That hasn't been the case in like 20 years. Engineering salaries are around 40K USD, although they can even stretch into the six figures for major companies with deep pockets wanting to attract elite talent. The band is pretty wide and is largely based on whether you work in a body shop consultancy (low end) or a major tech company like Google (high end).
And, like many things in this world, you'll find you'll pay for what you get.
Median salary of a reasonable developer is about 1/2th of that and if you are talking about Microsoft, Uber, Google etc., then that’s the salary of a senior dev.
But more importantly, we’re all pretending, the only cost of building anything is salaries. A company that size could blow a million dollars a month just on AWS, and the AI stuff is waaaay more expensive.
My dream has always been a toggle that switches between traditional loud sportscar exhaust and something on par with a stock BMW exhaust. Last time I checked physical switches still had a tendency to leak. The battery method could be the answer to an on-demand lower profile option.
This is super common, but the sound changes are less dependent in the exhaust and more dependent on the tuning.
In the simplest case there are exhaust cutouts that reroute the flow from a button push. Mercedes aftermarket mods are common here. But, there are also tuning changes that can be triggered in the ECU or timing changes in the valves, turbos, and other parts of the combustion flow with digital or analog input.
For instance, current EU emissions requirements keep a Ferrari F8 much quieter at idle than a 458 or 488 but it still can make the fun car sound at full throttle or with aftermarket modifications.
Look into the car you like to drive, there are many mods available, YMMV.
Alternatively, most magicians are intimately familiar with psychology and more knowledgable on how to appear as they wish in a context where appearance is being measured...
Alternatively, most magicians are intimately familiar with psychology and more knowledgable on how the brain is untrustworthy and subjective experience is a suggested hallucination therefore less likely to take it seriously enough to produce conditions, unlike most.
If that's all it was, then why magicians specifically? Wouldn't that apply to all performing arts (musicians, actors, sales representatives, newscasters, etc)?
Performing arts is about showing, where magic is about manipulation. Magicians need to go one level deeper.
I think sales representatives come closer to it, though manipulation is not required or a desired practice. Standup comedians could be another slightly similar job.
I am not sure if I should read your sentence as sarcasm. Because of its context i will interpret it straight.
Acting requires a deep understanding of human psychology. If i would have to bet who can pretend to be anything better, an actor or a magician I would bet on the actor every time.
I don't see how that changes anything? Actors pretend to be what they are not, and pretend to be in situations they are not. That is their job. Yes, method acting is one way out of many how they achieve this.
Just so we are on the same page recap of the discussion:
Observation: Magicians are less prone to mental disorders than other artists
Hypothesis1: Maybe they are not less prone, but better at hiding their mental disorders.
Follow on hypothesis2: Maybe they are better at hiding their mental disorders because they are more knowledgeable about psychology.
Now, how you check for this hypothesis is that you design a study which weeds out the truth. So it must be understood when I write my counter argument that it is speculation. It is in the absence of hard data. If anyone has evidence pointing either way that should trump such speculation.
Counterpoint to hypothesis1: There are other artist who we would expect to be just as good or even better to be pretending to be "okay". For example actors. So it feels unlikely to be just up to ability to pretend to be ok.
This is where the conversation was before your comment. Then you wrote what you wrote, which I interpret as "but some actors method act!" Is that a counterpoint to the counterpoint? Is that an alternate hypothesis? If so could you spell it out please? Sorry if this sounds harsh, I'm just trying to understand the argument you are making.
doctors can have huge blind spots that they fail to recognize. It's not because you are super smart and knowledgeable that you can't use a dose of humility
It's a total nonstarter for me. Bring unsure that I can find a working charging station, and have to go out if my way to take that risk sucks.
I've rented quite a few EVs long term and if you have to travel 200+ mile trips even 5% of the time they incite terrifying range anxiety in some (most) parts of the country (US).
If you are always or very nearly always under 100 miles a day, they're fine. Most _people_ live in that realm, but most _areas_ in the US are full of people who do not.
You know the little pocket within a pocket that most jeans have, in this future year of 2023? It's for a _pocket watch_, originally. Fashion tends to lead to vestigial details hanging around more or less indefinitely.
Funnily enough I've always heard that referred to as a "coin pocket", but since I live in a country that has barely used cash for the last 10+ years I thought this was very anachronistic and started putting my keys in there.
Things just mature and hype isn't as cool when you heard it 5 years ago.
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