CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Everything is ephemeral though. Not just your team at work that you enjoy, or a team at any workplace that you enjoy, but everything. So don't worry about crossing that bridge until you come to it. There's no good situation tha
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The remuneration is certainly a large part of the point, because a SWE who makes mid six figures and burns out from a high stress job has accumulated enough money to not have to work again for awhile, potentially ever, and can rest and recu
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
People taking calls from cars (and thinking it's OK in the first place) is exactly why we're going back to 5 days in office. People are simply taking too much advantage. You're being paid to work those 40 hours a week, not
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The managers will bring it up because they have pressure on them coming from higher up to have their reports all be compliant with the work-from-office policy, and in extreme cases, they would be expected to manage out the people who are fl
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The thing is, when it's taking millions of dollars in equipment to fit out a lab, many engineers are all sharing that equipment. It would cost many tens of millions of dollars to buy duplicates of all that nice equipment for every sin
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's crazy how in the US we make our cashiers suffer by forcing them to stand up all day for no reason, while meanwhile in Europe, they're mandated to have access to seats by their unions.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It just doesn't happen, and chatting over VC isn't the same as meeting people in real life anyway. In the office, I'll randomly bump into people I've known from years back and have small chats, but I never in a million
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> In many cases it may just be managers who need to justify having spent all that money on their office spaces. I find this argument uncompelling as everyone can obviously see that things changed since February 2020, and sunk costs do no
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Not sure how that changes anything I said.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I bet if you asked those people who were winning those life-changing amounts of money, they would say they felt the opposite of exploited. Again, more overwrought language. People are doing this out of their own free will, and benefiting s
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
We're speaking English in this conversation, not Latin or French. The word "exploit" clearly has a significantly negative connotation that is not appropriate in this context.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Man, this is overwrought. We're just talking about a YouTuber here for Christ's sakes. He makes silly videos of competitions with admittedly grueling conditions for entertainment, but people sign up for it voluntarily and they c
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Except crucially the pay isn't very good for tellers, whereas it's better for proper bankers / branch managers / etc. I think "does the job pay well" and "is it not manual labor" are both more import
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I don't know if I would classify a bank teller position as being white collar. It's more of a service industry position, like being a cashier. And as such, hourly pay is appropriate as they aren't making enough to be exempt f
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
I kind of blame consumers for some of this stuff? Good options are still out there. Now, admittedly, I do have a full beard, so I only shave my upper cheeks and lower neck, but I've been making do with a Merkur long-handle double-sid
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The point is, the stock would likely be down at least 5X, so if you wanted to be a long-term investor, you could take the cash that was forcefully cashed out and re-buy in now and get over 5X the share of the company. Selling high and re-b
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> Replace Boeing with Facebook/Google, and it still sounds strange to feel bad for the workers at those companies when the executives make bad decisions like chasing profits over all. I don't understand this sentiment at all.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
> The only thing I'm mad about is I owned some Twitter stock, but when Musk bought it I was cashed out against my desires. You got lucky. Twitter's revenue is down 80% since it went private, and your shares would corresponding
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Agreed on your first point, not on your second point. Lots of tech companies did over-hire during the pandemic in a way that had entirely foreseeable results, but everyone simply got caught up in the FOMO. On the contractor front though, y
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The built-in screens in cars are much larger and easier to use while driving. Using a tiny phone screen for navigation is simply not as good.
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And the ones that remain have terribly reduced morale and lose productivity.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Those are like its most basic and widely used functions, and I've never seen an implementation that's lacked then. Have you?
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Highly doubt it. That would increase their labor costs; they were already set up well with having those SWEs in Michigan.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Android Auto is really useful for navigation and playing your own music/podcasts. I don't own a car but every rental car I've had over the past decade has supported it and I don't know what I'd do without it, it&#x
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Large-scale layoffs almost never means better software though.
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Right, but obviously it's something that plenty of people do care about, and is a big driver of keeping me on the upgrade cycle. And "there is a big difference but not everyone cares about it" is quite different from "th
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Picture taking and video recording have gotten unbelievably better over the past decade. They were not remotely sufficient for many use cases ten years ago and even now there's still plenty of room left for improvement.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
The semi is such a failure that I completely forgot about it. As far as I can tell, it's shipped around 150 units in total. It's basically a complete non-factor for a company with a valuation of $600B.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
Nobody cares about minor model refreshes or yet another iteration of a driver assist technology. Tesla's only real release in many years is Cybertruck. They were supposed to have the Roadster out by now too, but that's years lat
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
You could start by looking at stock price. TSLA is flat since 2020, and their only release in a long time is the Cybertruck which is frankly terrible. They've also lost a huge amount of marketshare. Oh, and Musk's outspoken pol

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