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You are so welcome! Thank you very much for the nice comment. :)

It's amazing how I can get a comment about how ugly I am, and on the same day get a comment saying I'm beautiful. The world is one complicated place 😂. Thank you though, you're very sweet. :) 😌

@@JoshChristiane so sexy bro. I love me a nerdy white man. And he's into computers too!! Omg. 💕💕💕

@@JoshChristiane one day you will find somebody to love you like this in real life. I'm just an online fan. 😆 It's crazy but there really is love out there for everybody. I would rub your feet and then happily wait face down, with my back arched. ❤️ All night baby. You will not be alone forever. I'm not the only person on planet Earth attracted to nerdy white men who love computers! Some people have the audacity to tell you that you're ugly online, other people have the audacity to tell you that you're beautiful. Haha!

Excellent point! Thanks for the well thought out comment.

Yeah, that was the nice way to say it. There is still SO much bloat though, I see it on a daily basis in LinkedIn posts, lol. There is a long way to fall from here.

That's how I felt too. Transition to Godot was actually really easy. To Unreal was much harder.

Sigma is quickly introducing RF mount lenses. I think it's just contemporary lenses for now, but I'm sure that over time they'll expand that to other lines. I'd love to see Art lenses on the new Canon mount.

I can't say if it's better, but it is definitely cheaper and you get that extra .2 aperture size. Panasonic lenses are generally good, but I've always found them lacking by comparison to other brands. Sigma were always my favorite for photography because they're priced well, and you feel like you're getting a lot of quality objectively. I am willing to pay for heavy and robust feeling lenses.

My wife will appreciate you saying that! I'll let her know, thanks! Very sweet of you! 🙏🏻

I thought the same thing actually, kinda looks like AI hahaha. The photos are not heavily edited, just color correction and a few minor tweaks here or there.

The Bluetooth control on my camera doesn't work very fast, I would probably miss the shots. And it starts to go out after like 6 to 7 feet, it's not consistent enough to rely on. I have a remote but it's max distance is 3 feet, so I just stood there haha.

Thank you, I'm always trying to find ways to improve. :)) I appreciate you noticing.

I appreciate that. I'm glad you're not offended at least, haha. I never want to offend anybody, just want to share my opinions. Thank you for watching and the nice comment! 😁

Thank you :D!

Well Sigma sells the 50mm 1.4 which is a lot cheaper and still optically amazing. I'd look into that.

A lot of truth there. Just so much excess. We don't need a new phone every year, that's insane.

I think it is sharper and slightly more contrasty than the Canon. It also has more lens elements and glass internally so it likely handles corrections better. My experience with both is anecdotal since I haven't tested both side by side. But it seems as good or better for less money. It feels more solid too, particularly because it's a metal body and more compact.

Definitely have to agree with that take. Thank you! :)

I'm sorry to hear that. But the good news is that computer science is the most universal and useful of all STEM degrees. You could use that degree to get a government job as a CIA analyst, could become a nuclear technician, could become a programmer, and a huge multitude of other jobs. Seriously there are thousands of different opportunities for you to look into with a CS degree. I hope you find the right fit soon!

Yeah I thought the photos turned out really nice, especially the low light ones when you consider how bad the lighting was. A lot of the photos turned out way better than I expected. Thank you! <3

Thanks for watching, bro! 😁😁👍🏻 Love and appreciate you!

Thank you for leaving another nice comment. Much appreciated!

Thanks a lot, Lars. :) I really appreciate the compliment. I don't memorize lines or anything like that, no teleprompter. I simply write down bullet points of the topics I want to talk about and in-between cuts I look at the bullet point, then I just talk.

@@JoshChristiane Works well! Thanks!

Thanks for watching! 🎉🎉

Thanks ✌️, I have a music recording hobby :)

@@JoshChristiane Me Too but since 2020 i learn programmation. Do you use C for hacking ?

While I don't hack things in the negative sense, I do write code actively. I use C for any type of cyber security study and research. I like C because it's robust and deep, but also simple on the surface and easy to remember syntax for.

@@JoshChristiane I started learning javascript with freecodecamp, and now I spend more time programming than playing music. And I'm learning networks, perhaps for a first job in IT support. And I'm finishing a Web project, and one month I'm going to do C or C++ to learn it with the "cyber security" toolbox but above all to learn C++ and make VST afterwards. I'm impressed, because at the beginning I had a limiting thought like, if I do programming I won't have time to play music anymore

You just have to make time for your hobbies, especially on the weekends. It's hard at first but once you get in the groove of your work schedule it gets a lot easier.

Agreed, I think you're right on.

