Don't worry, Texas is just helping the crypto miners rather than their citizens again. "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) paid a bitcoin miner $31.7 million in energy credits in August to not mine bitcoin. During the August heat wave, ERCOT issued eight calls for voluntary energy conservation. People were asked to adjust home thermostats or delay doing laundry during the energy call."
This is entirely how I remember SF being 10 years ago as well. I don’t doubt that the pandemic has been hard on all cities, but I agree that the author is making a big assumption based on a tiny sample.
This is a rough time to be looking for entry level work, anecdotal evidence indicates that new postings get hundreds of applications. It is hard to stand out.
Advice I have given to others in your exact scenario is (if possible) to take advantage of your prior career and look for jobs that would value your expertise. For example: If you worked in restaurant management look for software companies that are making products for small businesses in that space.
I can tell you that from administering interviews most developers only know development and don't have a lot of knowledge of WHY the software they are writing does what it does. This can be a big benefit to showcase in the interview.
I think this probably falls to the normal debate of the balance between "but who will pay for them?" and "it costs every nation to not have all nations vaccinated"
for #2 - you generally want enough sound coming through to be safe, but I find the current ones often are unlistenable on the bus or walking down a street with traffic. Some isolation of constant noise would be fantastic.
It is always good for DJI to have some competition. They have been spending too much time going after GoPro cameras instead of advancing their quadcopters.
It is a pretty common tactic on general topic websites lately. It is easier to dismiss comments without actual reasoning if you assume they are from people that don't align with your political views.
The amount of power required for that is already so easily provided by the existing battery storage in an EV with very minimal impact to the range. I don't see how it could be worth the cost or effort.
It is a peak issue not a sustained issue during off hours so that can assist.