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by lokar 26d ago
I found that once you are paying mid to high 6 figures the company is not trying to save by hiring a foreigner.
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by lokar 26d ago
I doubt it. Most are limited by the economics. They just don’t make as much per employee as software.
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by lokar 26d ago
There is absolutely a ton of abuse. It actually hurts efforts to get the best people. They end up getting put in overseas offices.
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by lokar 26d ago
Another problem: different industries and roles natohace different pay ranges. If you decide on a single pay cutoff software engineers will starve everyone else out. And there are of course great, well paid people in other hard to hire ind
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by lokar 26d ago
The government can’t measure ability
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by lokar 26d ago
A simple stack rank and cut has the problem of where to draw the line. Also, how to value pre-ipo stock There are other good options as well (an auction, etc). They all have problems, but there are mitigations. It could be vastly improved
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by lokar 26d ago
Not my experience in big tech and HFT. We spent a ton of time and effort trying to find anyone to our standards, never able to find enough. H1B (and other work visas) were generally better and more Sr compared to locals we found. They got
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by lokar 26d ago
“My AI broke out of my vibe coded jail!”
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by lokar 27d ago
That makes you very out of step with most Americans. You choose to pick on the obese because it’s more socially acceptable, but also people with cancer, kidney disease, etc. Your position would be considered deeply immoral by most people (
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by lokar 28d ago
The Times reporters don't seem to concerned about being charged with a crime
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by lokar 28d ago
Yeah, I find the LGs to be really annoying. The Sony seems to be much better.
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by lokar 28d ago
I’ve had TVs that had important firmware updates that improved hdmi/atmos/etc compatibility
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by lokar 28d ago
My neighborhood has both cable and fiber, both >= 1Gbps, fairly cheap My neighbor has starlink. I assume because they are MAGA.
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by lokar 28d ago
Yeah, personal (desktop/laptop) vs production are totally different. The production workload should be well understood and stable.
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by lokar 28d ago
When we looked it was always tiny
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by lokar 28d ago
We looked at this a lot (it was a lot of money at our scale). A cgroup itself is just a few small data structures. And a reasonable process inside will only ever have a small amount of dirty memory it won’t ever use. Even then you can’t
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by lokar 28d ago
The oom killer is a monkey with a gun. It’s a last resort when you were going to crash (or worse, hang) anyway. You should have a much better “plan A” to avoid this situation.
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by lokar 28d ago
Read only pages (most of libraries and binaries) get “paged out” to the file they came from, not swap. (They obviously don’t page out, they are just discarded and read again when needed)
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by lokar 28d ago
It does not need it at all. I’ve run a million+ hosts with no swap. You need to be really disciplined about memory allocations (us cgroups) and ok with what happens if you run out (something in that cgroup dies). But there is no “houseke
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by lokar 29d ago
I think some people are confused and think this is a watermark or something
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by lokar 29d ago
You can publish a fully stripped image (as people do now for exif), and retain the original
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by lokar 29d ago
You can remove it all. If authenticity later becomes an issue you can produce the original.
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by lokar 29d ago
AIUI, they should never have gotten that far. They should have gone around at 1000 feet.
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by lokar 1mo ago
It’s the word I have always seen utilities use in the US.
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by lokar 1mo ago
A hope (fantasy?) I have is that fleet robo taxis will (as part of regulations) get standardized “black box” recorders that can be admitted as evidence. Both for incidents, but also general traffic enforcement.
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by lokar 1mo ago
YOU can’t , they can.
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by lokar 1mo ago
That’s odd. In my neighborhood probably 50% of houses have a 1/2 address in the back. We have had solicitors walk through our side yard convinced they are going to the 1/2 address (which we don’t have). Maps seems to show them al
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by lokar 1mo ago
MBAs, consultants and accountants have taken control of the company. All are in it to move up and cash out. They will optimize for profit and not much else. Loosing (or even defending) a defamation case is expensive. Spiking your review
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by lokar 1mo ago
Both jobs already need to be designed around some expectation for how often people need to use the restroom. If individual exceptions are not feasible, they design the job so that it works for everyone.
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by lokar 1mo ago
Number go up, I guess? A lot of people derive great satisfaction from ever larger (or sometimes smaller) number. But, uh, 8X is probably too much, need to spread that out over a few generations.

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