tristor

63 ms·

931.
by tristor 3y ago
The fact you believe this tells me you have a loose association with reality. There’s really nothing more to discuss. Food doesn’t appear on tables via magic, somebody gets their hands dirty. Commies aren’t known for their sensibilities,
932.
by tristor 3y ago
I don’t want to try to convince you otherwise so lets talk about reality. Due to the reality of scarcity, those who do no work and expect that they will be cared for do in fact harm others. Scamming government benefits and failing to contr
933.
by tristor 3y ago
Start of the end, private equity ruins everything it touches. RIP SUSE
934.
by tristor 3y ago
And where in Job Corps does it train you for lower-end service work in large, expensive cities? Most of the people going to Job Corps are not from large, expensive cities, and none of their centers are in large, expensive cities. The work
935.
by tristor 3y ago
I don't think it should be necessary for a person to "work", however every human being should find some productive and meaningful activity that helps their family and community, whether that's "work" or somethi
936.
by tristor 3y ago
> It's about not being healthy. This resonates with the people I know. The person I'm thinking of that does the most scamming is also massively overweight, sedentary, and spends every waking moment they aren't scamming pl
937.
by tristor 3y ago
I don't know what you're on about. Job Corps teaches job skills that are very well paid, one of the people I know was trained as a welder, another as a machinist, and one in IT. Someone with a CCNA starts at around $60k/yr
938.
by tristor 3y ago
I've known several people who went through Job Corps, got back to our home town, and then went right back to being lumps on a log. One person I know made their "living" scamming government benefits after going through Job Co
939.
by tristor 3y ago
Very relevant to my interests. My plan right now is when we send my teen off to college to build a house to passive house standards, and in the process wire it up to do all the smart home things in a locally controlled/non-cloud manne
940.
by tristor 3y ago
It greatly depends on what the "features" are. We're being intentionally very hand-wavy here. If you are adding features that are incremental for existing customer markets, then of course it's not going to drive linear
941.
by tristor 3y ago
> Ah sweet, even more problems to deal with then. Whether or not adding more people is a problem greatly depends on the existing workload and where in the development cycle those folks are added. It also depends on the quality of the pe
942.
by tristor 3y ago
This rant doesn't seem to address my comment, and seems to be an expression of your existing anti-PM bias.
943.
by tristor 3y ago
Speaking as a PM and a former Eng, if you could get 1.5x your features at this trade-off, the topline revenue that those features drive could very likely result in significant additional resources to provide to dev. I realize you can chase
944.
by tristor 3y ago
> Put your money in the stock market, regardless of its health and structure. I’m not convinced that this is a bad thing. The basic reason is due to broad market ETFs like VT/VTI/VXUS and similar. The problem an individual inv
945.
by tristor 3y ago
A lot of commenters are saying this is cringe or pretentious, and sure, it is a bit, but the advice provided here is also truthful. I don't write or talk about my reading habits when I was younger, nor am I as dedicated to it at my cu
946.
by tristor 3y ago
True. That said, fiber can be painful to deal with. Electrical isolation is one big benefit, as is power savings, and of course forward-compatibility. I still prefer running copper for residential, especially because you don’t have to be
947.
by tristor 3y ago
This doesn't seem that overkill to me other than using fiber optics, although I've done that in the past, unless you're doing exceptionally long runs copper cabling is sufficient even at 10Gbit within a home scenario. Seems
948.
by tristor 3y ago
Nobody ever openly talks about it, but the East Coast Ivies are still heavily WASPy, and it's largely due to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Register Basically, if your family name isn't in t
949.
by tristor 3y ago
As someone who’s been responsible for dealing with the consequences of “programmer” output, I’d say that they definitely should not be given the benefit of the doubt. While it may be hard to believe, the average “programmer” knows nothing
950.
by tristor 3y ago
This massively underestimates the cost of housing, at least in my locality.
951.
by tristor 3y ago
I have dug ditches, I've also written software. Digging ditches is harder. I also explicitly was referring to doing it manually, not with a machine. There's some philosophical conversation to be had here with the satisfaction o
952.
by tristor 3y ago
My comment wasn't saying that HR wasn't important or that their job was easy, it's saying that it doesn't require skills which are hard to acquire in the labor market. If we use credentials as a corollary for skills (wh
953.
by tristor 3y ago
> During a recession, it is either social assistance or one takes the job that is available. This is only true for people who don't have essential skills at a high level. For senior people, this won't be a problem. I cleaned u
954.
by tristor 3y ago
I've worked remotely since 2015. I have no intent of ever going back to the office. I actually enjoy working from the office occasionally, but it can't be a permanent thing for me, and giving me an office with a door and a short
955.
by tristor 3y ago
Hardware companies simply don't pay as much as software companies in industry. I don't fully understand the reasons, because hardware is often more difficult to deal with than software. That said, I have found that there has been
956.
by tristor 3y ago
Based on my teenager and her friends, it's mostly collecting enamel pins and stickers. They have a collage of stickers on nearly everything they own and most especially their phone case. The other thing they do is relentlessly curate
957.
by tristor 3y ago
I would suggest you simply re-read your comments and mine. You are so far down a rabbit hole here that's completely irrelevant to the original thing that was shared you replied to, that I'm not even remotely going to engage in wh
958.
by tristor 3y ago
You are not. There are three different programs by which you can accelerate entry/re-entry to the US and all three rely on facial recognition. All are optional. There is no facial recognition in the normal re-entry line (and all thes
959.
by tristor 3y ago
They're probably referring to the optional facial recognition based boarding systems that many airports in the US are rolling out, primarily for international flights. It uses facial recognition to match you to your passport photo bas
960.
by tristor 3y ago
Ugh. This is probably the true nature of the thing, it's shocking how this happens at nearly every company I've been at. Eng is super concerned with privacy and security, and then as soon as Marketing gets a hold of it, it'

More ›