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by busterarm 5mo ago
Couple decades in with some leading but still remaining an IC officially. The right work just doesn't get done without staff engineers and architect types having frequent conversations & meetings as well as constant code reviewing.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I'm in a big org and while we had a lot of COVID-related turnover, before and after COVID our average engineer tenure went from ~1.6 years to something like 6-7. I'm at the upper end of my part of the org at 8+ (one at 9, one at
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by busterarm 5mo ago
> Getting back to Aikido, one master is of the opinion it's not in MMA as its either ineffectual non damaging ritual OR it's high damage, crippling, lethal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtibobLK56I Both are
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Absolutely! Also there's nothing fake about standing joint locks. Aikido just isn't the only martial art where you can learn them. Wing Chun, Hapkido, (Japanese) Jujutsu, etc... But standing joint locks will only help you in dea
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I came to reply with some form of this. Aikido demonstration is cooperative. Uke and nage. Somebody throws and somebody receives the throw. I'm not one of those "Aikido is fake" people, but Aikido has no tournaments and is
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Not everyone's style of humor but I still think this skit from The Ben Show is underrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R30M2Dqsd8
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by busterarm 5mo ago
management flinched first.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Company I'm familiar with that went all in on Codex ran out of tokens for a week and wouldn't increase their spend. I pretty significant number of their engineers flat out refused to work. Like publicly said so. "Increase o
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by busterarm 5mo ago
nullsanity's comment is dead and downvoted to oblivion but also incredibly underrated. I was more annoyed than anything that I didn't hit this moment until my 40s. Except it's not just reddit (I quit reddit 15 years ago). It
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I like my rollo (and i only print standard sticker sizes) but any of the cheap clones will pretty much be equivalent and just as bulletproof.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Except for the part about requiring you to leave to process your application. Wait times to process applications depend on your country of origin and visa type. If you are an H1B from India that was already decades approaching never. Sam
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by busterarm 5mo ago
This is such an insanely unpopular move even among some of trump’s supporters. I really think this will be this version of the republican party’s suicide note.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
well over half of us workers report being satisfied with their job. Also, it's a job. It's not servitude. you're trading your labor for money.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Or don't move into a house with a sagging roof. Most of the companies that I've worked in my adult life were perfectly fine places without any collective bargaining or ownership. And I made orders of magnitude more money as an em
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Termination for criminal activity is covered in the CBA's "just cause" clause. The union could have let the termination slide without setting any kind of precedent. Instead the union defended the employee as a flex. The uni
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by busterarm 5mo ago
What is this, the 1970s? No, far more basic negligence and corruption. Negotiating deliberately bad contracts and collecting bribes. Diverting hours and cushy roles to union reps and their personal friends. Overwhelmingly siding with man
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I agree. But I'm drawing the parallel between situations where people like a certain work culture that they have never experienced because it conforms to their larger worldview. It's mostly projection and doesn't meet with re
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by busterarm 5mo ago
You can pry my Mitsubishi pencil sharpener from my cold dead hands.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
> Eventually they did bring back Blake's 7, and it unfortunately wasn't any good huh? They only announced the reboot in January.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
If you live in New York you rolled at least a 15 on life's D20. That's how good of an opportunity that location is. I started and lived most of my life there and started in poverty -- for there. That's still a better oppor
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by busterarm 5mo ago
With what's been happening lately I've been thinking of just releasing anything I work on with what I call the Goro Maki License. The entirety of the license is four words: "Do As You Like". There's no expectations
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Hetzner and OVH also do this all the time. It's AWS and Azure that are the outliers and tend not to care too much what their customers do with their infrastructure. AWS is perfectly fine with allowing me to run copies of 15 year old v
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by busterarm 5mo ago
NYC only has 154 billionaires. The percentage of NYC's second homes owned by NYC billionaires is fractional (59,000 total units). No, this will disproportionately negatively affect middle-class people and families and fuck them hard.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I'm familiar with the concept of crabs in a bucket, yes. That's why I left New York and abandoned my rent controlled apartment to do so.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
The cost of construction in _New York City_ generally sets a floor as far as who can afford to pay for it. The per-apartment cost of construction in Manhattan is more than the retail price of my 3500sq ft house in near-rural South Carolina.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
The top 1% of NYC residents contribute 40-48% of all personal income tax collected in NYC. When you extend that to Top 2.5% you cross 51%. Personal Income Tax accounts for around 31% of collected NYC tax revenue. "The rich" also p
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I strongly doubt that this is going to have the effect that they want it to. It won't raise the taxes that they expect it to. It won't free up inventory. It will halt construction.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Maybe. I could also interpret this as the friend being misunderstood. The whole "you'll be forced to do it" comes from the alternative being that you lose. You no longer get to be a player in the "game". In the s
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by busterarm 5mo ago
There are a half dozen games in my catalog that I've played for 10,000 hours for free. Sure, I'll spend $5 on a game I play for 10 hours, but it's still a bad value for me comparatively. When I do it, it's usually becau
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by busterarm 5mo ago
They opened/are-opening a northern virginia office, according to their HN posts. But yeah, as much as I would love to work with them, I have zero desire to ever move out of the southeastern US and especially back to NY. The nature of

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