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notyourwork

4,799 karma · joined June 4, 2010

Software engineer in Seattle, WA
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notyourwork··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
Is there a concept equivalent to US, salary employee? If so what are they expected to work?
notyourwork··on 418 I'm a teapot
I bet that makes Elon feel warm and tingly inside.
notyourwork··on Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain
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Bummer.

notyourwork··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
This type of stuff would suggest otherwise.

https://www.dailyo.in/technology/elon-musk-fired-a-twitter-e...

notyourwork··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
> At least he got me thinking I suppose, heh.

Wealth doesn't automatically give credence to valuable perspective. Further, I tend to just disregard Elon for what he is.

notyourwork··on Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
NYC, $150k. That's a pretty abysmal salary for a software engineer.
notyourwork··on Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA
+1 I live in California or I like in Washington is very different from I live in San Francisco or I live in Seattle.
notyourwork··on Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”
I agree, they capture a moment in some ways better compared to a static photo. Not replacement but a nice feature on their own.
notyourwork··on Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence
Is Sam Altman the answer to regulating AI? If yes, why?
notyourwork··on Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
This audience isn’t the same as the population at large. Many would conclude from this headline the wrong thing and not see through the BS.
notyourwork··on AA CEO tells pilots the carrier to increase pay to up to $590k a year
They don't, the first year contract increase would yield 21% increase.

> An agreement could include 21% pay increases in the first year of the contract, Isom said. Factoring in higher 401(k) contributions by the end of a four-year deal, a captain flying narrow-body planes would make $475,000 at the top of the scale, up $135,000 from current pay, while the most senior captains of wide-body planes would make $590,000 per year, a $170,000 increase from today.

notyourwork··on Bard generates clean JSON if you threaten to take a human life
Right, so OP wants to treat Bard as an API. I don't dispute the thought, though it does run counter to conversational models. I'm slightly anxious about all the rogue conversational text parsing to use LLM's as an API.
notyourwork··on Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral?
Buying a competitor (insta) is the greatest acquisition of all time? Literally just building a moat, not something I’d describe as the best in kind.
notyourwork··on Fuck being productive
Surely it's a risk, I think with all things balance is critical. However, I've personally found the grind that can come and go with delivery dates and peculiar debugging are far more satisfying and easy to commit to when the medium is a personal passion/interest.
notyourwork··on Fuck being productive
Big +1, work on something that bothers you in your personal life or something that interests you in your personal life. It will always undoubtedly be more fulfilling compared to simply "working for the man."
notyourwork··on Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order: FTC
Maybe passion, maybe they lead because of financial compensation. Open source or not, I like my jobs to come with a salary attached.
notyourwork··on Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
So I guess 2 years makes ALL the difference in this context.
notyourwork··on Get a Tesla if you want to learn about AI trying to kill you, says Steve Wozniak
I’m simply con because for the price the build quality is terrible and I’m tired of the hype FSD has been given. It’s all garbage and Elon and Tesla deserve a back hand for the marketing scam.
notyourwork··on Unity to lay off 8% of its workforce
How old were you in second grade? About 10 right? Maybe 9 approaching 10. Close enough that your argument is ignorant and terrible.
notyourwork··on T-Mobile Breached, Again
No one cares, stock price continues to explode relative to telecom competitors. What incentive does TMobile need to resolve this nonsense?
notyourwork··on Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
Not every house is under an HOA.
notyourwork··on When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty
Op was poking at a stereotype, relax and try not to take things so personally.
notyourwork··on Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M
Exactly, I just want my own place. The land and roof to do what I want with. It’s not monopoly for most people.
notyourwork··on The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos
One day you and others may look back and wonder when everything changed for the worst.
notyourwork··on Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
Stuff like this should yield criminal charges.
notyourwork··on Load Balancing
100% agree, although I have experience and knew the material, I read this through because it was a pleasure to read and the visualizations were engaging. Well done!
notyourwork··on AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services
But we're ok with those algorithms curated content. It's a weird world.
notyourwork··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
That's naive without any context to claim. You have to know the source that triggers the code to publish the message, what the message is for, the fault tolerance and availability of the API we're calling before you can even begin to decide. Which you validated perfectly by giving a snarky "what about redundancy" answer to a complicated question.
notyourwork··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
Our team typically expects some cost consideration given in design documents. This way we know that some attention was given to it and it's a good starting place for discussing costs during design review.
notyourwork··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
How many times I've had this discussion. Let's publish a notification, and let's have the message receiver call some API. Why not just call the API from the place where you want to publish the message? Because we need this SNS message queue.
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