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by wikibob 5mo ago
Faraday cages are passive and not illegal. Jamming is.
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by wikibob 10mo ago
Fair. Not sure what it’s like getting tech talks approved through comms these days, but this would be fascinating to hear about at a SF or SouthBay Systems meetup.
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by wikibob 10mo ago
This sounds fascinating. Can you say anything about the application? Autoscaling? Data center cooling and power use?
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by wikibob 11mo ago
Dairy cows don’t taste good. They’re used for the bottom of the barrel low grade ground meat. Think dog food.
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by wikibob 1y ago
AI slop. - it’s not just X, it’s Y - emdashes everywhere
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by wikibob 2y ago
upside down pot from the kitchen. wooden spoon. you sitting next to them on the floor, engaged and interested, paying attention to them.
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by wikibob 2y ago
[on a salary of 70k] “I am not building up a nest egg from my salary” You are robbing from your future to live in the present. This might be ok for you specifically as you are making a gamble on your ownership of the startup paying off. Per
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by wikibob 2y ago
This is called “revenge bedtime procrastination” in the literature. The reply above’s point is that you’ve don’t have data to say that your phone usage is not affecting your sleep. In fact you have anecdotally the opposite data, an implicat
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by wikibob 2y ago
Here’s some resources: - https://levels.fyi - https://Reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions - https://Leetcode.com $200k is quite achievable both remote, IF you have experience. If you are brand new to
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by wikibob 2y ago
The regulations referenced are prohibitive zoning regulations. These dictate that you are only allowed to build single family homes on the property you own, and that the homes must be very low density, have huge setbacks from the property l
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by wikibob 2y ago
This illegal collusion and wage suppression in our industry still occurs, it’s just kept better under wraps now as the executives have learned how to not write things down and use signal disappearing messages.
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by wikibob 2y ago
Unpaywalled https://archive.is/2024.08.02-162144/https://fortune.com/202...
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by wikibob 3y ago
That’s standard or a little bit low for a staff engineer at FAANG and top tier tech. See https://www.levels.fyi/blog/2023-mid-year-report.html
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by wikibob 3y ago
Nobody cares. Seriously, customers don’t care about the internal nuance of how things are organized. They care that a very foundational piece of a cloud service provider will suddenly be not available.
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by wikibob 4y ago
Is this satire? A startup should ruthlessly prioritize doing only the one single thing that drives revenue, which is not bespoke infrastructure configuration.
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by wikibob 4y ago
Something not covered by the many knowledgeable commenters here: What’s the pay? Is it competitive with FAANG? (See levels.fyi)
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by wikibob 4y ago
This sounds like literal paradise. I don’t know how to cultivate this kind of community. It’s not something I grew up with. I moved around a lot, and have recently realized that post-Covid I have nearly no friends. While I don’t miss commut
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by wikibob 4y ago
Look into beta blockers. Also used by stage performers for similar reasons. https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/generalized-anxiety-disord...
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by wikibob 4y ago
The answer is to socialize and make friends at work. People who try to “Network” artificially won’t see great success. People who are genuinely take an interest in what others are doing, and are intentional about meeting once or twice a yea
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by wikibob 4y ago
It’s far less reasonable. If you are skilled in being the chief of staff at google maps, it is likely your highest market value is in that particular niche. Restricting your employment opportunities to those where you don’t have the highest
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by wikibob 4y ago
Preventing a sales person from soliciting their former customers is entirely covered by a non-solicitation contract, and claiming that a non-compete agreement is needed is a total straw man.
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by wikibob 4y ago
I would be very very surprised if Southwest gives shares to software engineers.
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by wikibob 4y ago
Discord audio quality is much better. So is zoom if you turn on original audio mode and /all/ participants have a headset so it does full duplex.
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by wikibob 4y ago
Seismic activity
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by wikibob 4y ago
In the city or the vast suburbs of the peninsula / South Bay?
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by wikibob 4y ago
Have you had Covid lately? It can severely affect taste and smell.
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by wikibob 4y ago
As someone currently trying to find a new, vibrant metro to live in, could you list some you like, and specifically why they are attractive?
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by wikibob 4y ago
Absolutely do not Ferberize your baby. On mobile don’t have time for a complete rebuttal currently. “cry it out” methods of “parenting” are directly associated with elevated levels of anxiety and mental health issues later in life. Will try
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by wikibob 4y ago
A documentary about the Prometheus open source monitoring system. https://prometheus.io Prometheus was started at SoundCloud and was originally patterned after Google’s Borgmon. This documentary is really cool, extremely high p
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Prometheus: The Documentary (A history of the Open Source Monitoring System)(youtube.com)
16 points by wikibob 4y ago|1 comments

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