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bustling-noose commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw

mettamage · 9 months ago

I recommend Martin Seligman. I've read some of Kahneman's academic work. Martin Seligman changed my life with Learned Optimism.

bustling-noose · 9 months ago

Sounds like my next read. Thinking fast and slow was something I just started but it seems like something I want to read when I’m functioning better.

bustling-noose commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw

Vespasian · 9 months ago

Assuming that is true, does a more negative way of viewing things actually benefit you (even if it would be slightly more "accurate")?

If one has a choice (that means if there is no case of clinical depression):

At least anecdotally a bit of optimism improves my life quality a lot and results in a higher productivity, proactive solution finding and a more pleasant work environment. Constantly looking at the negative side of things (with a healthy serving of snark) contributes, in my opinion, to burnout and fatigue.

bustling-noose · 9 months ago

I agree. While depression and negativity leads you to see things practically rather than in an optimistic and hopeful way, the quality of life and satisfaction in a little optimistic world is much better. I am yet to read Daniel Kahneman but he talks about optimism a lot.

bustling-noose commented on How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not charity.wtf/2025/06/08/on... · Posted by u/zdw

farts_mckensy · 9 months ago

On the other hand, some studies show that mildly depressed people have a more accurate model of the world. So what if you were right about your job initially, and the CBT is basically just gaslighting you into spinning things in a positive way?

bustling-noose · 9 months ago

I would like to add to this. I have been depressed since I was a teenager. Anxiety Panic attacks, poor sleep, s*ci*l tendencies. I was able to finally get a job at 29 and first 3 months into it, I realized this is not a right fit and the company and its management is chaotic at best. It was a red flag right from the start but I ignored it because I was desperate for a WFH job. After 3 years of therapy, my views had changed that it's not so bad (something that I think the optimistic view changed). I was also looking to move to North America so I kept stalling to find a new job but that was a different thing. After I slipped back into depression a while ago, I again started seriously considering quitting because now in 3 years the company has grown somehow and some of the employees are really toxic. In 3-5 months I seriously want to quit this time whether I switch or no as I will complete 4 years at a company I never planned on working beyond 6 months. So there might be some truth to this. When I am depressed I see all the realistic things going on. When I am doing well I tend to ignore lot of the red flags.

bustling-noose commented on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work nytimes.com/2025/05/25/bu... · Posted by u/milkshakes

bustling-noose · 9 months ago

I want to know if I can use an LLM during problem solving at an interview for SDE jobs at Amazon, Google and Microsoft who have boldly claimed lot of their work is done by LLMs. I will be able to point out the algorithm and explain how it works including the time complexity, but I will need the LLM first to solve it.

Will SDE interviews change ? Are these companies gearing up to let AI engineers in ? I highly doubt this is ever going to happen.

There is a quote by buffet that I think applies to a lot of scenarios not just investing : 'to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.'

ML IoT 5G blockchain etc. so many technologies are great that had their gaussian curve moment during greed. But these things take a back seat after that.

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water-data-dude · 10 months ago

I wish Duck Duck Go was fewer syllables so I could try to force it into conversations as a verb.

bustling-noose · 10 months ago

Definitely poor branding. It needs much better 2025 branding and it’ll probably take off in this AI search era where results are really poor tbh and very inaccurate at times.

bustling-noose commented on Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020) hagensieker.com/2020/11/0... · Posted by u/transpute

bustling-noose · 10 months ago

Protectli makes great hardware. But unfortunately intel runs plenty of code with things like management engine that requires Coreboot to disable during boot. It may also be possible that the cpu refuses to boot with ME disabled so maybe coreboot doesn’t always mean doesn’t run proprietary code. True opensource will maybe happen with RISC-V when it comes to routers fast enough to be installed at home or small offices.

That being said, home routers are the least supported devices when it comes to security and privacy. People are running age old firmwares that are known to have exploits. These things are literally so cheap and poorly maintained anything with openwrt is going to be better.

For offices I would not shy away from recommending protectli with openwrt or opnsense as long as there are people with enough expertise to maintain these things long term.

bustling-noose commented on Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years? · Posted by u/ipnon

bustling-noose · 10 months ago

I’ve been working with a team of so called ‘junior’ devs and coding is the least of the problems. Design and architecture is by far the most difficult thing for people to understand and get a hang of. A staff engineer won’t replace 2-4 junior devs with LLM. He will focus on the design and architecture and then get 2-4 engineers to execute it with LLMs. The two might sound the same but it’s not. And that’s the difference between understanding software engineering and coding. LLMs make coding easier, not software engineering.

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bustling-noose · 10 months ago

In India Amazon makes little sense. Neither does kindle nor does local book store.

The reason for this is that both paper and printing here is cheap along with labor. The original author also licenses for cheap. The publishing houses however take a large cut increasing the cost of the book.

People get a hold of the epub and print them and sell them for 1/4th of the price sometimes 1/10th for new and even less for used.

The only way I see around this is digital libraries. Let people rent unlimited books (but like Netflix limited at a time) and take a monthly cut.