Thank you! I'm not a very good teacher to be honest, but I can guide you in the right direction. I first recommend learning vanilla programming. My favorite site for this is codecademy.com play with every language until you find one you enjoy. Then I recommend the book "The art of exploitation". Between those two paths you'll feel a lot more comfortable in no time at all.

@@JoshChristiane thanks so much

If you have any more questions or ever need guidance on where to go next please leave another comment and let me know and I'll try to point you in the right direction. But make sure you leave it as a new comment as I don't actually see replies to old comments.

That's a great description, and accurate. It curates data from online sources really well, but in the end it's still just a curator for human ingenuity.

For sure. The need for teams and growth is a good thing, I don't mean to imply everything is so simple that no employees are required. But you can take any necessity to an extreme. Some big tech companies massively over-hired simply because they could, and now the employees are paying that cost with inevitable layoffs.

You are technically correct. The term AI assumes the turing effect has been met (it hasn't). And true AGI has never been proven to exist. But you have to understand that the meaning of words changes and evolves, and A.I. now (sadly) means something completely different than its intended original use. With that said, "machine learning" is very real and developing fast.

Absolutely. People need to cut down on all junk food.

Please do, thanks for sharing it!

There are many factors. Endless printing is absolutely at the forefront of this problem, but that's not new. Everybody already knows the government is printing non-stop, and it gets exponentially worse year over year. I was more addressing tech industry specific problems exacerbating the core issues. Interest rates as well as a lack of fiscal caution will be our downfall.

​@JoshChristiane I believe all this issues with tech and other sectors would not have arose in the first place if power of Dollar as a single-world-reserve-currency was not over exploited. Anyways Empires have there lifecycle and death is unavoidable.

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I know that feeling and situation since I lived through it. 🥹😭

Excellent point. I use two phones. One for all of my apps, networking, socials, and one for security measures. Keeps everything separated nicely.

Many brands of sea salt are kosher even if they don't say it on the package in the name. If you look on the bottom of the package for the K symbol you'll find that almost all sea salt is in fact kosher. La Baleine is kosher, as well as my favorite brand San Francisco Salt Co. which makes a fantastic kosher Fleur de Sel.

I don't disagree with you, lol. A lot of tech companies and CEOs are basically scamming people. High level white collar wool. I think Elon is an idealist at heart, but that doesn't always pan out to quality products delivered as promised. Elon didn't create Doge and I'm unsure if he ever actually owned any, but he promoted it really hard so it wouldn't surprise me. I was never a fan of those garbage coins. Elon also massively overpaid for Twitter. At best it was worth 20b at time of purchase, and he paid more than twice that. With how much botting happens on social media it wouldn't surprise me if it was far less active than advertised. I've worked in tech my entire adult life, and I've seen so many scams I'm basically disenchanted with everything in the industry now.

I'm really sorry to hear that, a lot of people struggling to find work, including friends of mine. UI/UX was particularly an overcrowded market so it's not a huge surprise to me. Have you considered branching out into other more in-demand fields that are similarly related to front-end user design? There is always government work if you have a clean record, those jobs are always extremely stable.

​@JoshChristiane thanks friend. I just dont get any responces after submitting applications. I see, as you mentioned, interview process is a big mess. Usually recruiters seems to have no clue who they want (kind of 5 years experience for an entey level junior position). My school had gaps in education so many aspects are missing too, i realize it. But im willing to learn, willing to work extra. Polishing figma skills but also hear advices that contradictory to each other so i decided to focus on what i can do. Unfortunately, i dont like coding and focus more on visual aspect of web design. Im 47 so that doesnt help it seems to me. Can you pls tell me where could i look up for government work? I do have pretty clean record and past government experience. Thanks for this video. Eye opening for me. Heh..😮😮😮 ​@JoshChristiane

Coding isn't for everyone. It's 100% okay to not want to be a programmer, it's ridiculous how people think that's the only option in technology. There are plenty of UI/UX and design jobs, but the market is just saturated so you have to stand out. If you have no criminal record you have a huge hand up over other candidates for government work. Usually USAjobs.gov has a bunch of listings you could look through, I've had friends have success on that site. You could also look into video game interface design as I see listings for that frequently. But don't be surprised if you apply to 1000 jobs with no callbacks, a HUGE percentage of job listings right now are fake, and your resume never gets read. Companies post fake listings to make their business look like it's healthy, and growing, when in reality they're doing secret layoffs and stalled hiring entirely. Stalling hiring is a death note for companies, so they FAKE hiring through a bunch of fake listings. This is a horrible phenom happening right now, so don't take it personal. A piece of advice here is to skip LinkedIn and Indeed, they're horrible for finding work. But rather when you find a listing, figure out who the hiring manager is at that company and find their email and socials. Then email them privately on your own, separate from the listing, and ask them kindly if you could apply for that position by sending them your resume in an email. That works SO much better. Another piece of advice would be to hire 3 or 4 recruiters, most will work for free since the finder fee is paid by the company. So you could have 3 or 4 guys full time working to find you a job and a right fit. Having a good recruiter is like having a good lawyer, you don't want to represent yourself in court, you want a third party vouching for you. I hope you can find some great work soon :)

