karlkatzke

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by karlkatzke 6y ago
One of my coworkers met a guy on the bus the other morning who had been imprisoned in the mid 90s and was just released. (Assault charge plus drugs.) He hadn’t seen a smart phone in person yet and was astounded that you could look up bus sc
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Oh, I’m not looking for why I was laid off. I’m looking at the experiences of many Americans, and many other people worldwide. This recession is going to hurt, and some companies are going to have to borrow so much more than they can pay ba
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
In March, my wife had hers cut 10% and I was laid off. (She works for a major top-ten multinational engineering firm, and I worked for a major travel industry company in tech.) Everyone in her company above her took a 20% pay cut. These wer
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Wikimedia was also one of the worst interviews I've ever had, but it wasn't a video interview. They sent me a take-home "test" that needed to sort some files into different folders based on the file contents and said it
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
No, the toll roads are pretty undeveloped but they’re a fast way to get places because they’re also lightly traveled except for people that absolutely have to and can afford to. The thing is, there’s really nothing along them except more su
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
To add to the information in this story (because I live in the neighborhood), there aren’t a ton of hotel options nearby, and all of the hotel options nearby are along the non-toll road freeways and all require a drive or ride share.
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
The machinery require maintenance and software contracts from the suppliers. The raw inputs require delivery contracts from the suppliers and is currently also in short supply. He can’t get his same preferential pricing outside of his suppl
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
Depends. What contracts will he have to take on to meet that? I think that’s his complaint. He can’t get what he needs on the spot market most of the time, he has to sign a supply contract and machinery maintenance contracts and everything
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
Yes, but renamed to Vrbo and then my team was merged into Expedia Group but not re-tasked. The last six months before I was cut was an incredibly confusing time because we couldn’t even figure out how we were supposed to sign emails.
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
Yes, I was part of the massive Expedia Group lay-off last month. I’m finding out that a lot of the managers I reported to are becoming individual contributors again as they wind up the department. I’m a DevOps/Linux Systems Engineer&#x
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
The US does have the ability to set up large quarantine hospitals on the fly, but they are in tents. These are the same type of military tents that were/are used for migrant internment on the border. I'm struggling to find a name
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
> Sometimes the "panic" is the correct reaction. Panic is almost never the correct reaction. Deciding that there's going to be a downturn and you should prepare yourself for it financially is one thing, but under what circ
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
The cashier can’t see the camera. The camera is watched by object recognition software that can talk to the point of sale. If object recognition algorithms develop the ability to be aroused by human underwear, we have -other- problems.
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
I’m an operations engineer with experience in the cloud in AWS and on-prem. I have experience with compliance work like SOC, SOX, TAC, HIPAA and PCI. Most of my roles have been building and maintaining core platform and network services, e
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
But the government is the main customer of Clearview AI, so why would the government remove it’s own access to a tool?
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
So I had an interview that was like that, but I wasn’t given enough information. I was asked to implement the “inverse square law in code” ... and I explained to the interviewer who was two years out of college (I looked up all of the inter
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by karlkatzke 7y ago
"If it's boeing I ain't going"
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
The problem is that a lot of these guys are getting shunted from 'real' flying into drone piloting. They get front row seats to pushing a button and killing someone impersonally thousands of miles away, and they're managed li
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Libertarians are totally right ... when they only consider certain variables that are favorable to their arguments. When you combine "wages are lower for women" with "the free market," you get "businesses will insis
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
I mean, it's great when you're trying to blow a bubble with VC money and then pump and dump anything your shotgun-oriented monkeys-with-typewriters approach managed to create. There's entire companies in the US that are based
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
As someone who's done a bunch of human factors design training for critical situations in a previous career as a UI/UX designer and now works as a systems engineer doing a bunch of alerting, 40 seconds is too short of a time to tr
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
The current generation of executives seem to be willing to gamble in this way. They know that as long as they have money, they won't see much (if any) prison and the chances of even getting to a trial will be minimal. I don't thin
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
I don't think they're being realistic about what the world is going to be like any time soon. While the 5th generation cellular protocols will be great for data in cities, it will still leave people in rural areas behind on 4th or
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what major companies I've worked for will do with summer interns.
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Takata airbags, Ford Explorer tires, GM Cobalt ignitions...
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Bullshit. Anyone who deals with or tries to deal with the FAA will tell you they deal with all kinds of unsupported assumptions. For instance, medical certificates are denied all the time for people who admit to having taken an ADHD drug wh
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
I should answer yes, that I miss real books. My first job was as a library page. It was natural; I had been reading thick paperbacks since I was 8 or so. In Pennsylvania I needed to check those out under my parents' library cards, beca
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Self reply to realize that I shouldn’t lecture my grandma on how to suck eggs.
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
No. That’s entirely not the way it works. Chaos Engineering works in companies with significant scale and sufficient maturity, and the purpose is to discover design or implementation failures in distributed systems before they happen during
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by karlkatzke 8y ago
Yeah... the fuel in many GA aircraft is usually inside of a relatively thin rubber bladder inside the wing. It does not self seal. If it leaks, it’s going to run down the back of the aircraft and may drain into the cabin. In some aircraft w

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