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by vsareto 3y ago
I've always been told it was cheaper to maintain than to cycle on/off within a day as long as the insulation is decent and you aren't trying to get to 60F during 100F weather. My guess is that comes from a belief that the uni
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by vsareto 3y ago
Our field’s (lack of) training sucks at teaching good code though. Plus some styles have changed over the years. If we keep changing quickly, good code is just a fad.
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by vsareto 3y ago
>I also learnt to only become as involved and care as much as the customer. If they aren’t willing to go that extra mile then why should I? There was probably a good portion of that army of ops and developers that felt the same way. And
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by vsareto 3y ago
Someone else could take that position and you'd have little trouble finding someone qualified and willing to do it.
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by vsareto 3y ago
I think you'll find that even if you cap lifetime earnings and max inheritance at one billion dollars (and were able to rigorously enforce that), you'd still have a healthy population willing to start large enterprises. If someone
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch that people would be able to use a little critical thinking when looking at computer error messages too. Users' critical thinking skills can be fine, but sometimes they choose not to ap
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by vsareto 3y ago
Continuous reskilling for bad pay sucks, especially when you can’t reap from your investment of being a specialist for the first tool. Or the old tool is changed for bad reasons.
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by vsareto 3y ago
This is sourced from a Reuters article but they link to an MSN page which hosts it, so here's the original, damnit: https://www.reuters.com/technology/coreweave-raises-23-billi...
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by vsareto 3y ago
Some disputes about quality are simply differences of opinion or style. There's not really a book or standard on opinionated code quality that satisfies a majority of the people in the field. There's way too many ways to build thi
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by vsareto 3y ago
This is how it should be on salary. If you're good enough then you can get time back from the job and work less per week. It starts to look crazy good when you are doing like 5-10 hours per week because you're so familiar with a c
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by vsareto 3y ago
They do keep people employed in useless jobs though. Sometimes hiring shuts down, sometimes they do purges of useless jobs, but it's the larger population that shows the trend.
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by vsareto 3y ago
I have maybe a hail-mary counterpoint: The day-to-day job on an individual scale can definitely be pointless. In aggregate though, the point of the job ends up being to keep people employed and pay taxes. That's it! No one will like t
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Democracies shouldn't have giant unaccountable spy orgs. They don't but there are definitely some bad, unaccountable people and parts to it though. Individuals are generally accountable but it's going to look unaccountabl
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by vsareto 3y ago
It's iterative vs. up-front design. Or agile vs. waterfall. Designers shouldn't be doing iterative development when the supply chain works best with up-front design. They might be forced to because of how the business operates tho
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Parts were dipped in paint rather than sprayed leading to fuller and thicker paint coverage Hopefully not lead paint?
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by vsareto 3y ago
Those investors could move to starting or investing in companies that produce housing and material for them, but get out of owning houses themselves. This keeps them close to the market they want to invest in. A common sentiment is that wag
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Someone who understood basic economics wouldn't assert that investors are ruining the housing market for individual family buyers without explaining how the housing market or one particular housing market is different from all the
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by vsareto 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? Could you explain? Does it really bother you someone could be ignorant of something here?
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by vsareto 3y ago
People have been choosing partners for money since forever, that's certainly not a new thing
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by vsareto 3y ago
The housing market is probably permanently ruined for individual family buyers as long as they are competing with businesses/individuals buying multiple residential properties as investments. Subsidies or government backed contribution
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by vsareto 3y ago
TBH it's hard to blame anyone for considering starting new cryptocurrencies. BTC/ETH have stuck around despite everything and remained at non-trivial prices. The "identity verification" step really just turns it into a c
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by vsareto 3y ago
This is exaggerated, we just hired someone and don't give these kinds of tests or expect this level of correctness. I feel like this is fed by anxiety. I really doubt a large amount of ordinary companies have switched to FAANG leetcode
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by vsareto 3y ago
>You wrote: low capital costs to produce something >I don't understand that phrase. You don't need a big factory with large capital costs to make or distribute software. You're only paying people, and salaries are not c
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by vsareto 3y ago
This is why software is not a serious profession: it has no consistency in progression and recognition. I think I would drive myself mad if I tried to live up to the crazy expectations of senior from most internet commenters.
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by vsareto 3y ago
>it never ceases to amaze me how the software engineering provision has very smart folks reimplement the same conceptual primitives over and over again. Well, no one cares, but I'm not saying that to be mean to dismissive, it's
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by vsareto 3y ago
It's not really a dream, you can indeed get those jobs. If a company has those jobs, it means their managers/leadership are doing the exact same lazy job, so you are in good company. An alternative is simply to be good at your job
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by vsareto 3y ago
Probably companies over inflating contract prices then sending some of that money to these programs. I’m still suspicious of claims about actual aliens until things get declassified.
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by vsareto 3y ago
I really doubt we've been visited by aliens but one could have stolen a ship and took a ride here not knowing how to fully operate it. It's entirely possible their government is suppressing the existence of aliens and we've b
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by vsareto 3y ago
This regularly happened to me in adulthood, but Vyvanse cleared it up for me (for as long as it’s active).
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by vsareto 3y ago
Mine swings wildly. Around 130/100 while resting due to having taken BP meds for months now, but can get as low as 110/80 after exercise/cardio to the point of easily passing out.

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