I_AM_A_SMURF

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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
Not only that, but properly reviewing code would take forever. Heck I don't know how many senior engineers at my fancy tech company could do it and reliably spot problems.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
That tracks. I worked at a lot of places/teams where anything but a P0 was something that would never be done.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
I thought that too about my hair stylist... until I randomly met them at a restaurant and they mentioned very specific details about my life.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
I mean it's all TMSC at the end of the day. They have finite capacity that's all tied up for a while.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
What? Especially at Amazon a Principal engineer (equivalent to Google L6) is a pretty rare beast in some areas of the company. Sure there are some hip orgs with a lot of senior engineers, but in general it's not a common position at al
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
I don't know that sounds very optimistic. I'm 10 in tech and L6 now. I'm definitely not set for life, like, not even close.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
Yep. I've been looking at an old arcade board's design for fun lately, and it's a lot of giant (for today's standards) DIP chips that are just flip-flops, and gates, or gates, which modern cheap FPGAs have by the tens or
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
Microprocessors (especially older ones) are _very_ hard to kill. They're a piece of silicon embedded in epoxy essentially, very inert. There are a lot of people who wash arcade PCBs in the dishwasher, not a practice I endorse, but it w
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
That's not necessarily a hole. Maybe Employee #8 was hired before #10 but had a later start date, hence a different issue date.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
The problem is getting a green card not citizenship. From a green card you can naturalize in 3 or 5 years.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 2y ago
It doesn't make it better, but most internet-related services are like that. They either spy on you or use you to spy on others. To me that's a clear indication that the tech sector is under-scrutinized and under-regulated.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
> You can already easily just put stuff in your pocket or ring expensive items up as incorrect, cheaper things This is actually already somewhat solved. The other day I was at a Safeway and one carton of milk had an unreadable label so I
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
It's funny that of all things Apple's watches are square and Android watches are round. It feels like it should be the other way around.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
Who is competing with Nvidia right now? if nobody is then they can basically dictate their own price with the kind of demand there is right now for GPUs.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
Depends if they consider Mozilla Corp (a for-profit corporation) or Mozilla Foundation (the no-profit owner of the Corp) the developer of the browser. All the engineers are employed by the corp.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
That's true, that's not much incentive for a brilliant individual to do something inside Google when they can do it outside and make a lot more money without any politics. In the 0% interest rate world anyway.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
Mozilla at least at one point had 1,000 and is and always was chronically underfunded. 4,000 seems about reasonable. Keep in mind it's not 4,000 engineers, it's PMs, managers, UX, Infra, there's a lot more to software develop
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
The wallet could be encrypted with a strong password and thus inaccessible.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
After a while writing LaTeX becomes second nature. I used to type my master's classes notes straight in LaTeX.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
As much as I hated having to wait for a show to come on TV I do miss the mass event that was watching Game of Thrones when it airs. Especially the last season with watch parties and stuff.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
It really depends on a lot of factors. For somebody who's shy / socially awkward / introvert (lots of those in tech) it's _a lot_ easier asking questions in chat than in person, especially a shared chat with not too many
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I just want to say that the usual interpretation of "individual contributors" is not that they work alone. Almost by definition a Senior and especially a Staff+ engineer gets to deal with a lot of other engineers, hardly working
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I don't know how I feel about prompt engineers yet but, isn't Sidney (Bing's AI) basically all prompt engineering on top of ChatGPT?
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Yeah. Also for any kind of race condition a debugger is usually pretty useless. Also most memory corruption problems. The debugger has a place but so does printf debugging.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Yes, basically every country works like that. I don't know why people talk about "moving a higher braket" like it's a discontinuity in the amount of tax you pay. It's always a _marginal_ tax rate.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I've done a lot of pair programming with mentees and it's very rewarding. They usually learn a lot and it helps building a relationship with them. Bonus points if they see you struggling with a problem/bug.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
A lot of time spent doing "hard" things is unproductive. So many times I've worked on a hard bug long fruitless hours just to come back the next day and spotting the problem almost immediately. Quick cleanup tasks are importa
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Yeah through-hole you want a desoldering gun. Using a wick is too much work for that IMO.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I'm surprised it's not mentioned (I guess the author doesn't do anything small) but a microscope was like my third purchase after solder station and scope and I've loved every minute of playing with it.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
eeh the logic analyzer is nice when things work well enough, but many times I get nonsensical results from the LA and I have to go back to the scope to figure out what's exactly is going wrong.

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