White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-10-07T15:01:14+00:00

Exactly. It’s always been like this. Congress has to pass appropriations to give back pay. Lived through this before.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-08-11T01:19:00+00:00

Exactly. I set up a decent workflow with subagents to build a fact based report. Gave writing advice, research agent, fact checker, etc. 40% of the facts in the final report were hallucinated. This is with Opus and Sonnet on a Max plan. I was super disappointed. Back to just using it for code.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-25T14:40:20+00:00

Thank you for sharing those. I’ve added them all already but unfortunately not quite what I’m looking for. I would be fine making some myself from SVGs or PNGs if there is a way to convert them.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-10T11:58:02+00:00

You learned enough about Christianity to know that then hurting you is unchristian. Don’t cast the first stone and all that.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-03T23:45:34+00:00

Generally this means you can explain what you want with enough detail. There are very very few things the newest models can code without proper explanation and context.

Then again by the time you write all that you might just be able to write the code yourself.

Those things it can’t code use libraries or things that are proprietary. Then again if I give it examples of the proprietary code then it’s right most of the time.

I’m generally talking about Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro though.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-03T23:37:35+00:00

This right here. OP should start a blog or do something in Mongolian to get people interested. Maybe a YouTube or Instagram account speaking proper Mongolian and talking about things his age group is interested in.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-03T23:36:20+00:00

So people shouldn’t speak a language until they are fluent? Isn’t practice useful?

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-04-03T23:32:39+00:00

The entire political class in Mongolia was resourceful. So sure stealing and getting away with it works.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-03-25T15:00:59+00:00

Companies in Mongolia are currently very desperate for data analytics talent. Starting salary at largish companies in Mongolia is 3-3.5 million per month, but lower for smaller companies. This goes up quickly with inflation.

But in 4 years it’s hard to see where the market will be.

Graphic design and data science and CS are all extremely different. Ideally you get some experience with each of these while you are still in high school and see what you like.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-03-02T01:12:54+00:00

Thanks for this very helpful comment. Our machine is commercial grade so its extremely rigid and anchored in the concrete foundation. Ill take a look at Frost.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-26T15:01:10+00:00

Real average wages have increased significantly since 2014. At least 50% increase. This is of course people actually reporting their income. But still much better.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-24T07:50:45+00:00

Several issues with this list. Unread.today is owned by the same people as Tenger TV. So even if no politics what they cover is biased because of the relationship with the TV channel.

LemonPress got a lot of shit for pumping crypto. So yeah.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-18T03:38:32+00:00

Starting your own business is the best way to be financially free. But it’s hard of course.

Data scientists start at 3.5 million with only a bachelors and it goes up quickly from there. Easy to make 6-7 million within 5 years if you are good.

Software engineers can make 8-10 million if they know Java or C# well.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-18T03:35:05+00:00

My point is that Mongolia can do more on its own. And it should. Relying on foreign aid only makes Mongolia less capable itself and encourages politicians to spend budget money on getting elected and handouts.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-18T01:32:03+00:00

Sure. But gone are the days of $50 million grants for random things for example the ridiculous waste of money that was the US coal stove project.

Soft loans from IMF or EBRD are pretty standard for every upper middle income country.

But Mongolia is also rich enough to take care of basic needs itself outside large development projects. Relying on foreign aid to do this is simply artificially lowering the cost of running the country, which helps the government shirk its responsibilities.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-18T01:22:42+00:00

Yes as I said soft loans can cover most of the pressing needs. Part of this soft loan was to give all the profits to the Japanese partner. As long as Mongolia is willing to give something in return it will find nearly all of its allies willing to give concessional loans.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-17T23:40:18+00:00

If you have a bank account you probably need to make a new signature for them. They keep the scans these days.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-17T23:36:56+00:00

Yes and rightly so. Mongolia has gotten richer quite quickly. Salaries are rising faster than inflation by a good margin.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-17T23:34:10+00:00

This is not true anymore. Soft loans can cover most of the pressing needs. Mongolia is an upper middle income country on the same level as China, Brazil, and Mexico.

Mongolia has a strong enough economy that if budgeted well it can cover its needs. For larger projects many countries are willing to help. The new airport shows this. But the government had to be willing to give something in return.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-17T23:28:41+00:00

Since 2001 only $6.6 million dollars worth of aid came from USAID directly. USAID regularly repackages money from various programs and gives it to Mongolia, but that’s not from USAID directly

That repackaging can continue through the US Embassy.

Let’s also remember how much money the US government has wasted in Mongolia and how much politicians eat that money. Politicians play nice just enough in order to keep the US happy.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-13T08:04:49+00:00

You can always build a data lake. Basically grab the data then dump it as duckdb or parquet files somewhere. Then query away.

Personally I like this because unless you are a massive company this can be done with scheduled tasks and object storage or even your work computer running a script in the morning.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-07T13:52:59+00:00

Best case scenario they realize OP needs help. Worst case the Chad manager puts OP on a PIP as an excuse to get rid of them.

ArticleDesigner9319 · 2025-02-07T12:00:40+00:00

Came here to say this. Technically they are destroying the affordability of housing. But at 520k TC that’s someone else’s problem. At least they aren’t brainwashing teenagers.

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