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by at-fates-hands 2mo ago
>> Stainless steel is just such a terrible choice for a rocket this large. Honest question, but what do they usually use?
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
Am I the only one who is getting tired of all the AI stuff in VS Code? I just want to open my ide and not be greeted by a dozen AI prompts begging to have it code something for me. Its such a distraction. I want less of this stuff not mo
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
I'm still flying under the radar with a Dell Precision T5820. 128GB of DDR4 and a Quadro P4000 graphics card (8gb). Handles everything I need it to do including photo/video editing, and some random FPS games without any issues. I
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
The easy way to get around this is by telling the recruiter you've been actively applying with companies inside your state and for remote contract work and you don't want to be submitted twice. They'll send over the company n
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
Racing Towards Oblivion
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
My buddy did that. I got a gig as a contractor for a well known company. They were hiring and he told his recruiter to get him in. After several conversations trying to tell him not to come in and telling him what a clown show it was, he st
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
Had something similar happen. I get on the zoom call. Told it would be a general interview and same thing. No camera, then asked me to show my drivers license and social security card to prove my identification. I asked why they needed this
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by at-fates-hands 4mo ago
>> Leverage is great when prices are increasing, but not when prices are moving in the opposite direction. This. I worked for a medium sized company in the early aughts. It was a family owned business. The eldest brother was the owner
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
I've become equally paranoid about VSCode extensions. I remember using several other IDE's like Brackets, JetBrains, Sublime Text or Bluefish only having a few solid extensions to rely on to get my dev work done. Now it seems like
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> in order to make it to a billion dollars you need to consistently exploit people and absolutely refuse to use your power to help others in any significant way. I would categorically disagree with your statement. Jeff Bezos Elon Mus
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> They just had very bad supply chain management. The crazy thing is Joe O' Sullivan had set out a two month training for Tim Cook to learn the supply side of the company. Cook mastered it in two weeks and O' Sullivan was f
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
Last year we got a rental car when we were in Florida. When we first left the airport, we were using the navigation app that was in the car. First red light? Navigation app suddenly goes black and a commercial starts playing. My wife and I
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
Was also in a similar position around the same time. When I was an undergrad, my two professors told me to stay out of academia it wasn't worth it. I plowed ahead anyways. I had the same conversations with grad students I really admire
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
I'm pretty shocked as well. I thought every company stopped doing this like 20 years ago? Even for a legacy system that is a long time to continue storing credentials like that.
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
The interesting thing is that cheating is much easier when done online. When I was a TA and we were in the process of moving quite a bit of the classes to online, we still mandated in person testing. It was eye opening to find cheat sheets
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> but is a possible additional factor that younger, more naive, people just don't have what is and isn't "possible" so deeply ingrained in their minds? I would agree with this. Every high school valedictorian and
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> whose current existence appears to be due to a weird short squeeze anomaly, is not a sustainable business. I remember working in a CD Warehouse in the early aughts. Our store was next door to a Game Stop. The woman who worked at t
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
I'm the same way as OP. I'll go clean out my basement, find a load of old tech and just put it up in a bundle or sell it individually for dirt cheap. Likewise, I buy a lot of stuff like minimal wallets, micro-electronics like char
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> Or bosses will just expect more output for same/less pay, with them having to use AI to keep up. Anecdotal evidence to support this. I work with both dev and design teams. Upper management has already gone through several layo
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
How do you think the UAE leaving OPEC will effect the oil markets in the coming months and years? Its being touted as having a major impact.
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
Last year there was some rumbling that Newsom would start to increase production because two refineries were closing sooner than later with the prospect of much higher gas prices. Since CA is really pushing renewables hard and transitioning
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> I’m tired of working in an industry hell bent on the destruction of society. People will argue this point. However, when I look at all the things that tech has done thinking it was going to improve society; when in fact, it did the
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> That can’t continue as the rest of the world is catching up. This has already been happening quietly in several industries. I remember many years ago when I was working in a bike shop (early aughts) and the Specialized engineer was
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
A majority of the big corporations I've worked at this was the typical developer track. - entry level dev - senior dev (start being groomed for management) - senior dev/leader (take on 25% management duties) - manager - management
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
A few years ago I was on a massive project to rebuild and redesign a major public facing portal. Our dev team was nails, cranking out features and components on a very tight time table. Several other teams were inflating their story point e
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
I always felt the issue with removable batteries was they had a smaller capacity and would run out of life faster - so the need to be able to replace a battery if you wanted your phone to last more than a few years was important. Now, with
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
His messages were always the same politically. He was always snubbing his nose at the crown, at the art world and other rich folks who would pay millions of pounds for his art. Back in the day when I discovered him, he came off as a rebel,
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
Been doing this for a while now for ebay and other stuff. I'm always shocked at how many people have no idea this exists.
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
>> Nobody is being instructed to be judicious. Everyone is being instructed to use it as much as possible for all problem areas. Do you think this is because the LLM owners have such a massive ROI they're trying to cover so they&
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by at-fates-hands 5mo ago
Canonical is a UK company, so its a symbolic attack against a Western agent. Ubuntu is used by a lot of tech companies so they knew this attack would get a lot of visibility in the tech community. I'm assuming they think this will garn

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