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by closeparen 12d ago
One through eight read as the list of sacrifices you make in having children. But the experiences of loving and being loved back seem at least incomplete without that.
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by closeparen 18d ago
Even startups that beat the incredibly long odds to become successful mostly aren’t successful enough to make up for a long stretch of not earning BigCo RSUs.
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by closeparen 24d ago
I work at a household name tech company and pretty much all our "data" dashboards are running SQL queries against a Hive/Presto environment that's at least 24 hours behind. Real-time dashboards are limited to the service
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by closeparen 25d ago
>Despite all the noise, remote work has not really decreased much in recent years. "Less than 1/3 of companies requiring fully in-person work in 2026."[3] Remote work is generally being displaced by hybrid. That still requ
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by closeparen 29d ago
Most of the 60 minute travel time radius around a San Francisco or Silicon Valley tech HQ is water and nature preserve.
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by closeparen 29d ago
The obvious 21st century United States instance of "don't collect data that the government might later use for persecution" is E-Verify.
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by closeparen 1mo ago
The part that has stood the test of time and genuinely seems to carve reality at the seams is the query part. The data definition and data manipulation parts are just ok.
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by closeparen 1mo ago
I definitely hear about segments of the industry being like that, but FAANG and adjacent generally isn't. Engineers are expected to display ownership of a problem space (scope depending on seniority), navigate ambiguity, and manage the
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by closeparen 1mo ago
In my experience, shared memory instills the appropriate fear and caution, while the apparent simplicity of channels encourages novice Go programers to take on concurrency projects beyond their abilities and without due care. Been on both t
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by closeparen 1mo ago
It's pretty easy to get yourself into trouble with channels: deadlocks, send on closed, channel leaks, deadlocks "fixed" thoughtlessly with arbitrarily-sized buffers, etc.
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by closeparen 1mo ago
Pension fund managers, who in turn work for public employees and voters.
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by closeparen 1mo ago
In my experience the only people who get paid "well" to just code up well defined JIRA tickets are new grads, and this is essentially a training period until they grow into leading complex and ambiguous projects independently. You
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by closeparen 1mo ago
If you've got secret agents on enemy soil who can get near targets with drones, you're probably just bombing them.
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by closeparen 1mo ago
If we can beat a security-state airgap by sprinkling USB drives in the parking lot, I think the Iranians can beat an "internal" network by getting someone to click on an email attachment or visit the wrong website on their municip
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by closeparen 1mo ago
I enjoy watching Cursed Controls on YouTube. For him, the gold standard is a flash drive with the program on it physically hanging out in the control cabinet.
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by closeparen 2mo ago
The problem with ads is that they steal your attention to serve someone else’s commercial interests, whereas the objects in a home should serve its occupants’ purposes, practical or aesthetic. The fridge in particular is a site for displayi
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by closeparen 2mo ago
A screen with an ad on it is objectionable enough, even if the ad is untargeted.
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by closeparen 2mo ago
And how many more are on the same internal networks as dozens or hundreds of ordinary Windows desktops on which municipal workers are checking their email? Hardly better.
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by closeparen 2mo ago
In the professional A/V integration world, it's normal for displays and projectors to have serial port interfaces that can be driven by commands from e.g. a Crestron controller or video switcher. Just not as much of a home/co
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by closeparen 2mo ago
The wealth of the capital class is, unsurprisingly, capital - the facilities, equipment, organizational structures, etc. used to make stuff. What does it mean for capital to be hoarded?
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by closeparen 2mo ago
A company at the scale to benefit from this almost certainly has some kind of development sandbox environment and/or periodic job runner that's integrated into its environment and maintained by a team, not random Mac Minis.
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by closeparen 3mo ago
From what I've read, very few people who buy ortho split keyboards, even people who love and swear by them, ever recover their WPM. I could never get comfortable on my Ergodox. The Glove80 seems more promising, but I can't afford
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by closeparen 3mo ago
It was enough for a single person in a good studio or middling 1BR with no kids, probably no car, and no desire to own property.
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by closeparen 3mo ago
High CoL jurisdictions like having the offices there, they just prefer that the employees and their families be someone else's problem. I couldn't imagine anything short of a federal right to remote work really doing much.
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by closeparen 3mo ago
If you personally are being rotated out of FAANG, sure. If FAANG isn't hiring, good luck.
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by closeparen 3mo ago
In other words, do not buy a house or start a family within 2 hours of any of their supported work locations.
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by closeparen 3mo ago
>Now, since it's impossible to code review the tens of thousands of lines of code that AI produces I would simply not ask the AI to write me more code until I'm satisfied with the code it's already written! But it is true
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by closeparen 3mo ago
Name, address, and phone number served plenty of critical functions when they were published in the White Pages. Cell phones not being listed there was kind of an accident of history. It was common to call a listed landline and be given or
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by closeparen 3mo ago
>Around $400 a month of plans buys roughly $2800 of API usage at list prices, which is a real bargain right up until you hit the ceiling. The plans are metered, and any large AI native workflow will chew through the included tokens fast
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by closeparen 3mo ago
Pretty much anything coming out of middle management or "org leadership" is performative. Line managers and their reports are generally actually building products and keeping the lights on.

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