grimjack00

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by grimjack00 2y ago
I've never really liked that reasoning. If that's the case, then right-handed people should be playing "left-handed" guitars, with their right hands doing the fretting. Personally, fretting with my left hand just doesn&#
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by grimjack00 2y ago
> I still have no first clue what they're finding interesting about all this. Did you ask them? I'm primarily a casual contester and POTA hunter. Most non-amateurs (and quite a few amateurs) find that boring. > CW sounds coo
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by grimjack00 3y ago
One of my main uses of ChatGPT or CoPilot is as a less-opinionated StackOverflow. Either way, I still have to verify the solution, but the LLM gives me a more direct answer. I also use it to generate (hopefully) fictitious names when I need
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by grimjack00 3y ago
From my experience, companies are more concerned with "in an office" than "working together". Yes, when the whole team is working from a single location, there can be advantages. But that situation is uncommon. In fact,
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by grimjack00 3y ago
So you're not charging back up to 100% until the overnight stop? When I think about how I would do a long trip in an EV, I envision getting a full charge, because first, that's what I currently do with gasoline, and second, I want
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by grimjack00 3y ago
I am so happy my team, and most of my company as a whole, has an unstated "camera off" custom. There are a few project/product managers and higher-ups that like to be seen, I guess, but there's never been anyone announci
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by grimjack00 3y ago
Depending on the location, soon enough million dollar listings will be average family homes.
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by grimjack00 3y ago
I'd put more faith in the claims of valuing spontaneous conversation and just walking down the hall if companies actually had full teams in a single physical location, where this would be possible. I've been in the software indust
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by grimjack00 3y ago
It was, however, a step up from the shared network drive with a bunch of zip files.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
If nobody in the company is working in Colorado, they can probably more easily justify excluding Colorado residents, and thus not have to conform to the salary posting requirements.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
As long as the range is on an exterior wall.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
"just listen" isn't necessarily any easier than all the other "just <do the thing>" phrases.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
They don't have to admit being wrong, they should just state that they have evolved and now have different thoughts on the subject.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
> No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office That doesn't apply solely to Amazon, or even the rest of FAANG. _Any_ company, even those currently remote-first or remote-only, are just one CEO change
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by grimjack00 4y ago
>force the building of refineries to process domestic crude. Who would want to build a refinery when the current President has stated he wants to shut down the fossil fuel industry?
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by grimjack00 4y ago
In addition, for things that can't be done easily with ActiveRecord, you can write your own SQL, but then you really need to know SQL to get the performance right. Where I work, our main product is a Rails monolith, over 10 years old a
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by grimjack00 4y ago
> E.g. What if Microsoft has a job opening with a range of $110k - $170k, and the candidate they selected used to make $180k and would like $200k? If I was reviewing job descriptions, and the max of the posted range is less than my curre
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by grimjack00 4y ago
> All new smart meters come with an IHD (In Home Display). Not necessarily. My local utility (Xcel Energy in Colorado, US) is in the process of moving to new smart meters, and as far as I'm aware, there is no IHD. My apartment compl
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by grimjack00 4y ago
I have the same issues with my .name domain. Most of the reason I have a gmail address as well is for the sites that don't think "first@last.name" is a real address.
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by grimjack00 4y ago
It only seems like they do.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
I did not need to know that.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
So do the companies. When it's convenient for them, they have no problem splitting up a team over multiple timezones/countries/continents. If physical presence in a shared space was really that important, they wouldn't d
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by grimjack00 5y ago
It does say _part_ of the severance is the membership, so there must be _something_ else.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
Not quite a magic machine, but take a look at Lab-Box: lab-box.it And maybe pair it with Ilford's pop-up darkroom: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/catalog/product/view/id/2071/s/p... (but ther
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by grimjack00 5y ago
In the production issues I've been involved with, I was not forbidden use of Google, API docs, consultation with others, etc., and I did not have to work out anything on a whiteboard.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
> Isn't there a fortune to be made by engineering toys that can endure a kid's strength? Maybe, but there's probably a bigger one to be made selling replacements for those toys.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
Or are women not pursuing those fields because of the _impression_ that they are hostile.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
> you might end up not having a meaningful conversation in the flesh for weeks So pretty similar to the last 18 months.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
> Delta doesn't really change much of that, they are not the primary victims nor spreaders. And yet, in some parts of the US, government guidance requires masks from age 2.
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by grimjack00 5y ago
Less strange than the Department of Education having one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/...

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