jcadam

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   by jcadam 4y ago

   Bring back the public mental hospitals.
2. 362.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   Thanks. Hadn't seen the launch schedule. Starlink keeps saying "2022" for service in my area (I made a deposit over a year ago). I'm on the Kenai Peninsula, so not too far North. I'm currently on a wide area w
3. 363.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   Still waiting for SL at my cabin in Alaska, Elon.
4. 364.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   Quick, somebody check for more liberties we can sacrifice to get us through monkeypox. Surely there's something left after COVID.
5. 365.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   Lockdowns by November....
6. 366.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   This brings up a good point. If the goal is to understand the underlying concepts, it's quite possible Octave is a better tool. Matrix math is fairly clunky in any mainstream programming language.
7. 367.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   When I worked on the GPS III program back in the day, my job largely consisted of translating scientists' Matlab script into Ada.
8. 368.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   I took it when it was still in Matlab :) Haven't used Matlab since.
9. 369.▲
   by jcadam 4y ago

   My level of engagement is directly proportional to the pay.
10. 370.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    $200K with 15 YOE - I think that's pretty typical. I know people with even more experience who make less. Recruiters I talk to balk when I ask for $250K.
11. 371.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    Were you around in 2008?
12. 372.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    But you're not going to get paid SV salaries working remotely (yes, I work remotely because living in CA is not appealing to me).
13. 373.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    15 years in. Stuck at 200K, and I doubt that's going to go up much because the layoffs have started and we're heading back into "lucky to have a job" territory.
14. 374.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    It's not what you make, it's what you keep. That 300K+ in SV comes coupled to an extreme cost of living. :)
15. 375.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    > And absent maybe a once-in-a-century depression Which is starting now - it's been almost 100 years since the last one.
16. 376.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    I'm at 2.8x and no sir, I don't like it. At least I got 2.75% on my mortgage. Though I have a feeling we're heading back to 2008ish levels of job insecurity so maybe I'll end up homeless after all.
17. 377.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    Communist regimes well past that period were quite willing to sacrifice large numbers of people in the name of "progress." But those losses are large enough to be regarded as statistics rather than tragedies...
18. 378.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    There are ways to address that. For example - exempting certain things like staple food items.
19. 379.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    If you could replace income tax with a national sales tax, I'd be all for it. The problem is, everyone knows any consumption based taxes will be in addition to the current taxes on productivity (e.g., income tax). In any case, what th
20. 380.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    Up here in Alaska I take 10,000 IU a day of Vitamin D. Doctors up here (at least the good ones) push it.
21. 381.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    Keycloak is great if you need an SSO solution. We had a large number of small in-house applications at my previous job and managing logins was becoming a pain. At my current job we use Okta. While the documentation is better, I don't
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    by jcadam 4y ago

    Oh that stuff is funny, but after getting my first "real" job after leaving the military, I actually found it difficult to determine if my boss was happy with the work I was doing. In the military, you usually have several people
23. 383.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    Well, they can't just give her the title of "Director of Internecine Information Warfare" now can they?
24. 384.▲
    by jcadam 4y ago

    She's being rewarded for being a team player and towing the party line.
25. 385.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    We'll see how many employees leave. Might be some good job openings soon...
26. 386.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    Thanks for this link. I live on the Kenai Peninsula :)
27. 387.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    I'm in a fairly rural area in Alaska. I work remotely and I'm unaware of any other tech workers around here. Which suits me just fine :)
28. 388.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    Hopefully LibreOffice doesn't adopt this sort of thing.
29. 389.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    My Ryzen 9 is just a bit more performant than the MOS6502 my Apple ][ was rocking back in the 80s. Ok... it also has things like a built-in FPU, multiple cores, cache, pipelining, branch prediction, more address space, more registers, and m
30. 390.▲
    by jcadam 5y ago

    Used to maintain my emacs.d in github. These days, I just use spacemacs because I'm getting lazy.