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by bialpio 9mo ago
How do you plan to show up on time if one of your meetings ends at 2pm, the next one starts at 2pm, the meeting rooms are 3 floors apart, and you need to go to the restroom because you've been in meetings since lunch and need to pee? Y
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by bialpio 9mo ago
> In what way do you think it worked as intended? If I recall correctly, just my base was 20-30% higher than the prevailing wage that the government publishes (big tech bubble people forget how wages look like outside of big tech). In ex
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by bialpio 9mo ago
For reference, I was an H-1B holder. My starting salary (straight out of college after finishing my master's) in one of the big tech companies was $95k base pay, this was 13 years ago. From my perspective, the visa program worked as in
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by bialpio 9mo ago
FIFA Peace Prize laureate is the person responsible for giving the order to attack, assuming that those are caused by the US military.
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by bialpio 9mo ago
I am a dual citizen of Poland and USA and haven't had any problems using mBank so far. I even opened 2 foreign currency accounts (USD, EUR) there after they had been made aware of my newly obtained US citizenship. Not sure why you&#x27
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by bialpio 10mo ago
> He has very strong opinions on a lot of things he knows little about (and belittles those who disagree with his uninformed opinion) (...) I'm impressed with how well you summarized my thoughts about him. I vaguely recall having th
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by bialpio 10mo ago
Yes, this is how I make decisions, but it also depends on the category of decision. E.g. in entertainment, there's too much content available to care about one specific author / creator / etc (this also applies to "conso
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by bialpio 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, what's the name of this tool? Your comment made me wonder if it's possible to reimplement it as FOSS.
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by bialpio 10mo ago
I've only played with using 7900XT for locally hosting LLMs via ollama (this is on Windows, mind you) and things worked fine - e.g. devstral:24b was decently fast. I haven't had time to use it for anything even semi-serious though
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by bialpio 10mo ago
The author doesn't mention this as an improvement to git, just showcases that an equivalent feature exists in jj. This is useful to me, a jj noob that was not aware it's possible.
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by bialpio 10mo ago
This is only a selling point in places like USA. Even before moving to the USA 13 years ago I was able to send money via wire transfer domestically for free, and it settled within 1 business day (to me that's fast enough). IIUC nowaday
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by bialpio 10mo ago
I seem to remember that it was mostly adding various accent marks / umlauts / etc. to English words so things were indeed readable but I'm not going to bet any money on that as I didn't have to actually log in onto those
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by bialpio 10mo ago
When I was at Microsoft, one test pass used pseudolocale (ps-PS IIRC) to catch all different weird things so this should have Just Worked (TM), but I was in Windows Server team so client SKUs may have been tested differently. Unfortunately
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by bialpio 10mo ago
God mode shortcut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Master_Control_Panel_s...
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by bialpio 1y ago
I have 2 free-roaming rabbits in one room of the house, we've been using Eufy camera to access live feed and found no issues with it, definitely would buy again. And the SD card recording allows us to seek a couple days into the past -
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by bialpio 1y ago
How come? I'd expect that efficiency gains would lower power and thus cooling demands - are we packing more servers into the same space now or losing those gains elsewhere?
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by bialpio 1y ago
Anyone that worked at those companies would tell you that there is little discretion in how salaries are set for rank-and-file employees. There is certainly abuse, but I don't believe it happens in FAANG companies. Source: I worked for
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by bialpio 1y ago
I hope your next potential employer rescinds the job offer 2 days before your start date, maybe that will make it clear to you why some of us think this is unfair.
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by bialpio 1y ago
No; UK has roughly double GDP per capita of Poland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...
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by bialpio 1y ago
Not sure if it applies to H-1B but if a company does mass layoffs, it automatically makes it so that the PERM applications (required for green card, which you need to keep the employee past the visa validity period + extensions; up to 7 yea
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by bialpio 1y ago
"In practice, the two visa categories are usually combined and issued as a "B-1/B-2 visa" valid for a temporary visit for either business or pleasure, or a combination of the two." https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by bialpio 1y ago
> I know you are meaning well, but while the economy growing can be a nice side effect of this (and probably is), I always find it a bit sad when economic profit is used as a reason to justify to create a more fair and equal society. Unf
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by bialpio 1y ago
> What's the tangible financial impact to someone who's been deemed undesirable by Google? Depends how deep you got. I for one would lose access to my mobile phone (Google Fi) and email, so it would be very hard for me to get a
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by bialpio 1y ago
Per capita is a better metric but it's worth noting that China is world's factory - it's easy to reduce emissions if you offshore a lot of your production elsewhere...
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by bialpio 1y ago
I like it - do you know if the space added for the camera extends past the bottom half of the laptop when it's closed? If yes, it feels like it would make it easier to open the laptop by grabbing it.
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by bialpio 1y ago
Brilliant example of Poe's law, I seriously don't know if this article is sincere or not. I tip my hat to the author.
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by bialpio 1y ago
Yes. Chrome has multi-process architecture, with renderer processes running in a sandbox. They are the ones that deal with untrusted stuff coming from the Internet and so it is safe to assume that they can be compromised (relatively) easily
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by bialpio 1y ago
You need to ask OP, I don't know what they meant, just how I personally understood it.
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by bialpio 1y ago
Was a reference to https://xkcd.com/1172/ intentional here?
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by bialpio 1y ago
> Your passion projects are not even considered to probably the vast majority of the world; that doesn't make you a loser. Not OP but I understood this as "contributing for free to a project owned by a corporation worth more mo

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