But they make it like this. They also have the power of simplifying their offers.

Simplifying their offerings for the sake of the model number doesn't make any sense. Simplifying their offerings for other reasons might make sense, but the companies themselves would be the best judge of whether or not it makes sense for them.

Even if it had fans. If they are like the Pro, you won’t hear them. I did extraction with LLMs for a long time to the point where they came on and I had to get my ear close to them to confirm they were on

How is the elixir job market these days?

You can find specialized roles than Rails and usually more experienced (understandably) but most companies would be really open if you told them you have a Rails background but want to learn Elixir.

The pool size is less, but the pay is more (depending on your demographics, experience, etc) in my personal experience.

But, honestly I chose it not for the market, it's just a better programming language to build stuff, period.

But why not cross that bridge then. By that time you might have much more optimized local infrastructure. Although I do see that someone suffering through the local slowness now is what drives the development of these local options.

If there is a shortage, and engineers are trainable, are there apprenticeships available? I’d gladly move to this field.

In the UK, yes there are apprenticeships available (generally at the bigger companies like Arm) but not a huge number of them.

The new UK Semiconductor Centre has recently been asking (among many other questions) why the industry hasn't taken up the govt apprenticeship schemes more given the lack of engineers. The answers as to why are ultimately "it's complicated".

Your view on the salary during an apprenticeship will depend a lot on where you're coming from and expectations. They're generally lower than UK Median Salary (for any type of job; April 2025 it was £39k) at around £30kpa, but you're being paid to learn (rather than university studies, where you spend to money to learn). Also, god knows why, but the apprenticeships aren't always in the most in-demand areas (though if I had to guess, it would be because there already aren't enough employees to do the in-demand work, let alone spend some of that time training new people... which in the long-term is a disaster but we're in a short-term-thinking kind of world).

Im coming from an ok paid job in the us, but like you said, any pay is better than paying a school, and you get real on the job experience, not some textbook version of reality.

Nah, we don't do that here, instead ideal entry level applicant should have 5y of experience when applying.

Our ideal apprenticeship applicant must have:

- 5 years of experience in the proprietary, unique-to-our-company tech stack

- a PhD in semiconductor physics (MSc with 10+ years of experience is also acceptable)

- Taiwanese and US citizenship

- a desire to work 16+ hours a day for 6 days a week

I rather hope the mods detach this and the other asinine comments you’ve left across these threads…

Asinine? What I don't want is for potential undergrads to waste their time and money futilely chasing a mirage formed by propaganda.

You can sue me for this, but I don't think lying to starry-eyed teenagers to compete like starved beasts for an ultra long shot at some semblance of a career is a good thing.

When the dust settles, all that they will have learned will be completely and utterly useless and they will have to reskill immediately. How about doing the right thing from the start?

I think they are talking about git force push, not 3D push, but yeah, I liked the concept of 3D Touch too

I just want 2 lanes on the highway of interconnected cars talking to each other so they can do 100mph at 5in from each other all in sync and 1 or 2 other lanes of human driven cars.

Failures happen. That sounds like a death trap (literally, since EVs are challenging to escape after a failure).

You should look up how hard it is to escape a plane after a failure

Have you cashed a claim from them?

Yup! Two or three times at this point, and haven't had an issue.

When I've filed they just process it straight through, and then one of their actual reps emails within x hours to just check in, give an update or clarifications, etc, but that's it really.

IIRC their whole approach to competitive pricing is doing away with manual claims investigations below a certain threshold, so this tracks.

Shampoo? Hand cream? Marinara?

You really think that the majority of taggers are thinking this deep? It’s mostly teenagers in high school that are mimicking others thinking “I’m so cool”. It fights nothing regardless. We can assign it value out of our asses all day and take some documentary as the truth, but if you think a kid writing a random scribble on the bart window or a bar bathroom, or a small business’s door deserves to take any of that back from the “caste” what are we talking about? The city is everyone’s, the tagger claiming a wall is as selective as what you claim the city is doing. Why do they think some random surface is more theirs than everyone else’s? I find tagging more selfish than what the city is doing.

> You really think that the majority of taggers are thinking this deep?

Nope, not something I thought up at all, this is what I discovered after talking to a lot of taggers and street artists as a result of my photography obsession leading me into the skater scene. I used to think tagging was just gangs marking territory (in reality only a small portion of it is).

What I have noticed is that a certain class of people have formed an immutable idea of taggers, skaters, and street artists, and that idea includes that for whatever reason all these sorts of folks are stupid. I've found that to be not the case at all.

I was a skater myself and many of the people I used to hang with would be into tagging. None of us were rich, if anything the taggers around me had more privileges than the not taggers. I couldn’t afford the expensive markers or spray cans for example. I don’t know what you mean by certain class of people.