billy99k

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by billy99k 2y ago
China spent many decades forcing the one-child policy on its masses. It's going to be difficult to reverse course.
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by billy99k 2y ago
It's working and it has almost no effect on the homeless aside from getting them to go somewhere else. I see no problem with it.
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by billy99k 2y ago
Mom-and-pop businesses usually have to charge higher prices, because they can't get large volume discounts. Big companies also have the infrastructure to ship things reliably from overseas. When it comes down to it, most people would
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by billy99k 2y ago
The red team won every single swing state. This was not a close election.
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by billy99k 2y ago
"I was just in Shenzhen last month. It feels like a city that is 10 years ahead of any place in the US. The city felt extremely futuristic. Most cars on the road are EVs. Payments are all digital. Ordering at restaurants is on your pho
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by billy99k 2y ago
Winning popular+electoral college is a landslide in my book. Take the loss and do better next time.
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by billy99k 2y ago
A friend of our family almost got scammed from a .top domain. They convinced her she needed 'tech support' and transferred $30,000 from her savings to checking and tried to get her to go to the bank to get more money. She got su
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by billy99k 2y ago
Huh? If you don't have the skillset, you won't get very far.
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It's not always the official 'LeetCode', but algorithm tests like it. It's clear that these tests are to filter out older tech employees, because most never had to take these when they were in college. I've also p
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by billy99k 2y ago
Cybersecurity. I'm on the offensive side. All tests I've taken have been relevant to the job.
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by billy99k 2y ago
LeetCode and similar tests are why I got out of software development as a career. I was tired of jumping through hoops on interviews.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I was a teenager in the early 90s. Yes, there were some great times like LAN parties with full PCs and a house full of your friends. The hacking culture was fun, because it was so new and not so commercialized yet. However, you would probab
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by billy99k 2y ago
Very true. I saw comments in the code base where I work from someone that had worked there 3 years prior. Most of the people I asked could barely remember the person.
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by billy99k 2y ago
If you are supposed to be doing math homework and just pasting answers you found online through a search engine (and not doing the actual work), then the student should get into trouble. Classrooms are there for students to learn. ChatGPT
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by billy99k 2y ago
Wow, his group mates were so lazy, they didn't even read the text that ChatGPT gave them. ChatGPT can help make writing better, but you have to actually know the topic to be able to understand the response.
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by billy99k 2y ago
Ember is still around? Ember was the reason I stopped paying attention to front-end development. The rabid community of fan boys turned it into a tech fashion show rather than what works better on a technical level for application developme
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by billy99k 2y ago
This sounds a little crazy to me. We should be creating standardized rules for self-driving cars and forcing companies to follow them. It's not something you want to release fast and break something.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I started using AI for: documentation unknown APIs quickly without having to scour the Internet for examples and improving documentation. You can send it a few paragraphs and have AI re-write it for you.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I work for two companies as a contractor. One company likes us all to have our cameras on. Because I've been there so long, I can usually have my camera off in most meetings and nobody cares, except if it's with upper-level mana
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by billy99k 2y ago
SVN didn't even work well for small teams. 6 years ago, I worked on a small team where the team lead refused to go with anything besides SVN. We constantly had merging problems that cause countless hours of extra work.
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This was the exact opposite, in my experience. Clients that want fixed-price contracts always have ridiculous deadlines and expected me to work 24/7. When I charge hourly, clients think very carefully before I work on something. The 1
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by billy99k 2y ago
Why does this matter? When Russia was cool, the Clintons hired an an attorney, with ties to the Russian government, to spy on Trump during the 2016 campaign. Nobody batted an eye or brings it up. I could go on about current politicians th
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by billy99k 2y ago
It's paper and ink that we've given a perceived value to.
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by billy99k 2y ago
Are we supposed to believe that every other person in government isn't making obscene amounts of money on conflicts of interest?
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by billy99k 2y ago
While I would love to do that, I still enjoy making a living in security.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I've made lots of money with bug bounties over the years and mostly stopped this year in favor of private consulting. Companies will try anything to get out of paying, even through the major platforms. I once found a bug where I could
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by billy99k 2y ago
It's a combination of more freedom and relentlessly stealing the IP of already successful nations, building the same thing for much cheaper, and putting them out of business. When your biggest resource is people, it's much cheaper
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This is the problem with these companies having so much power. I had my Amazon seller account banned over a decade ago for a single bad review. I believe it was a competitor, because I had already refunded the customer and the negativity&
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by billy99k 2y ago
I know people that moved to other states during the pandemic that were told they could WFH forever. Unless remote work is in the contract, don't believe anything a company tells you.
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"Cabbies, unfortunately, cannot work for a negative wage. Uber can pull that off then. And so, for 14 years, they never turned a profit. Losing hundreds of millions a year." I'm not even talking about the wage aspect of the b

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