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I wish there were an anonymous way to get contact info for those companies!

It’s okay, I put my thoughts out there and I appreciate the feedback from other engineers. It’s actually kind of motivating. I’d interviewed at several places over the last few mon…

Where should we work instead? I’d really like to leave, but I’m kind of stuck, and I don’t have enough to retire. I have to work remote from a non-coast state for family care reaso…

Deliberately vague, half so I can’t be easily identified (though my team’s case is not unique), half so I don’t get in trouble for sharing specific personnel information. True numb…

I totally agree, it sounds unbelievable… Problem is, I’m on one of these core infrastructure teams, and for my team at least we lost between 50-75% of our engineers to the AI org. …

My initial offer was $400k total comp (E5), so I didn’t really consider FIRE as an option in the near term considering my spouse is a full-time parent and this area is HCOL. I’m no…

I work at Meta (for now…) I really care about VR and had the opportunity to work at Reality Labs. They paid to relocate my family to the Bay Area, where I was able to get better me…

> They are the only man-made technology in history that we don’t fully understand from first principles …what? What about bicycles? Ice skates? General anesthetics? I feel like the…

Can vouch, got paternity leave 4.5 months after starting EDIT: this is in California

1. These can only be flown in most class E airspace and class G, so not anywhere close to most airports 2. They are much bigger and more visible than drones 3. The ultralight pilot…

Yes, though any subject which trains you to think with mathematical rigor will help. I switched my major from CS to math midway through my undergrad studies. I have worked at start…

Fly under sport pilot privileges. All you need is a drivers license. Reach out to West Desert Aviators in Utah. Several young people in tech fly there. If you can find LSA to fly, …

> Is there any tech company (or any other than Apple) that hasn't whacked a slug of people right now? I don’t think Adobe has had general layoffs yet

I’m a SWE at Meta and this does not match my experience. Basically everyone I work with is perpetually overcommitted.

Crazy, I had something that could have escalated to a wrongful arrest with Hertz less than a week ago. Hertz initially gave me a car with a mechanical problem, so they swapped it o…

I think one would have to have a background in modern algebra and physics to see where the "unification" is useful. Then it becomes a lot more obvious, for example Maxwell's equati…

From my math undergrad, I feel like generally there are two feelings on this kind of thing: - No practical application is needed, since studying math is an end in itself - If there…

A great article from a friend of mine that brought up thoughts on responsible use of statistics and public perception of statistical models vs qualitative analysis. I've really app…

I live in Utah, can confirm this is a huge thing here. Fortunately (I say fortunately because I hate MLMs) the leaders of the dominant religion here have been pretty vocal about be…

You're totally right, I could have worded that differently. I actually posted an infinite field extension that is algebraic elsewhere in this thread, but usually those are tricky a…

Nice, that's pretty much what I had to do to fix this. I used the bluetooth explorer to force AAC, and force zoom to use the internal MacBook mic

On a simpler level, zoom on macOS sketches me out in lots of ways. My macbook's bluetooth will not connect to my earbuds, but only when zoom is running. Other audio recording/playi…

Another nit, not all algebraic extensions are finite dimensional. Just adjoin an infinite number of linearly independent roots (square roots, cube roots, etc). Algebraic, but not f…

I guarantee that is not an algebraic extension. It's not even a finite extension