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Fox has always been biased and never trustworthy. Trump is definitely what broke the rest of the mainstream media though.

Did you work during the Trump era? Because it’s clear to me that that’s when journalists believed that their moral obligation was to further the agenda of their respective political parties and not care about the absolute truth.

That’s when things went from bad to worse and I abandoned the mainstream media entirely.

It’s funny how much coverage rich people in jets get, but this destructions of the lives of tens of thousands from an environmental catastrophe gets very little media coverage and outrage.

This should never have happened and tens of thousands will die from the after effects. It’s disgusting.

64 bit came after Linux. And amd64 didn’t become popular until Intel moved to it unwillingly. Enterprise didn’t mess Around with amd at that point.

No. AMD64 wasn’t as popular especially in enterprise environments until just before Intel started to support it. Intel had the failed Itanium but that wasn’t the reason for Linux’s success. Linux on 32bit was still dominant at that point and the cause.

I was supporting a cross-platform enterprise environment and was deep into this at the time. I saw it from the front line’s and I even implemented my company’s port to Linux. Everyone was skeptical about Itanium. Enterprises companies in most part didn’t have the luxury to experiment.

No it absolutely was Intel/windows. If you remember correctly, once of their last ditch efforts to save the company was to ditch irix and sell windows machines on Intel.

They used to own the high performance market. I remember because my dad was a researcher that bought a 250k SGI workstation to run simulations on in the late 1980s and that was the first time I had seen a laser mouse and I played with the flight simulator.

But as high performance computing because more ubiquitous and cheaper they couldn’t compete and had to lower their prices until they went bankrupt.

How did it go from Go telemetry to trans and intersex rights? I stopped reading there because that sounded like a troll.

The post is very good but has a huge glaring hole in it.

They say Sun died because of AMD64 but that’s incorrect. It was Linux. I know this because I was in enterprise software during this era and the demise of Sun due to Linux was stunning.

Intel and Windows killed SGI, which was a huge coup. However Sun was killed because during that time, Linux went from a toy OS into a fully supported enterprise OS that was “good enough”.

I remember how at one point in time, Oracle on Solaris was just about as rock solid as you could get. But slowly and surely more enterprise software moved over to Linux, especially Oracle. And within 10 years Sun went from one of the “4 horsemen of the Internet” to being sold to Oracle. It was sad because I loved Solaris as a technology, I even had a Sun workstation at home.

That said, how quickly Linux killed Solaris/Sun is a great reminder of how quickly things change in tech.

The fact that dark matter has never been seen “but it must be there!” is basically the same argument that religious people make. It’s 100% a religious, faith-based argument and non-scientific. There I said it.

There’s an explanation for all of this behavior that we are measuring but saying that it’s something we can’t see but it’s there!! is objectively absurd.

Only 2-3 years? That’s a disaster what do you mean! People need to be kept on the payroll, etc and the entire schedule will have more consequences. That is a huge expense for something that is literally a few clicks on a keyboard. It’s something that should never have happened.

I agree but I’m always wondering how admissions departments and those who are in charge benefit from donations. I understand bribery, but this is a bit different. If the money goes to universities for a donation, do people somehow get rewarded for this?

Yes that’s what I said.

I don’t care either way who blew up the pipeline but to me the biggest glaring reason why I don’t think it’s the US is because Russia did not retaliate in any meaningful way.

Us peons are clueless about what happened but Russia knows and they would know if it was them. If it wasn’t them then it’s obvious who did It and escalating the war would be justified. The fact this didn’t happen to me suggests it was Russia all along.

I know people who were so sick and tired of trying to figure out where to dispose of their fluorescent light bulbs that they just threw them to the side of the road on the highway at night. It’s completely undetectable.

I have EE and have been programming for decades now.

They are. The CEO already came out and said that execs would take a significant cut in bonus.

It’s possible but right now is the worst time in the last 20 years to try to find an entry level position.

Coding is a job and possible aptitude and desire for good salary isn’t enough. Just like any other job, you should be motivated to do it 8 hrs a day 5 days a week for years on end.

The good thing is that this is something you can learn on your own on the side. So I would continue taking classes and seeing if coding is something you really do enjoy and wait for the markets to thaw, hopefully later on this year.

During university I went from top 10 in my class to bottom quartile. I let the entire thing unravel and I couldn’t get into a master’s program with my grades and ended up working at a bank in IT at CIBC. IT as in fixing computers and installing Windows, not programming. Yes my ego was bruised too after university. Accept that it happened and FORGIVE YOURSELF.

All my friends that I was much smarter than got way better jobs. I interviewed at IBM and they gave me an aptitude test and the scorer said that I scored the highest he had ever seen from a university grad. But I didn’t get the job because I didn’t have enough experience in programming. I felt like shit. But you have to just persevere.

I studied my ass off after work and taught myself how to program. After 2 years of teaching myself I applied to for a programming job at Rogers and lied, saying I was programming at CIBC, and got my foot in the door as a programmer.

I worked there 2 years and then managed to get a job in the US and yadda yadda yadda, I’m at a FAANG.

Stop looking in the past.

You got into Shopify which has legit resume value. As a hiring manager I would not even notice if you had a math degree or CS degree, no one cares. Your Shopify experience trumps all. No one ever asked me about my GPA after I got experience.

You can get into the US via transfer or via H1B. Right now no one is hiring anyway but once they do in a year or two, your Shopify experience is more valuable. Just work your ass off at Shopify and have big impact and you will be rewarded.

I used c++ for 15 years but I haven’t touched it in over 10 years now. The language I learned is totally different to the point where I don’t want to learn it. It’s like an entirely new language. The C++11 was the last version I used and to me the modern version of C is trying to do too much.

You’re using the term “R&E”. What does the E stand for? I’ve only heard the term R&D.

Your first mistake was not leaving 2 years ago after getting a glowing performance review and they gave you nothing.

You should be preparing to find another job asap. There’s no reason to be staying in a situation like this.

I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention but there have been layoffs across the entire tech industry the likes we haven’t seen since the dotcom bust, 20 years ago.

I suggest tempering your expectations right now until the large companies start hiring again.

Both me and my wife hate working from home. She is forced to but I elected to go into the office once it was available.

The work life balance is better, sure, but my productivity plummeted and I was stuck doing nothing for hours every day waiting to hear back from coworkers. The stress involved especially during a recession is more than the benefit of no commute for me.

You could say the same thing about baseball cards but they skyrocketed after the pandemic.

He did not cut his pay voluntarily. He pay was cut by the board.

Lots of salty researchers are shitting on ChatGPT meandering every single person I know is shocked. If this isn’t so innovative why didn’t they release something sooner?

is there any way to stop updates? They keep rebooting my machine every few weeks and it’s extremely disruptive to me

I felt exactly the opposite.

Having so many interviews makes you feel more relaxed for every interview because you become numb to it. You don’t care if you flunk your FAANG interview because you already have a good chance with a mid-sized smaller company, which makes you even better for the FAANG interview.

I did over a dozen interview loops when I was looking last year and I felt great and at the top of my game.

The parties I have are with people whose kids are similar age. We end up playing poker for money while the kids play or we have potluck dinners etc. it was actually getting kind of exhausting so we stepped back but I think that’s basically how it ends up centering around kids.

I was in the “global recession” camp all last year but I’ve started to doubt that.

I don’t see any real economic impact to companies except Meta but that was them losing market share. Otherwise all these layoffs feel like hangover recovery from over hiring the last 3 years.

I think we will be fine. Hiring won’t be like the last 3 years but I also don’t think we are going to go through the Bust 2.0.