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>> Stainless steel is just such a terrible choice for a rocket this large. Honest question, but what do they usually use?

Am I the only one who is getting tired of all the AI stuff in VS Code? I just want to open my ide and not be greeted by a dozen AI prompts begging to have it code something for me.…

I'm still flying under the radar with a Dell Precision T5820. 128GB of DDR4 and a Quadro P4000 graphics card (8gb). Handles everything I need it to do including photo/video editing…

The easy way to get around this is by telling the recruiter you've been actively applying with companies inside your state and for remote contract work and you don't want to be sub…

Racing Towards Oblivion

My buddy did that. I got a gig as a contractor for a well known company. They were hiring and he told his recruiter to get him in. After several conversations trying to tell him no…

Had something similar happen. I get on the zoom call. Told it would be a general interview and same thing. No camera, then asked me to show my drivers license and social security c…

>> Leverage is great when prices are increasing, but not when prices are moving in the opposite direction. This. I worked for a medium sized company in the early aughts. It was a f…

I've become equally paranoid about VSCode extensions. I remember using several other IDE's like Brackets, JetBrains, Sublime Text or Bluefish only having a few solid extensions to …

>> in order to make it to a billion dollars you need to consistently exploit people and absolutely refuse to use your power to help others in any significant way. I would categoric…

>> They just had very bad supply chain management. The crazy thing is Joe O' Sullivan had set out a two month training for Tim Cook to learn the supply side of the company. Cook ma…

Last year we got a rental car when we were in Florida. When we first left the airport, we were using the navigation app that was in the car. First red light? Navigation app suddenl…

Was also in a similar position around the same time. When I was an undergrad, my two professors told me to stay out of academia it wasn't worth it. I plowed ahead anyways. I had th…

I'm pretty shocked as well. I thought every company stopped doing this like 20 years ago? Even for a legacy system that is a long time to continue storing credentials like that.

The interesting thing is that cheating is much easier when done online. When I was a TA and we were in the process of moving quite a bit of the classes to online, we still mandated…

>> but is a possible additional factor that younger, more naive, people just don't have what is and isn't "possible" so deeply ingrained in their minds? I would agree with this. Ev…

>> whose current existence appears to be due to a weird short squeeze anomaly, is not a sustainable business. I remember working in a CD Warehouse in the early aughts. Our store wa…

I'm the same way as OP. I'll go clean out my basement, find a load of old tech and just put it up in a bundle or sell it individually for dirt cheap. Likewise, I buy a lot of stuff…

>> Or bosses will just expect more output for same/less pay, with them having to use AI to keep up. Anecdotal evidence to support this. I work with both dev and design teams. Upper…

How do you think the UAE leaving OPEC will effect the oil markets in the coming months and years? Its being touted as having a major impact.

Last year there was some rumbling that Newsom would start to increase production because two refineries were closing sooner than later with the prospect of much higher gas prices. …

>> I’m tired of working in an industry hell bent on the destruction of society. People will argue this point. However, when I look at all the things that tech has done thinking it …

>> That can’t continue as the rest of the world is catching up. This has already been happening quietly in several industries. I remember many years ago when I was working in a bik…

A majority of the big corporations I've worked at this was the typical developer track. - entry level dev - senior dev (start being groomed for management) - senior dev/leader (tak…

A few years ago I was on a massive project to rebuild and redesign a major public facing portal. Our dev team was nails, cranking out features and components on a very tight time t…