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While Gas heating may be rationed, I doubt electricity as a whole will be so:

- Move to more energy efficient dwellings

- Get good insulating windows

- Get an AC/heat pump

- Substitute old appliances with more modern and efficient ones

- Get an induction stove, much more efficient than a gas stove

- Thermal clothing does wonder.

- You can easily sleep in a cold room if your bed is properly insulated, if you are still cold consider heating your bed with an electric heater.

- If you take frequent showers/baths, consider doing some of them with cold water (which has a lot of health/cognitive benefits btw), for baths you can easily install a filtering/reflow device like the one used for small pool, insulate the bathtub, for showers simply use less hot water / less water in general.

- Almost all EU states should have programs in place to ease these sort of upgrades

And yet correlation is not causation. And a survivor bias is probably in play here. There are so many more factors contributing to the quality of FAANG work and their performance as businesses. Hell, most of them due to their monopoly-like status could easily use any hiring technique and still rake in tons of $$$. To me the streamlined / cargo cult hiring process seems much more a symptoms of the bureaucratization of these large companies than an actual key to their success.

This, probation time + take home assignment + discussion = I can filter out almost all the false negatives of the take at home. Give the people a choice between take home assignment and more classic code interview so you can dodge problems like shitty home-offices, strange contracts clauses but the real deal remains the probation time.

In love with my Dell XPS 13 + Linux combo.

How about Apache Beam on the Google Cloud Dataflow Runner? Easy to use, no real configuration needed, easy to switch between stream and batch workloads and really fast performance.

Mycroft https://github.com/MycroftAI

Jarvis https://github.com/alexylem/jarvis

Python + Apache Beam + Google Cloud PubSub

Plan on learning how to build a streaming pipeline in Python