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by lisbbb 1y ago
Orbstack if you have a Mac.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The Boomers are largely gone now from tech. One former manager of mine was 65 when I left, she retired a year later at 66, gone. Unfortunately, most of the roles those people held were not back-filled. The roles vanished, too. Anecdata:
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Remote is career suicide anyways.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I was talking about zirp in another thread and got downvoted. But yes, companies were taking out low/zero interest loans and hiring people in hopes of making 1-2% on it, which worked for awhile. It doesn't work at 4-5%, though.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Most rewards systems have brutally diluted their points, same as airline "miles."
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by lisbbb 1y ago
But Japanese people largely still use cash, don't they?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The main problem I have with cash is that we don't have denominations large enough to buy much these days thanks to inflation. The $100 is the new $20, but ATMs won't serve $100s. I buy gas for my car, it's at least $35 rig
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I don't think that word salad really means anything. People fall for complex lies all the time. We just experienced it with 'public health experts' who had never done a single cost vs. benefit analysis in the real world nea
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Governments always want an excuse to terrify people and inflate the money supply so they can continue to grind us all down.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Totally unwarranted--you allowed Biden to be US President and he was mentally impaired the ENTIRE TIME and you were just fine with that, probably. So get over it! I had to. The absurdity of modern life is unbelievable.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
How can I be "greatly mistaken" about something I worked with for over 20 years? It's people like you with that attitude that only you know things that has bugged me about being in this field for all this time. You're
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Obama had every opportunity to change the tune when he came into office but he doubled down on bailouts instead, so it's a kind of not that important who signed what.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Congress doesn't do it's job. If Congress had to deal with tariffs they wouldn't bother. That's why we're headed towards a dictatorship.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I went in a Barnes & Noble recently and was underwhelmed by the sheer amount of vapid crap masquerading as literature these days. I'm pretty sure if people are avoiding most of that crap that it's a good thing not a bad thing
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Now do H1Bs and offshoring.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The handwringing over Trump continues and is completely unwarranted. Obama bailed out the entire banking industry to horrifying moral hazard. The US is bailing out Intel for national security reasons and taking a 10% stake is a better dea
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My daughter is an art major in college, I think she could find interesting uses for this tool. She's very much interested in how products are packaged.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I spent untold hours and years mastering inversion of control and late-binding and all those design patterns that were SOOOOO important for interviews only to never really utilize all that stuff because once the apps were built, they rarely
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My criticism of the JVM is that it is no longer useful because we don't do portability using that mechanism anymore. We build applications that run in containers and can be compiled in the exact type of environment they are going to r
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I haven't use Go since 2024, but I was going to say something similar--seems like I was pretty happy doing all my Functional style coding in Go. The problem for me was the client didn't want us to use it. We were given the choic
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I have only used Kotlin on the JVM. You're saying there's a way to avoid the JVM and build binaries with it? Gotta go look that up. The problem with Kotlin is not the language but finding jobs using it can be spotty. "Kot
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by lisbbb 1y ago
But it's not--Go is a thoroughly modern language, minus a few things as noted in this discussion. But it's very and I've written quite a few APIs for corporate clients using it and they are doing great.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This is a facile approach to making an argument against US Healthcare--far too simplistic, imho. There are plenty of nations with socialism/communism where healthcare is either non-existent or impossible to get because of rationing.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I disagree. I think if we stop using oil and gas, we fall into a new dark ages pretty fast and half or more of all humans will die. Is that what you intend?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
There isn't going to be a time when humans don't use oil anymore until there is literally zero oil left on the planet.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
It will always be up for debate, though. That's the thing--unless you are an absolutist, you will understand that scientific inquiry is a never-ending process and that all the "it's settled science" people don't se
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The Salmon should stop being cannibals.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Now do Christians in the Middle East--they have been practically exterminated out of existence everywhere.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I think you just explained why my software engineering career was always so disappointing. I was not getting my "product" to the right eyeballs. I also think maybe I just wasn't cut out for the work in certain ways. I&#x27
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The whole Internet is like this now--it's a victim of its own success. "Dead Internet Theory" is correct, I believe. There must be some kind of sociological term for what happens with popular websites that become victims of

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