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  • I sometimes forget or delay updates because of life and have over 500 updates. Skim through them if they are patches, minors or majors, and just run. In any case, my disk’s are brtfs and I have timeshift for backups. If anything breaks horribly a live USB can restore it, if anything is weird I can restore it via UI. It autoruns every time I run Pacman and stores 5 copies of the “before” state. It also creates a daily copy for the last 5 days so 10 copies in total.

    It’s more than enough that if something fails I’ll have something to go back to, and since it internally works with something akin to hardlinks snapshots don’t take that much space.

    I’ve not had issues since setting it up, so, great.


  • well, I wouldn’t say that’s my case since most of my job postings are of spaniard consultant companies that have projects for banks. Also, data engineering is kinda different from generic software dev, we build data manipulation pipelines, database migrations… etc. Not many end user facing applications or APIs or such, most input/output is databases.


  • I don’t really get the “city” sentiment since I only search for countrywide remote jobs (Spain), but country by country the experience will differ ofc. I also specialised myself really quick into a data based field which is needed since all the fucking banks want to update their 3 decade or older systems. And by the time all of them finish being updated they will need to be updated again sooooo… :)


  • I work in IT and have no shortage of offers in linkedin. In hiring season it’s like 3 a week. I did go to the workforce with a masters though. 5 years of education in total. Also, tbh, I’m a senior dev now (+7 years of experience) so the playing field changes a lot.

    Tell your friend to search for startups that don’t pay that well just to get the initial 2 years of experience, then jump up.




  • That ADHD is a disability is a fact, it makes living in society harder. Also, saying that someone has a disability and that someone is disabled is different, I did not say that.

    You worked out coping mechanisms that you must employ so that life isn’t harder than baseline for you as long as you apply them, I would say that you are working harder than someone that doesn’t need to think of coping mechanisms.

    I completely agree that someone that’s little isn’t a disabled person because they are more than their disability, but denying that what makes them different from others makes their life overall way harder would be unwise. It’s a disability for which a lot of countries have money and help programs specifically because life’s harder than for people who don’t have it because society sin’t designed for little people, or for people with ADHD, or whatever other thing.

    Let me repeat it because I really want to drive home the point that I never said that you or anyone else is disabled. Disabilities are part of what defines a person, not what solely defines it, but three’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that something is a disability because it makes living in society harder.

    Edit: I reread your old comment and you did say the following:

    It may make one smarter if it causes them to have to work harder than others to reach the same level.

    That’s what I was commenting on, your premise is that if ADHD makes one work harder to reach others’ level, then that will help them be smarter. I disagree with that notion, I would say that if with ADHD you are able to reach others’ level, you were smarter to begin with. So the smartness of the person is irrelevant to my comment, it’s the part about having to work harder to reach the same level that I was highlighting. You being able to work out the coping mechanisms and keep using them is because you are smart, not the other way around.










  • fushuan [he/him]@piefed.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlSoon
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    5 days ago

    Average out of which number? There has not been enough empires in human history to get any kind of valid statistical conclusion.

    Also, the ancient egyptian empire lasted over 3k years, for you to get an average of 250y with such outlier you would need to include what, several 10y “empires”, or divide empires by ruler. Which would then make the conversation moot since each US president would be a new “empire”.

    The claim comes from John Glubb, and he used this chart to make the average out of… 11 data points!?! While missing tons of other ancient empires that lasted thousands of years?!

    This is the book where he makes such claim

    So to answer your comment, yeah math is easy. Impossible to reach such average number with all the data though, given that it was made with a wildly incomplete and incorrect data…