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by esalman 4mo ago
The original article is about a federal judge blocking H1B fee because there is a teacher shortage in Alaska. Can you believe that?
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by esalman 4mo ago
The reason US is in this mess is because in the 50s and 60s there was a liberal arts education boom in the US, and STEM education boom in India/China.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I have replied to another comment - we ended up hiring a fresh graduate with relevant research experience who is being trained for the role.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I responded to the point someone made- there's an excess of workers in America. Firstly, when there's an excess, wages are supposed to lower, even for Americans. Secondly, even if there is an excess, there was no evidence of that
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by esalman 4mo ago
Yes we hired a fresh graduate with relevant research experience who is being trained.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I have added compensation information in another reply.
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by esalman 4mo ago
> What requirements did the role have and what’s the salary range? 4+ years in product development. Python/R + a low-level language. Terabyte-scale data stream and batch processing. HPC knowledge (vectorization, memory access, distr
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by esalman 4mo ago
No such issues. It's actually not a solo business, it's a civil/geological engineering consultancy firm with a mix of state/local government and private clients.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I hear this argument all the time. There's an excess of this, there's an excess of that. Seems it only comes from people who are not directly involved in hiring of such roles. We hired for an analyst role few months ago in the bay
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by esalman 4mo ago
This is pretty much how I've been operating. While the C-suits have been always encouraging everyone- technical and non-technical folks alike- to use AI, the ask from my manager and skip level has always been for deterministic output.
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by esalman 4mo ago
AI is absolutely directly responsible. Managers are literally asking whether people need AI credits or interns over summer. Most people are taking credits, and internships are getting cancelled left and right.
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by esalman 5mo ago
Using Rust is actually the most boring part of the problem. It would be almost impossible to solve for anyone without certain level of domain expertise.
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by esalman 5mo ago
This opinion should only come from a CS grad who is accustomed to building CRUD apps and allergic to any real world problem domain. At my work in insurance solutions we're solving perabyte scale problems. We do not have a Rust develope
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by esalman 5mo ago
For my day to day tasks 4.6 feels sufficient. I have limited enterprise budget and Claude 4.7 costs 7x more. So unless there's close to 7x improvement, it doesn't make sense to switch to 4.7. I actually gave both 4.6 a really comp
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by esalman 5mo ago
US charged and arrested a man in Venezuela so...
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by esalman 5mo ago
We would be much better off as society if bettors and gamblers actually learned from their lessons. Unfortunately that's not how it works.
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by esalman 5mo ago
This. Our household income is 300k, and I took a big risk purchasing a home in Socal where mortgage is 50% of our take home income. In a space of 1 year or so, we went from saving two out of four paychecks each month, to sinking two into mo
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by esalman 5mo ago
I'm also seeing a lot of broken promises here.
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by esalman 5mo ago
I received my green card in 2023 and I have mixed emotions. On one hand, I'm so relieved that I have been able to dodge everything that the administration has been throwing at immigrant (legal and illegal alike), trying to see what sti
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by esalman 5mo ago
What if you obtain a B2 visa to attend a conference in the US, and a year later receive and employment opportunity?
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by esalman 5mo ago
It's a pressure campaign to get the Iranian leadership in one place so that Israel can bomb them again. There was a deal, the president cancelled it in his previous term.
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by esalman 5mo ago
I also have a $900 monitor (provided from work) which is also a built in kvm switch, and it can show two desktops, one HDMI/windows and one usb-c/mac, side by side or as an inset as well. There's no delay switching either. It
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by esalman 5mo ago
That would be a conflict of interest.
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by esalman 5mo ago
Interesting responses here. I think most are missing the point. For me, the main lesson here is seeing and learning from how others are using skills. Yesterday I was watching a Matt Pocock class on using agents and he was also showing off s
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by esalman 5mo ago
This. My manager reported couple of days ago that copilot manipulated some tests in order to make edge cases pass. We have standalone prototypes for our product, so it was easy to catch, but actually going in to debug and fix was much harde
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by esalman 6mo ago
Sharia law became mainstream, even in 20th century, as a direct result of the US supporting wahabism in Saudi Arabia in exchange for oil. Ottomans even had favorable view of homosexuality, before Ibn Saud and his interpretation of Islam bec
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by esalman 6mo ago
By bombing an elementary school and killing 200 girls, you gave the "mullahs" enough justification to call for death and destruction.
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by esalman 6mo ago
If you get killed by cops that does not necessarily mean the means are not working. All good things in life come at a sacrifice.
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by esalman 6mo ago
You haven't answered the question though. Are your code peer reviewed? Are they part of client-facing product? No offense, I like what you are doing, but I wouldn't risk delegation this much workload in my day job, even though the
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by esalman 6mo ago
I briefly used Cursor but stopped and went back to VSCode after the 3.0 rewrite when they ditched it.

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