Sadly, this is not true. I live in the bay area and most startups here, need you in person for their day of interviews. The industry standard seems to be 1 soft skill/ HR discussion + 1 technical phone screen + 1 day of technical interviews(4-6). And as optimistic as one can be, it's hard to find the right (job + company + people) combo in the first try, since it's hard to judge certain aspects from a HR call and a technical interview which is usually a 45-60min call where most of the time is spent coding. This leads you to interview in-person at places where you might not like the company culture/ team/ leadership/ commute/ etc. It is true that a lot of resources go into interviewing from the company's perspective but it is also pretty much the same for an interviewee.
I updated to iOS 12(on an iPhone SE) yesterday and my WiFi calling feature went to hell. Needed two/three reboots and toggling WiFi calling for it to work again. Still seems flaky and I'm heavily dependent on it to work as my apt gets 0 reception. Apart from this frustrating issue, I love the integration for password managers they have now. It's made my life so much easier.
My AT&T WiFi didn't work immediately after the update, but I didn't reboot and within a few hours it was working again. I did turn WiFi Calling off and on again, once, in Settings---not sure if that was necessary as it didn't immediately fix it.
They definitely changed something about how WiFi calling works, because with this update my carrier was finally able to support WiFi calling on iOS for the first time. For some reason, up until iOS 12 they couldn't do that or visual voicemail.
My carrier is a reseller (MVNO) on top of T-Mobile. Curious to know why they couldn't offer these features before.
I am the exact same! Also, if it is some mindless donkey work that is pulling out modules from certain places and refactoring it just so as to fit with a new pattern, I procrastinate, waste time on the internet and question the meaning of life. But if it's a challenging problem, or even writing code from scratch, I will bulldoze through it and finish stuff super quick.
I find virtualenv much easier to manage and use than docker. Unless you're changing dependencies and versions multiple times over a day, it's not a pain.
How economically feasible is it to automate assembly? It looks like a lot of human suffering can be lessened if at least some parts of assembly are automated.
Have you ever been to the Chinese countryside? I have, my wife is Chinese. My wife's sister is disabled and married a man from the countryside, a common arrangement in China, so I have relatives from the country. Trust me, sending all those workers back home really isn't going to do an awful lot to reduce human suffering. They choose to go and take those jobs for good reasons.
Many of the workers in those factories are women. After a few years, they often go back home as the wealthiest members of their families, with enough capital to build homes and start new businesses of their own. It's actually started a distinct demographic trend. People have all sorts of bizarre ideas about china. Sure the conditions in these factories are awful by western standards, but China isn't the west. The same basis for making decisions just don't apply. Hopefully they will one day, but we're not there yet.
It's all perspective, just like (paid) child labor in some cultures. While west europeans and most north americans oppose child labor and slavery, in some countries and cultures it is only the 'lesser evil', compared to sex slavery/prostitution, starving to death or getting maimed to then beg for some pimp type of situation.
Is the human assembly line ideal? No. But for many workers it seems that the alternatives in the rural areas are either non-existant or pretty bad.
