JimboOmega

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by JimboOmega 7mo ago
One thing AI should eliminate is the "proof of work" reports. Sometimes the long report is not meant to be read, but used as proof somebody has thoroughly thought through various things (captured by, for instance, required section
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by JimboOmega 8mo ago
(This is a total digression, so apologies) My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E ) A
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by JimboOmega 2y ago
Has there been any progress or effort on solving the underlying problem? I'm not entirely sure why AI knowledge must be close to a year old, and clearly this is a problem developers are aware of. Is there are a technical reason they ca
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by JimboOmega 2y ago
I've always wondered why we don't make student loans similar to other loans; IE, dischargeable in bankruptcy, and thus force lenders to evaluate credit risk when making them. That would mean less loans are issued and schools must
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by JimboOmega 3y ago
SoFi offers 4.00%, and vanguards prime MMFA is 4.64% 64 basis points isn't nothing, but I think that qualifies at close - and I didn't go digging, those were just the first two that came to mind.
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by JimboOmega 4y ago
There are many situations, especially as a middle manager, where you are incentivized to play organizational games more than actually deliver. We (I'm a middle manager myself) Aren't stupid, so we will. More headcount and influenc
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by JimboOmega 4y ago
This is a really good article on the subject. I like the 6 factor model. It's really easy to see hours as the only real problem. But they really aren't. Another article I read talked about how people who are constantly ruminating
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by JimboOmega 5y ago
Yeah, in 1918 the sort of car centric sprawl that is ubiquitous now would be unheard of. It's doubtful that removing school would have removed social interaction the same way it does now. Especially when the alternative is social media
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by JimboOmega 5y ago
It smells like privilege. That isn't to say that the OP was protected regardless. But the mindset that lets you do this is a mindset that comes from a background of abundance. Where you can always get another job if you want one, wher
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by JimboOmega 5y ago
Figure out what motivates you and what drains you. Do you feel drowsy every day regardless of what's going on, whether it's a work day or the weekend? Do specific things or tasks take energy from you? It might be that meetings sap
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by JimboOmega 5y ago
I can't speak to being a CEO - I'm just a middle manager - but a lot of this, especially the loneliness, resonated with me. Did I choose management? Yes. Do I have a choice to stop? Also, yes. Do I make enough money either way to
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
Can't upvote this enough. I think the origin of "Staff, Senior Staff, Principal" came from an attempt to create an IC track. You've been around a while, and you can execute stuff well on your own, where does your career
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
Me, my friends, coworkers, etc, are all broadly on the same side of this political situation. I do feel bad the things that are happening. However, there are many people who I can't talk to without them insisting I donate more, I cal
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
I'm definitely feeling closer to burnout than at any previous point in my life. Since COVID started I've slowly been losing myself into workaholism. It feels like there is nothing else to care about besides work; I am single and w
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
To be clear this isn't lines of code. Nobody is that bad. Somewhat hilariously my boss was looking at number of commits. His complaint was that there were weeks when I made no commits. Though that was the stupidest way to come to t
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
I am financially comfortable (though not at 'fuck you money'), but also, personally, really want to be an EM. My passion has been people, process, and management for a decade or more at this point (I had my first tech internship 2
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
This is another big part of the problem. While at my current company management is a separate track on paper, many still view it as a promotion (including my lead). But if that's not the "promotion" you give them, what is it?
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
Engineering Manager / Individual Contributor.
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
(*: For clarity - EM = Engineering Manager, IC = Individual Contributor) I recently transferred to a team with an explicit intent for me to be an EM on that team. A few months down the road they said I wasn't meeting expectations becau
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
As a lifetime weather nerd - I think if you could smooth the trend there would be a trend towards worse hurricanes, but there's huge variations from storm to storm and season to season. There is a slight trend towards more storms, and
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by JimboOmega 6y ago
Junior-senior pair programming is different from managing one report, though the line is quite blurry. When I had a solo report it felt much more like a junior-senior pairing than being a manager (especially as it was their first eng job, a
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
The post talks about Google supposedly persecuting LGBTQ employees for speaking up. But the linked articles only talk about them (possibly) getting retaliated against for protesting other issues, like border security or sexual harassment. A
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Was surprised when I visited NYC to see California stamps on products my friend had. I assumed another friend had brought them from California, but it totally makes sense that it's black marketeers trying to look legit.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
What's the difference between NMN vs NR? I take NR and they're chemically similar and I thought both are sold as anti-aging?
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Not only is HGH regulated, it even is specifically addressed under law (in the US) that lead some to believe that even prescribing it off-label it is illegal. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGH_controversies#Law
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
1.5 AU from Proxima (so 50% farther than earth is from the sun), which is itself much less luminous than the sun? I'd imagine it's a very, very cold planet and receives many times less light than earth does. Neat to find a planet,
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I need to write a whole blog post about the subject of role models, but basically, yes. Even simple stuff like "how do I dress?" is hard to answer when you don't have role models. Or how do you resist people who talk over you
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
But to be a people lead, you ironically need to be good at engineering first ;). One of my bigger challenges is that the older I get, the more I care about people and want to work on those issues... which means I gradually lose interest in
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Interesting. At my company, the curve of level vs gender is steep. Women are something like 5x more common proportionally at the lower levels than the higher ones. This is apparently because of recruiting, too; we do great at recruiting fr
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It really sucks to spend a year or two on a team that is theoretically growing only to find out that either 1) It's not actually growing and the position will never exist or 2) Somebody else on the team is the boss's favorite and

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