jselysianeagle

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by jselysianeagle 28d ago
> if you own a warehouse and you replace 6 warehouse workers making $80,000 a year with a fleet of robots and 1 technician earning $200,000 a year, automation has minted a very comfortable living for someone while dropping your labor cos
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by jselysianeagle 1mo ago
> The only good news here is that we'll probably only have to worry about getting by for a decade max. What’s goin to happen after a decade?
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by jselysianeagle 2mo ago
> Like what other profession markets themselves as "Hey, our job is so easy that any schmuck off the street can enter the career with 4 months of training." For one, the industry never did professionalize to begin with, certain
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by jselysianeagle 2mo ago
> More people that are not devs, are using AI to create things, and are skilling up to a mediocre level? What skills are being developed by non-devs prompting AI to churn out code they don't understand? Note that I'm not debati
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by jselysianeagle 2mo ago
> When these are found, very often one class of people is put out of work while another class of people gains employment. I think what's contributing to the sense of dread is that so far at least, it's not at all clear that AI
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by jselysianeagle 2mo ago
But getting an answer is not the same thing as understanding why that is the correct answer, or going deeper and learning more about the subject. IMHO, the people who genuinely desire to learn will trudge through whatever they need to in or
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by jselysianeagle 5mo ago
Honestly in a high COL city in the US, having 4-5 kids would be doable on $300k TC but it wouldn't be easy to give them more than a middle class lifestyle at best. Elsewhere in the US in smaller towns, I could see it being much more fe
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by jselysianeagle 6mo ago
> But this constant chaos, fear and looking at job offers can't be good for morale. Definitely makes it harder to make long term plans/commitments. It was tolerable at least when the market was decent, ie, if you were reasonabl
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by jselysianeagle 6mo ago
> Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening. > What's going to happen will happen. Username checks out.
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by jselysianeagle 6mo ago
If you don't mind sharing, what did you pivot to? Glad you found a path you're happy with!
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by jselysianeagle 6mo ago
Where is this "mountain of evidence" that an attack from Iran was imminent?
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by jselysianeagle 8mo ago
> GLP-1s How do GLP-1s indicate a casino economy?
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by jselysianeagle 9mo ago
I think by "reward" in the context of this discussion on loneliness, OP may have meant the opportunity to meet people, make friends, perhaps hit it off with someone and land a date, if you're single. Not that it's entire
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by jselysianeagle 9mo ago
Hmm I think this depends alot on the individual and their particular life situation though. I've done a ton of travel solo over the years and the vast majority of the time it was really fun.
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by jselysianeagle 10mo ago
> unless you're already in your 40s or 50s, you're going to see the bottom fall out of that sector mid-career. Can you elaborate? What's going to happen to the healthcare system?
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by jselysianeagle 1y ago
Docker re-uses layers as needed and can detect when a new layer needs to be added. It's not like images grow in size without bound each time something is changed in the Dockerfile.
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by jselysianeagle 1y ago
I'm not sure what the complication here is. If application code changes, or some dependency changes, you build a new docker image as needed, possibly with an updated Dockerfile as well if that's required. The Dockerfile is part of
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by jselysianeagle 1y ago
Isn't this problem usually solved by building an actual image for your specific application, tagging that and pushing to some docker repo? At least that's how it's been at placec I've worked at that used docker. What am
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by jselysianeagle 1y ago
Product discovery is one facet of it, certainly. It’s also about pursuading people to buy a product / service they don’t really need, creating demand where none (or not as much) existed previously, of convincing people that their produ
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by jselysianeagle 2y ago
> American higher education is expensive, because you chose to defund public universities. And because you have an unhealthy obsession with rankings and top universities. Those are the things you need to change more than education itself
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
> Tactically switching industries midway through my career led me to significantly higher comp longer term (several multiples). Out of curiosity, which industry did you switch from (and to)?
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
"petit bourgeoisie" used to mean "lower middle class".
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
People who interview at these companies report on their interview experience. It's true, these leetcode style questions do get asked and not just by the FAANG companies but lots of much smaller, no-name companies as well. Yes, you can
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help candidates pass interviews using tricks (cheat
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
> In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professionals. This skills crisis has resulted in an astonishing 1 million tech job vacancies that still need to be fulfilled. Reports suggest that the numb
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
> The best reason to be ambitious is the realization that the people above you are just as flawed as you are. Can I steal this? It's so on-point and I've seen it many, many times throughout the course of my career. There's
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
So from what I've seen and learned, there's definitely a difference between being truly smart/visionary/creative etc vs just being "not dumb". And while I suppose the latter could also be deemed a kind of compe
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
The Github repo shows some commits being made as recently as 4 months ago: https://github.com/pydoit/doit
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by jselysianeagle 3y ago
> The market is still incredibly strong for SV caliber devs Perhaps if you're comparing it to other industries, but compared to tech's own (recent) past, it's most definitely not "incredibly strong". Not trying

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