Cost of living must be astronomical in the US for 200k to not be "more than liveable".

If half your income was spent on rent that would be an insane 8,3k a month. and you would still have another 8.3k left.

That left-over amount is more than twice what i earn, and i live fairly comfortably, alone, in the middle of Oslo.

$200K after taxes and insurance and 401K contributions comes out to around $10K a month. If you live in a low cost state, that's great. If you are stuck in SV, that's not as great.

Also, when I interviewed with them out of college in the late 1990s, they offered stock options and if you worked there 7 years, you get a paid 3 month sabbatical. I'm not sure if they still do that; that was in the Andy Grove days.

I wanted to learn databases and application dev. They wanted me to wear a bunny suit and support their VAX/VMS systems. No thanks.

It's really a perspective and "keeping up with the Jones's" situation.

You are a tech engineer and "live comfortably" means that you "live like a tech engineer" in the area. Which means "not making financial sacrifices to work at company X".

Live comfortably for some people means single family home with yard, 4 bedrooms, 2-3 annual vacations, eating out once a week, shopping at expensive grocery stores, etc. etc.

Now put all these $200k or dual income $400k people in the same area and it becomes a race to the bottom of "who is willing to live closest to paycheck to paycheck".

Don’t forget kids expenses. Private school is $3-4k/mo each kid, private lessons could be as high as $100/hr.

In the US, salaries are always given as gross (pre-tax). Someone earning $200k gross in California would take home around $130k/year if single and $145k/year if married.

American engineer salaries are so insanely higher than anywhere else in the world that I'm pretty sure they've lost all perspective.

$200k USD would put you in the top 1% of earners here in Canada.

American engineers have to live in cities that are very expensive, so the $200K is not a fortune as some imagine.

So do Canadians. Some of our cities a 1 bedroom 400 square foot condo runs nearly a million dollars...

The more money people have, the bigger they spend, the bigger their monthly payments are. Somebody making 100k and somebody making 200k both feel like they're barely getting by. Meanwhile somebody making 50k (in the same city) is also getting by, but may as well be invisible to the first two..

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are both popular and novel.

Love these dudes

which fact?

please tell us exactly what you mean by that. get real

i think this is the insidious thing about polarization:

people in the middle get caught in the crossfire of harsh rhetoric. and it is hard to blame people for this, an eye for an eye is so easy and tempting.

I've had right wingers criticize me with patronizing "anti-commie" rhetoric, but the worst has been shaming (yes actual shaming and exclusion) from my peers because i (mostly) agree with them in a contrarian way that they dont like or attempt to understand.

i don't really interact with many right wingers day to day, so this difference might just be a result of that bias.

I'm curious if this kind of thing happens to right wingers as well, or if there is less such "friendly-fire" on the right.

P.S I'm European.

Yes, I have experienced the rhetoric from both sides. I have already doxxed myself as a Christian here, so I'll restate it again. I have a tremendous amount of disdain for Christian nationalists and, specifically, the Republican appropriation of Christianity for harvesting votes. This has alienated me from a large number of people just in my own faith.

It appears to be the plight of critical thinkers in this culture. You are not allowed to have a complex set of beliefs that may cross both sides of the culture war.

"completely closed OS" is not accurate. apple releases a surprising amount of source code.

https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

The closed part has full control over your system, so the released code is useless for privacy/ownership.

I have built a web app for streaming music (for personal use/satisfaction) that i primarily use as a mobile PWA.

PWA is sort of like if you tied an electron app to the user's installed browser, so you are still going to have browser specific quirks. Not all browsers support installing a PWA (most notably for me, safari on macos).

On mobile (especially iOS) PWA can have considerable limitations compared to a traditional app, but less limited than running the app "as a websute". Local storage limits come to mind. I believe a PWA on iOS can only store 50mb?

Distributing it is in theory VERY easy. but its not a common way that users install apps, so it comes with more explanation than simply saying "download from the App store".

React native is a whole other thing entirely, and is not limited to simply being an embedded website in a browser wrapper.

If there already exists a web version of the application, then the saved effort might be worth these quirks, but if its a greenfield project I'm not sure the "Ease of development" actually beats something like React Native.

Pruning plants is very often good for them.

The OS is a tool in and of itself.

I think its perfectly reasonable to expect a program to look and feel similar to other programs on the same OS.

At least for things the OS is somewhat concerned with, like window decorations, menu bars and so on.

If i designed an OS id be frustrated with the inconsistencies in how different applications interact with the design of my OS.

special care is literally the job of a doctor.