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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
Seems like, if anyone hires you, you are guaranteed to leave before two years so maybe it's easier to save the trouble.
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
I've had a thought bubbling away lately, informed by AI hype, some job market research, the "enshittification" book/topic doing the rounds, and I guess lived experience too. Computers were invented, and initially used fo
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
There are services available. People will help. The help and services may not be what you wish they were. You may elect not to use them for that reason, and that's fine. Everyone just wants do to what they're very good at. Sometim
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
Spreadsheets became popular in the 80s, before PCs were ubiquitous and cheap. Computers cost in the order of 5 to 10 thousand dollars, with lots of incompatible systems. Spreadsheets were a killer app that drove adoption and grew the market
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
Yeah, fair enough. I think the same general principle applies though... figure out what the rules are around medical leave, and err on the side of taking medical leave and having the job protected rather than trying to push through it and h
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
If you're in the US, look into FMLA, or possibly even consult an employment attorney to put together a plan. If you are going to be in and out, not 100%, etc... you are better off erring on the side of taking medical leave, asking for
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
It's an interesting question. Email has morphed into something quite different from when it started, and was a good way for humans to send messages to each other. That use case has mostly been supplanted by SMS, whatsapp, the social me
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Fundamentally, it's because the "marketplace" is owned, operated and funded by the seller. So, they fill it with ads and dark patterns to get you to buy what they want you to buy, which is probably some high-margin junk, and
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Hallelujah!
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
It's always a bit of a laugh when employees confuse themselves with shareholders, and their employer for a democracy.
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
I think it's good for this boundary to live in multiple places.
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
The other thing I would say is, for this kind of decision, you're looking for a "hell yes!" / "this is a no brainer" / "i can't afford to miss this opportunity". It's like hiring someon
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
I'd suggest staying in Turkey. I've done the expat/migration thing myself, there are some upsides for sure, but it can also be quite draining being a bit of a social misfit, not having a much of network/connections, deal
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Sometimes it seems that the primary "benefit" / use case for AI is that people can use it, and if it outputs something useful then they look like they are AI early adopters, geniuses, etc, and if it outputs something dumb, th
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
The problem you are getting at is alienation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation Over time, tech work has become totally disconnected from real world users and customers, and everything has bec
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
They're not mutually exclusive.
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Sometimes I ask in chats / emails etc. "are there any new proposals that I missed here, all I'm seeing is AI slop?". I think it's totally legit to ask, and specify that you are looking for new insights, proposals, e
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Aren't the people that want more than 0.5%, but don't want stock volatility, going to use a money market / fixed income fund?
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
I think the hype is already so strong, and coming from so high up, that it's not wise to say anything negative about it out loud. It's just like diversity / DEI / net zero etc. was five years ago, everyone has to comply
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Yes, exactly, it's exactly like the peak js framework of the month of the early 2010s, or the coin of the month in the late 2010s... I guess that's just part of the fad dynamic, you get microfads within the macrofad... I'm no
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by tacostakohashi 8mo ago
Hmm, well I am not philosophically opposed to AI. But, I don't like hype or having things forced down my throat, and there's a lot of that going on. Psychologically, the part that seems depressing is that everything just seems tot
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
This is how BigCo works. They are optimized for resilience and providing predictable cashflows for investors, not efficiency as such. If they had, say, 2 "10x" engineers who were brilliant and could do everything with no red tape
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
I find there is a lot of value in quick and dirty capture and storage of records in good old fashioned files and directories (that re synced, backed up, etc): things/thing/2026-02-02-shipping-tracking-number.pdf things/thing&
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
This is the same line of thinking that drove the railway bubble, the dot-com bubble, and probably a bunch of others... "it's a winner-takes-all race, so it's worth spending unlimited $$$ to be the winner, and then we capture
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
You _could_ write non-AI tools for those examples. That's basically what sonarqube, coverity, lint, etc... are. They might even do a better job, with better correctness and deterministic results. There are also plenty of code generatio
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
Nobody uses Excel anymore, now everyone uses Microsoft 365 Copilot!
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
The basic pattern is... 1) just shut up and listen and do everything their way for the first 3-6 months, bite your tongue questions about _why_ it's like that, or improvements, just learn _how_ they do it now first. then, after that, s
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
For whatever reason... this is a very common/recurring question on reddit r/RealEstate. I think it's pretty simple - sellers pay to list properties via agents. Agents pay Zillow for leads. None of those revenue streams would
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
If you want to remember dates, how about a calendar printed on paper? A filofax? Generally these days, the best solution is one that doesn't involve computers and big tech.
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
The thing is, for management, they don't use the product or deal with reality, so for them, the JIRAs _are_ reality, and the more that get done, the better, and any gaps are a problem to be solved. Idle time can still be incorporated,

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