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by jurassic 4y ago
It’s not a great situation. What we’re seeing is that the fed can’t raise rates to fight inflation without further eroding the balance sheet of big institutions holding large amounts of low yield bonds. So they’re kinda stuck. Hello stagfla
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by jurassic 4y ago
This resonates. It's a numbers game right now even with experience and referrals. Right now you need like 12-16 referrals, to get 8 recruiter conversations, to get 6 interviews, to get 1-2 offers (if you interview well). These numbers
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by jurassic 4y ago
Anecdote: I have 9 years of solid tech experience and applied to ~20 open roles last month. So far I have only heard back from 1 of those recruiters. Companies that are hiring right now are filling roles primarily through employee referral,
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by jurassic 4y ago
I feel like “thing broken, status page green” has almost become a meme at this point. We need to do better here.
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by jurassic 4y ago
A lot of car seats probably wouldn't even fit into a standard airline seat these days. It would also slow down the boarding process. For that reason I think this change is unlikely to ever happen.
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by jurassic 4y ago
No, there are not. Everything in the economy is connected and you can't have a vibrant industry without customers. The customers of hospitality/entertainment/healthcare/etc businesses are largely the middle class who wil
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by jurassic 4y ago
Maybe this is alarmist, but I don't see how LLMs don't collapse our entire economic system over the next decade or so. This is coming for all of us, not just the NLP experts in big company research groups. Being able to cheaply&#x
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by jurassic 4y ago
Tech has definitely lost some of its shine, but I wonder if we’re assigning too much weight to the opinions of a relatively small number of loud mouth bullies on Twitter.
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by jurassic 4y ago
Can you explain the difference between bills and bonds and why the difference was significant in this case? For myself and probably a lot of engineers reading this comment, it seems like inside baseball.
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by jurassic 4y ago
SVB shareholders have been wiped out in this, and the prospect of that fate should motivate banks to try to avoid a similar outcome for their institutions going forward.
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by jurassic 4y ago
> It's impossible to move on. There was insufficient funds to pay depositors; meaning, the money was gone - Since the money didn't vanish into thin air; somebody got that money through some scheme. There was no theft. The bank
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by jurassic 4y ago
I haven’t heard anything about high rates being the primary thing drawing people to SVB. The trap seems to have been giving startups access to credit that other banks would not provide, but only if you agree to do all your banking with SVB.
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by jurassic 4y ago
It's like night and day from a year ago. I've known some very high quality people who had to do 8 onsites to get one offer (and obviously a lot more applications, recruiter calls, and tech screens to get those opportunities). Ther
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by jurassic 4y ago
I’ve come to prefer cheap sketchbooks with the spiral binding across the top for my note-taking. Or sometimes a Rhodia wirebound notebook with dot grid paper if I’m feeling fancy. These are both similar to a legal pad as I can have it open
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by jurassic 4y ago
Things like shopping on Alexa are downstream of Amazon’s quality/counterfeit problems. I can never say something like “Alexa, buy triple A batteries” because I can’t be confident of receiving authentic product at a fair price.
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by jurassic 4y ago
Eventually they can downsize, but corporate leases are usually signed for very long terms because of all the investment in “building out” the space to meet a company’s customized needs. You can’t just snap your fingers and walk away from th
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by jurassic 4y ago
I’m never sympathetic toward billionaires that don’t pay their bills.
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by jurassic 4y ago
Decay is not a binary thing. It happens gradually. One data point: I saw reporting that the rate of significant outages through February of this year is almost 5x what it was last year.
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by jurassic 4y ago
Revenue down 40% in Decemeber. Extrapolate that to an entire quarter (last year Q4 was 1.57B) means 942M of quarterly revenue. Out of that, he needs to pay something like 1.25B/4=312.5M (maybe more? Seems like some of the debt is varia
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by jurassic 4y ago
The pendulum is swinging back because equity language censors took this way way too far. People-first language ("enslaved people" not "slaves") makes complete sense to me, but making a big fuss about how common English i
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by jurassic 4y ago
Exactly. Continuous learning is the job.
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by jurassic 4y ago
> …it fills me with dread. > Because maybe I’ll still be fine and alive and kicking by then—but all those bright-eyed eager newcomers getting churned out of code schools knowing only React? > Those jobs will be gone. I find this fa
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by jurassic 4y ago
I didn't need any more reasons to avoid working at Amazon. Their work culture is famously toxic and their way of back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace. But this kind o
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by jurassic 4y ago
Good luck to Temple operating without the grad student labor. They are the backbone of all major universities.
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by jurassic 4y ago
People choose suicide when their pain exceeds their resources for coping with pain. I think if I lived my entire existence on a desert island, I’d still have no trouble coming up with the idea to suicide if I was sufficiently miserable.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I think it is worth probably talking with a mental health professional about your experience. Even if you feel normal, you may not be the best person to judge whether you are actually behaving normally now or not. It is good to arm yourself
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by jurassic 4y ago
Doubtful. Ad revenue is wayyyyyy down due to the impersonation/brand safety crisis Elon triggered with his erratic product moves. Letting any jokester with $8 impersonate global brands erased hundreds of millions in revenue per quarter
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by jurassic 4y ago
> Tape Gateway stores virtual tapes in Amazon S3, Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, protected by 99.999999999% of durability. That’s a lot of 9s.
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by jurassic 4y ago
I don't think Democrats are worried about losing control of California any time soon, it's basically a one party rule situation. The political divide is primarily rural parts of the state vs everyone else. The entire Bay Area, inc
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by jurassic 4y ago
I've been using it full-time for about two months now. On balance I've found CoPilot useful and plan to keep the paid subscription beyond the trial. But one thing I've noticed is that it's easy to get lazy and let it gen

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