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by kcplate 2y ago
> Easy to say when you have one having been in industry for 20+ years More like 10+. That is the network sweet spot. At 20+ your network is starting to gray out and mostly useless unless you have someone who has risen up to VP ranks
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yeah I am probably the perfect customer for it. It ticks all the boxes I need and I don’t mind the subscriptions. I also don’t get hung up on the whole “What ‘pro’ should mean” debate. I bought a new 11 pro M4 mainly for the screen and it
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by kcplate 2y ago
I am an avid iPad Pro user (on #3) but it took me making a concerted effort to unlearn over three decades of my understanding of what a computer is to me, my old standby app favorites, and to be willing to force myself to use the new instea
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by kcplate 2y ago
I know from my own experience that us folks in the US tend towards a lot of idioms in our communication and these can be a struggle to effectively translate. Most translation software translates literally instead of figuratively. I found m
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by kcplate 2y ago
That’s what I use. Too easy and compatible with phone, tablet, Mac and is shortcut-able. I tried that journaling app but short of the writing suggestions based off calendar or photos, which is kind of clever, it’s the wrong form factor for
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by kcplate 2y ago
I prefer steak, but will eat chicken if that is what is available. I prefer gin, but will drink vodka when that is what is available. I prefer to fly first class, but economics often force me into economy. A preference does not equal
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by kcplate 2y ago
Well in the movies they were successful…
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by kcplate 2y ago
Doesn’t matter if someone will accept it and work in the office. That’s what the value the job is worth to both the employer and the employee.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I am quite convinced that you probably started your career around or near to 2020, you seem to have a real naïveté around what is actually important to a company and how they calculate value. Especially a company that puts real value on in
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by kcplate 2y ago
You are so fixated on costs that literally do not matter to an organization that can fill an in office job at the rate they want to pay.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> They have to compensate you for the relative difference in value between working for them and working for someone else. No. They only have to offer enough compensation and benefits to attract enough people into the roles they need fill
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by kcplate 2y ago
Honestly, you have a really strange way of looking at all this in my opinion. You seem to believe that your employer should compensate you not just for the time you are working for them, but also the time you are not. At no point in my li
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by kcplate 2y ago
> If execs really want RTO then people will quit and they'll have to hire new people There have been 550k tech layoffs in the last 2 years. Pretty sure there are quite a few folks ready and willing to do a commute to work in an off
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by kcplate 2y ago
> This doesn't mean they have different expenses. They are still general living expenses. Those don’t go away based on employment or not, at home or not. They could decrease/increase some, but you can’t assume the whole amou
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by kcplate 2y ago
I think your reasoning is flawed because there is no fixed RTO cost to every employees commute and physical location (which I am assuming you mean by their expenses). You could have 2 employees doing the same job, but one (Joe) has a 5 minu
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I did exactly what this exec advocated - using hard data and statistics to paint a picture of what these mandates look like from a worker perspective - and was roundly shot down. Of course they did. If you want to convince a company d
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by kcplate 2y ago
Sorry, I think my sentence was not very clear there. Finland always seemed to be very sensible when it came to its country’s security. I realize “Finlandization” may have had a negative context but during that time Finland made sure it was
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by kcplate 2y ago
> People broadly like americans and american culture And from your own link to that survey where the US was #1 threat to world peace, the US was still one of the top places where the respondents wanted to live.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I think it’s pretty likely that he is smart enough to try and use “madman theory” to gain his advantage. Whether that plays out to be a good strategy in the long term remains to be seen. However, in the past it has worked to a degree when
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yeah, because any one of those 11 CSGs that scare the living shit out of pretty much everyone who opposes the US are nearby are very weak.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Pathetic is to have an authoritarian superpower on the same continent as you for 80 years and still opting to rely on a superpower an ocean away to be the primary defender of your interests. Some of the countries in Europe to take a cue fro
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by kcplate 2y ago
> doesn't make you strong, it makes you weak. Not really sure I care if the neighbors across the water think we look weak just because we don’t want to defend them because they don’t want to be strong . And bear in mind that doesn’
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by kcplate 2y ago
Yes, the obvious goal here is to invalidate everyone’s US citizenship.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Now just need to wait for the James Hoffman video to tell me how irritating he finds it and how awful the coffee it roasts is.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> If whoever was in charge started pulling shit like this, I would quit immediately and start working for the competition. You might think twice on that if the mega corp had the legal authority to arrest you and put you to death for goin
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by kcplate 2y ago
So you are comment history mining on me? Wow…that is some creepy as fuck behavior.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> There are engineers convinced that they are smarter than everyone else but that isn't what is happening in this vignette at all. It’s the underlying cause though. According to what was written, Jerry made an assumption without an
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Where are you getting this is the purpose… Straight from the horse’s mouth: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1893657900851278115 > which one of his delegates… Does it matter? Apparently the email was officia
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by kcplate 2y ago
Maybe it’s propaganda or maybe not. It’s a belief that has been made public by the people doing this so I imagine that its validity will be evident soon enough. However, it doesn’t matter if there is a better way to test this belief…this is
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by kcplate 2y ago
> for what purpose… There is a belief that many in government are not even checking their communications. It’s designed to help identify those folks who are not doing their job. My guess is that now with enough news coverage, those fol

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