ike2792

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by ike2792 8d ago
This is how I've felt for a long time now. Sadly, I work at a company whose leadership is incessantly pushing "AI native" and I recently was denied a promotion in part because I don't share our VP's rosy view of AI
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by ike2792 3mo ago
While obviously requiring real-world ID verification will reduce privacy, is there really any actual privacy left on today's internet? Every company from your ISP to Google to every vendor you shop at can read your browser fingerprint
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by ike2792 4mo ago
Many parents don’t have the technical aptitude to set the controls up properly. I am a software engineer and I find it challenging to keep up with the nuances of parental control setup and how to adjust it as kids get older. Content is al
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by ike2792 4mo ago
I think he means "eyeware is next" in the sense that it's the industry he'll be covering next. Pretty much every brand and every layer of the eyewear industry has been owned by Luxxotica for a long time.
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by ike2792 5mo ago
They really picked a strange set of claims to ask people about. - For the protein one, it's too general of a question. Some plant proteins aren't complete proteins while others are, and animal proteins can range from super-health
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by ike2792 5mo ago
When you own a lot of books physical storage becomes an issue. I had to stop buying physical books because I have nowhere to put them.
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by ike2792 5mo ago
UPDATE: Solar was 37.6, not 27.7. I'm not quite sure where I got the incorrect number from. The corrected total is 121.93, which is indeed greater than the 120 for natural gas. I apologize for the error but I can't edit my orig
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by ike2792 5mo ago
You are right, I read 37 as 27. I will update my parent comment.
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by ike2792 5mo ago
I don't think this article did the math right. In the linked source from the article ( https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent... ), in 03/2026 combined generation from hydro (26 TWh)
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by ike2792 5mo ago
They are increasing, but the level is still lower than it's been since Oct 2020. In my experience at two different companies since 2020, hiring more or less stopped sometime in 2022 to early 2023. In early 2025, some hiring started a
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by ike2792 5mo ago
This has mirrored what I've seen in my company. People in the data science/ML part of the company are super excited about AI and are always giving presentations on it and evangelizing it. Most engineers in other areas, though, a
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by ike2792 6mo ago
Every engineer in a given department knows who the good and bad managers are. If you don't care about your engineers' development, you won't be able to keep good engineers on your team as they will transfer internally. Engi
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by ike2792 6mo ago
I've been an engineering manager for 9 years and I've always understood that a big part of my job is career development for people on my team. An EM's role is to hire, retain, and develop talented engineers so that the team
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by ike2792 7mo ago
Vanity sizing is huge for men also. I have a 36" waist and I'm generally a 33 waist in most brands. Oddly, dress shirts tend to be spot on.
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by ike2792 9mo ago
The problem is that Congress has delegated a lot of its traditional law making power to the Executive Branch. Laws are written in vague ways with executive agencies given liberty to implement as they see fit. This gives a lot of additiona
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by ike2792 9mo ago
It's a fair question to ask "who are independent executive agency heads accountable to" in a constitutional context. It is true that the Executive Branch has grown far beyond what the Founding Fathers could have imagined, bu
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by ike2792 9mo ago
I work at a company trying very hard to incorporate AI into pretty much everything we do. The people pushing it tend to have little understanding of the technology, while the more experienced technical people see a huge mismatch between it
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by ike2792 10mo ago
When I'm hiring an engineer, HR will easily let me bump up the offer by $10-20K if the candidate counters. It is nearly impossible to get that same $10-20K bump for an existing engineer that is performing extremely well. Companies th
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by ike2792 11mo ago
There is some truth to this, but I think this way of thinking is overly simplistic. From a material standpoint, any job that can provide for you and your family's needs is "meaningful" since you can't really have a mean
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UPS disposing of U.S.-bound packages due to new tariff rules(nbcnews.com)
8 points by ike2792 11mo ago|3 comments
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by ike2792 1y ago
About 10 years ago I worked for Fortune 500 company that had outsourced a bunch of its technical work to offshore contractors. New CEO and CTO came in and got rid of all the contractors, replacing them with talented US-based hires. Cut th
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by ike2792 1y ago
I think the first set of quotes are from people trying to sell something, while the second set are based on real data and people who have actually worked with AI. I'm a engineering manager over some infrastructure teams and we've
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by ike2792 1y ago
Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the entire executive power to the President, so technically it is the President who is responsible for following and implementing the laws that Congress has passed. Since recent Congresses (going b
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by ike2792 1y ago
I would add that no one has shown any solid business benefit or productivity gain due to AI despite there being massive incentives for someone to do so. We've tried to use AI for multiple projects within my company and none of them ha
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by ike2792 1y ago
I'm not saying this isn't part of the problem, but my experience has been different. When I was in my 20s, my friends and I all lived in apartments and had parties fairly often. I recall that when I was a kid in the 90s my paren
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by ike2792 1y ago
This kind of thing heavily depends on your doctor and insurance plan. A lot of plans won't cover things like ED meds, weight loss, or hormone therapy. TBH I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing as long as affordable alter
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by ike2792 1y ago
Same. For relatively safe medications, people should have the freedom to get medications that will resolve their issues without jumping through a bunch of hoops. As long as companies are providing full disclosure on the medications they a
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by ike2792 1y ago
+1000 to this. If your primary care physician works for a large medical chain (which most do), they aren't allowed to prescribe anything that goes against the chain's so-called "evidence-based" standards. Never mind th
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by ike2792 1y ago
Maybe their dashboard is hosted on GCP and they are displaying a cached version. :-)
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by ike2792 1y ago
Apple is actually a great example of the MVP concept working. The original iPhone had no front camera, a crappy back camera, a low quality screen, no App Store, and no copy/paste. What it had was a great “feel” and it was intuitive t

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