CA, apparently, grows almonds for the entire United States, and 80% of the world's almonds, too.

Sure, I'm not saying they don't, but it isn't a critical crop for day to day life, biologically speaking. No one is going to die for not eating almonds.

Is it economically important? For sure.

Is it critical for living? No.

We don’t decide what to grow based on what someone decides is “critical for living.” We decide what to grow based on what sells for a decent margin above cost. Some countries in the Eastern Hemisphere tried the first way and it didn’t work out very well.

Sure - the problem is that the almond farmers are being incentivized to grow almonds by giving them a significantly below market cost. If the the costs reflected reality, almonds wouldn’t be profitable.

Municipal water users subsidize the growth of those almonds because of a water rights system that was imagined when California was mostly empty.

Agricultural users should be free to pay market rates for their water like everyone else. They will absolutely still be able to make a profit growing almonds since they basically own the market.

> We decide what to grow based on what sells for a decent margin above cost.

The problem, as others said, is that their cost is artificially low as they don't pay market rate for water.

Except for nearly all of them, sure.

You don't think they can address both needs? What are non-MIT schools teaching when they teach CS if it's not SICP? Is everyone else just a vocational school?

SICP isn’t the only way to teach CS, obviously, but I’ll be honest with you: some schools aren’t even trying. They just offer Java and Python programming courses and call it a day.

Get rich quick by farming?

More like plantations for vineyards and eucalypts.

Get rich quick by buying land and investing in irrigation. The farmer doesn't get rich.

Most of the time that's Tabasco sauce.

Tabasco, tapatio, and Cholula are very common in Mexican restaurants in CA

Catch-22

How common are they?

This whole post is about uncommon things that can break naive file parsing.

It's okay to use different tools. Don't worry about it so much.

FWIW, I spent a lot of time in Notepad++ with my own syntax and settings setup for a specific video game I made mods for. And then I learned Linux and really bought into BOTH Vim and Emacs. And then I stopped playing around with computers and pretty much forgot about all of that stuff. No hard feelings.

I'm a type 1 diabetic and get to monitor my blood sugar level, and there's just not much difference in between these oatmeal styles when it comes to digesting the carbs.

Read the job ad and mirror back to them the terms and language that they use. If the job uses X_lang, probably make sure to put how good you are at X_lang with the presumption that they're going to call you on it if you say you're an expert.