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by okdood64 4y ago
> petrodollar system What happens to the US dollar once, let's say optimistically, the world is mostly on renewables by 2050?
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by okdood64 4y ago
Alternative view: When you go on such a massive hiring spree in the last 1-2 years from headcount X to headcount Y, how can you be shocked at you're not getting headcount Y amount of productivity? Proper onboarding attention and tenure
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by okdood64 4y ago
> SREs are actually firemen but paid like developer Firefighters who also do development work to reduce fires and make their firefighting easier. That said developers also do firefighting. They can be an escalation point for deeper syste
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by okdood64 4y ago
> in the 16-to-24 age group (up 15%), the 25-to-34 age group (up 18%), and the 35-to-44 age group (up 14%) https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
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by okdood64 4y ago
I've driven regularly around the SF Bay Area. While driving on 280 and 101 I do see some stupid driving regularly, on the 880 I see near-suicidal driving every time. It's no secret that one side of the bay, particularly up those c
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by okdood64 4y ago
> a rare sight these days Rare sight? Where do you live around if you don't mind me asking.
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by okdood64 4y ago
> I really respect people who self-host their own data platforms, etc. but I don’t have time for that. Exactly how I feel when I see the myriad amounts of threads/comments from people here who are self-hosting things in the name of
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by okdood64 4y ago
What are you hosting? Multi-AZ seems like a bare minimum for basic reliability. That said it's not a panacea. There's all sorts of cascading/downstream "weirdness" that can result on AWS's own services through
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by okdood64 4y ago
Look for or create a browser extension that does this for you. Regardless, I suspect the answer to your question is a hearty: No. Meta is a tech company (and very relevant one at that), so these articles will continue to appear. I see no ob
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by okdood64 4y ago
Analysts and SWE interns are agents? While I get LinkedIn profiles are public information, this is just some irresponsible "journalism" that could lead to some negative attention for these folks.
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by okdood64 4y ago
I see no reason why this would address OP's concern.
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by okdood64 4y ago
Generally 1) Mitigate if possible from your service's end, while simultaneously 2) paging the dependent service's team to mitigate/resolve; and if this happens too frequently or if it was a particularly bad incident you can p
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by okdood64 4y ago
SE is arguably much harder. Instead of just optimizing for coding, you need to be good at linux troubleshooting, low level kernel stuff and networking. There’s a reason most new hires come in as SWE, particularly new grads with not much re
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by okdood64 4y ago
A lot of times, after I get a product, I disagree with the WC review on many points about a recommended product and have to end up returning it. That said, I still use it to inform my purchase decisions. Anyways, how specifically is it &quo
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by okdood64 4y ago
It’s a problem when your work requires a lot of reading.
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by okdood64 4y ago
> Isn't it the case that Japanese work culture, "stay until the boss leaves", is what contributed substantially to loneliness in Japan? A lack of work-life balance? I keep hearing this thrown around, and I have no reason n
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by okdood64 4y ago
Off-topic: Please don't take this the wrong way. What sorts of engineering does an engineer at Ritual do? From an outside perspective it's just a website selling healthcare products. Is there some sort of big data driven approach
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by okdood64 4y ago
Hey there! Thanks for writing this. One question I've always had is, how do you know you're Dalit if you were born outside of India? How do others? Especially, say, when meeting other Indians in some tech company in the US?
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by okdood64 5y ago
> most of the time the recruiters say that the age is a problem For real? What country is this in?
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by okdood64 5y ago
> Please don't lecture me on why buying a car outright (instead of leasing) is financially stupid Who's saying this? And why?
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by okdood64 5y ago
> So yes, we need other payment models than advertisement. But I doubt this can come from google, no matter how much I would pay them, for a single service. YouTube Premium