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by gymbeaux 7mo ago
Those 27 hours only seem to happen during the workday when I’m trying to push branches, run CI pipelines or otherwise use GitHub (I don’t use Copilot). Whatever the yearly figure, it’s been a pain in the ass these last few months and it’s u
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by gymbeaux 7mo ago
$12,000 gets you 1Gb/s networking and vanilla Ubuntu 24.04. Napkin math on the hardware it looks like margins are around 50% which feels like a school fundraiser where everyone pays what is obviously way more than normal retail price f
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by gymbeaux 7mo ago
Remember, the lesson was that Daddy Government won’t let you fail. Barring any federal regulations, there’s no reason for financial entities to not repeat the exact “mistakes” that caused the 2008 (2007) Great Recession. The lesson isn’t be
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I've heard anecdotally that Stryker is really bad about this ( throw it over the wall mentality) and I remember thinking when I heard that, how the fuck are employees of a company getting away with being assigned work and just reassig
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
We'll never know what actually happened, but I suspect they had to choose between me and an Indian guy and by throwing me ridiculous questions in the final interview, they had evidence to whoever (their boss, HR, me, the recruiter re
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I would challenge that by saying SO MANY "software engineers" are net-negative producers, be it offshore teams in Asia or Eastern Europe or U.S. citizens. Partially a result of coding bootcamps. The recent tech layoffs in ~2022 th
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
As time goes on I'm finding AWS on a resume less and less impressive, regardless of citizenship status. Lots of resumes where they were at AWS for 1 or 2 years, I guess they got stack-ranked out. It makes sense. Everyone knows AWS is a
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
If there is a correlation to company size or company popularity (e.g., FAANG) I would have actually thought it would be large companies/FAANG are hiring the low-quality H-1Bs. I usually work at medium sized companies (50-200 engineers
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I have a few app ideas that I've been sitting on for years and they would all be things that would help me, things that I would actually use.. But they're also things that I think others would find useful. I had Claude Code create
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
As with many systemic issues in the U.S., it boils down to "publicly traded company must have highest profit possible so line on chart goes up". As much as I dislike FAANG companies in general for all their anti-worker efforts, I
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
Actually it can and almost certainly is multiple things - not just that Indians prefer to work with other Indians (by the way this phenomenon isn't exclusive to Indians).
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I suspect this has happened to me at least once. I was a shoe-in, checked all of the boxes, recruiter was saying they really wanted me, and then for the final interview they brought in a mid level guy who asked me questions unrelated to the
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
This is a cool website and it highlights just how little data is out there regarding H-1B visas. There's some data on a government website but it's usually several years out of date if memory serves. It's basically impossib
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
The only consolation to computer parts skyrocketing in price is that when the house of cards comes tumbling down, I’ll be able to pick up a lot of 100 secondhand H100 GPUs for $100 and 64TB of DDR5 ECC RAM for $64.
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
Both WD and Seagate “refurbish” and resell used hard drives, and that process involves wiping the SMART data, basically resetting the odometer to 0. I bought a couple of refurbished Exos drives from eBay a year ago and they still work. But
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I’ll be surprised if I’m still doing this shit in 20 years. Assuming I can handle the job physically and mentally, I expect AI will soon enable third-world talent (Infosys and friends) to be virtually indistinguishable from domestic talent-
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by gymbeaux 8mo ago
I’m seeing more and more (re)CAPTCHAs as time goes on. It’s a shame because programmatic access to web content is very nice to have. There must have been a point, many moons ago now, when the internet had as much freely accessible data as i
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by gymbeaux 11mo ago
She's right about everything, but nothing is going to change. The elephant in the room is that the industry (made up of mostly men) sees a talk or blog post with this exact information every year or two, and chooses again and again to
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by gymbeaux 11mo ago
I fear this comment is too offensive for the loud minority to allow
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I’m obviously addressing the mods (perhaps facetiously). No, I didn’t break any rules (except for “fuck this place”)
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
But they entered their field with the union already established. Humans won’t fight for a damn thing.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
In my experience everyone thinks “we’ve got a good thing here, let’s not ruin it.” Indeed the bar is so low that even with all the bullshit in the tech industry, we seem to have it better than most- on salary alone. Throw in “full remote” (
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
You have to admit (in the U.S.) companies have significant power over the government.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Do you know how it compares to Dolphin for interacting with very large (100k+ files) directories? Dolphin is the only file manager I’ve found that keeps up with the large directories- GNOME (Nautilus) and Windows Explorer are dogshit slow,
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Man you can still get by with Photoshop CS3 as far as features go.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Back in those days it took 15 minutes for Windows to “finish” booting. You’d hit the desktop but the HDD was still going ham loading a dozen programs, each with their own splash screen to remind you of their existence.
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
Things poor people need that are still taxed: - Clothes - Shoes - Plumber/Electrician/Handyman - School supplies (though some states have tax holidays) - Gas/public transit - Car maintenance - Utility bills
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
He cares about it insofar as it’s a tool he can use and abuse to make money. Obviously he has no interest in or understanding of blockchains. When the stock market (and confidence in the U.S.) falls, people typically flock to gold and bonds
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by gymbeaux 1y ago
I’m always hazy on how exactly that works. I know some bills require a supermajority (66) and I know filibuster can block some bills with fewer votes than that… but it doesn’t always work, because the 2017 tax reform bill was passed. Also,

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