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They all await the miracle of β€œvesting” (*)

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23.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very simple. It’s 16 hour work days. Six of those hours, each day, is dedicated to a vain attempt at fixing the garbage code they wrote during the preceding 10 hours on the previous day β€” all the while tweaked on industrial quantities of Monster.

23.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Engineering firms, which have a financial liability for their output, will not accept using any software product for which there isn’t a bright line of lawyers and service level agreements to follow.

21.03.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jason Chaffetz, who signed that document, was one of the folks who voted to cut the budget. His motives may not exactly be pure.

06.01.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Libya attack: Congressmen casting blame voted to cut diplomatic security budget - CSMonitor.com

Famously, the result of Republicans cutting the budget for US embassy security.

www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/a...

06.01.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Jensen has stated he has 55 direct reports. Assuming this holds throughout, the max height of a 55-ary tree with 29K nodes can be calculated with:
floor(log55((29000-1)(55-1)+1))+1

Which is 4 levels of hierarchy for the whole org.

No idea how true that is though. But it’s fun to extrapolate!

11.12.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are the ones I’m using currently:

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11.12.2024 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Subscribe to a β€œknown trolls” block list. Really fixes the signal-to-noise ratio.

11.12.2024 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re slipping. That’s a high-quality fact right there.

08.12.2024 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Instead, they need to pay for private insurance to get any sort of health care coverage at all.

07.12.2024 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As a part of my Canadian taxes, I pay into the health services, which I can use if I need. Americans pay similar amount as a part of their taxes, for health services they _cannot_ use, either because they’re not veterans, government employees, elderly or poor.

07.12.2024 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Around 33% of the US Federal taxes go towards Medicaid, Medicare, government employee health care and VA benefits. Ignoring state taxes, the average US tax payer pays about the same ballpark amount as the average Canadian, for health care programs they may never make use of.

05.12.2024 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And that’s just in taxes, _before_ they pay for private insurance.

05.12.2024 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
β€œBehind the Curve”: the Ring Laser Gyroscope Experiment β€œBehind the Curve” is a documentary showing behind the scenes on what is happening in the flat-Earth community in the United States just before a flat-Earth conference. In a section, th…

Motivated reasoning is a hell of a thing: flatearth.ws/behind-the-c...

27.11.2024 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It largely depends on how the deployment is scheduled. At one 3D software company I worked at, we had a rotating support engineer of the month, doing essentially the same thing. Triage incoming, fix vexing customer issues, keep the build farm running. We did daily multi-platform builds though.

27.11.2024 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Save points.

10.03.2024 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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