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by WWLink 4y ago
Ecosystems are stupid. I want open standards and devices that are robust and made to work locally without phoning home and needing a subscription. Of course that's just a pipe dream, because such systems are not lucrative. It's al
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by WWLink 4y ago
That has to be an inside job lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
What if you CAN'T just "go hardcore" at the drop of a hat because some jackass asks you to? What if you have a family to take care of? Or your own health? You sign on at a company for a solid 9-5 week with the expectation tha
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by WWLink 4y ago
Even the private space companies don't pay that much. Like, if you can write software, you can make significantly more at a tech company.
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by WWLink 4y ago
64k a year is a lot better than I imagined. That makes me feel a little better about considering grad school in the near future!
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by WWLink 4y ago
Not trying to defend the telcos, but I think they're trying to figure out where to prioritize upgrading their infrastructure based on where their customers spend most of their time - and more importantly, where their COMPETITORS'
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by WWLink 4y ago
And you were working 84 hour weeks, burning the midnight oil, in the office right?
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by WWLink 4y ago
Not to mention with exceptions - a good programmer in my particular niche is someone who probably spent YEARS fucking around with embedded devices and Linux machines. Most of the hardcore nerdy types had at least 10 years of experience with
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by WWLink 4y ago
^ this is the best explanation I've seen so far in the thread. Software translates directly into money. The company I work for makes physical devices - they have all kinds of engineers, but what we're making goes directly into mak
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by WWLink 4y ago
I doubt it. Getting a job at those Bay Area companies is still harder. Like it's widely accepted you'll be studying leetcode for a while and know your data structures & algorithms like the back of your hand and be able to solv
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by WWLink 4y ago
This exactly! That said, if you can't solve a random leetcode hard problem on a whiteboard in 40 mins, and you don't mind working 60+ hours a week, and you are still not a doofus, Tesla will probably hire you! :)
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by WWLink 4y ago
> The problem is theft of your funds without your consent over your unpopular political speech. As much as I want to roll my eyes at this, it's important no matter what your political opinion is! For now we might be talking "un
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by WWLink 4y ago
> I always thought the Autopilot name and the claims about having all the equipment for FSD were basically fraudulent and Tesla would be liable for false advertisement Same. I thought they'd get slapped hard and forced to stop doing
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by WWLink 4y ago
Use your own cameras. Like the ones made by Dahua! I mean, that's bad so just buy the ones with the Amcrest sticker slapped on them that still runs the same firmware and has the same hardware. :D Source: I have a few Amcrest cameras an
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by WWLink 4y ago
I feel like that's something that should really be accommodated for in the billing/insurance model. It kinda is with HMOs and primary doctors, AFAIK they get paid whether you see them or not. Just not in the PPO model. (I warn, I
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by WWLink 4y ago
That g4 has a green power light, so it's probably a 'yikes' or 'sawtooth' model. Those G4 processors use like 7W of power! It wasn't until the Quicksilver dual processor models that they started hitting the lim
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by WWLink 4y ago
It's kinda genius because then when the regulations are proposed that would actually make an impact in the industry, the company leaders can be like "see? This is just virtue signalling like those awful paper straws! And we'l
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by WWLink 4y ago
Nah. The old mac has no disk encryption, so even if it's airgapped and sitting there off when unused, someone could still break in and steal it and gain access to all your secrets stored on its hard drive. That said, big deal? I always
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by WWLink 4y ago
It felt like the vast majority of people I knew on IRC lived somewhere in the midwest, mostly Ohio. Honestly things didn't turn out so well for a lot of those people. Glad to hear it worked out for ya!
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by WWLink 4y ago
I THINK YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO GREENVILLE ALABAMA!!!!!!! -forrest gump to jenny lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
You mean a fully locked down device that allows no tinkering at all. Then they graduate to college and they're again suggested to use a fully locked down environment with no tinkering at all.
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by WWLink 4y ago
In my experience, it would become "You're not allowed to deviate from the standard environment" lol.
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by WWLink 4y ago
> No more do students have to set up their own envs. That straight up sounds dystopian though. Speaking as someone who makes software for Linux machines, I'd really hate to hire someone that doesn't know how to play around with
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by WWLink 4y ago
The other problem with these is the big super high quality optical mirrors. Going to a production line with those would be really interesting! I don't think you'd get a big enough economy of scale to mass produce them in a just-in
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by WWLink 4y ago
Your stereo's electronics are also pretty well protected against radiation. That radiation has a habit of frying electronics (even rad hard ones) after a while.
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by WWLink 4y ago
There's already several companies doing that kinda thing for telescopes that point back down at earth. For telescopes that point away from earth I don't think anyone wants to do it because there's not much $$ in it. I've
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by WWLink 4y ago
I didn't get a job from those, but I did have a couple of really interesting conversations.
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by WWLink 4y ago
I feel like the big companies have nothing to lose from saying and doing these things. First it frees them of any guilty conscience to hack and slash at 'extra fat', second it allows them to get away with running skeleton teams. T
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by WWLink 4y ago
Ahh you must be one of the execs that makes these kinda decisions. What about the regular joe that has their desk in their living room or bedroom and shares the house with others?
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by WWLink 4y ago
You sound like a great boss to work for lol.

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