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by dangerwill 3y ago
In my 3 software engineering jobs this has been true in 1 case and thankfully not true in 2 cases. I have extreme difficulty promoting myself in a work environment but I have had good people as bosses enough times that my work hasn't b
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by dangerwill 3y ago
What companies are out there doing something worth caring about? It feels like everything is some variation of the same setup: Developing, deploying, and managing HTTP """REST""" microservices running behind a
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by dangerwill 3y ago
I use Firefox at home, but my work (large company) has standardized on everyone using Chrome to the point of writing custom Chrome extensions. So at work I use Chrome because it is essentially required. I wonder how many enterprise workers
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by dangerwill 3y ago
I do wonder if people have any experience around doing root cause analysis that doesn't just end up in blame games? I've worked for three companies in a row that claim to have blame-free cultures, and all of them did put work into
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by dangerwill 3y ago
That depends on the drink in question and which periods you are comparing. It was common up until the early modern period to have a daytime beer at like 2-3% that just keeps you going throughout the day without getting actually drunk (think
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Why did you go to GPT-4 to get this basic history? It's mostly stolen from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com and manages to omit 2 of the 4 founders names.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
> How many humans do you want employed as butter churners? This gets said about every wave of technological driven job loss and it ignores that it is quite difficult for people to change careers in their mid life. Laid off auto workers i
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by dangerwill 3y ago
How many lives have been made significantly worse by 24/7 on-call being made the norm for engineers by these companies? These companies deserve plenty of retaliation even if they pay good salaries.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Everyone worries about falling home prices devastating the average retirement plan, but if you don't sell your home when you retire all that high valuation is going to do is add to your property tax expenses. And if the people nearing
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by dangerwill 3y ago
So I had offers from American-founded companies in both cities and that was the difference I was seeing. Maybe I just suck but the levels.fyi numbers have always been really inflated vs what I (and my circle) have seen.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Japan has 3x the population of Canada (125 million vs 38 million). The corridor from Toronto to Quebec is about (eyeballing this) 50% of Japan's land area, with the greater metro areas of Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Calgary probably addin
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Ah sorry, I remembered the news about this plan but the latest is from 2022 so maybe that never got implemented. And ha, I once heard someone refer to 2022 as the year of the three Prime Ministers
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by dangerwill 3y ago
It's not a function of density, there are plenty of incredibly dense cities in Europe and Asia that don't have anything like the price inflation of Canada. Canada has a) not been building nearly enough housing (same story as the U
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by dangerwill 3y ago
As of when I last checked in 2021, Seattle tech salaries are 10-20% higher compared to Vancouver with house prices being like 33% lower. I imagine this situation holds when you compare Toronto to Chicago or Montreal to Boston. Even if the C
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Constantinople was conquered by the Turks but not only the people but the name of the city (albeit transliterated into Arabic) remained for centuries. Istanbul wasn't the officially recognized name of the city until the 1930s https:&
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by dangerwill 3y ago
"wherever you want" is not the same thing as an entire county/municipality banning alcohol. And we kinda already did this rodeo in the 20s and the experiment with prohibition was soundly rejected.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
> But localized bans? Fine. Do what you want. And if you happen to live in one of these areas and do drink then what? Sell your house and move or add a lot of onerous hassle in having to go to the next county over to get booze? Giving co
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by dangerwill 3y ago
What you are referring to is allowing MacArthur to have nuked China when they entered the Korean war, aka killing millions of civilians and leaving the eastern seaboard of China irradiated for generations. We should be glad he was kept on h
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by dangerwill 3y ago
The tests and masks aren't perfect yes, but they shouldn't be dismissed because they do help improve the odds of avoiding covid. And the cost is really minor, so why not still wear a mask and test? I'm at a massive work event
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by dangerwill 3y ago
A hundred people per day are still dying of covid in the US, and even if you don't die from it, every fresh covid infection is rolling the dice with long covid. Masks and testing for a mass gathering involving lots of out of towners is
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by dangerwill 3y ago
So I just watched Serial Experiments Lain last weekend, and the wires are a strong aesthetic in the show, but that is not what the show is actually about. The horror at the heart of the show is about depersonalization caused by constantly b
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by dangerwill 3y ago
I can't wait until there is a standardized ChatGPT Bible to guide this emerging machine-priest caste. And these posts will be the equivalent of the dead sea scrolls.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
If this kind of labelling was reliable (it won't be of course), I think there would be plenty of interest from people to consume news, literature, and art from 100% human sources. Speaking just for myself, I would pay good money to avo
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by dangerwill 3y ago
This happens to be the exact situation in Seattle. Bellevue is technically a different city from Seattle, across the lake and is where most of the tech is. But its rather low density, because the people that got in before the tech boom don&
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by dangerwill 3y ago
This isn't a vague term, it means people who manage managers, but who aren't the very top level. You'd have to be pretty delusional to be actively managing a group of managers/teams and not realize you are middle managem
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by dangerwill 3y ago
So I like to take absurdly long walks in Seattle and one time I walked the length of the 520 bridge over to Bellevue, and walked through Medina while doing so because I thought it was odd to have a part of Seattle named after a holy site in
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by dangerwill 3y ago
While I do think it is tempting and broadly correct to have the discussion about these layoff rounds being partially social contagion among the C-suite class, needless RTO, and the end of 0% interest rates, we should also keep in mind that
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by dangerwill 3y ago
Lmao OK so looking something up without ChatGPT means I'm unemployed. Sure bud.
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by dangerwill 3y ago
No I'm not, this is a false dichotomy. The resources that chatGPT was trained on are available in their raw form and it is easy to google for official golang resources/search stackoverflow for golang problems. Before chatGPT you w
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by dangerwill 3y ago
People that say this are outing themselves as un-engaged learners that are likely not going to get much in the way of lasting gains in skills due to AI coaching. All it is doing is regurgitating StackOverflow at you but reworded to fit into

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