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by lisbbb 1y ago
If your manager is from India and you are not, you don't have a prayer. I liken my career to having a tiger by the tail. Also use the "knife fight" analogy.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
In the 90s, pretty much all the Math, Physics, EE, etc guys and gals all become software developers or generally worked in IT. There were no jobs in those other areas. Well, Intel was hiring CEs for awhile there. Now there are no dev job
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Looking back, I wish it never had been necessary to memorize all those design patterns just to get work done! All OOP has been is a huge distraction and mostly bs. This is me looking back across 30 years of work, so don't just downvo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Is this the Greg Newby that worked at UNC in the late 90s? If so, I worked closely with him as a student and fellow traveler.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
That's a great question. I never worked on any cool NASA stuff which would involve large scale number crunching. In the corpo space, that's not been my experience at all. We were trying to solve big data problems of like, how t
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Wow (Owen Wilson voice). That's still impressive that it can be done. Just having 4k cpus going reliably for any period of time is pretty nifty. The problem I have run into is that even big companies say they want this kind of compu
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This case happened in the county I reside in and my sister-in-law is an attorney for the county in CP, although this was not her case directly. I can tell you what led to this: The COVID lockdowns! They stopped doing all the usual home vi
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by lisbbb 1y ago
It's a system that was sold to a legally risk-averse school district or city or whatever. It's sales job and the non-technical people buy it because they aren't equipped to even ask the right questions about it. They create
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Because if the "gun threat" system isn't accurate, then it's a system for false positives and false negatives and it's actually worse than having no such system. Maybe that's what you meant?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Actually, if a system has too many false positives or false negatives, it's basically useless. There will eventually be doubts amongst the operators of it and the whole thing will implode, which is the best possible outcome. We alrea
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Except they never say that.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This discussion makes me so happy because people still care about programming languages and not just on stupid Java or whatever is making gobs of money. LISP should have a much larger following than it does, though I fully admit it has its
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Vanguard won't allow clients to even buy anything crypto related in their accounts. That should tell you something right there. If it's so great, why isn't one of the leading wealth management brokers on board? I once worke
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by lisbbb 1y ago
No semen?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Around 2018, my accountant retired and sold his business to some other firm. That year, the other firm had some newbie cpa do my taxes. If I had blindly gone with his effort, I would have had to pay thousands of dollars. The problem is,
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I've set up half a dozen different home labs over the years but never used anywhere near the compute or disk capacity I had. It was more about learning things, I guess. I laughed when he mentioned the number of cores he has available.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I loved the assertion that AI ate up all the budget and that K8s is now "boring" technology. That's fine because it was getting pretty annoying with all the clone competitors for practically everything that were popping up e
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I recall reading an article sometime around 1999 that mentioned a ban on holes being drilled between floors in the towers for running network wiring because they were beginning to worry about structural integrity. That article was disappea
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The 1970s weren't exactly a prosperous time period. The total end of the gold standard marked the real decline. China's rise wasn't "inevitable" it was underwritten when Nixon went to China and they subsequently go
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by lisbbb 1y ago
A lot of public works projects and big construction projects were taking place during those years because the economy was not doing well. They were "jobs programs" I guess you could say.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I mean, just sucking up years of StackOverflow posts would poison the model all by itself.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
One perfect example of why cars cost so much more these days. It was totally unnecessary, too.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Why is it terrifying? Either the human race will devise a solution or we won't. I figure 2 billion fewer humans would probably help things, but then who gets to pick which 2 billion?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
You can't look at California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts--states who have these very long-term Democrat majorities, and tell me we have a representative anything! Those places will like
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by lisbbb 1y ago
That was a bold statement that the children on here will no doubt downvote into oblivion as will mine. I'm tired of having this same argument over and over--just having the ability to vote for draconian shit doesn't mean you get
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by lisbbb 1y ago
But he was already a billionaire before he was elected...
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Yes, learn to recognize a hit piece readers, sheesh. BYD likely has government subsidy and next to no regulations, particularly on the production side. It's easy to make money when you dump waste into rivers, just like how the US onc
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The US didn't have electric vehicle protectionism until relatively recently? Not more than any other type of vehicles. The NHTSA and crash testing standards limit what cars can come to our shores, often to our detriment. Americans a
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Yeah, I got the reference, but it was bullcrap then and it's still bullcrap now, too.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Retirement sucks, tbh. The lack of well-defined purpose is awful.

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