Answering based on my own experience transferring to an E3 from E3D. You can apply for E3 from within US, but you will not be able to travel outside the US because you won’t get a visa stamp. You will also likely want to pay for premium processing if going through USCIS. Alternatively, you can apply at a consulate outside the US, which gives you a stamp. https://americajosh.com is a good resource for E3s.
Because in the (fairly wrong headed) world of today, the developer is told what to do by product folks and they mostly do it.
That alone gets you to situations where the devs can see it obviously won't work, but the incentives and the egos are setup so that your job is just to build it, not critique it.
> software engineers are the worst at planning their own work. The vast majority will just go off and do wtf ever they want
There are successful companies that have senior engineers managing/leading teams and still coding. This idea that software engineers need managers and that somehow being a software engineer means only coding (IC) is a pattern that early American tech companies went with. Originally I imagine it was to reward and empower engineers, these days I feel like more and more companies use it to control and manipulate engineers.
In the mid-2000's, I worked at a company where the engineering managers were actual engineers that coded. They often did double duty as PMs. You don't see that often today.
Interesting, I’ve never heard of that interpretation. Heat pumps have always been a technology to me. The same tech that is in everyone’s refrigerator.
Yes modern day a/c is usually a heatpump. I’ve noticed a lot of people misunderstanding heat pumps, and thinking it’s some sort of replacement for A/C. Or that heat pumps are some new tech.
Does anyone know if re-purposing large office buildings for farming is feasible? I've been thinking about this because of the possible down turn in commercial real-estate values.
> There are some parts of this planet where it it very hard to envision mass EV adoption.
A lot of EV's are already at 500km range. Within this decade we should see 1000km range. Add some charging infrastructure and we are gold. Just look at the chargers Tesla has built in California (and there is still a lot of potential to improve).
Do you have a new EV? My 2015 Model S 70D has a nominal range of 330 km and as far as i can tell it does pretty close to that unless I am running at high speed (110 km/h or more) or doing a lot of hill climbing. So I'm pretty sure that a newer EV, especially a lighter one or one with a larger battery and lower power motor would have a longer range.
140 km/h and above is not a normal highway speed in any country except Germany and even there it is not really that common. I returned from the UK to Norway last week. It was about 26 hours of driving through France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, the amount of time I spent at more than 130 was just a couple of hours.
my vacation this year was 1500 km one way, at least 80% of which was done at 130km/h or more (both ways). i was one of very many doing a trip of this length judging by license plates at the destination.
So you were exceeding the speed limit almost all the way? My journey was a similar distance and only the German stretch had any roads with speed limit higher than 130 km/h. Perhaps next time I do it I should record the speed as I go. The average speed was probably about 60 km/h so the amount of driving above 130 must have been quite small, some of it was a lot faster than that though, just for fun on the autobahn.
And of course the vast bulk of traffic on the roads is very much slower. Also quite a lot of ICE cars are not built for sustained driving at high speeds anyway.
> It was about 26 hours of driving through France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, the amount of time I spent at more than 130 was just a couple of hours.
I'm my above story, speed limit was generally 100/110kph and involved constant hill climbing. It would have been a test for any Tesla. Lots of point-of-no-return driving where the links between chargers was more than 1/2 of total range, which is scary in avalanche/fire/flood country.
Thanks, I misremembered it, I thought it was 130 km/h. But that still doesn't change the fact that most driving is at far lower speeds, even on the motorway.
