octobus2021

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by octobus2021 5y ago
"The Internet" is full of junk because nobody wants to pay for content, so it is paid for by the advertisers who then want their junk fed to the content consumers. Want cleaner Internet? Pay content creators. Problem solved.
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Strong vibes of "a glass of wine per day" study/ies. Would be curious to see who funded this one...
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Depends on your price range I guess. You can find iogear/belkin HDMI 4 port switches for a bit under $100. Generic ones will be even less (maybe even around $50). I personally use DVI KVM from iogear (GCS1104) which cost me about $130,
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Tried Gnucash specifically, it's not nearly as intuitive, I'm actually considering it for accounting for my numerous ventures, but for personal finances - not so much...
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Quicken (tracking personal finances). Has all the functionality I need, viewing individual transactions, reports (spending by category/account), tracking investments etc., and is local. When I bought it in 2008 it supported integration
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Had similar experience in 2017. We interviewed many candidates (10+) for the position, narrowed down to about 5 in the second round and decided to hire one. All over the phone. Took maybe 2 months. So when the guy shows up in the office my
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Seconding that. The quality of positions on Linkedin is not just down, I found them essentially worthless (applied to less than 100 positions but still a lot). Some positions are there for more than 1 year (and shown as recently posted), de
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by octobus2021 5y ago
A few thoughts: - Recruiters are basically sales people. Some (not all) will try to convince you that the stack they're specializing in is the best one in the world and the rest of technologies are almost dead (nothing personal against
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Chicago
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Thank you! Yes at least getting some feedback from my applications now (and interviews) but now people seem shocked that I've been out of the job for 1+ years. I don't think people who haven't been on the job market in the la
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by octobus2021 5y ago
If you already communicated with a human being in HR RE: the opportunity I'd just ask them (nicely) over the email about the status. I only had one or two cases of person not responding to my emails. If they don't, I just mark sta
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by octobus2021 5y ago
My situation is somewhat different but there's similarities. Also over 50 (barely), skills are not exactly outdated (Azure data engineering/analytics), but been looking for a job since being laid off early in the pandemic (going o
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by octobus2021 5y ago
I was always afraid of being laid off and when I was in this situation always started actively interviewing and ultimately jumped the ship before I was on the chopping block. I was laid off for the first time in my career right before Covid
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by octobus2021 5y ago
Exactly. I have an open source password manager on my Linux laptop and the data files are backed up weekly to 2 different locations (along with other valuable information). Granted, I have little need for password management on the phone, b
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by octobus2021 5y ago
As a person who just spent a year looking for a job: it's not you, it's the job market. Not only companies (incl. in Russia) not hiring as much as they used to, they have a larger pool of applicants because of all the people laid