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by noirbot 4y ago
Because people are only allowed to be their job? How is the fact that they also have other passions outside of their job mean they must have been a terrible employee. If I had a major fuckup at my job and then someone dug up how my job talk
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by noirbot 4y ago
It's also frustrating even if it does matter. I was applying for a job where they informed me I may need to provide references, and I was having a hard time trying to come up with people I wasn't currently working with, who could
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, I was just told by an AWS employee that they're desperately trying to hire as many people as they can still. Those companies are massive. The layoffs and divisions with hiring freezes don't seem to even make up a tenth of the
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, this is an interesting thing. I see plenty of smaller companies still doing the shady stuff that FAANG does and then trying to offer 50% the salary. I'd maybe take that if I was trading money for feeling like I was doing something
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by noirbot 4y ago
Seriously, this feels like reading leftist madlibs. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but half of the words in that specific order make no sense to me. It's all inside references to... something?
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by noirbot 4y ago
Seriously. That's definitely more insulting. "You're going to dance for us in person one last time for no reason except that we want to see your face when we tell you you're fired" feels way more cruel than pulling
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by noirbot 4y ago
It really depends. I have barely had an in-person meeting with anyone superior to me in my company in 3-4 years. If I got called in to the office to meet with anyone superior to me and no one else from my team, and no agenda, I'm going
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think I mostly agree with it, but I think having a culture that inclines towards trying to talk things out in public is probably better, but you're right about there being value in also being able to talk to your manager or your team
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by noirbot 4y ago
So, in that case, what would have been the more "honest" way for that person to have gotten your sister to move? "Will you please move out of my way" is honest, but feels like it has just as much of an implied "You
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by noirbot 4y ago
Wow, that is... a very cynical way to view that interaction. Obviously you were there to hear how they said it, but I'll apologize if I bump into someone on accident and earnestly mean it. What would you think is more honest? Someone b
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by noirbot 4y ago
I think the question is how critical you can be in public channels. Your example (of being critical of a product) feels like something I'd be comfortable saying in most public channels at my company. What I would assume is more what th
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by noirbot 4y ago
Exactly. The fact that NIMBYs like to use "luxury apartments" as a rhetorical flourish doesn't mean they don't actually exist and people don't actually want to live in them.
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by noirbot 4y ago
That is ascribing a lot of collusion and malice to what seems to be a pretty simple situation. I lived in some "luxury" apartments, and they were, legitimately, nicer than the other ones I'd lived in, although not especially
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by noirbot 4y ago
I agree - I'm not trying to imply that no cheaper housing would ever be built if we made it easier to build, but that, as you say with cars, it's more likely to happen later as the restrictions let up. For a community or country,
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by noirbot 4y ago
Or it's something people enjoy as a thought experiment? I work adjacent to computer security industries and have always found the sort of cat-and-mouse of circumventing various detection and security mechanisms to be engaging and inter
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by noirbot 4y ago
How does that not make sense? It's totally possible to have an apartment that's luxurious. Luxury doesn't mean "large" - look at luxury cars, or watches. Most other major luxury products are almost defined by how ex
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure this is exactly true though. There's plenty of (common) ways to build intentionally expensive housing, whether that's large minimum square footage or fancy shared amenities that up the cost of living there. There
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by noirbot 4y ago
How many people who are happy to see your face are watching you on surveillance cameras? It's not like this hides your face from a human, and you can always put the hood down if you're at your friend's house or somewhere else
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by noirbot 4y ago
Or you purchased a condo or townhouse where there's no way to sell the land under it or redevelop it without getting a large number of other people to all decide to move/leave at the same time. If you're one of the first peop
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by noirbot 4y ago
The fundamental difference is that I can't sleep and shower in my bond portfolio. I didn't buy my house as an investment, I bought it because I have to live somewhere and it made financial sense vs. renting. I'd be perfectly
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by noirbot 4y ago
For sure. I have no aspiration to be a landlord, but I bought a place last year with a mortgage payment a bit higher than what I was paying to rent an equivalent place before. This made good financial sense. Now, let's suppose somehow
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by noirbot 4y ago
I really do appreciate this reply. It's pleasant to get a response from someone who's not nearly as jaded about this as I am that helps me reconsider and be less hyperbolic about things. I was certainly being a bit overly cynical
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by noirbot 4y ago
Blame is maybe a too-strong word in some cases, but if someone gets hired onto my team and is a bit of a dud for whatever reason, and I know someone influential on another team referred them, it starts to feel more like nepotism than simply
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by noirbot 4y ago
The issue was more around me already having a bootloader and boot partition set up (rEFInd) that worked fine, but trying to get Arch to be bootable from that pre-existing one while still setting up swap and the other partitions it wanted. I
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by noirbot 4y ago
But that's the problem though. At that point you either have to have one of the top 10 smartest and most interesting people in your field willing to write for you and bring their clout to it, or you have to have a network already stron
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by noirbot 4y ago
Fair, but you're always going to get a pretty bland paper. The honest answer is "so I get money and am not homeless and starving" and my background is "I do computer things so I'm not homeless and starving". Wh
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, that's an interesting lead. I only just learned about Endeavor today but may give it a try. In theory, I really like the idea of the pure "build it yourself" of Arch, but when the docs aren't good enough to get a pr
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by noirbot 4y ago
Perhaps, but I don't make a habit of reading blogs about jobs I don't currently have from smaller companies. Not that I have anything against them, but you still have a discoverability problem.
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by noirbot 4y ago
But what would a company do about that? That feels like complaining people don't read their email because of spam. You can't unilaterally prevent spammers, you can just improve filtering, which is something that's more on the
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by noirbot 4y ago
I was going to ask about Cover Letters. Why do you think that's such a big improvement, especially in the current AI Generation zone? Most of the time I've written a cover letter, it may as well have been written by an AI, or I si

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