I assume every English teacher of quality must have gone through this poem with their class. Mine certainly did! This reminds me, I should write to her and thank her for introducing me to such enchantment
I was gifted the entire collection a couple of years ago by my father, having grown up adoring Calvin and Hobbes, mostly thanks to him. I used to re-read the few books at the local library over and over again. The Christmas strips were my favourite, because I hadn't experienced snow at the time.
The entire collection opened a window into Watterson's evolution. He became a bit more cynical as time passed. I loved it.
Reading about his respect for his work, his refusal to sell out and his restraint made so much sense. You could feel it, the way these characters came to life. The essence ever intact.
This brings to mind a recent thought I had - our senses and intuition continue to be abstracted and delegated. It is especially humiliating when this delegation, which we must obey, is derived from data which we are unable to comprehend or perceive.
Needed to get one for my passport. At that point, in 2017, it "wasn't required" but the state bureaucracy made it clear I wasn't getting it without my Aadhar card.
I seriously doubt the claim that companies held onto workers during the economic downturn, Why are there companies complaining about staff shortages (eg: Deutsche Bahn, Airport staff etc) if they retained their staff?
This. Shortages are mostly in jobs that suck like gastronomy or hard labor like warehouse work or in jobs that are highly niche and skilled like Doctors or scientists.
Well paying jobs that are easy to do have no shortages, in fact, you never see them advertised as they are usually quickly filled via internal hires or direct referrals.
Because more people are retiring than are finishing school. The baby boomers are the largest post-war generation in Germany, and that's coming back to bite us.
Most importantly, companies aren't used to the employment market being a seller's market, so they're not willing to pay competitive rates for new hires.
As result, no one's willing to do 3 years badly paid training (Ausbildung) just to earn below-average wage in a dead-end job.
...lots of people do Ausbildung, and it's a great way to get a steady permanent career with an automatic payrise. A lot of people in other first world countries would kill for such stability.
That may have been true before the pandemic and the self inflicted economic suicide committed by a Germany that has been fully transmuted into a US vasall state.
Even the Syrian refugees who came here in 2015-2016 are already looking for new jobs elsewhere. Most of the people in my surroundings who aren't following mainstream media anymore have either moved to other countries or are planning to do so.
Germany is done. Looks like the US is finally getting their Morgentau.
"a lot" doesn't mean anything if not compared to something, there are 200.000 less youths doing ausbilundg compared to 10years ago and 500.000 less than when it was at its top ~1980. And it will decline if we keep pretending...
I fully agree, but with how low the birthrates have been, even if 100% of young people choose an Ausbildung, there's not enough Fachkräfte for every open job. And employers aren't willing to enter the bidding war required to get the people they need.
It depends on how feasible stable Rust is for popular projects. Many projects mandate nightly. Even if it is a fixed nightly version, the discrepancies across nightly versions add up since they don't just add APIs, they remove them too.
Unstable rustc can compile stable code. For code you'd write with Dafny I highly doubt it would be an issue. Perhaps you have a proof of the opposite?
I've only ever needed nightly when doing something a bit off the beaten path, like targeting microcontrollers. The Linux kernel is another big project that needs unstable. It's much more rare a need than you make it out to be.
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