azimir

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm no expert in immigration nor work opportunities. I focused on universities that teach undergraduate programs in English (many do graduate levels in English) so they'd be more open to my application.

I made a very long list of universities with programs and research in my topic and found their jobs pages. I then would check them all every so often for positions. When there's was a good opening I dropped everything and applied.

If you only know English then it's more about what you bring to the economy where you're applying to. Will you find a job? Pay taxes? Pay your rent? Mostly, the question is whether you'll be a burden on the state or not.

Good places would be Ireland (English speaking), then it would have been Scotland and England. After that... Germany is interested in brining in workers to fill open roles if they will learn to fit in and pay taxes. After that it'll be tougher, but doable. Get a contract offer for a job and you'll be in much better shape. I did interviews at all hours, skipped work to travel for interviews, and networked. I wrote lots of cover letters on what I want and why.

It is possible to make the move. Your interest in where you apply and your skills you bring are the key factors (unless you're independently wealthy).

There's even some companies that help people find jobs and get through immigration. I talked with one called Bonus Relocation in Spain that worked all over Europe and they will help you from the earliest stages of seeking a job to renting an apartment after you move. Great people.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hadn't seen that latest wave of polls.

I know Die Linke saw an uptick, but damn that's wonderful. If the ~~Nazi Party~~ AfD can get down under 15% in the next week and Die Linke could get up over 10%, that would be much appreciated, Germany.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a good point. Now, I do have this rock to sell you. It keeps away tigers. Only $99 with a monthly subscription to keep it working. Sign here.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 days ago (14 children)

WTF happened to this guy? He started out so well, stroke and all.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

The downtown stations are so very nice. I love rolling right into the core and being a few minutes from everything.

Having to train in from the airport isn't bad, but after a long trip adding another hour to get from the airport to downtown is annoying. Of course, many US cities don't have a train from the airport to downtown, so that only applies in developed locations.

One of the upcoming wacky infrastructure choices is the high speed rail in Las Vegas to LA. On the Vegas end the train station is out of town like it's an airport. So you train from LA to Vegas and then... bus in? Join a massive line of taxis/ubers? It's so very clumsy. Why the casino operators didn't find a way for the rail station to be in the center of the strip so people fall of the train and into their casinos is still beyond my ken.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

"Nach Ampel, Links!"

When they have a coalition government in Germany's parliament that is made of parties who use the red, yellow, and green colors, it seems to track that the next election ends up going Left, especially to the Die Linke party. Unfortunately, it's not drawing a lot of support out of the near-Nazi Musk-backed AfD party, but it's pulling from CDU, which is a center right party. Hopefully it'll help push the national Overton Window to a more leftist/progressive field in the next few elections.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

A key facet of fascism is the desire to return to a mythical 'better time'. They are willing to bow to a dictator who promises them this myth, especially when mixed with the promise to put the racists in power over others in the process.

Innuendo Studios covers it well in his endnote series: https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I just accepted my offer to leave my university in the US for one in Europe. My mathematician of a wife is going to start working for one there too.

When I told my US colleagues they uniformly said how lucky I am and that they're thinking about going too. Our University faculty and staff are looking to leave and we have the ability to do so. Brain drain is real and the US is about to see it first hand.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

He started doing this in his first term. What has changed since then? He's still Putin's stooge so leaving NATO is on the docket to help undermine Europe so Russia can invade.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

There's been some great microsats built around cell phones.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/phonesat-v1.htm

They're just computers with batteries, sensors, and radios. The rigors of space are the real issue, but their functionality is spot on for the needs onboard satellites. Using one as a base station for communications would be an option too.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Strangely, we just updated all of our vaccines for our kids and selves. This is going to be a total shit show.

 

Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.

Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html

 

The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

 

This is kind of an open question for me: does any code coverage tool work in Java with Junit5? I'll admit that I'm no Java configuration specialist, so I find the complexity of XML-based configuration systems to be quite opaque. I've got a few simple Maven-based build projects on hand and I wanted to add code coverage to the test harnesses. Unfortunately, I have never managed to get one stood up and running. I do this all the time with Python pytest/coverage tools, but it's been elusive for Java projects.

Could someone here please point me to a working example of any Java project using Maven / Junit5 / [any code coverage system]?

My latest attempt to get a working example came from this howto: https://howtodoinjava.com/junit5/jacoco-test-coverage/

But, it once again gave me the: [INFO]


jacoco-maven-plugin:0.8.7:report (default-report) @ JUnit5Examples


[INFO] Skipping JaCoCo execution due to missing execution data file.

As near as I can tell, JaCoCo just never runs. Ever. It's been very frustrating. I've read tutorials, followed suggestions on configuring surefire in various ways. I've pulled misc repo that claim to have it working. I've tried different computers with different OSes, versions of java, different maven installs, etc. There's something somewhere that I'm missing and after months of off and on attempts to get this working I'm at my wit's end.

Please help.

 

The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

 

This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.

My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.

We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to drive there, park, hit one store and drive away.

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The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns their pedestrian traffic deaths to zero for several years.

The article does note that half of the streets have bike lanes, they've put buffers between pedestrians and cars, and continue to redesign intersections with a focus on safety instead of just focusing on car speed/throughput.

 

What I'm looking for is some kind of desktop tool that uses the OpenAI GPT web endpoint. I'd like something where I'm able to upload one or more documents (text files) and then include them as part of the conversation/query.

I have access to the GPT-4 API and I've been writing Python3 code against it for some various applications. I can see how I'd write a tool that takes in one or more documents to include in the total prompt history, but I'm hoping to not have to write it myself, mostly due to time constraints.

Is there some kind of application that has a similar feature set to this that I should look at? Or, is there a wiki/site that lists off the current tools available that I could look over?

 

I'm enjoying the wefwef feel, but I have a question about copy/paste with comment text: is it even possible?

When I click on a given comment it collapses. When I click and drag it swipes. Is it possible in the web browser (desktop) to highlight a comment's text at all? It's not rare that I want to copy/paste some text, especially Lemmy links lately, to search/work with them. I'll also want to copy/paste quotes or other material on occasion.

So: what's the trick or instructions, if they exist, to be able to copy/paste text in wefwef?

 

I received an email from a textbook salesman. This isn't a rarity, but today this line lept out at me:

"Ideal for students learning concepts and reasonably priced at $144.95,"

No. Just no. $144.95 is not reasonably priced. This is the first of what is likely a lot of emails that I get to respond with the line in the sand that I've drawn:

"Reasonably priced" at $144.95?

No thank you. I won't subject my students to materials, including books, equipment, and any online tool licensing, that cost more than $60 per course. Until your offerings are in this range, please do not contact me again.

Even my $60 per course number is high as far as I'm concerned.

 

Given that it's June, my suggested book to read is "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett. Yet another wonderful work by one of the best authors in the history of humanity.

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