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seems like the the "Fall of Civilizations" episode on us is coming sooner that we thought. to be fair, it's likely that some of the others(that have their episode) saw it coming an…

Back in your day, did resume-driven development help at switching careers?

As someone who switched careers, from working as a mechanical engineer to(at first) coding JS web to Java engineer later on - do not strategize too much upfront. Building connectio…

Solar market will further expand. Prices likely to go down as well.

The Power of the Powerless by Havel

A consumer-grade HP printer for my home office. Had a regular end-of-the-month printing need of about ~500pages. To my great frustration it still kinda works - needs monitoring for…

I'd say it averages around 3 hours, with significant amplitudes. My specific job consists of helping/automating my client's business problems/objectives and most of my effort is or…

Gratitude for the expose. I was(and assume most here were as well) completely unaware of Pave. I will, and hopefully other potentially impacted, look up if I am affected by this an…

too boring(to write about) for engineers, too complex for AI. Still, very much present/popular in the ecosystems I dabble in.

>I imagine the people grinding LC are harder working/more innovative than people who watched TV instead. I suspect the original author of the article that spawned this comment thre…

likely not as there are other, more efficient ways to roughly gauge that. It does however test one's conformity to arbitrary processes to some extent albeit in not the most efficie…

Applied(and went thru the all the ropes) twice in the last 6 months for Java software engineering positions(senior) in two companies respectively. Rejected the first time, low-ball…

You might need to be a bit flexible on the "modern" requirement in order to get what you want/need. Being familiar with fairly recent models(in the EU), if you sacrifice the AWD/4W…

Fair point! > And when some people do layoffs, everyone does them. They're all subject to the same market pressures in the same industry. One company doing them gives all the other…

Paul Graham's Essays keep me amused during this winter season - https://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html They go way back, and I do expect(and look forward to) new content. Came ac…