Viewing profile — 1323portloo

I didn't say that top talent doesn't live in Mississippi, I just said you will get what candidates DO decide to live in Mississippi. If you want top talent, you have to advertise n…

If you are a small shop, sure. If you are a major employer you will either meet market rate and get top candidates (willing to live in your area) or you will get whatever candidate…

The average American is not going to accept an e-bike, moped or motorcycle as a replacement for their SUV/wheeled living room.* Autocycles are starting to become more mainstream th…

These companies (ShiftKey, Clipboard) are not acting as agents for long term 1099 contractors at a hospital or other health care facility. They are filling shifts for as little as …

Something you don't want to learn post-graduation: if you don't have the connections to get a job, you simply don't have a prayer.

NDRIs were great at causing me brain zaps. So much so, that I could not meditate for more than a year after stopping the medication without reaching a brain state that caused simil…

Probably. My apartment doesn't have an infinity pool with attached hot tub, a tennis/basketball/whatever court, game room, servants, "servants" or helipad with waiting helicopter.

That's not their focus at all. They're trying to be an all-things-entertainment company, currently, they are focusing on movie animation and digital character creation.

Yes, unless you build everything from the game engine to the distribution channel yourself, there is a cost to doing business. IIRC Epic Games Store offers a more reasonable 88%/12…

I wouldn't say sugar is innocent. It still has the same damaging metabolic effects as alcohol, but without the inebriation.

Ahh, I remember the good old days of MUDding (and not working on my physics homework as I should have been). My old stomping ground is still alive and kicking, surprisingly: https:…

I think this is wonderful. It's a human-bootstrapped AI centipede with predictable, inevitable results.

>I went on to implement storing numeric values as text strings, which worked exactly as well as you'd expect. It can be made to work. I would've gone with Binary-Coded Decimal if I…

I remember my advisor's most relevant advice, "Keep working toward your thesis, and one day, you, too, shall have a mighty hump!"

How did Covid restrictions prevent repairs to the system not prevent this cleaner from accessing the same area?