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by topkai22 5y ago
I picked "The Terminator" for the Matrix one, which I thought was thematically close. I'm pretty impressed and amused by this.
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by topkai22 5y ago
You can end up with insane rules that ultimately benefit no one. An old boss of mine told me about a time he was working for a big auto manufacturer. They were rolling an update to a major system. It looked like everything went well, so peo
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by topkai22 5y ago
You are contributing to a 401k and have a family. The two data points you’ve revealed contra-indicate loser status.
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by topkai22 5y ago
Part of it is just demographics- there are just massively more people getting trained in CS/programming then they are old timers out there. I graduated a decade and a half ago and the size of the computer science department has tripled
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’m sure I’m guilty of doing this, but it’s mostly mental laziness. When I’m sorting stuff for donation I’m mostly thinking “keep” versus “donate.” The third category of “throw away” is there and their is a pile, but it’s not one of the two
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by topkai22 5y ago
Question that sprung to mind, especially with the Dixie fire continue to rage- how did PG&E not know there was something seriously wrong with their equipment and shut off power remotely? That’s an honest question- the electrical system
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’m with the sibling commentators- this phrasing is generally complimentary in the American press. It’s kind of strange cultural norm, but it’s a celebration of the “self made” aspect of what the person accomplished, not a denigration of h
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by topkai22 5y ago
Not only that, you absolutely should shop the optional services (like title, escrow, etc.) We saved thousands in fees because me and my agent made a couple of phone calls to get competing bids after the seller (really the sellers agent) tri
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by topkai22 5y ago
Military retirement is worth like a minimum of ~$700k for an E-7, before tricare. It's worth like $1.3M for an O-5. People who seperate from service at like 12 years astound me. Edit- People who seperate thinking they can earn more mon
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by topkai22 5y ago
You’d think so, but my wife uses a bank that spent a good 12 years without a substantial change to their website. It finally got a major refresh a few years back and everything just FELT better. It was like fixing up the lobby- it might be
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by topkai22 5y ago
“A bank doesn’t need a full time development team for example” Banks and finance are like the number one employer of software developers outside of pure tech companies. I might be misunderstanding your point, but a bank doing digital bankin
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by topkai22 5y ago
I watched my mom’s* Facebook feed for a bit on Jan 6. In a span of 30 minutes she was getting bombarded by claims that the people invading the capital in order to overturn the election were actually antifa complete with a veneer of evidence
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by topkai22 5y ago
There was a round of layoffs I went through at a consulting company where we are pretty sure some pure overhead MBAs pulled a report of who was missing "cloud" skills from an internal skills tool and had had anything less than a t
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by topkai22 5y ago
Find books you like. Give up on ones you don’t. I get so absorbed in books I like I forget to sleep. Books I find dull can induce me eyes to have difficulty focusing. It’s ok to skip forward if you aren’t liking a chapter, there’s no test a
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by topkai22 5y ago
Reducing jobs reduces overall political support, which makes it more attractive for politicians and regulators to pass new laws or more aggressively pursue existing ones. Amazon could get hit with antitrust or some other new legal theory th
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yes to the $17k potentially being post paycheck. However, the actual number will vary quite a bit by insurance plan. I picked the max legal limit for plans you can buy for yourself, also known as “marketplace” or “Obamacare” plans that you
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by topkai22 5y ago
I am not a HR professional or lawyer, so please verify everything I say. The US healthcare system is a pain in the rear to navigate, is incredibly awful if you are uninsured, and (as a system) is insanely expensive. That all being said, if
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by topkai22 5y ago
I lifeguarded throughout my teens. Definitely a good first job. However, almost 20 years on, I have difficulty turning off my sense of vigilance at pools/bodies of water. It’s not that I can’t enjoy pools or swimming, but you’ll see me
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yes, I've noticed something simila, although way I phrase it is I noticed among high marijauna users from teens to twenties was what is a sense of delayed maturity. This overlaps with the attributes you described but it also felt like
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by topkai22 5y ago
You can (depending on group policy if domain joined) disable real time scanning on individual processes, files, and folders in a more permanent manner IRC.
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by topkai22 5y ago
Do professional drivers need to wear seatbelts? The truth is that even really good technologists sometimes make mistakes. My insurance agent's email got hacked recently. I was in the process of renewing a policy, so opened the link t
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by topkai22 5y ago
I think the caveat here is "battery powered electric aircraft." Fuel cells have much higher energy density IIRC. It's not inconceivable that fuel cell electric planes could become a thing as well, especially if these early BE
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by topkai22 5y ago
Also there are a fair number of smaller cities that have physical obstacles (mountains, bodies of water) between them and a major airport. I used to fly with a connection between Chicago and Grand Rapids, MI regularly. That's a 50 minu
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by topkai22 5y ago
Interesting. The grand prize timeline is 4 years from now. That seems VERY fast. However, I like the aggressiveness- if this can produce viable demonstrations of the technology at anywhere near what the aformentioned Prometheus Fuels ($36&#
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by topkai22 5y ago
That is because, for historical reasons, they are generally not legally able to. Tesla has actually done great work pushing back on the requirements many states had to franchise automobile sales. However, almost every existing manufacturer
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by topkai22 5y ago
Spotify bought Gimlet (the podcast company) a few years back, so they presumably owned the rights to begin with.
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To be the odd man out, I do actually know someone who did and managed to later on advance in his career within the company. We shared a particularly bad manager who was forced out of the company himelf while he was on the PIP, so possibly s
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by topkai22 5y ago
Not even close. The 5 year survival rate is around 50% and the 10 year survival rate is around 34%. Even the 25 year rate is close to 17%. I didn't quickly find any data on what causes business exits, but my guess is that the chance of
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by topkai22 5y ago
I've been a Sr. developing a Jr/ engineers in a distributed and mostly remote (technical consulting) organization for about 7 years now. It can definitely be done and IMO the "you won't learn things you get just being ar
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by topkai22 5y ago
That site looks like it’s just repurposing the us government’s occupation data. See https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... The BLS statistics have us based “programmer” jobs declining by 9

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