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by zer8k 3y ago
SaaS works when not everything is atomized into micro-profitable businesses. The problem with SaaS is it enabled subscription hell and destroyed ownership. When I buy software I reasonably expect to own my copy. No different than when I g
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I don't really and haven't since the death of forums. At a few jobs I found a group of people who were interested in more than just CRUD but inevitably these people leave for greener pastures. It would be cool to have a place like
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by zer8k 3y ago
The lowest end TC still requires you to do a 7 stage interview + colonoscopy. They're doing this to age-out a large portion of the industry. No other reason.
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Honestly, I'd take 100k TC for a position to keep remote. One caveat, I will be working at 20% of my actual mental capacity. Frequent vacations, using sick time as often as possible, etc. I would not take on anything resembling pagerdu
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by zer8k 3y ago
A trite statement like this has very little meaning. You don't need a double-blind placebo study to observe the shifting market.
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by zer8k 3y ago
I can't imagine going into an office again. I've been remote for 2/3 of my career (long before COVID). I would be happy to go to a meet up or something once a week after hours. I never want to have an open office arrangement
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by zer8k 3y ago
> on HN The most important subtext. There are engineer friends of mine laid off from remote companies that, almost 5 months later, cannot get work. These aren't braindead seatwarmers either. The software engineer market has shifted
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by zer8k 3y ago
I don't. There's nothing for my job that I can use it for. I am a programmer. I have been doing it for over a decade now. The majority of my job is spent in existing codebases. So, using ChatGPT or copilot actually gets in my way.
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by zer8k 3y ago
Federal employment law doesn't depend on the "color" of a state.
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It's a way to avoid paying severance. Most companies do it but it's not talked about because it's highly illegal. Essentially, you can just assign someone menial tasks, refuse to promote them, etc until they leave. There&#x27
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If you loosen up your definition of of LLM the moderators and posters are really just LLMs that have been jailbroken to insult you and close your post. Stack Overflow is the programmer's internet bloodsport.
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Sort of a meta question: this is a well trodden path. Code verification is very popular with government types. Have you considered trying to figure out what they're using and what they're paying? I see this as the same problem sta
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by zer8k 3y ago
A group of economists couldn't coordinate splitting a bill at Applebee's.
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No one has taken the 5 second rule to the limit. What are the behaviors of bacteria at infinity? Once the party is over all the bacteria go home disappointed they never got to give someone an upset stomach. For science, I think it's im
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by zer8k 3y ago
As we saw with Freenode everyone has a price. This will be an interesting point in internet history for sure.
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This has less to do with CS and more to do with engineering constraints. Conflating the two is common but in this case it matters. Algorithms themselves are not system-specific. RFCs codify an idea and the people who write the code make the
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by zer8k 3y ago
I don't think they're fighting to keep the price on rare lifesaving drugs. They are fighting to keep the price of insulin, cholesterol medication, blood pressure medication, and various other "public good medications" co
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It would probably be easier to leave an exit node on a barge in international waters to be honest.
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The way I learned it is that it is a portmanteau of child molester. The extra "o" in the middle is used because "chmo" is hard to pronounce.
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> If convicted, this could land me in jail for 6 to 10 years. The 6 to 10 years is the least of his worries. The guy will be labeled a chomo and probably killed as a result. All for running a Tor exit node. What a time to be alive.
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by zer8k 3y ago
> As a gay man, if I have 2 similar job offers, one with a company that shows they are accepting and dont accept prejudice, and another that says nothing. Which one do you think I’ll choose? Are you implying that companies that don'
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by zer8k 3y ago
It's difficult to talk about the problem of these diversity efforts without sounding like a bigot. But I'll give it a shot. In the last 3-4 years the amount of, what I will term, "bullshit diversity" has spiked dramatica
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Solgar has been my go-to for a long time.
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My point was the breach of doctor-patient confidentiality. Which destroys the foundation of trust therapy requires. Being "legally compelled" to get help does not mean that help will be received. Forced compliance has never worked
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The problem is the people who need help most won't seek it because it will get them labeled. There are plenty of mental illnesses that create situations where doctor-patient confidentiality has to be breached (legally). This restricts
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Is there a rise in mental illness or more people simply being diagnosed now? We're more aware of mental illnesses, leading to more diagnoses, leading to what appears to be a spike in mental illness. I haven't dug deeply into this
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Can someone explain to me how you can slip a disk typing? I can't contort myself in a way I feel anything more than the occasional back muscle pain. Is the author unusually weak or something? I exercise frequently so perhaps my back is
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by zer8k 3y ago
You're missing the part where the FDA has a revolving door with the biggest pharma companies. To think the FDA is some flawed, but impartial, judge of drugs is the key problem. The FDA is controlled by big pharma. No more, no less.
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by zer8k 3y ago
But we allow physician assisted suicide. Strange isn't it? Almost sounds like soylent green. Maybe I'll skip McDonald's this week.
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I don't normally get migraines but I'd like to second that. When I do get a debilitating migraine it is always originating from my trap.

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