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denimnerd42··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
that's the main reason I stuck with sublimetext for soooo long. It's so fast and it can handle insanely huge files plus it can do column operations on text on insanely huge files. VS Code does seem to have been optimized since the first few years though and its not hardware related.
denimnerd42··on Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom
here's some discussion about yields for H100 per wafer. I'd assume a 4080 is smaller? regardless, the calculator is supplied.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38588876

denimnerd42··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
There's the loss of liquidity for years and loss of opportunity cost. It's not victimless by far.
denimnerd42··on Engineering managers should not exist
We don't have engineering managers at my job. works fairly well. we have managers that manage the HR aspects of the job and do some coordination of the work as far as placing people where the work needs to be done. but they are completely hands off on the technical side.
denimnerd42··on Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit
not really. goldman sachs found out those customers cost them a lot of money with the apple card. the best customers are the wealthy who have $100k+ in their checking/savings accounts and million+ in their brokerage accounts and clear 10k+ monthly on their credit cards.
denimnerd42··on Show HN: Return To Office Mandates suck
Im looking for another job. My team is not colocated to me but I'm forced to commute 3x a week just to scan my badge. its a weekly 120mi/200km commitment during lunch to least obstruct my schedule. their green initiatives are clearly transparent
denimnerd42··on Spreadsheets are all you need
regulators would like a word.
denimnerd42··on Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage
hardly a factor for most nowadays with the increase in standard deduction
denimnerd42··on Instagram overtakes TikTok as most downloaded app
I have been noticing this in the past couple of weeks. You're right on with about 10-20% of videos being shops. There seems to be two categories to the shop ads. One is "good" content creators that are trying to monetize through the shop. The other is random temu level crap people are trying to just sell.
denimnerd42··on Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?
https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/travel/jsx-small-carriers....

JSX security advantage may not last forever

denimnerd42··on Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, CDC Says
this is quite an anti-drug article.

Raise prices? Limit access? Research shows that even a little bit can mutate DNA..?

Drinking 100 years ago was way worse and that's how we got prohibition. Hope we don't go back in that direction.

denimnerd42··on RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study
there's also the soft-layoff side. You can encourage those pesky mothers or child caretakers to quit as well as those that don't live very close or can't stand the office for any myriad of reasons..
denimnerd42··on Staff say Dell's RTO mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
yeah and I imagine the costs balloon if you need childcare 10-12 hours a day instead of 5 or 6. In Japan they work sort of insane hours so that's why I say 12. We're able to survive on only 6 hours a day by aligning our schedules to offset but if we're both in the office FT then that's no longer an option and the childcare costs would double for us.
denimnerd42··on Staff say Dell's RTO mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
Well yes. it gets nuanced. The answer is anyone involved in raising the child. Both parents, grandparents that are still working even. Neighbors, aunts, uncles.. We are both WFH/hybrid which allowed us the flexibility to work crazy work hours and swap hands to take care of children. My wife works 50-65+ hours 6mo of the year and 40 the rest so having that flexibility between 3pm and 8pm really helps. If you have to RTO that flexibility disappears and just crushes work life balance because it's not acceptable to just leave the office at 2:30. If everyone you know if stuck at the office or in a commute till 6pm there is no shared community to help with the child.
denimnerd42··on Staff say Dell's RTO mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
Yup and look at their birth rates. Companies/Countries are screwing themselves by not allowing flexibility to raise a family during their workers 20s and 30s.
denimnerd42··on Staff say Dell's RTO mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
The working world is still incredibly unfair to women. Source: I witness my wife's struggles. Fortunately for us we were able to have our children during the covid wfh boom and it was so good for our family. She was able to progress in both her career and we were able to raise our children. Now our children are still young and she only needs to go in 2x/week but we see the tide turning. Most of her peers that are women are unmarried or don't have children.
denimnerd42··on The Rise of Obituary Spam
Friend of mine's dad died in an auto accident. Fairly prominent doctor. In the days afterward before any bonafide obits or new stories came out there were tens of mashed up obit articles and youtube videos posted from what seemed like places in India hoping to clickbait spam you on google's search page. Not surprised in the year since it's moved to AI. The news of the death must have come from some sort of database they'd hacked into or some kind of malware that tracks name + death because nothing on the public internet or any of the local government sites had any thing available.
denimnerd42··on Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Has Fallen Out of Favor
yeah i'm not sure many people's first goto dessert would be eating frozen semi sweet chocolate chips out of a bag but that's what the ice cream tastes like to me. just totally overpowers the actual ice cream.
denimnerd42··on Show HN: Lookup the school district associated with a street address in the US
Some even overlap.
denimnerd42··on Car insurance in America is too cheap
Bad headline for sure. The coverage by law is too low.
denimnerd42··on US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes
Development slows to a crawl and nothing gets done. We have audit teams up our ass at my job and you can't do anything due to the 100 layers created by previous audits. There has to be someone that says "work needs to get done" we don't really have that.
denimnerd42··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
yeah that's why I mapped seats in the first row into the second :) maybe they just truncate the extra seats instead of move them back. i don't know
denimnerd42··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
his 2nd one says they send a smaller plane. it'd make sense a simple algorithm would map 1a1b1c1d1e to 1a1b1c1d2a2b etc. the rear most seats get bumped.
denimnerd42··on Citigroup Plans to Cut 20k Jobs
I work at a similar bank. We have ~100 employees dedicated to mainly one regulator. There are hundreds of regulators worldwide. Of course there is some overlap in functions so its not 100s*100 but... running a bank is a hard business.
denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
of course i drive/bike/walk in daily life. the risk is proportional to miles traveled. adding 10-50 a day compared to 10-50 a week is quite a bit. is that snark
denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
driving every day is more dangerous than not driving every day. job is basically saying take a small chance to be injured every day that we don't have to insure to keep your job.
denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
They already have work locations allowed per department. Mine has 3 in the US and 4 abroad, but we work with others in far more. I could see them trying to move the number of work locations allowed down by shuffling people around or laying off but that'd just be a horrendous undertaking.
denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
What's the alternative? They don't want to pay a full team SV or NYC wages that's for sure. There's not many places they can just layoff and re-hire what would be tens of thousands of people. Total headcount is north of 100k. I'm not sure what it would be including contractors. Are they gonna pay support roles like scrum masters and admin assistants NYC wages too?

We have offshore resources on the team too to maintain a 24 hours global presence. Europe and India. So are we onshoring to night shifts too?

denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
They've just started this enforcement. Career change takes time :)
denimnerd42··on Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data
My team is fully distributed across the globe yet they are tracking my badge swipes to an office an hour away where no one else works. The environmental impact of this just drives me nuts. Not to mention the danger to my personal well being and the cost.

They don't know how to track performance here either so I know they aren't making data based decisions.

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