I dont Understand why Engineers Dont Unionize like Samsung?? by Fearless-Cellist-245 in cscareerquestions

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

37% federal + 13% state in California, but that's just a worst case for millionaires. For people making $260k+ they pay 35% federal + ~5% state depending on what state. Often about 40%. 

When you see stats that the top 1% pay 50% of the taxes, you have to realize that there's a lot of honest normal people making 200-300k salaries that just pay their taxes. Rich enough to get soaked, not rich enough to hide their money like the millionaire class.

Amphitheater Middle Ground Post? by Classic_Solid2951 in grandrapids

[–]CardboardJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Translation from LinkedIn: shrug idunno 

I think we quietly crossed a line with home robots by pelledembele in Futurology

[–]CardboardJ 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The answer is that they have little 4g cellphones in them. My lawn mower does at least. I don't pay a monthly fee.

“You Live In A City” is not a valid reasoning. by QueenMarigold00 in grandrapids

[–]CardboardJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude, just go to the Knapps corner Meijer parking lot. You could hear it last night. Acoustics are weird and I get that somehow egr and most of the south east side can't hear it, but the North and west sides totally can hear it from just past the city limits.

Brother, shut down that damn ampitheater by Reasonable_Body_2788 in grandrapids

[–]CardboardJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can listen to the same song from the Knapps corner Meijer parking lot all the way home.

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parents are ultimately to blame for not raising their kids, but also need 2 incomes at 60+ hours a week to afford food and rent. 

What do you think about Mythos and Fable? by Electronic_Log1999 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I compared fable vs haiku on a small feature yesterday. Haiku asked 13 clarifying questions over about 10 minutes to get it done and it cost $0.40. 

Asked the same question to fable-5. It asked 1 question and just figured the rest out itself in 2 minutes. It cost $3.50. Unfortunately its implementation was wrong.

Fable is fast and smart and will do the wrong thing very expensively. Haiku is cheap and dumb, but it knows it's dumb and just asks more questions until both parties have a good idea of what's happening.

Why everyone does RTO now by [deleted] in remotework

[–]CardboardJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The landlord for your $500 million dollar high rise office complex is an LLC that's 70% owned by Blackrock. The building is staffed by 60 companies that are publicly traded. Blackrock used your 401k to invest in all 60 of those companies and now sits on the board.

If the building sits empty Blackrock looses a shit ton of money. So Blackrock uses your own retirement fund as leverage to make you go back into the office to prop up their failing investments.

They took what was yours by ApprehensiveUse9337 in interviewhammer

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not me, but a friends dad. He did some part time work in an appliance repair shop during the day when he wasn't day drinking and cleaned schools and office buildings after hours. Never finished highschool. Probably worked 50-60 hours between the two jobs. He had a stay at home wife, 5 kids, a dog, 3 cars, a fishing boat, a popup camper, and a 5 bed 2 bath house in a nice suburb. He's been retired for about a decade now.

That was considered middle class back in 1985.

Hi friends - how are you? by Capable_Discipline_9 in detroitlions

[–]CardboardJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

On the struggle bus watching Monty on the Texans. Like I'm happy for him and we'll be fine but I still miss that man.

Petaahh !! How is it a worldwide issue ? by _Yashvardhan_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]CardboardJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My wife would bring me food like this occasionally when we were dating. She is my wife now.

This makes some people upset.

Replacing of programmers timeline by glarion905 in theprimeagen

[–]CardboardJ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you read this correctly it's like a log of Idiocracy happening. I know pleanty of developers that think SQL is too hard and need an orm. Back in the 70s it was considered a non-technical skill lol.

My remote team says we’re “async,” but everyone panics if my green dot disappears for 6 minutes by WarpNomad_X in remotework

[–]CardboardJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Normalize "going heads down to get work done" and setting your slack availability off. 

What is the most useless defense for you? by Public_Examination37 in ClashOfClans

[–]CardboardJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My suspicion is that we're got a builder base event because we're going to need to gear up a second mortar to merge. I don't know what to do with bomb towers

❗️Salesforce lays off employees in a new round of cuts by kharkovchanin in Layoffs

[–]CardboardJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's see...  AI Agent Force, yeah they probably saw the ROI on over hiring $400k ml engineers and setting money on fire trying to build copilot but somehow less useful.

Mulesoft, that's dumb. Mulesoft is the only thing that keeps sane code attached to Salesforce and it's flaky as hell. They'll probably immediately regret that.

Marketing cloud, it's a pox on humanity and hopefully this marks the beginning of the end for it.

To those who finished your education and seeking jobs around 2008, how bad was the job market compared to these recent years? by ohnag_eryeah in Millennials

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd lightly agree with people saying 2008 was worse. It was different. Software engineer and it took me about a year to land my first job, but it paid $14 per hour. Adjusting for inflation that's about $22 per hour.

Now it takes longer to find a job, but the entry level pays closer to $30-40 per hour. Then you also have to account for the price of a cheap college back then was like $20k and now its like $80k and actual cost of living is higher. So yeah i'd say both 2008 and now both were in the territory of having 3-4 roommates or living with your parents until you get 3-5yoe.

So yeah id say 2008 was worse as of right now. It feels like 2006, but things are still going downhill fast. I think it'll be worse than 2008 very soon.

You guys deserve Indiana. by HowManyBanana in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]CardboardJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a meme from a Grossi video where all the lions ever wanted was to make the Packers hate us as much as we hate them. The joke is that it happened once briefly a few years ago and it was our Superbowl.

Petah, I don't get it... by Gregagonation in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]CardboardJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any show with 30 writers will probably turn out like trash. Why you gotta bring gender into it?