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Sorry, I didn’t remember the start of the thread by the time I got here. But in later comments you said “in addition, if you are 400k+ you'd probably enjoy the privilege of skippin…

>400k and fully remote is still not easy. Most of the obvious high payers in big tech (e.g. Meta) have required days in the office, and I can think of very few high-paying companie…

Sorry, I meant replay really broadly because I could not come up with a better term in the moment. For example, a password can be leaked in many ways (guessed, by a breach if the w…

That’s the trade off being made for convenience. It’s still somewhat multifactor though (I’ve seen people call it 1.5FA); authentication codes have the benefit of being resilient t…

My university had lecturers that were precisely this (masters in CS, focused on teaching intro undergrad courses). However, I think there is still a lot of benefit from having rese…

4 engineers for an entire phone company sounds scary. I’m sure your engineering is robust enough such that outages are minimal, but that still sounds like a lot of on call (rotatio…

Years of study are definitely not required to get up and running! I attended a 3 day workshop for TLA+ and spent ~2 weeks modeling a new project that my team was working on. I foun…

Ok, I’m sorry for not enumerating all possible itemized deductions when we’re talking about charity specifically. However, charity is probably the most well-known deduction that yo…

You can’t deduct charitable donations unless you don’t take the standard deduction. Instead, you must itemize your deductions. In practice this means you take the standard deductio…

Right, and further not being perfectly financially rational is quite fine! Finances aren’t the only factor in any decision, nor do they need to be the primary factor.

This seems a bit extreme. If you can afford to move, does interest rate really factor in? If rates get worse you’ve still locked a better rate, if rates get better you refinance. B…

It makes sense why someone who is good at LC via pattern recognition might not be as good at competitive programming. However, it’s not clear why the reverse would be true. Surely …

Are those “with a track record of making a difference” also ok with interview tests, white boards, and/or take homes? I don’t know if viewing excessive tests with disdain is a char…

This isn’t necessarily a useful anecdote though. If your previous payment processors weren’t using a bank that failed during that time, then you getting paid on time isn’t a sign o…

Can we assume that Facebook did a good job onboarding remotely? I guess maybe the argument is that given poor onboarding, in-person is better than remote, and going back to in-pers…

There’s also relocating across machines. For example, maybe your build environment has access to internal registries but your release environment does not. I naively thought you co…

I guess your system works, but I hope you’d agree it’s quite the hassle! It also seems you’d be ok with paying fees for pure money storage, though hopefully you can see why the ave…

I understand the mechanism that occurs in reality, but also in practice the average person puts money in the bank primarily for storage. If you ask someone why they have a bank acc…

Depositors don’t put money in a bank expecting profits!! Yes they might get interest, but the main goal is safe storage of easily accessible money. Where exactly do you expect peop…

Any reason why you would use jq over Python? Certainly this can be attributed to my lack of knowledge in jq, but anything beyond a simple query is going to be done with Python for …

Agreed, when I commented earlier I was also thinking about mentioning something similar with regards to classes of bugs due to interactions between systems. Unless you have a setup…

I think it’s dependent on the person learning the material. My college had a similar course and it was also highly regarded as useful by students. However, while I found the course…

You don’t need breakpoints all the time though. If you’re familiar with the code (or just “talented”), you might have an intuition for what the problem is and it’s faster to just t…

Broadcast-type announcements can be a little weird to announce in a group chat though. A very basic example, but let’s say you’re in a group chat mainly for gaming together. Are yo…