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by ajcp 3y ago
The etymology of the "real" in real estate is very traceable and clear. real: late Middle English (as a legal term meaning ‘relating to things, especially real property’): from Anglo-Norman French, from late Latin realis, from Lat
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by ajcp 3y ago
Was this a cultural thing with your girlfriend? Or rather OCD? Or was she an extreme extrovert?
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by ajcp 3y ago
At least Boston Market started in/near Boston. Pittsburgh Tool is not even a company, just a brand for the same white-label tools as Milwaukee and Black and Decker. The whole tool product category has gone to crap since that started.
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by ajcp 3y ago
It's specifically the Presidential or White House [0] fellowships that are prestigious, although if you have any job in the White House that's just as well. What value an employer would derive from seeing that on someone's re
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by ajcp 3y ago
First I've heard of TechCongress, thanks much!
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by ajcp 3y ago
I mean, that's an issue with administration turn-over in general. With the PIF it looks like they get spread around to various agencies, so I don't think a fellow from one cohort is likely to be assigned to the same agency and pro
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by ajcp 3y ago
I do too! I cracked open an internal tool we had one of the big consulting firms build for us to see why it sucked so much. In one of the header elements they had hardcoded the URL for a QA site they built for a large car dealer. Fun stuff.
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by ajcp 3y ago
Actually quite the opposite: they're specifically targeting people with FAANG and/or Ivy League pedigrees. The government can't afford these people straight up, so they slap "Presidential" or "White House"
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by ajcp 3y ago
Nope, you are correct, I completely over-looked the "campaigning". Campaigning is actually supposed to be kept very separate from civic business. Updating my comment.
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by ajcp 3y ago
None of your examples can be derived from the metadata, but at *best* inferred.
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by ajcp 3y ago
He's implicitly admitting that he conducts civic business via his Gmail account. That means his Gmail account contains public records and is thus subject to FOIA requests. I'm not sure if city councilors are subject to such public
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by ajcp 3y ago
Your explanation made me dry-heave. UML > Java generation explains why their deployments seemed to contain obscene amounts of code that no one understood.
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by ajcp 3y ago
Yup, IRC they were using Go to write to flat file on a server. The file was acting as queue for that process.
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by ajcp 3y ago
I had the same thought
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by ajcp 3y ago
I doubt that was the main datastore. It might have been a configuration database though, which I can see it being an issue given that it sounds like it was business logic causing the issues.
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by ajcp 3y ago
39.41% according to your own source. It was ~32% pre-pandemic, and excepting for the Great Recession, looked to be stable at ~30%. Considering the governments revenue over that same period, again according to your own source, is also ~30% w
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by ajcp 3y ago
You might be right, but that might be because they're just really bad managers. A good engineering manager shouldn't be there to herd engineers. A good engineering manager is there to protect their engineers from the organization,
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by ajcp 3y ago
So your logic is: condemning people for criminal behavior is not useful because it de-incentivizes their victims from being vigilant against that criminal behavior. Am I getting that right?
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by ajcp 3y ago
3 and 4 star generals/admirals. These would be C-suite executives and LoB level VPs in the private sector. Yes, compared to their private sector counter-parts $260,000 is low, and they also can only get compensated in pay; there is no
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by ajcp 3y ago
Yes, and it's imperative that we do. Even then an O-9/O-10 gets $17,675.10 a month[0] in base pay and $3,963 a month[1] in *tax exempt*[2] housing allowance for the DC metro area. That's $259,657.20 a year in salary. While ma
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by ajcp 3y ago
Don't you think we should hold any economic activity that impacts those working in the service of the public interest/their elected representatives to a higher standard than "other sectors of the economy"? Public servant
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by ajcp 3y ago
The type person who makes O-9 or O-10 is one that just needs to always be working. It's no different than C-suite executives in any other field: they go insane if they're not doing *something*, so why not do something they've
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by ajcp 3y ago
I feel like this is more and more in the majority too. So much so that AMD is talking about their chips for inference as much as training [0]. 0. https://www.theverge.com/23894647/amd-ceo-lisa-su-ai-chips-n...
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by ajcp 3y ago
Yeah, I'm at a loss for the value of that exercise. That being said I'm sure there's some super domain specific and esoteric reasoning.
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by ajcp 3y ago
You misunderstood me. The subject of his statement, the "fun sounding word", that I don't think is fun sounding is "enshitification".
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by ajcp 3y ago
Sounds lazy and crass to me. Instead of a word meant to accurately convey a concept it's meant to broadly convey a concept and ones feelings on it in the same breath; much like the term "woke". I'd rather use something a
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by ajcp 3y ago
Well of course it does; how else would it know how to query the API? /s
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by ajcp 3y ago
I don't see a Solutions Architect role on your careers page. Is that the Solutions Engineer role listed?
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by ajcp 3y ago
It's not and that's why most of these solutions utilize an indexing/search service to provide more targeted data to feed into "context" instead of just burning tokens with whole/chunked docs.
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by ajcp 3y ago
All snark aside it must be really tough to make a name for yourself by calling something snake oil only to have a flavor of it become massively successful...and then have to double down because you already had a book deal to fulfill.

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