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by ghaff 2mo ago
My sense is that many companies spun up various roles in part to be seen as doing something about various things. With the pullback in tech, even if the people in those roles weren't actively pushed out, the smarter ones probably saw w
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by ghaff 2mo ago
IMO, the non-compete aspect is way overstated. People moved between the Route 128 computer companies all the time and even moved to California. If it was a slower pace than today, it probably had more to do with people not shifting jobs as
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by ghaff 2mo ago
It's less true today but the networking is also swizzled together with a huge pile of other resumes. The genuine high quality network opportunities still tend to rise to the top--how I got a gew jobs over the past 20+ years--but the no
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I had about a 90 minute commute--each way--for about 18 months. Trust me; it's not nirvana even if it was by rail/subway except for about a 7 minute drive to the station. Wasn't sustainable long-term--which dot-bomb ensured i
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by ghaff 2mo ago
There are certainly circumstances where you need really warm clothes. And hiking (and requirements for dress clothing) complicate thingx as well. But if I'm visiting cities and towns in not surefrigid weather, I can generally handle ca
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by ghaff 2mo ago
With online maps and GPS, I find it less notable these days but I remember it being a bit of a nightmare the first once or twice when I was there even though I was aware going in.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
A kot of things got regularized for E911 over time in the US. In my lifetime, I remember not having a street address--only a rural delivery route. (I think a PO Box got added at one one point though we didn't actually have or use the b
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I commuted into the city a few days a week for about 18 months quite a while back. I'd normally take the train unless I were doing something in the evening at which point the commuter rail timetable didn't work very well. Yes, it
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I had an English teacher in high school where everyone had to alternately do a 5-10 minute talk on a topic of their chosing at the beginning of class. They were rarely much good but it was a good exercise.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Fairly normal, in my experience, for Masters with a thesis in the US as well. And I have not uncommon group project presentations undergrad as well--in addition to grad school.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Given enough ignorant comments it can be hard to tell what is satire and what is not.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
That's hilarious. Why do you think ZFS isn't more broadly adopted in Linux?
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by ghaff 2mo ago
You can disable this (at the cost of having to remember to stop it yourself at the end). I definitely ran into the nag on harder hikes.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
That's sort of broadly true of engineering (including CS if they call it that) at major research universities. They don't really teach practical basics but mostly expect you to pick it up on your own if you don't already know
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by ghaff 2mo ago
The battery life negative on the Apple Watch is the big thing. I have an Ultra that is a bit better but I don't wear it say-to-day because the charging routine is a bit of a pain.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
It's not even about wrong-think. So many people I know just drifted away--or cut contact and nothing equivalent replaced it. It was a fairly important type of social media to me and many of the the people I knew/know but it really
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by ghaff 2mo ago
IBM had something of a downward blip last quarter, partly because of mainframe cycles. But it's actually done generally well the past few years and pays a pretty good dividend. $10B in net income for 2025 isn't shabby.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Or, more likely, they just lifted copyright protected photos from somewhere on the web without even attribution,
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by ghaff 2mo ago
My washing machine was intermittently staining stuff for a while. The it started smoking one day. Should have replaced it at least a couple years prior. Bet it was a good 50 years old.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Apparently a short circuit in the control panel in the middle of the night. At least that's what the investigator said. I wasn't using it and was asleep. So I didn't start it. Was spontaneous. Didn't seem to be related t
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by ghaff 2mo ago
No. A 15-year old (so not ancient) dumb microwave. Not a luddite but, aside from a couple of Alexas, just no need for any IoT.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Most of which you don't need IMO. When a bunch of stuff had to be redone after a kitchen fire, I told my electrician that I wanted everything to be dumb.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
People who know more about the topic than I do will argue for a default image for an online article for SEO and other reasons. Online pubs I've done stuff for would usually take a good/relevant photo if you have one. But, otherwis
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by ghaff 2mo ago
I didn't get the link to the current date. But aside from the fact there was no Mars linkage probably my favorite Bradbury short.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
It's pretty simple. There was a point in the early 2000s (especially pre-AMD x64) when it was pretty broadly assumed that Itanium from Intel was going to inevitably win given that a 64-bit transition was inevitable (correct) and that i
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Seriously? Up to a certain point filming in studios and backlots was pretty much the norm.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
>Most recent innovation has been the automatic vacuum Which are pretty useless for a lot of home layouts and degree of putting cords etc. away. I took a look a few years back and got a stick vac instead. (And have a monthly housekeeper w
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by ghaff 2mo ago
Yeah, I guess I can also see it as more of a Britishism (etc.) currently.
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by ghaff 2mo ago
If it's in a sector you know/have intuitions about--including an employer--some individual stocks (not all in) may not be terrible bets. I've been pretty lucky especially over the past 15 years or so and I cleaned out stocks
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by ghaff 2mo ago
It's complicated. It's tied in with various family stuff and the reality is that I had accounts I just wasn't managing. Could I make a change someday? Maybe. But this works for my position today and I have a significant broke

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