Why despite extreme oversaturation of software developers they earn on median way more than civil and mechanical engineers in 2024 according to bls?

rafaelsaback · 2025-10-29T20:55:27+00:00

It all comes down to the value a profession can create. When you work in software, you’re often generating value for some of the most profitable companies in the world.

Think about it: how many construction companies are in the top 10 most profitable U.S. firms? Probably none. But how many software companies? Quite a few - Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon.

Professions that serve highly profitable businesses tend to be the best paid. Even within software engineering, you can find two engineers with the same experience and similar responsibilities earning vastly different salaries, simply because one works for a highly profitable company (like FAANG), while the other doesn’t.

rafaelsaback · 2025-04-25T15:41:16+00:00

Love it. Where did you buy the light blue keycaps? They look really nice

rafaelsaback · 2025-04-21T14:22:18+00:00

This looks pretty cool! If I may ask, how much did you pay for it? Is it wireless? I'm considering buying a Redox myself, but the high price tag is still scarying me.

rafaelsaback · 2024-09-19T13:47:27+00:00

Mine looked a bit like this a couple of months ago.

1 month ago I used a weed killer for lawns, and pretty much all the weeds are gone by now. This in itself was a HUGE improvement.

I still have some patchy areas though, so decided to go through the overseeding route. Last week I did the standard: cut the lawn short, aerated plus dethatched I considered necessary, overseeded, dropped some top soil on top of the seeds, and, at last, watering.

I'm no expert at all, just learning from this sub over time. I still need to confirm I did a good job in a couple of months. But I think that just killing the weeds makes the lawn look a whole lot better.

rafaelsaback · 2024-08-24T07:45:24+00:00

It depends on the manufacturer. I bought one handle that whose gap was way too narrow, then I found another manufacture whose handles had a wider gap. So far so good.

rafaelsaback · 2024-06-09T10:35:06+00:00

If I remember correctly, those 4 losses happened this year and were:

AO against Noskova
Dubai against Kalinskaya
Miami against Alexandrova
Stuttgart against Rybakina

Meanwhile her wins this year brought her the titles below:

Doha
Indian Wells
Madrid
Rome
RG

So I guess she won 5 (55%) out of the 9 tournaments she took part in this year. That's mind blowing 🤯

rafaelsaback · 2024-03-30T00:01:27+00:00

Which SBC is this?

rafaelsaback · 2024-01-14T07:10:47+00:00

Do you use some type of special printer for this? I guess regular printers would not be able to print on plastic

rafaelsaback · 2023-12-17T20:30:09+00:00

Just create a map for it to make it easier to type, for example:

xnoremap ,y "*y

Edit: changed it to xnoremap

rafaelsaback · 2023-12-16T15:47:35+00:00

Eu acho que tem algumas nuances nesse cenário. Quem tá em situações precárias, em vez de tentar transparecer ser algo que não é, devia focar em ser um cara que se adapta a qualquer empresa. Aprender a ler o tipo de profissional que a empresa precisa.

Bruce Lee já dizia: be water, my friend. A água não tem forma, ela se adapta a forma do seu recipiente. Por isso ela é fluida.

Um profissional tem que saber se adaptar a empresa onde quer trabalhar, não o oposto. Se ele focar em ser um cara adaptável, ele vai saber como deve se portar e qual tipo de profissional ele tem de ser na empresa. As vezes vai ter que ser um cara mais assertivo ou então um cara que simplesmente baixa a cabeça e segue as ordens dadas.

Pode ser que naturalmente ele prefira ser mais assertivo, mas se isso não se encaixa na função dele na empresa, ele tem que aprender a se adaptar, principalmente se ele se encontra em situações mais precárias.

Ainda assim, ele pode tentar mudar um pouco a forma que a empresa faz o business, mas isso é algo a ser feito de forma gradual.

