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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes: there is no shortage of people who literally value their life so little that tech companies get away with exactly what you describe. They can because the vast majority of engineers don’t value their own lives. That’s what the time they
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by sidlls 4y ago
Being paid at 2/3 base is technically not "unpaid" and it's better than most other tech companies, but it's hardly laudable. They're basically saying your life (literally--the time you spend on-call is time you
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by sidlls 4y ago
I wouldn't be incorrect: it's not even a matter of opinion. It literally is the definition of labor: being available to work on you employer's products and systems. This isn't debatable. And not every tech company ha
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by sidlls 4y ago
The point is that for work you are required to be available to work at any given time during the shift, no different from being required to work during business hours in the office. It is work, period. Not free time. And it should be co
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by sidlls 4y ago
The base salary is literally irrelevant to this discussion, which is about compensation for hours worked outside of normal business hours at whatever the rate is.
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by sidlls 4y ago
On-call requires you to more or less not plan anything other than being available for work. Sure most of the time nothing goes wrong--but that isn't the constraint, here. The whole point is that something might go wrong and that th
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by sidlls 4y ago
“Phenomenal”? Hardly. The base expectation outside of tech is time-and-a-half for each hour over 8 in a day, or 40 in a week.
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by sidlls 4y ago
This is a phenomenon any scientist who has been practicing for any length of time is likely to have encountered. I can't even recall all the statements from ignorance (not pejorative--they simply weren't educated on the subject ma
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by sidlls 4y ago
Politically controversial issues (e.g. GM foods, COVID related practices) frequently have scientific consensus.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It's saying that people who hold anti-(scientific)consensus views generally believe themselves to be more well-educated than they actually are. That's a far cry from merely being disagreeable. It doesn't seem to say anything
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by sidlls 4y ago
They have an obligation to provide you with the items/services you purchased. That includes access to them through an account. If you can actually prove the account is yours, you should be able to. Of course, it might be ridiculously e
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by sidlls 4y ago
Oh it was fun for a few exchanges, but the thing seemed incapable of deviating from its topic no matter what I did.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The 101 in the peninsula area has the opposite problem: people seem to be scared to get even close to the posted speed limit. You can see the front line of a bunch of cars all blocking everyone behind them regularly for no apparent reason.
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by sidlls 4y ago
You have a point, but I don’t think I agree. The mid-20s group get the majority of their education about what to do for sex from porn as much as if not more than from their sex partners. They didn’t set the trends for porn that is watched t
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by sidlls 4y ago
The difference being mainly that these clubs, bars and magazines are all analog and, prior to the wide availability of porn on the internet, were not something the vast majority of people were exposed to. Kinks have existed since sex starte
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by sidlls 4y ago
I don’t agree, based on at least my personal experience. My wife and I (40s) don’t engage in even a fraction of the acts I see commonly in porn. My bf (mid-20s) and I, on the other hand regularly do. He sees these acts as normal and expecte
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by sidlls 4y ago
You joke, but I recall my graduate level GR class homework. Just mechanically writing out solutions (the GR equivalent to writing the correct integral down and then evaluating it) to a much less exciting problem, starting with the most basi
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by sidlls 4y ago
Do you think traditional engineering culture is not an academic one?
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by sidlls 4y ago
In the same way definitions of words reference other words, yes.
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by sidlls 4y ago
What cult? PHP is technically, objectively inferior to almost every other web technology (which is impressive, actually, given how terrible most web technology actually is) in almost every use case one can think of. That doesn't mean i
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by sidlls 4y ago
Most Fortune 500 software jobs are poorly compensated line-of-business app building. Decent work for a certain sort (not speaking of intellect or ability, but personality and similar other factors), but hardly challenging or technically sop
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by sidlls 4y ago
That is not a good thing. Nor do I think it’s completely true anyway. I have the advantage of a strong analytical background (PhD physics) and over a decade of experience in software development. The “data kids” struggle with the parts that
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by sidlls 4y ago
They have applications all over physics.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Make also has more features for the intended purpose than Docker does—as I noted in my original comment.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Stacked PRs are an indicator of an incompletely thought out approach to the implementation. Prefer sequential PRs that layer in the implementation: test code, interfaces/API stubs, and then concrete implementations of the stubs (for ex
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by sidlls 4y ago
Make replacement? Why? Make is fast . Docker is not, unless you've very carefully set up the build stage pipeline--which generally has many more limitations than Make.
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by sidlls 4y ago
People ignore questions for a variety of reasons, mainly they didn't hear it, they didn't understand it, or they aren't interested in answering. Unless and until this AI can communicate that sort of thing, it's safest to
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by sidlls 4y ago
Good for them! If it’s anything like EA, their QA workers are overburdened and poorly treated.
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by sidlls 4y ago
No, we can’t claim that. It would still be at best an approximation. Perhaps more accurate and/or precise than what we’ve got now, but an approximation nonetheless. We’ve long ago given up on even getting close to what you propose anyw
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by sidlls 4y ago
The notion that physics can ever be complete is...not even wrong.

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