Faktory was a big influence/inpiration for Ocypod[0], a job queuing system I wrote a few years back (similarly language agnostic). Much appreciated for making it all open source.
The problem is that when it's for work, the company now knows you have access to a car, so sends you on 20x the trips. You have no more quality time, and your physical health suffers from lack of exercise.
Which is exactly why many jobs actively require a driver's license where I live.
The car analogy has that covered already. When Guttenberg was printing bibles, those things sold like warm bread rolls - these days, printing books is barely profitable. The trick with new disruptive tech always is to be an early adopter - not the long tail.
Yeah, I wasn't disputing the car analogy, more the benefits. If I'm using GPT to benefit myself (e.g. working on a side project), that's great and saves me time to do other things. If I'm using it to benefit my employer, I won't save any time, they'll fill it with other things to do, or expect me to be X times as productive in the same time.
I don't mind either personally, but I've had a few occasions where such things have caused issues with engineers that didn't have English as a 1st language.
A fair bit of time was wasted on trying to understand some joke/pun code and variable names, and on another occasion, spending the best part of a day working on something because they took some sarcasm in code/comments literally.
English is not my native language yet I love pun and joke in doc. If those hypothetical developers are wasting time on this, maybe they should just get better at English because there are important nuances that will fly over theirs head.
Same as you, I found some I absolutely hated, especially where they added background music, sound effects, etc. - I just want the book, not a production.
Others I found that a good narrator really added to the experience, especially when they were good at changing voices/accents for different characters speaking. I found that made it a lot easier to track what was going on or who was speaking, especially in books with a large number of characters.
Back in the day, there were rave/dance type clubs which were all about the dancing. They'd typically have focused genres of music, well known or regular DJs, etc.
Then there were more generic nightclubs (usually in University towns) which were where people went to either get drunk or hook up. Those would typically not focus much on music (usually playing crowd pleasers, 50s/60s/70s/80s/ tunes etc.), and instead bringing people in with cheap drinks offers, foam parties, fancy dress nights, etc.
It's pretty similar in the UK for private dentistry, x-rays ~£10-30, hygienist/scale/polish ~£50-120, filling ~£70-150, root canal/extraction ~£120-300.
Dentist salaries seem to range between £70-200k depending on experience, specialty, etc.
Very similar prices in Spain too, funny how the UK is generally considered _very_ expensive for dental work, in fact I just paid 40 EUR for an x-ray here yesterday.
Quite happy paying £26.80 / £73.50 for all of that.
It's in a country's interests to help maintain the public's health, and that includes subsidising their dental costs (otherwise, they end up taking up primary care time instead).
For sure, stuff like implants, cosmetic dentistry, braces, crowns etc. still cost a non-trivial amount (though hopefully most are once in a lifetime things).
I have used ZeroMQ with C, Dlang, and Python -- mostly for learning.
However, I have used NetMQ.. a C# implementation of ZeroMQ in live software and the results are very positive!
I used a Pub-Sub pattern for one program to keep users informed on progress of a task, which could have taken hours to complete. They had a GUI program which spits out updates. It worked really well.
I was also tasked updating a Till software, which the integration of orders to the central system was extremely slow. I used NetMQ which was looking extremely successful but was put on hold due to IT manager not understanding Software Developers -- if something starts taking more than a week to do (which I stated I needed a month) they get itchy and move onto to something else. Sadly, that never got completed.
Now, I have played with NNG and there are some interested articles (or hidden pages from memory) about companring NNG to ZeroMQ - it seems the "patterns" are simplified.
I am currently in the progress of creating bindings for NNG. Seems to be pretty good, so far. I plan to move away from NetMQ (C#) in favour of this language moving forward.
Whether you use ZeroMQ or NNG - I dont think you can go wrong. It is all about the process more than anything, ensuring you do not lose data.
In 2014, I was tasked with rebuilding an event processing engine to increase throughput and performance. Used ZeroMQ with C# and also had a very positive experience.
It was very easy to build a multi-node, distributed event processing engine (think Apache Flink) that could scale by simply adding more nodes or threads. ZMQ makes coordination and management of messages easy and low-fanfare.
In our use case, it was stable and it was the least problematic part of a relatively complex platform.
Devil is in the details. Your source is about top universities, which are highly competitive. Any process that is highly competitive will trend male, which counterbiases for universities in general trending female for decades.
> Since 1980, the female-to-male ratio in two-year college enrollment continued to increase until it hit about 1.4 in 1995, stabilizing at that point. The relative female-to-male ratio in four-year college enrollment, however, increased steadily throughout this time period, reaching 1.3 in the fall of 2019.
> In Fall 2020, female students made up 58.6% of all postsecondary enrollment.
If you look at the EU, its generally 45/55 to 40/60. But it gets iffy because within the EU, countries' their student populations are quite different. For example, the East Bloc has an outsized ratio of female STEM students because this was very normal in the Soviet Union. This is in large part because scientist wasn't seen as a prestigious job, just like computer scientist was an administrative job in the US in the 60s. That's a different conversation though..
Asia I don't know enough about to speak to with enough accuracy. Especially with how countries there are also very different from each other (say Japan/Korea/Singapore vs China vs Thailand/Vietnam vs Indonesia)
In hindsight, "trending 35/65" would have been a more accurate statement. Thanks for checking me, I've added a correction to the OP :)
[0]: https://github.com/davechallis/ocypod
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