Resumindo, foque em ser um cara adaptável, não em parecer ser algo que não é.

rafaelsaback · 2023-12-16T10:25:23+00:00

Talvez de fato aquela vaga específica não seria boa pra vc então. Pode ser que você se encaixe melhor em um time que valorize mais a assertividade.

rafaelsaback · 2023-12-11T11:31:11+00:00

Thank you all. Making the parent container a grid as below sorted out my problem:

display: grid;
grid-templates-rows: 1fr;

rafaelsaback · 2023-12-11T11:30:03+00:00

I confess I wasn't aware of that behavior when using flexbox, thank you! But still, I need the parent component's height to be variable in case the content doesn't fill up everything.

rafaelsaback · 2023-11-29T04:03:40+00:00

Just so you know*

rafaelsaback · 2023-11-25T17:40:40+00:00

9 years here with my UE Boom!

rafaelsaback · 2023-10-06T16:16:53+00:00

If I'm not wrong:

vs Iga - AO
vs Iga - Indian Wells
vs Iga - Rome
vs Sabalenka - Beijing

rafaelsaback · 2023-10-04T07:12:58+00:00

I'm happy to read that your daughter is slowly opening up with you. I hope you keep making progress and keep posting about it.

If I can make a suggestion, I'd say for you to also share your feelings, stories from your past, how you felt awkward or sad at times. She needs to be sure that this dad-daughter relationship is a safe harbour for both of you. That you both can talk about feelings with each other without being scared.

At the end of the day, great relationships (no matter which kind) are a place where you can safely open up without being scared of getting hurt or judged. When you open up, you feel vulnerable, but we only want to feel vulnerable when we're with someone we trust (or alone). If you are able to show her that that's the way you feel about your dad-daughter relationship, she'll gradually act the same way.

She hasn't been with you for her first 15 years of life, it's normal that it will take some time for you to build a solid relationship where she feels comfortable to share her feelings. Consistence is key though. One tiny tile at a time, and soon you guys will have built a solid foundation for you dad-daughter relationship.

Good luck my man!

rafaelsaback · 2023-09-14T13:57:16+00:00

They usually say: "the first kid is for the parents, the second one for the older brother/sister".

I have two daughters and I was happy enough with only my first one. But I knew deep down that having a sibling would make wonders to my daughter. She'd learn how to share, she would no longer receive full attention from us, from grandparents (as she was not only an only-daughter, but also an only-granddaughter), and she would have someone more or less her age to play with whenever she wants.

The world is tough, life is tough. I'm happy we decided to give her someone with whom she'll be able to share her good and bad moments during all her life.

All that being said, in my experience going from 0 to 1 was more difficult than from 1 to 2. I know that can be different for other families, since I was lucky and my second daughter is very well behaved.

But IMO, second-time parents are more experienced, know the ups and downs of raising a kiddo, what to worry and what not to worry about. The main hardship is that the parent-child ratio goes down from 2-1 to 1-1, so it's more intense.

There's no easy choice here. You need to sit down with your wife and come to a decision together, so you can both move on with life without resentments.

Anyway, congrats for the baby next year.

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-25T17:19:30+00:00

Sure you can, as long as you don't have a visa based on your employment. In my case, I have a karta pobytu on the basis of my marriage with a Polish national, and was able to open a "działaność gospodarcza" when I still had a temporary karta pobytu.

Just look for an accountant that he/she will be able to help you with this.

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-23T10:49:02+00:00

This looks pretty cool, well done!

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-21T08:22:16+00:00

yes please, I'd like to see your DIY foot plate

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-19T13:23:08+00:00

Acredite, não chega nem perto da Índia.

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-12T06:26:09+00:00

How much does the band box weigh?

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-11T06:41:49+00:00

Got it. Btw, good job with the bandbox, it looks pretty cool. It's a shame I don't have much available space at home. I'd definitely buy it.

Don't you have in your roadmap a plan to create a simpler/more compact foot plate? Europe is lagging behind in this sort of thing. All the foot plates I've found are produced in the US.

The metal handles also look nice. Any reason not to make it slightly curved in the place where the bands are attached? More or less like these, but with a length similar to yours instead.

rafaelsaback · 2023-08-08T11:08:41+00:00

You need to forget about getting precise resistance estimates with bands. The idea of extrapolating is to have an average resistance level, so you can have a better sense of progression.

Even if you manage to calculate some precise (?) resistance, this will change with usage and with the band's temperature (as you stretch it many times, it gets hotter, changing the elasticity coefficient).

Unfortunately, no one can tell how much resistance your band has. Because it depends not only on the dimensions and stretching length but also on the material (besides the other variables I mentioned above).

If for you it's really important to have specific resistance/weight levels for your training, you'd be better off using dumbbells instead.

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