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by Insanity 2y ago
Isn’t there a saying along the lines of “land of the free”? Except not free to choose which app you use. lol
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by Insanity 2y ago
They can go the DBZ route and continue of of there. “Super switch 3, 4”, “Legendary super switch” etc etc.
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by Insanity 2y ago
De gustibus et coloribus… :) I am personally not a fan of the toy-like aesthetic of the colourful switch. But having a choice between both styles is ideal.
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by Insanity 2y ago
Came to post the same..! Someone wrote about it on Medium: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/telnetting-watching-star-wa... Nice bit of nostalgia for me.
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by Insanity 2y ago
Gotcha, sorry, missed that that was your point. Agreed, the taxes issue is kind of blown out of proportion. I'd rather pay more taxes and have good (/ cheap) healthcare and education to be honest.
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by Insanity 2y ago
I thought this discussion was focused on engineering. Median salary of 67k for SDEs sounds .. low? Any Californians want to weigh in? :) EDIT: median salary in SF: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locatio
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by Insanity 2y ago
But earning 'only' £100k would be on the lower end in Cali.
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by Insanity 2y ago
US is a big one, CA maybe secondary.
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by Insanity 2y ago
Works for me on FF. As a EU citizen who no longer lives there, in part because of the poor salaries, I can't say I'm surprised by the EU 'brain drain'. The EU published a paper on this in 2024, about how they are leaking
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by Insanity 2y ago
If you use the actual type system and something like mypy, Python is a joy work with. (For my definition of joy, which includes static typing).
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by Insanity 2y ago
I'm starting as a Staff SDE at a new company next week, and this is roughly my onboarding plan: 1. Meet a lot of people through 1:1s, both from tech, leadership and customer side. 2. Get the codebase working on my machine, document any
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by Insanity 2y ago
Salaries are only better for certain fields in the US though. If you are working in a grocery store in the US vs EU, you would be better off in EU. And you wouldn't have to worry about falling ill and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
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by Insanity 2y ago
I worked in both EU and Canada.. and no, lol, Canada does not have better working conditions. Less vacation, longer working hours, less ‘protection’ for employees vs employers.
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by Insanity 2y ago
To be fair, US working conditions are pretty bad compared to EU. Sure, Chinese conditions might be worse, but US conditions aren’t good to begin with.
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by Insanity 2y ago
That is a bit of a condescending comment. But that said - I am not convinced other companies like Samsung and LG are meaningfully better.
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by Insanity 2y ago
100%. Not only does this help physically but mentally as well. My mental health improved by strides when I started exercising regularly.
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by Insanity 2y ago
I enjoy learning about languages and their histories, and this was a fun read. One thing I would say though is that stating a certain pronunciation is "correct" never sits well with me. Language is incredibly fluid, and typically
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by Insanity 2y ago
Somewhat related, any recommendations for 'pc builders' where you can configure a PC with the hardware you want, but have it assembled and shipped to you instead of having to build it yourself? With shipping to Canada ideally. I&#
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by Insanity 2y ago
The author is the head of Microsoft AI. Gates might not be entirely unbiased here :) edit: as a semi-related question for folks here. How often do you 'vet' authors of non-fiction books prior to reading the book?
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by Insanity 2y ago
Happy New Year everyone! <3
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by Insanity 2y ago
32 - interviewed only for senior IC positions in hybrid and remote roles. Also do want to nuance, I applied to many more positions than I ended up getting interviews for. The only guaranteed way for the interview stage was through referrals
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by Insanity 2y ago
Anecdotally.. but not really. I was worried about the job market but this was unfounded, for me... I started applying in October and had four offers from large tech companies by end of November. A lot of this was through networking to be fa
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by Insanity 2y ago
Ageism. Two decades of experience, depending on your role, might be seen as a downside. E.g, if you have been an engineer for two decades (not staff+), the question is why that person is not “motivated” to grow. Another reason is that juni
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by Insanity 2y ago
I am in the same boat. I live in a different continent than my college friends, and see them about twice a year when I visit my home country. However, we fell into a routine of playing games together once a week (every sunday, same time, fo
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by Insanity 2y ago
And the other theme in Dune is how artificial intelligence essentially fubar’d civilization. (The Butlerian Jihad)
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by Insanity 2y ago
lol, pretty sure it is Waterloo Canada / Ontario. People like to “idolize” their Alma Mater.
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by Insanity 2y ago
Stemming from the equivalent Dutch “voor de hand liggend”. And I would not have a negative connotation with it in the right context. (E.g “Een tabel is een voor de hand liggende structuur om data te representeren” - a table is an ‘obvious’
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by Insanity 2y ago
I consider myself a pretty avid reader - I read daily and read about 30-40 books a year. Ranging from 60 page novellas to 1000 page books. But I never think of this in terms of needing to read x hours or y pages in a day. If anything, that
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by Insanity 2y ago
Kinda insane that this is necessary in some places. I am not super comfortable with these changes of having cameras everywhere, but I am sure some grocery store employees have to deal with a lot of “shady” customers.
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by Insanity 2y ago
I am tempted to try the new Intel GPU as an upgrade for my current ~5yo build. I don’t need something high end, and I don’t need any AI stuff. But I use a dual boot Windows/Linux, and I am a bit worried about how it will behave under L

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