@@JoshChristiane Thanks so much Josh! Yes, my step-dad was a programmer and often told me to try it. I never really showed much interest, but was thinking that I should understand logic. Later, for my web dev school I did HTML/CSS okay, not too easy, but sitting on my but for hours at the time gave me some understanding. Unfortunately for me, I got caught up by the COVID when I was taking these classes and then abruptly we had to switch to an online format. The quality of lecturing went down quickly. My teacher became scared of the pandemic (he thought it was the end of the world literally) and on some days we had no virtual classes or no one to respond to our emails. And then JS came in to the play. This is where I realized nope, can't do it. So I switched to what's called "Digital Media" and continued to take IDF classes and Google UX Certification. FAKE HIRING is crazy! Thanks for your PSA on these, I'm sure a lot of people are learning about these shady tactics from your vids. Big thanks for your time and efforts to help me and alike newbs. Thanks for the responses and links! I will look at USAjobs and will investigate about the recruiters, a few other people also suggested it to me. But I was thinking Linked recruiters. Where else can I find those that can be hired? Thanks again, I would like to get connected on Linkedin with you and follow for more great knowledge! One more thing I wanna share here, in public. When I started my full career change in 2019, one of the motivators for me was the thought that I've heard (now a little less) that the community in UX/UI is amazing about helping and supporting each other. I've heard that professionals are helping each other and treat each other with dignity and respect (something I was lucking badly working for corporate America at that time). Your time and willingness to help guys like me is a reminder about the fact that this still happens in IT/UX/UI community. For the last 6-7 months I had a mentor (ADPList) who was freely helping me to fill the gaps and build my portfolio case. She spent hrs and hrs with me on the zoom and gave me real-world knowledge and skills. I'm really thankful that this community still exists!! maks

I like La Baleine sea salt, and it's not too pricey normally.

Well I'm not sure about "good", but it's likely not as bad as some say if you're consuming healthy minerals. I'm all for it though :)

Godot for sure. If we are talking isometric with really advanced graphics then Unreal is the best decision. But anything simpler and I'd use Godot, it's basically built for games like that. 2.5D stuff is excellent in Unity as well... But I'd avoid it personally. That's just me though.

@@JoshChristiane I think Diablo 2 would be starting point. Diablo 3 is advanced alrdy. Royalty based is fine, if it gets into pro. Could just be a hobby for myself.

@@JoshChristiane I say ney, for any nefarious deals like Unity. 10% royalty for the engine should be more than fair.

I hope you find the perfect fit. For now you could do mini prototype builds and test each engine out and see what is the best workflow for your way of thinking. Some people just love ECS and can't get away from modularity.

@@JoshChristiane Yes, i did some messing around in Fusion 2.5, that is maybe better for like Mario games.

Thanks, will do! I very much appreciate the kind and uplifting comment. :)

100%, exactly right.

Great point. Most of my viewers are international so I tend to avoid USD pricing, but for this video it would really be helpful. Though an exact price is really difficult to estimate since there are so many factors to consider. Your location, the location the salt was mined, the brand of salt, the exact pond extraction (and time), how much you're buying (bulk, or partitions). But as a general rule good Fleur de Sel in the USA should cost around $30-$50 per pound. In France you might only pay $10 USD per pound being that wages are lower there and the product is local. San Francisco Salt Co. makes a decent FDS for around $25 a pound, that's what I've always bought in the past. Their salt is mined from the Guérande Salt Marshes, then imported for packaging. You can find LOTS of fake Fleur de Sel on Amazon for like $5 a pound, which is either really low quality, or more likely just sea salt being repackaged as FDS. Thanks for the useful comment and watching!

That's exactly right. Whenever I use it for anything code related that becomes very clear very quickly. It does not truly have contextual understanding, and when it gets those code snippets wrong it has a very hard time (if at all) fixing the issue. It usually just repastes other broken code until it's a big mess.

Because outsourcing has been happening for 20 years in tech. It's not news and everybody already knows about it. It's a factor, but it doesn't explain all of these sudden and rampant layoffs on its own. It's a multi-faceted issue.

In some ways, for sure. I disagree with a lot of the decisions the company has made. But it loads faster for me than ever before, I can't deny that.