Fruitmaniac

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by Fruitmaniac 10mo ago
Underwater datacenters make way more sense
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by Fruitmaniac 10mo ago
I admit I still don't understand Kotlin generic types. Or most of SOLID.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
One company's name was conspicuously absent from the article. Does anyone believe Tesla is still a player in the autonomous driving game? They always seem to be playing catch-up.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
Saying AI writes code is like saying your clarinet plays music.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
I've earned stock options from three startups and none of them ever went public. The only company that ever actually paid me equity was Amazon and it was a pretty big payout. You will earn a lot more with RSUs than options.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
I need to do more of these
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
America is so fucking backwards it makes me cry
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
I'm an engineer with an MBA and they definitely don't teach in business school that respect is optional. It's just something bad managers do all on their own.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
I think the biggest career mistake engineers make -- myself included -- is assuming your contributions will be automatically recognized when in fact the amount of credit you receive is equal to how much you contributed multiplied by the am
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
Try playing a game of Hangman with ChatGPT. It's hilarious.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
Is Tcl still a thing? At my first job I extended with a set of data-processing commands.
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
Not everyone is as impressed as us by new tech, especially when it's kinda buggy. The article makes a lot of good points. I get a lot of slop responses to both coding and non-coding prompts, but I've also gotten some really really
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by Fruitmaniac 1y ago
Memory leaks are easy to code by accident in Java, so it must be even worse in Rust.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
They just Streisanded themselves.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
Raw materials costs are mostly based on scarcity, not salaries. If it weren't, steel would cost more that gold because it goes through more processing.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
"We"? Do you think the average American would pay more so workers can earn a living wage? Which America do you live in?
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
On the one hand, I was declined by Google multiple times but ended getting a $10k settlement in a age discrimination class-action suit. On the other hand, I just got hired at 55 and it wasn't difficult.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
I dunno. I'm 56 and got hired last year as an Android dev. But then, I'm not very cynical.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
I reckon Earth would need to be around 93M miles from the fusion reactor.
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by Fruitmaniac 2y ago
You may be right about COBOL and 1875 but "a datetype that defaults to a random date" is literally how epoch dates work. Except it's not random.