twalla

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by twalla 5y ago
A recruiter for these guys reached out to me and I was like 99 percent sure it was a joke - apparently not. Also, this tells me Sam Altman has never seen Demolition Man.
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by twalla 5y ago
It's absolutely nuts out there right now. If you're not getting a 30 percent raise this year you're taking a pay cut.
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The M1 stuff is amazing but it's kind of a sad state of affairs when I'm unreasonably happy about having things (decent keyboard, connectivity) that should be table stakes for a professional level laptop. Mostly just bummed that w
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by twalla 5y ago
I pretty much live in a fullscreen tmux session and a fullscreen browser window so the notch is pretty lame in my opinion, maybe iterm can put some fun stats or a clock there but to me it's basically like 2 lines of lost screen real es
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by twalla 5y ago
I can't be the only one who's mostly just excited at the prospect of being able to buy a high spec macbook that doesn't have a goddamn touch bar.
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I'll take a stab at this: The societal pressure placed on men to earn enough to be a provider or at least earn more than their partners causes men to assign a higher weight to ROI when evaluating pursuing higher education. Anecdata: I
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by twalla 5y ago
As someone who appreciates mechanical watches I think this is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. With the ubiquity of inexpensive, reliable means of telling the time, it's basically comparing a piece of (functional) jewelry to .
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by twalla 5y ago
Lack of Competitive Compensation Packages Amidst Fastest Rising Cost of Living Increase in Living Memory Keeping Some Firms Out of the Cloud* There, fixed that for you. If employers wanted to they could pay more, fix their culture and get t
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by twalla 5y ago
Austin continues to become less and less affordable for people who aren't bringing in existing home equity from other high cost of living areas. My understanding is the bulk of offers for homes in the Austin area are from Texans and ex
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by twalla 5y ago
Just read through it, it's good! Do you have any other high signal to noise sources for info - I fall somewhere between a crypto skeptic and pragmatist so it's _hard_ to find information that doesn't strike me as breathless P
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by twalla 5y ago
My biggest issue with the entire crypto space is I have to wade through a veritable ocean of shilling, memes and straight up disinformation to find substantial comments like this one.
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by twalla 5y ago
One of the things I do to get Amazon recruiters to leave me the hell alone is to respond to their emails with a link to the most recent public AMZN snafu and urge them to quit - it's funny/sad how each time I respond I can quickly
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by twalla 5y ago
At this point in my career I'm typically the one advising my manager(s) because someone else already paid me to make or watch someone else make the mistake we're considering making. Perhaps I've just been fortunate to work wi
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by twalla 5y ago
My advice would be the absolute opposite. "You are not your job, don't break your back making some other (probably already rich) dbag rich(er), take care of yourself and those you care about first and foremost". It's ent
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by twalla 5y ago
> using this against an opponent as described in the article could certainly be used here It's called a "spoiler" and they don't necessarily have to have the same or similar names to be effective, in fact, a similar t
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by twalla 5y ago
Plotting, or generating proofs, is what destroys SSDs, afterwards the plots are stored on disk and aren't read/write intensive. Think of it as printing bingo cards (plotting) and then sticking them in a file cabinet (farming). You
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by twalla 5y ago
The real answer to inflation is to start constructing homes from iPads and flatscreen televisions.
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by twalla 5y ago
So basically all the important stuff, but hey, at least you can get a 50 inch flatscreen for 100 bucks on Black Friday.
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by twalla 5y ago
It does't help that the Google maps cycling directions are often woefully bad. I just put in my old (2 mile, downtown) Austin commute and the entirety of the suggested route was on streets I would never ride on for fear of my own safet
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by twalla 5y ago
I primarily work with python/golang but wanted to use Puppeteer to automate some tedious form-based stuff. My JS skills are pretty crap and Headless Recorder helped me get about 90 percent of what I needed in probably 10 percent of the
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by twalla 5y ago
From the SRE side: if you need bespoke fancy shit (we write a lot of operators to remove toil from running things we'd typically do with ansible/manually), the kubernetes API, CRDs and the operator/controller pattern are a jo
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The flip side of this is I was able to reduce an employers cloud spend by 80 percent by just _fixing_ the mistakes they made when migrating to kubernetes. We were still on k8s afterwards, its just that the first pass made a bunch naive assu
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by twalla 5y ago
I've heard hard work described as increasing your luck "surface area". So imagine you're trying to catch luck "raindrops" and you're Bill Gates - sure you're busting your ass but you're starting
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by twalla 5y ago
Even tortilla has a different (delicious) meaning[1] when you compare Mexican/Central American Spanish to Spanish Spanish. 1. https://www.seriouseats.com/tortilla-espanola-spanish-potato...
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by twalla 5y ago
Some more background here: Yvonne Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, is one of the "Dirtbags" mentioned in the article - I can't recommend the documentary (the trailer is also in the article) Valley Uprising enough.
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In this context it’s because she’s the youngest person to hold the position of FTC Chairperson.
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IIRC the pagan origins of Christian holidays and symbols have their roots in making conversion more palatable for conquered Roman subjects. Christmas and Easter replace the solstice celebrations, the Christmas tree came from placing evergre
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by twalla 5y ago
When I was dating I was fortunate to have a large enough match pool to experiment with this. The result: a stupid copy-pasted throwaway line or emoji had roughly the same results as a message I put some thought into. The second category got
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by twalla 5y ago
I think it's a combination of all the high earners in the peer group either not wanting children (100 percent of my high earning single female peers) or wanting children but being unable to afford to raise them in the HCOL areas where
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam... Seems like that may not be the case. Anecdotally - my peers are 25-40 and are mostly in the top bracket. The only ones having kids also have the lowe

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