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by ptmcc 2y ago
I'm very impressed with the quality of some observability tools like Datadog, which do many good things either automatically or very easily. The usability is leaps and bounds ahead of things like New Relic or the manual instrumentation
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Similar boat here. I used to hate running and joked that it was playing sports without the fun game part. Why would anyone want to do that?? But then somewhere in my mid-30s something clicked, and now I love it. Like you said got to get ove
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Every hobby seems to have a contingent of people that are more into the gear than the activity itself
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Fascinating observation, and now that you point it out I know several people like this. It's like they are pathologically contrarian consumers. Then they often complain about the suboptimal situations they get themselves into. Not to s
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Yeah the Apple TV interface is so much faster, more responsive, and ad-free than virtually every built-in smart TV function. I don't understand how anyone, especially anyone remotely savvy, can stand to use them. Even the "good&qu
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by ptmcc 2y ago
I've replaced several appliances recently and while, like TVs, all have wifi garbage built in, I've never once connected any of them and they all function perfectly fine. And on the topic of TVs, my Sony TV also works happily whil
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by ptmcc 2y ago
I love seeing this in those periodic ragebait articles about how a family earning 400k+ is "paycheck to paycheck" after maxing out their retirement accounts, paying for private schools and vacations, mortgage on a $2m house, car n
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by ptmcc 2y ago
In companies I am familiar with, pay bands and total comp are roughly equivalent between: senior engineer ≈ engineering team lead staff engineer/tech lead ≈ engineering manager principal engineer ≈ senior engineering manager Reiteratin
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Being a kid/teen in the 90s into the early 00s, online chatting and gaming before voice comms were common definitely led to me learning to touch type very very fast and accurately. And yep, I'm a prolific text chatter amongst simi
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by ptmcc 2y ago
My 2015 15" MBP is also still kickin, is/was an absolutely fabulous unit. Was my work machine for 3-4 years, and now another almost-6 years as my personal laptop. My personal use case is obviously not very demanding but it's
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by ptmcc 2y ago
> I don’t know what it is about ticketing and Helpdesk that it ALwAYs ends up like that. The curse of B2B software is that every new big customer wants some custom feature or configuration that is the "deal breaker" for their m
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by ptmcc 2y ago
I have the basic gen2 AirPods that I got for "free" in some Apple deal a few years ago. Was a little skeptical I'd ever really use them at first but hey the price was right and if not me maybe the spouse would use them. I fre
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by ptmcc 2y ago
More money now means less/no work later, whether its something more flexible or just earlier retirement. With the way compounding works, highly paid years when you're young and can invest much of it sets you up for financial indep
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Ok, yes, and? English is the dominant language now and for the foreseeable future. Some day that may change but it won't be overnight.
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by ptmcc 2y ago
The article doesn't explicitly mention that handling cash as a business isn't free and comes with its own set of problems. I can understand why one might choose to eschew cash as the cost is greater than any lost business these da
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by ptmcc 2y ago
Yep, similar experience at about 15 years into my career. Not to say it'd be impossible to increase, but the opportunities are few and far between especially in a cooled off market. And the actual job might be a lot worse/more str
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by ptmcc 2y ago
If all you do as a developer is just work on tasks given to you then you aren't going to rise very high in the ranks in any tech-forward company, FAANG or not. Sure you can make a decent career out churning tickets given to you by some
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by ptmcc 3y ago
It's a huge social event with a shared interest, there's energy and excitement in the shared experience, and the emotional rollercoaster that games often can be. It does seem to speak to something tribal within us humans. I'm
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Heck yeah I did the same and thought I was so clever, huge upgrade at the time!
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Yes of course! I'd be happy to answer your short question with a short answer. I look forward to expanding further on the answer, as you previously stated that you expect me to. Jokes aside, something about LLM responses is very uncann
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Such a vehicle is impossible to offer even if they wanted to (they don't) because things like backup cameras and other safety-related equipment are legally required. Once you require a camera, you require a screen. Once you have a scre
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Tailscale is incredibly easy and just works
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Literally nobody pays attention to car alarms because they are 99.9% false positives. They're a nuisance that do more net harm than good.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
And if you must, cut deep and cut only once. Trickling out monthly layoffs is far more demoralizing and instills a culture of fear and uncertainty.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Reinstating Altman was all about the money, and so is this.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
I personally know several that have, because Boeing pays shit for the level of work and the culture sucks. It's like the games industry. They underpay because people dream of working in the industry because they think it's cool.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
A lot of tech companies have figured out pushing ICs into management is counter-productive and have IC tracks with very high ceilings. Until you're a principal/fellow pulling down $500k+ you haven't hit the IC asymptote yet.
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by ptmcc 3y ago
Those aren't even comparable planes that would fly the same routes
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by ptmcc 3y ago
American carriers heavily encourage fliers to get their branded credit cards in tandem with their loyalty programs, which often give perks like free checked bags, among other variously useful perks. For example, if you have the Alaska credi
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by ptmcc 3y ago
I stepping-stoned through QA on my way into development, now a decade something ago, and this part stands out as especially true in my experience: > This created a self-reinforcing spiral, in which anyone “good enough at coding” or fed u

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