gishglish

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by gishglish 1y ago
Oh man, was it implemented as an ISAPI extension? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the wild.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience. But where do you go? Retraining is too expensive for decent paying fields to be worth it and there a very few careers otherwise that won’t be a steep lifes
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by gishglish 1y ago
> On steam you have to go out of your way for such games to be recommended for you. Go on steam, not signed in and go to new releases. I promise you there are porn games right there on the first page of results. Often of a very degenerat
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Did you read the post I wrote initially? I give the breakdown of how much of the money I pay to the union goes to the worker on his paycheck (55%) with the rest going to insurance, taxes, union dues, pension, etc (fringe benefits, whic
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by gishglish 1y ago
Well sure, my questions is why is the Union charging over double what seems to be 90th quartile for electricians in small to mid sized MSAs and only a bit more than the 90th quartile on high COL cities. I suspect the electrician they send o
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by gishglish 1y ago
They’re also nearly untouchable often disconnected from anything the mainstream would experience and experience things the mainstream never will.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Then it's called "mainstream" music for a reason, most people are OK with listening to it in the first place :) I think there’s bewilderment is mostly from these not being “mainstream” people.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Why would I work on building websites in my local community if google is going to at least 3x the salary to build and cancel several products? We need to flatten the capital distribution curve and many of these problems will work thems
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by gishglish 1y ago
Bread and circuses
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession. Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships. Oh great! I can’t wait
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by gishglish 1y ago
Reminds me of when I lived in a shit meth town. Dead economy, propped up entirely by a single military base. Lots of drugs and violence. Most people I knew there worked a shitty low skilled job and sold meth. One guy I knew had it in his he
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by gishglish 1y ago
> I pay $100/hr for a union journeyworker electrician in a metro area of ~3 million, $106 for a foreman, and $112 for a general foreman. Genuine question: Why? I picked the Cincinnati MSA, as an example, as it’s both bigger than you
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by gishglish 1y ago
> I'm curious what hiring managers are now looking for to cut through the noise. A referral. At least, in my experience a year or two ago. It was impossible to get past initial screenings for jobs I was perfect for on paper. None of
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by gishglish 1y ago
Tbh, even if they are paying for it, they’re probably still the product. Unless maybe they’re an enterprise customer who can afford magnitudes more to obtain relative privacy.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat? You can work his fields in exchange for most of the harvest of course!
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by gishglish 1y ago
Interesting how much of it is just radio schlock. I guess I underestimate how much people really listen to that stuff.
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by gishglish 1y ago
Of course, not sure why I didn’t see what’s plainly in front of me
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by gishglish 1y ago
The people it affects the most aren’t engaging those sort of thoughts day to day. The architects of it don’t care, as they will have secured their own feudal power .by the point things get nasty
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Imagine doing what all your competitors are doing while being one of the least desirable big tech companies to work for. Good thing you have very few of them because your industry is way too capital intensive to start a competitor now.
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by gishglish 1y ago
Don’t forget, the promise of an utterly schizophrenic utopian future coming soon (tm) if we all just submit to their desires.
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by gishglish 1y ago
Is it doing better than 5-6 years ago? I lived there for a few years, and while the river walks were very pleasant, I don’t have much to say about it particularly otherwise. The job market was pretty bad, basically limiting you to State gov
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by gishglish 1y ago
> Your argument, taken in a broader sense, would have us tending to corn fields by hand to avoid a machine taking our job. To play off another analogy commonly used in this topic: you are the horse, not the rider. Sure some horses will f
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by gishglish 1y ago
Fascinating conclusion. It’s not doable for me to pay for all copyrighted content I want either.
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by gishglish 1y ago
These fucking people sound like clickbait ads trying to sell me grift pills lmao. Go into the dietary supplement business instead, you’ll do well.
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by gishglish 1y ago
If I was genuinely getting more free time, I’d be more amenable to this line of thought, but RTO put the nail in that coffin.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> so I will just outwork/outperform them. At the game of producing garbage slop? Probably yeah.
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by gishglish 1y ago
> The real reason America is armed is so that if our government ever gets too tyrannical It’s been doing that for at least two decades, yet I’m still waiting for you people to get on with it.
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by gishglish 1y ago
I have no degree at all. I’ve been doing software development professionally for around seven years now. Like many, I’ve started programming as a hobby as a child, around 11 or 12. I got pigeonholed quickly into enterprise development, most
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by gishglish 1y ago
My girlfriend had some driver straight up offer her $100 for sex one night. Another weirdo started stalking her, spamming her coworkers, etc. It’s absolutely insane to me. Worst I’ve ever had in an uber were geriatric drivers who probably s