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by verst 4y ago
It is to be expected. I didn't mean that a leak is unusual, but rather that learning about it this way _feels_ strange.
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by verst 4y ago
I know some teams who had a sudden team meeting scheduled by their skip manager for 9 am today. I suspect this is how organization changes will be communicated to affected teams.
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by verst 4y ago
Major news came yesterday. Satya email this morning.
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by verst 4y ago
We learned about the Microsoft layoffs in the news yesterday and right now nobody knows who will be impacted. I'm sure they will handle it as well as they can, but learning about it from the news first instead of the CEO is also odd. W
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by verst 4y ago
I just ordered the M2 Pro Mac Mini that was also released. The Mac Studio was a bit excessive for my music production hobby needs, but I do need the extra cores of the M2 Pro models. Really thrilled they released this.
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by verst 4y ago
The article's title currently reads "over 18,000" - can we get this updated please?
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by verst 4y ago
Your dexterity is lost without practice, but I find that the new licks, chord progressions and other ideas you add to your repertoire to be used in improvisation stick around. This to me is far more valuable than the dexterity which I can r
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by verst 4y ago
I'm on call this past week and next week! My on-call is a bit odd because it's both as OSS maintainer deciding whether I need to coordinate a hotfix release, as well as certain functionality within a managed service (PaaS) enabled
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by verst 4y ago
More like deciassed :)
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by verst 4y ago
All common first names for .dev were listed as premium at the time! I once spoke to someone in charge of the .ink gTLD and they made all animals (among other things) premium domains, but forgot some. For a while I had "sloth.ink"
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by verst 4y ago
Perhaps a public interest argument could be made here for making this information more accessible. The whereabouts of a CEO of multiple companies could be of interest for investment decisions. For an ordinary private citizen this would be d
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by verst 4y ago
This has been discussed many times - the flight data and aircraft registration details are publicly accessible via the FAA. Posting that data in an easily accessible form hardly violates anyone's privacy.
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by verst 4y ago
This surprisingly sounds very much like the actual ACH system still in use today in the US (from my limited understanding)
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by verst 4y ago
My five letter first name for some reason was not a premium domain (probably because it's not an English name and someone didn't do their homework) and I pay $12 / year. Of course the name would be snatched up quickly so I di
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by verst 4y ago
> These are the words of a young person who was trained to see everyone else's success as an implicit criticism of their own ability and effort. It is not the author's fault. A mentally healthy person, when shown a display of e
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by verst 4y ago
Selection bias or not - I am saying across any employers out there, go ahead and ask folks. Maybe you don't realize how many people in your companies are or were on H-1B and came via this route. The H-1B program is heavily used by gr
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by verst 4y ago
Tata/Infosys etc are some of the largest single employers of H-1Bs, but collectively it really does seem that the majority of new H-1Bs every year are in fact issued to people already in the country on F-1 student visas. Go ahead and a
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by verst 4y ago
Most people will transition from F-1 student visa OPT (Optional Practical Training) which has a multi-year STEM extension to H1B. Essentially you have 3 chances to get a H1B if you can find an employer willing to go through the process whi
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by verst 4y ago
That really depends on the distribution of the layoffs. The 10-15% percent aren't necessarily all bad performers but might just be people working on teams that are to be disbanded entirely.
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by verst 4y ago
Definitely do sell it to /u/filmgirlcw. I can vouch for her being awesome. :)
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by verst 4y ago
Sure, but what about the psychological impact / feelings of people when reading all the news of hiring freezes? For example engineers that were laid off at Stripe in Seattle ordinarily have a good chance of getting a job at Amazon, but
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by verst 4y ago
I work on cloud computing services (PaaS / BaaS) and infrastructure. All the big employers in this space have hiring freezes. I used to get 20 recruiting emails from Amazon a month. Now they have a complete corporate hiring freeze. The
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by verst 4y ago
Good luck finding a job in this economy now. It's tough for everyone, even the most skilled. Many companies have outright hiring freezes. I just read that Amazon now has a hiring freeze for all corporate jobs, previously this only impa
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by verst 4y ago
I liked Neverwinter Nights 2 -- so no wonder I liked playing The Witcher 1. I think I played on a very underpowered laptop back then (as a college student), so if the engine was sluggish I probably attributed that to gaming on a laptop :D
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by verst 4y ago
I played the Witcher 1 when it came out and thought it was a brilliant game. I haven't tried going back to it ever. It felt quite polished to me then. I'm curious what people feel isn't approachable for today's audiences
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by verst 4y ago
Now just waiting for the GitHub Actions runners to be updated with Python 3.11 (deployment next week - they deploy image updates weekly). https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6459
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by verst 4y ago
$ brew install pyenv $ pyenv install pypy3.9-7.3.9 I like using PyEnv for managing my Python versions. It will natively compile Python builds and should be doing the same on M1 (which is what I'm using). `pyenv install --list` shows yo
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by verst 4y ago
If you live in Seattle and order omakase at a Sushi restaurant geoduck is virtually unavoidable.
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by verst 4y ago
I pace many half marathon and marathon races. Usually what I need for that is: instantaneous pace, average pace, and lap distance. I tend to plan my pacing for equal effort, so each lap pace is adjusted for elevation such that in the end th
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by verst 4y ago
Monkey Island 1 & 2 on iOS broke several iOS releases ago anyway and never were patched again unfortunately.

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