ojbyrne

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by ojbyrne 16d ago
"years ago" seems like the wrong criticism. Today's rate is lower than the rates from December 2022-October 2025. That seems like years ago.
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by ojbyrne 21d ago
One word: Ottawa. There's a lot of engineers, most of them underemployed.
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by ojbyrne 29d ago
Wikipedia says “It was initially developed by Bombardier Aviation with the program launched on 13 July 2008 and had two years in-service as the Bombardier CSeries.” Hence 18 years.
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by ojbyrne 1mo ago
I’m Canadian and have hired non-Canadians. I have also have been hired by Jews and Indians, and, to be fair, Canadians (though almost entirely in Canada).
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Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails(nytimes.com)
6 points by ojbyrne 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 3mo ago
This article has several passages repeated verbatim. Either bad AI or bad editing, not really a great advertisement for the product (“Brilliant”) it seems to be selling. Example: “The construction of the Aswan High Dam, completed in 1970, b
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by ojbyrne 3mo ago
I immediately thought this was like something from a Carl Hiaasen novel, then read “He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad Monkey.” Bad Monkey is based on a Carl Hiaasen novel.
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by ojbyrne 3mo ago
Similarly the man who hoped he’d die before he got old, did not.
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by ojbyrne 3mo ago
Maybe because he started after she left?
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by ojbyrne 3mo ago
Only available with 1 memory config - 96 gb. They used to have 512 and 256.
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
From a paywalled article in the WSJ: “ The China card Two Chinese chip makers—CXMT, the country’s top DRAM producer, and Yangtze Memory Technologies, which focuses on NAND storage—are growing fast and want to expand their global clientele.
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
Also CRSP, which is the index used by US Total Market funds and many Target Date funds.
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune%3A_The_Butlerian_Jihad
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
I’m 65. I’m pretty sure I heard plenty of snide “nose buried in a book” cracks when i was growing up.
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
The lockup periods are also being fiddled with: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-ipo...
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
Managers schedule meetings so that developers can’t get anything done. Then they hire more developers, which means even more meetings. Virtuous cycle!
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
That Gizmodo article says none of the things you characterize it as saying. Except sorta - "Peter Freed, Meta’s former director of energy strategy, who spoke to Heatmap, expects only about 10% of the projects that are currently underw
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by ojbyrne 4mo ago
Why choose the median state tax? The proposed wealth tax is in California, where the top tax rate is 13%. Also relevant would be Medicare (1.45% or 2.35% depending on your employment income) and presumably for billionaires, the Net Investme
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by ojbyrne 5mo ago
It’s almost like a corollary to the Douglas Adam’s principle referred to in the article - if there’s a theory about social behavior formulated before you’re born, it’s fair game to reformulate it.
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by ojbyrne 5mo ago
The article starts with “Israeli soldiers and settlers” so presumably the answer to your question is settlers.
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by ojbyrne 6mo ago
it would probably be useful to know how many of the current layoffs were people on H-1Bs.
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by ojbyrne 6mo ago
Perhaps the lack of investment in their skills was the cause for the commenter’s job hopping, not the effect.
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by ojbyrne 6mo ago
Not a lot of prestige in that.
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
The referenced article ends like this: "I'm Shubham, a full-stack product engineer passionate about fixing hostile UI, building privacy-first tools (like my YouTube extension with 51k+ DAU), and making the web usable again. I am c
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
How can I not be flippant? I lived in Canada for a large part of my life (30 years-ish, 15 years ago). The bills are introduced, not passed.
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
“Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea” is a book about the treasure hunt, recommended.
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
In the ballpark ($2-4 billion in the 1970s): https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...
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Job Cuts and the AI Narrative(om.co)
2 points by ojbyrne 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
It’s not clear to me whether you’re characterizing that as trenchant business advice or cynical bullshit. Meta has had several rounds of layoffs now so it surely can’t be the former. Also Guy Kawasaki probably isn’t the first to say this, b
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by ojbyrne 7mo ago
Once upon a time I took a course where the prof read excerpts from Chaucer to us. Middle English was much more decipherable to this modern English speaker when it was spoken.

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