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by dogman144 2y ago
I worried/worry sometimes the localized focus means I take focus off the big picture race. But I increasingly believe in order to get past the level of good tech pay and solid wfh gig, you have to have your localized life setup strongl
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by dogman144 2y ago
I’ve been there. If the goal is to ensure your career isn’t derailed vs like ensuring good corporate optimization bc you care about that (you shouldn’t, IMO, likely a losing battle impacted by levers you’ll never see), it will matter probab
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by dogman144 2y ago
It is happening already, the extent to which it fully occurs is the potential part. The vendors are out there and shopping. Or, OAI and co are totally blowing smoke. Latter is possible for sure, but I don’t think anyone really thinks the te
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by dogman144 2y ago
Somehow, I manage to work, have an ambitious career ahead of my peers, clear said-pay, pull the ol’ code lever at the code factory as it were… I.e “work and advance,” while seeing my spouse consistently from 9-5 instead of Brad in marketin
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by dogman144 2y ago
I think it’s important to calibrate what “great pay” is in a full spectrum way. Cutting corners on details here - Jane, making $120-150k as an engineer at non-FAANG, but fully (or at least maximized risk controlled) on the right side of eve
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by dogman144 2y ago
Some positivity and a way out in this dynamic: - WFH or at least hybrids enables a building or rebuilding of the social connections from neighborhoods, communities, and families. For about 2000 years, this was fulfilling to humans. From 200
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by dogman144 2y ago
Which is what I meant by “want to make the same pay as a financial analyst but without the hours and awful culture?”
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by dogman144 2y ago
With WFH, you get social reward from people who aren’t forced to be there with you, from the sources parent comment mentioned. Conversely, many don’t find that forced socialization you advocate for remotely rewarding and have to suffer thro
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by dogman144 2y ago
This is why employees advocating RTO for the socialization depress me. There’s a big world out there, go find it.
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by dogman144 2y ago
IMO it’s the reality of technology being a business, not a value-set, settling in. 1999-2020 was 20+ years. That’s about the length of a long-term industry cycle. It’s also 20 yrs of selling a narrative about tech that recruited ambitious,
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by dogman144 2y ago
Not unique to MSFT. I’m a security engineer. If you want sanity paired with outcomes in the career, work at places that are technical and have a strong regulatory incentive and related funding, or a strong threat model closely tied to prof
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LLM Running for Wyoming Mayor(oilcity.news)
13 points by dogman144 2y ago|4 comments
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by dogman144 2y ago
A LLM “called” VIC and a supporting team is running for mayor in Cheyenne, Wyoming. This to me like the first virtual candidate for political office I’ve ran into. Article phrasing sounds a bit like this is a “product” from OpenAi, but I th
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by dogman144 2y ago
It seems I have hit a nerve! It is good to have the window turned away from the engineer glorification angle sometimes though.
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by dogman144 2y ago
Honest answer - read the reporting the DuPont lawsuit is based on. Factory workers who poured out PFAS sludge bled to death in factory floors, 9 of 10 women (or some similarly awful stat) who worked on the factory area gave birth to deforme
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by dogman144 2y ago
There’s nothing generalized about decades long economic destruction of the creative arts and similar industries in exchange for streaming platforms, instagram, “news”via social media and now AI. But hey RSUs in tech are great, get over it N
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by dogman144 2y ago
I think they’re embittered bc of having lib arts livelihoods shredded by technology and being told it’s a good thing and progress by engineers reinventing the wheel and causing more negative externalities on top of that, and then the cycle
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by dogman144 2y ago
Going to have to add in “addicting middle schoolers en masse” to your harm reduction logic chain. After decades of that going away (I literally remember the “smokers corner” in high school and how there were 5 peole there), you now have 195
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by dogman144 2y ago
Worry about what? I’m pointing out that it’s nice for tech to finally be honest about the view and get a deserving reaction in return after decades of self-congratulation.
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by dogman144 2y ago
Not sure (well I am sure given the audience) why you’re getting downvotes… other than it’s a bitter pill for engineers to swallow that the creative arts industry which eng culture tries to simultaneously love/emulate/crush economi
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by dogman144 2y ago
A technology company that loves the arts and shows it by paternalistically crushing all of its implements and saying “trust us this iPad is better than your heirloom piano or silly books.” Right on trend. They might love it, but they don’t
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by dogman144 2y ago
Fairly certain a lot more western “technologist” types are looking up to them.
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by dogman144 2y ago
This was what I understood it to be as well, they let it split out by accident/enough group think. I’ve worked in tech long enough to firmly believe this sentiment exists.
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by dogman144 2y ago
Where does popcorn lung etc fit on your spectrum of healthy consequence free vaping? Or a nicotine addiction in a middle schooler because of the ease of access and child marketing.
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by dogman144 2y ago
This ad said the quiet part out loud about what the average technologist thinks of the average liberal arts pursuit. It just had to manifest as an ad from an insulated marketing dept for it to finally happen “in the open.” No surprises, and
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by dogman144 2y ago
Try to quit fully, long term, and then tell me the chemical isn’t dangerous after that process is complete for you.
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by dogman144 2y ago
No I don’t, I think that perspective is an incredible amount of rationalization of marketing and data out an industry that continually proves itself to be public health crisis 101 and repeatedly and litigiouslg deceptive in its discussion a
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by dogman144 2y ago
Think those returning vets would like the payments to start in the first place, for your false equivalence to be valid. And I can do that sort of logic as well - would you like to deal with the social unrest from about the only effective ma
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by dogman144 2y ago
adding just to counteract some very odd takes in here from I presume currently vapors or wildly uneducated non-nicotine addicts. Nicotine addiction owned my life for years. Nothing like it. I still have dreams about relapsing dip and then s
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by dogman144 2y ago
I’ve quit as well and imo there’s no “quit before,” it’s quit or still doing it. I respect your opinion but I can’t really take a nicotine addict’s claim that the substance isn’t harmful, when the addict hasn’t actually ever quit the chemi

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