untorquer @ untorquer @lemmy.world

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If your company, for which your boss is an agent and therefore part of, is ASKING YOU to get this cert, then the study is labor done as a part of you position. You need to be paid for this work.

If the company is only making it a prerequisite for advancement, and not asking you to get it per se, then reimbursement is reasonable.

If you happen to have a Union then check with them.

You have 90 days visa free to be in the schengen area(most of EU).

It may be better to apply for your Visa in host country rather than through a US consulate. It's often much faster, and there's no third party which imo is safer.

*It's a one-way trip for your pets. At least last i looked into it the US doesn't allow you to import house pets. So changing your mind will mean losing your pet. Speaking of bringing pets, that process is insane.

You WILL get homesick no matter how awful you feel about the US, it will take at least a year to go away.

The anxieties you bring with you from living in the US will take years to resolve.

You'll need to get good at saying where you come from by referencing either New York City or LA.

FOR DIVERS:

Divers license discerns between automatic and manual transmission, trailer weights, and motorcycle displacement. There's probably not a direct exchange so you'll need to research for your discussing country. Your US license may be valid for a limited period after establishing residence.

use your turn signals at roundabouts. Yes, if you're exiting left, signal left, if you're exiting right, signal right. Always signal right when you exit. (Opposite for left hand driving) Optional if you're diving a BMW.

Priority roads are a thing and right of may be different.

Right-turn on red may not be legal.

*Edit: the pets restriction may have been a covid era thing. Corrections

Seems like it only matters if your taxable income is over ~$130k? So with foreign income exclusion that would mean you'd have to make over ~$250k/year for the 5 previous years.

At that point you can just pay your problems away...

There's also an income exclusion under $125k/yr.

If you pan to keep and use your passport*

All of this really depends on the tax treaty the host country has with the US, if it has one. If there is none, or the treaty doesn't credit in this way, you could be double taxed.

This is a complicated tax situation. Taxes on salary tend to be based on place of employment. So if you're working for a US company you'll need to look into what tax treaties your country of residence has with the US, because your US employer will likely have to withhold taxes and provide a W2. Your host country will ask that you report your income. If the treaty allows, you can claim tax paid in the US as a credit. The reverse is often true in these treaties.

This will often have consequences with things like pensions, Holiday pay, etc... For example, if your country has a lot of mandated vacation you may either not have that benefit, or your company will have to conform to the country's rules which could cause friction, especially with American companies.

Yeah that's hard to see when i have to boot windows for work every weekday.

The issues are the little things, like 300ms lag here or there where things are instant on Linux. Or the flashing taskbar icon when an app wants your attention. Or the obfuscated settings. Or the 'everything is an edge applet'. Or the cpu fans racing to send data back and forth with MS services. (Seriously try simplewall sometime. It's scary to see the connections, and blocking them makes your computer silent)

Booting into Linux at the end of the day is such a relief every single time.

That sounds like my experience with the real thing. Didn't really do anything but kill my alcohol buzz.

I just use it if the package/dependencies aren't available or functional in the default arch repo. I like to be able to turn nuts and bolts but also avoid it when it's inconvenient.

2 package managers is fine for me.

What kind of questions do you ask people when you're trying to get to know them?

No that's just called the SWAT technique. It's the cowards way out.

I see.

My worst experience was with spaces in code from an engineering professor who used a non-monospace typefont. Sadist. Though it was comic sans, they were probably just dyslexic. Despite the class focusing on numerical methods, we had to hand write Matlab code on paper using proper syntax. I have no clue why. Never learned much numerical method, nor were we ever allowed to use Matlab except on a few "projects" during the term. I found out about the spaces when i had to debug his example code he gave as solutions(which we were graded against). I saw errors and had to confirm i wasn't losing my mind. ...I wasn't. Anyways there was a mix of spaces and tabs to align the comic sans.

TLDR: I couldn't care less. Just don't code in word, and use a monospace font.

I've only ever heard raging between the two, but never why. I'm guessing there were competing languages with different standards, or maybe historic hardware limiting input sets that kicked this debate off or?

If i was still there I'd still tip 20% cash preferred. (Card/electronic transactions are more often stolen by management)

Bacteria and fungi do respirate but they don't necessarily have organelles. So depends on how you use the term "breath". I think viruses mostly rely on the host cell's preexisting homeostasis.

Switching jobs or self employment misses the point and fails to resolve the issue of obligation on grounds of survival. Living on the street isn't exactly a solution either.

I think the argument is that the 9-5 is torturous by a particularly direct comparison to sysiphus. Granted, most work is easier than pushing a boulder, but just as life stealing.

all philosophy will sound bad if you imagine the worst possible case scenario it could apply to

all philosophy will sound bad profitable if you imagine the worst possible case scenario it could apply to

I love doing a good job and completing a project. Those moments are wonderful and i cherish them deeply but they're fleeting. The obligation to have and maintain a career for survival is the issue. I like the work i do, i loath that i have to do it.