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by dbish 5y ago
If you’re honestly looking for a really 9-5 and old school feel to your day to day, go join an old defense contractor (ex: Northrop, Lockheed). Very old schoool working practices (including equipment) and the cleared side of things requires
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by dbish 5y ago
Twitter’s topic modeling is really bad (and seems to be getting worse), but I still like using the feed to interact with people, just wish they’d either build better models or get rid of surfacing topics.
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by dbish 5y ago
Related, pay has gone up for many roles as companies get desperate to hire and many companies have a logical flaw in how they value current employees. They won’t raise current employees wages to meet the new price they would pay for someone
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by dbish 5y ago
Someone competent who has actually done something, unlike elected officials. Until there is a party that represents and has engineers and technical people as an every day part of their system, not a unique member among a sea of lawyers, we
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by dbish 5y ago
The career politicians are some of the very last people who should be making choices on what technological directions we should go as a society. You can watch any of the congressional hearings to see the complete lack of understanding of to
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by dbish 5y ago
I’d say Bezos, Larry & Sergey, Jobs, even Zuck seemed pretty highly optimistic in their early days and leadership styles, and that has nothing to do with the current funding climate.
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by dbish 5y ago
So who makes the choices then? Who is the group that validates we are ready to try out a new idea?
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by dbish 5y ago
I don’t personably agree judging by sentiment I’m seeing, but hopefully you’re right. The average person doesn’t seem to think of this as executing trump’s plan and fwiw I personably think that’s a cop out to blame it on a previous administ
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by dbish 5y ago
This is not how most of the world or Americans are going to see it. Speaking as an independent, this is precisely the kind of abject failure and mess that will be the reason for a single term presidency as well as a likely change in party n
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by dbish 5y ago
There are too many people who think their questions are the important ones to be addressed before we are allowed to make progress. The more gates/approvers you add before changes can be made or new ideas tried out, the less likely you
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by dbish 5y ago
Maybe it depends on where in the company they are, but it seems to me that most successful founders are pretty optimistic. I know I wouldn’t want to work for a pessimist, but I agree that I wouldn’t want to be led by a completely unrealisti
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by dbish 5y ago
We do need optimists if we are going to dream and build a great future. Techno-optimism has become almost a taboo, sometimes even within the groups that actually work on cutting edge tech (at least on the computing side of things). We shoul
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by dbish 5y ago
Looks like the right hardware. I wonder if it’s easy enough to change the software though. I don’t want existing art, I want generated art, new for me :)
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by dbish 5y ago
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing
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by dbish 5y ago
Kindles are too small and have no color. I want a large colorful framed picture. E-ink would be awesome but that’s not cheap for color displays and def not for large ones.
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by dbish 5y ago
Love the generated art projects. I just want an art ‘frame’ (display with small computer) that generates new art every so often. Put together a few of the various art ML projects into one product for this.
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by dbish 5y ago
This is an interesting approach to the problem (and do read the article instead of just the headline since they differ in what Amazon is potentially planning). They’re basically fingerprinting computer usage to know if someone else has cont
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by dbish 5y ago
This is just niantic "talking their book".
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by dbish 5y ago
What does the curriculum look like that differs significantly from standard school? Also, is your child bored in school at all? I got ahead in math early on and remember being very bored in math classes until AP classes came around.
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by dbish 5y ago
They seem accurate within 100ppm or so which is enough to give me the information I need. Looking at their specs their claim is 75ppm https://support.getawair.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060843933-...
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by dbish 5y ago
Awair Element. Looks nice enough to keep on a shelf too
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by dbish 5y ago
I bought a few co2 and voc detectors and air purifiers to try and help with this. Air purifiers are useful during pollen season and for dust not sure anything else. The co2 detectors were actually great for knowing when to open the door or
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by dbish 5y ago
Bobiverse was good from a ‘new concepts’ point of view, at least the first book. Really fun read.
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by dbish 5y ago
Maybe. It might be worth looking, tell any folks with an offer how much you’d lose, and either leave early if they add to it, or accept an offer with a start date after the vest.
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by dbish 5y ago
Yes, companies need to be way more aggressive in keeping current folks and changing their pay bands quickly in these situations. The problem for much of big tech is that the managers hiring have no real control over the pay bands so it’s le
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by dbish 5y ago
Don’t use Glassdoor for tech. They are almost always incorrect since they are salary focused. Use levels.fyi which understands total compensation
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by dbish 5y ago
Yes, would love to know the company. Happy to help steer Amazon engineers away during the current engineer shortage so they don’t waste your recruiters’ time
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by dbish 5y ago
This almost seems like a trolling comment but I’ll respond to add some info from a different POV. FWIW (and as an ex Amazon manager) I haven’t seen this at all for many of the engineers who are my friends and former coworkers. Good engineer
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by dbish 5y ago
I’ve seen phone screens skipped more frequently recently but not full loops.
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by dbish 5y ago
Even if you think you’re well paid, now is the time to look around. I’ve had a lot of friends, mentees, and coworkers get huge bumps on total compensation even as relatively senior engineers and managers. Pay is jumping and companies aren’t

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