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by gedy 3mo ago
People who say this gloss over the horrific fire bombing of Tokyo, etc (so bad B-29 crews could smell the bodies burning from thousands of feet above...). Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no worse than that.
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by gedy 3mo ago
Please tell me this was not interview for a SaaS CRUD app role
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by gedy 3mo ago
No no, see those are all softball questions, and the only way to prove they are not coasting fakers or liars is to quiz them like this. /s
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by gedy 3mo ago
> I'm baffled at how US performs poorly for their people given they have abundant energy. Norway and Iceland also have abundant energy and their people are seeing the benefits. It's just a totally different scale of comparison
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by gedy 3mo ago
The folks I know who attempt to 'treat' themselves with substances generally just get worse. That's not a judgement, just an observation.
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by gedy 3mo ago
One nice thing about the rise of ORMs back in the day was it broke the stranglehold our traditional DBAs had on the data tier. I respected them and their skills, but in a product org it was really difficult to have a separate group that re
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by gedy 3mo ago
Yes, but the subtle issue I've seen in companies is "MVP" easily ends up interpreted as: "add this one small thing since it's quick and easy to implement". Then before they know it you've got this mousetr
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by gedy 3mo ago
> Whether the earth is round I honestly think a lot of the flat earther types in particular are basically trolls and/or enjoy being stubborn/argue about common knowledge, for no other reason because they can.
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by gedy 3mo ago
Because it's not continuous sound in one spot like a leaf blower is.
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by gedy 3mo ago
We can't leave money on the table for all those below average prices - so let's raise them all to the average... oh wait
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by gedy 3mo ago
Agreed, but it feels like a Pyrrhic victory to not cheat, then get lower scores than the cheaters.
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by gedy 3mo ago
Being Catholic helps too
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by gedy 3mo ago
The "underlying issues" are not all moral failings as you hint. In my case, as I've aged my appetite due blood sugar/insulin resistance/etc means I'm basically hungry all the time if I restrict calories to mai
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by gedy 3mo ago
Sure, but baseball has things like walking a batter so they can't hit. Not totally analogous here, but every sport has things like this.
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by gedy 4mo ago
Money always sprouts double standards out of everyone and anyone's ass
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by gedy 4mo ago
Feel I should mention the Istro-Romanians ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istro-Romanians ), a small group of Romanian speakers who settled in Istria (now Croatia) some centuries ago. Mostly gone now but one grandmother
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by gedy 4mo ago
Yeah all the "10x CEO" types would lose their minds if someone was bossing them around or micromanaging like they tend to.
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by gedy 4mo ago
Agreed that Zuck is not very impressive, but what would another CEO do differently at this point? It's got a ton of money, and they are trying this and that. But the market wouldn't let them sit on a bunch of money either.
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by gedy 4mo ago
Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?
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by gedy 4mo ago
Fair enough, but the vast majority companies that interview like this would be totally fine with the brightest 1 of 100, if not the top 20 of 100.
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by gedy 4mo ago
I'd rather that than leet code dancing around: "It's not an IQ test, since those are bad, but this is okay though!"
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by gedy 4mo ago
It's a fashion photo by Melvin Sokolsky, taken in 1962. Looks like Soviet Red Army uniforms, but since artist is American/New York and given the year probably all prop clothing.
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by gedy 4mo ago
Image in question: https://static-assets.artlogic.net/w_1600,h_1600,c_limit,f_a...
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by gedy 4mo ago
Yes, it’s a big problem I’ve seen in my circles: early employees are expected to work like "we’re all in this together!" - but you're really not. You aren’t an owner, you aren’t a founder. If and when money does come in to p
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by gedy 4mo ago
> the vast majority of US retirement savings are already tied to the military sector (RTX, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman) via index funds I don't hear any concern about SpaceX due to military ties, it's that it
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by gedy 4mo ago
They aren't delusional per se, just follow the money and incentives and it makes some sense.
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by gedy 4mo ago
It's too bad there's no one willing to be a parking lot attendant on an Italian island.
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by gedy 4mo ago
Kinda inverse for me but abandoned Windows after having a local account for my kids, and I bought them MS Flight Simulator on my Microsoft Account from the MS Store. There was no way to use this expensive purchase from the kid's accoun
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by gedy 4mo ago
Man where were you at when I was getting asked questions "to see if you've prepared for the interview" with leet code for damned UI frontend positions... I loved answering your type of questions and most companies would not d
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by gedy 4mo ago
With inexperienced or non-technical people, talking to them about AI can be very confusing, as a LOT of their "AI" usecases are basically they didn't realize or know how to write a program for this straightforward logic.

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