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Faraday cages are passive and not illegal. Jamming is.

Fair. Not sure what it’s like getting tech talks approved through comms these days, but this would be fascinating to hear about at a SF or SouthBay Systems meetup.

This sounds fascinating. Can you say anything about the application? Autoscaling? Data center cooling and power use?

Dairy cows don’t taste good. They’re used for the bottom of the barrel low grade ground meat. Think dog food.

AI slop. - it’s not just X, it’s Y - emdashes everywhere

upside down pot from the kitchen. wooden spoon. you sitting next to them on the floor, engaged and interested, paying attention to them.

[on a salary of 70k] “I am not building up a nest egg from my salary” You are robbing from your future to live in the present. This might be ok for you specifically as you are maki…

This is called “revenge bedtime procrastination” in the literature. The reply above’s point is that you’ve don’t have data to say that your phone usage is not affecting your sleep.…

Here’s some resources: - https://levels.fyi - https://Reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions - https://Leetcode.com $200k is quite achievable both remote, IF you have experience. If you ar…

The regulations referenced are prohibitive zoning regulations. These dictate that you are only allowed to build single family homes on the property you own, and that the homes must…

This illegal collusion and wage suppression in our industry still occurs, it’s just kept better under wraps now as the executives have learned how to not write things down and use …

Unpaywalled https://archive.is/2024.08.02-162144/https://fortune.com/202...

That’s standard or a little bit low for a staff engineer at FAANG and top tier tech. See https://www.levels.fyi/blog/2023-mid-year-report.html

Nobody cares. Seriously, customers don’t care about the internal nuance of how things are organized. They care that a very foundational piece of a cloud service provider will sudde…

Is this satire? A startup should ruthlessly prioritize doing only the one single thing that drives revenue, which is not bespoke infrastructure configuration.

Something not covered by the many knowledgeable commenters here: What’s the pay? Is it competitive with FAANG? (See levels.fyi)

This sounds like literal paradise. I don’t know how to cultivate this kind of community. It’s not something I grew up with. I moved around a lot, and have recently realized that po…

Look into beta blockers. Also used by stage performers for similar reasons. https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/generalized-anxiety-disord...

The answer is to socialize and make friends at work. People who try to “Network” artificially won’t see great success. People who are genuinely take an interest in what others are …

It’s far less reasonable. If you are skilled in being the chief of staff at google maps, it is likely your highest market value is in that particular niche. Restricting your employ…

Preventing a sales person from soliciting their former customers is entirely covered by a non-solicitation contract, and claiming that a non-compete agreement is needed is a total …

I would be very very surprised if Southwest gives shares to software engineers.

Discord audio quality is much better. So is zoom if you turn on original audio mode and /all/ participants have a headset so it does full duplex.

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