I'm from EU and it is a thing. I use iMessages whenever the other side has an iPhone. In my social circle, it's about two thirds. But it is also true that many people who have an iPhone still use Whatsapp or Messenger as the default communication channel even if the other side has an iPhone as well.
That seems pretty low to me. Can you buy a house in Berlin with that income? It's almost what a dev makes in Romania and there you can buy a decent house with that income.
It is normal in Germany & even more so in the big cities like Berlin for people to rent their whole lives - there are a lot of tenants protections & rent control here that make that less risky.
So many people renting their whole lives sounds to me like in Germany most properties are owned by a privileged few and the remaining being forced to be their tennants. Does nobody see anything wrong with that? Rent control laws don't make this OK in my book.
If you're asking for my opinion residential real estate should be publicly owned, like hospitals, transport infrastructure, (public) schools/universities, etc.
Or at the very least the land under it should never be sold, only leased from the state.
Yes, consolidations on the market are a thing with an additional side effect - as owning a property is professonalized it’s even more difficult and expensive for an individual to own.
Having talked with some Romanians, software professionals’ salaries in Romania are not far behind average German ones. They wouldn't be the first I would accuse of wage dumping (that would be Ukrainians, Russians, Bangladeshis, and Indians). It’s that everything else in Romania is shit.
Except the nationalities you listed are not EU while Romanians are.
Thre's plenty of things wrong with Romania starting with the corruption, but I wouldn't say everything is shit.
Othwewise the local tech hubs wouldn't be full of westerners working here. I also miss the above average wages and the above average women. :)
Seeing the wages in Germany vs the property prices makes me feel poor.
I haven’t been able to find whether the recommended 7-9 hours per night refers to the time in bed or to actual sleep time (~1 hour less). Does anyone know?
I've wondered the same thing. I assume it means time in bed, otherwise the recommendation would need a disclaimer about sleep efficiency and time in bed vs actual sleep. Some people are able to get by with around 6 hours of sleep, I've assumed these people have higher sleep efficiency while the 8 hour recommendation is for people with around 85% efficiency.
If it meant “time in bed”, then they’d need the disclaimer about “efficiency”. Someone who takes an hour to fall asleep would be “inefficient” and need more time in bed, but they wouldn’t actually need more sleep.
Sleep. The recommendation is always 7-9 hours of sleep. 7-9 hours of laying in bed is not healthy or restful if you’re only sleeping for 3 hours of that time.
"In regular use" is an understatement. Virtually all manuscripts published on Arxiv.org, which comprises a large portion of all contemporary physics research output, is typeset in Latex.
Because publishing a package on PyPI is trivial compared to publishing on the Anaconda cloud. For the latter, you need to build your package for every platform and Python version you want to support. So sou need to setup some CI. This is just such an overkill for a pure-Python package. It makes a lot of sense for a project with a nontrivial C extension though, and I do build a conda package for one such project of mine. For everything else, I publish just on PyPI.
Are you aware that Conda fully supports and integrates pip?
Publish on PyPI, it's just as usable in Conda to everyone.
But assuming you for some reason insist on publishing to the system you use - the vast majority of users don't ever publish a package; what's stopping them from using Conda?
I admit I have never tried to publish anything on the Anaconda cloud, but I'm a bit surprised - I was under the impression that publishing pure python packages is simple; The requirement to do it for different python versions, though, seems perfectly warranted to me - and indeed, I ran into issues with packages on PyPI not working on specific versions (but nowhere listed as such).
I find this view satisfying: “free will” is the feeling that our decisions are the consequence of the train of our inner thoughts. In that sense, free will exists. The following question is whether that feeling corresponds to physical reality or is an illusion. Here I believe it’s the latter and free will is in fact merely an interpretation of what happens around us. See the book Feee Will from Sam Harris for more.
