Readit NewsMaybe it's time to move to open source solutions (*nix), with custom security/audit measures.
Might be very expensive initially, but then they'd have complete control.
xil3 commented on Cindy Lee might be the future of music gq.com/story/pulling-weed... · Posted by u/b0ner_t0ner
You think this is the future of music?
xil3 commented on Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us... · Posted by u/ece20
I feel sorry for any startups looking to innovate in this space. It's hard enough competing against established players without them getting billions in free money.
Intel has had the resources to build out fabs in the US for decades. Instead, they've chosen to build elsewhere, and now they're rewarded for it?
They recently announced their $20b facility in Ohio is being "put on hold":
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96969/intel-delays-launch-of-...
While at nearly the same time announcing a $25b facility in Israel:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/intel-israel-investment/...
It's called payoffs. Not much we can do when the system is corrupt.
I don't think we'll ever have a perfect system, unfortunately. Just makes it that much harder for startups.
xil3 commented on You Shouldn't Make Friends at Work psychologytoday.com/ca/bl... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
xil3 commented on Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device twitter.com/hugelgupf/sta... · Posted by u/fortran77
Makes me wish I didn't just buy the 12.9 iPad pro with the overly priced magic keyboard.
Very disappointed in apple.
P.s. I use an Android phone.
xil3 commented on Europe makes shipping vessels pay for carbon emissions maxinomics.com/blog/europ... · Posted by u/isthispermanent
As a European, I'm so happy about this.
A system where emitters can ignore the actual cost of their externalities and push them down onto society at large to handle (through taxes) is broken.
This should also result in more funding around anything green tech related, when you actually have to pay the full price of the currently-used alternatives.
Ideally, there'd be a market with buyers (capturers) and sellers (emitters) (with a negative price, so cash flows from seller to buyer, obviously) for carbon emissions where the price depends on the actual underlying cost of capture, but that will hopefully come in the future, when carbon capture is commercially viable.
Right, and who do you think will pay for this new tax? It's definitely not the importers and exporters - it's the end customers, because everything will go up in price. They're not going to absorb those fees.
The only ones making money here is the EU governments imposing this.
xil3 commented on Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry? · Posted by u/xil3
Yes. I burnt out of FAANG, took a funemployment break, worked as an automotive service tech for a while, and am now back in tech.
I returned with an appreciation for the flexibility and variety. Car work was varied but inflexible and the pay was terrible. I dabbled in other hobbies over the course of my break but in the end tech is the best overall way to support myself so I expect to stay. However, my next gig will be at a much, much smaller company because it keeps variety high and the ceo/founder/decider close.
To me it sounds like you have the mildest version of being burnt out. Have you introspected on why in particular you have arrived where you are? Projecting, was it a couple bad team fits? When were you most happy in your job? What were prevailing conditions? I realized that I need to run my life with Dunbar’s Number in mind or I risk othering my coworkers in ways that make me a kinda shitty peer. So I’m looking for smallish companies just starting to scale as my ideal work environment. What’s yours?
Edit: fixed a typo.
I'm starting to think that's my go-to now - I need to either focus on smaller companies, where I can feel like I'm contributing to actual change. Whereas in the bigger companies I worked at, it felt like I wasn't actually doing anything, just because it was a constant struggle with politics and 'how' or 'what' things should/can be done.
If I can find a company that will just let me program and be where I want to be, in my own element, that may bring me back to my original point of happiness.
xil3 commented on Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry? · Posted by u/xil3
I've found that the further away I get from "hacky, simple, works" scripts that wow the uninformed the less I enjoy my work.
I wrote a Greenhouse bookmarklet for our Head of People a while back. All it did was click buttons, poll the page for content, and copy/paste some text. It took me two hours. It was such a magical experience hopping on a call, demoing the bookmarklet, and being told I'd saved someone tens of hours.
In contrast, I spent the last few months building out a greenfield, microservice architecture that product wanted in anticipation of a new feature that was going to need to scale to the moon. It was a real technical challenge but, in the end, business needs changed and it never saw the light of day.
I know that when I first got into programming - I didn't know all the complex stuff. I just saw things in the world I wanted to affect with programming - and then did. Over time, I learned to tolerate all the BS that gets in the way of making magic happen in exchange for an ever-growing paycheck. Each step along the way made sense, but, upon reflection, the magic has been incrementally bled out from my passion all in an attempt to best utilize my abilities.
Consider building something simple for a non-techy friend who needs some help. You might be able to catch sight of the magic you feel you've lost by looking into their eyes as you deliver what you've made.
You're absolutely right - the pure excitement that I felt at the beginning was mainly because I could do all the hacky, simple things. Nowadays you have to write 3 million tests before you can write any real code. I just feel like the red tape involved in doing anything is ridiculous.
I mean, I don't want to completely dismiss testing, but it was a big part of the reason I started moving away from development, and more into the DevOps realm. The other big problem is working for medium/large companies, which require so much administrative overhead to get anything done.
My name was marked from that point, so everytime I re-entered US I had to get pulled into secondary.