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by lolinder 2y ago
I have no doubt the real numbers are higher than they would have been 6 months ago, but keep in mind that they solicited responses in an article titled "These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States — do you? Take Nature’
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by lolinder 2y ago
It has a pretty bad reputation from an earlier era when it was actively providing bad information [0]. That's largely been resolved from what I understand, but the reputation lives on. People may also just find that they don't get
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Meanwhile the average on-call engineer at a large company has none of these freedoms. The underlying systems are chosen for them and they just have to deal with it. In most cases they have all of those freedoms, and the only barrier is
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by lolinder 2y ago
That's still shift work. It's still the company assuming that I'll be available during N specific hours of the workday in order to fix issues. Look at it this way: If I work a job where I'm expected to be on 9-5, 46 week
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by lolinder 2y ago
I see a difference between seeing them as valuable in their current state vs being "bullish about LLMs" in the stock market sense. The big problem with being bullish in the stock market sense is that OpenAI isn't selling the
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by lolinder 2y ago
But it's meaningless a signal for bad managers because basically everyone does on call in some form. That's what this whole discussion is about: how ubiquitous it is. The only job I worked that didn't have a formal on-call ro
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by lolinder 2y ago
But that's the problem with being in a bad company no matter what. If it weren't on call it would be something else that that manager would be making you suffer through. That doesn't mean on-call as a concept is terrible or t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Shift work sucks more than on call for me. I like having a flexible schedule that I can work whenever I want, and I'll happily take the remote risk that I'll get paged during my one week per quarter on call rotation in order to gu
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by lolinder 2y ago
> And you also get directly rewarded for being there. ... Contrast that with being 'on call' for your megacorporation, who isn't giving you anything extra for your on call time because they 'already pay you enough&#x2
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not contrasting voice with text, I'm contrasting chat with voice and with most other forms of text.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Text != Chat. Chat is an abbreviated form of text that isn't particularly great for most purposes even among literate people.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Chat is a terrible primary interface for working with people, too. It's fine for cursory stuff, but it doesn't suffice for anything that requires high information throughput. You can use it to follow up on a conversation that you
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by lolinder 2y ago
That's why people have been using paragraphs to clarify what they mean. Paragraphs that you seem to have ignored in favor of critiquing the utility that specific words have when taken out of the context the author intentionally put the
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Edit (rather than reply and make the comment chain long): Sorry to go meta here, but this is just rude, both to OP and to other readers. For OP, you're effectively pre-empting what they say with your own counterargument, and even
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by lolinder 2y ago
"Prodigy" and "genius" both lack rigorous definitions, so your problem might simply be one of cherry picking. Going with my own gut on each definition, here are a few examples to add to those already provided by sibling
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not sure why you're critiquing my definition, given that I'm trying to emphasize that your specific Chicago suburb very much does meet the typical way that people think of suburbs. So yes, I agree with Google: Chicago&#x2
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by lolinder 2y ago
But you know what suburbs typically do have? Pleasant areas to walk in . I walk my dog and meet neighbors who are sitting outside their houses. I also sit outside my house and meet neighbors who are out walking their dogs or just out for
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by lolinder 2y ago
Right. I'm not at all sure why some people on here think "suburb" is only meant to refer to a very specific type of housing development, rather than a description of a location's spatial and cultural relationship to &quo
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by lolinder 2y ago
So you were agreeing with OP's comment, not disagreeing? > Nobody I know would call that street the city. In my mind, "the city" is, minimally, houses that are a few feet apart, small yard in back/front, pretty much n
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Painless package management is a good thing. Central package repositories without any checking isn't. There's a reason why these things come hand in hand, though. If the package management is so painless that everyone is crea
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by lolinder 2y ago
My complaint with presidential nominees having extensive power is that it moves too much policy to hinge on a single, nationwide election. As we've seen, that can lead to extreme instability versus congressional legislation.
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by lolinder 2y ago
The legal question is identified in the original reporting on the lower court's ruling: > Oldham said the USF funding method unconstitutionally delegates congressional taxing authority to the FCC and a private entity tapped by the a
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by lolinder 2y ago
They're pretty clearly not using "the city" to refer to city but instead to a certain density threshold, so pointing out that city limits are arbitrary doesn't really help anything.
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by lolinder 2y ago
A suburb is outside of the city in low density housing, typically not within walking distance of anything. That reveals plenty for a lot of purposes, and if you want to critique something more specific than that you should use a word that p
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by lolinder 2y ago
No, I'm not, because I'm not saying that what you are identifying as a suburb isn't a suburb, I'm saying it's not representative of all suburbs. I provide a perfectly valid definition: > You're far enough th
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by lolinder 2y ago
> but when people say that they usually mean "areas that follow a post-war suburban style of development". Think culdesacs and no sidewalks. Define people? When most people I know say suburb they mean this: You're far enou
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by lolinder 2y ago
Apparently there's some idea that suburbs by definition don't have sidewalks and have half acre lots with oversized McMansions. If that's your definition of suburb, I take it back: I've never lived in a suburb. But I als
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by lolinder 2y ago
And just as true: being a city does not by itself make for good communities. Residents need to want to make that happen—as in this story in TFA. If they don't want it, most cities are just as poorly designed for more-than-cursory spo
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by lolinder 2y ago
The existence and phrasing of this post implies that the author doesn't trust the atop developers to fix anything in a timely manner if at all.
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by lolinder 2y ago
It might be covered under an NDA with some company that she's contracting with if she/they discovered the vulnerability in the course of their work.

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