a skilled/educated person to immigrate to the U.S. is a work visa, which most commonly is the H-1B visa.
One would have to win the H-1B lottery (~25% odds), find a job in February/March/April of a year; find a company that is willing to wait for 6-8 months, and move to the U.S. in October (if they win the lottery).
In tech today (esp. in the Bay Area of NYC), it won't be that hard to find a job and a company willing to apply for the visa and wait for 6-8 months, if you can show you're a good programmer -- but there's no way to avoid the lottery.
There are also the L-1, O-1, and possibly H-3 visas.
And there are European offices for many of the BigCo's. Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Spotify, and Google all have European engineering offices (just off the top of my head).
Finally, there's also remote work.
Really no reason to be envious of an actuary's £33,130 starting salary.
I've explained here how hard it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12169640 (The U.S. is quite hostile to employment-based immigration, and probably among the hardest countries to move to for a non-family non-refugee immigrant.)
Also: have noticed the sheer amount of sickening hatred of immigrants in this thread? These entitled pricks think that they're the only ones deserving of an opportunity to live and work in the US (because they were "born here"), and they think everyone else should be kept out. It continues to amaze me how much contempt and hatred there is for immigrants, here on HN.
Most of the recent problems in the Middle East can be directly linked to the Iraq War.
Osama Bin Laden can be directly linked to CIA's action in Afghanistan trying to defeat the Soviet and propping up the most repressive regime in the middle east ( Saudi Arabia ).
There has also being many instance of terrorist activity from sympathizer of the Palestine cause ( how would america like it if 8 million Muslims moved into Manhattan and resulting the displacement of most of New York's population ?)
I can go on ..
(overthrowing Iran's democratically elected leader )
(Selling weapons to Saddam in exchange for Oil, rather than help Iraq develop)
(Putting minority paranoid dictators in power so that they can be controlled)
I would perhaps argue that it has a whole lot to do with Sykes-Picot still too. While obviously the Iraq war is massively significant in terms of specific recent events, it is possible that we are biased to overestimate the effect our generations have on the overall trajectory of the region.
Even if you want place blame more firmly in modern time it is perhaps more useful to attribute much of it to neo-conservative foreign policy as a whole rather than "the Iraq war" which is only one negative outcome of the former.
Docker promises too much and delivers too little. Story of every software project in the last 50 years.