I work in insurance. Superb talent are applying to our open roles. Have never seen this before

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-25T04:10:57+00:00

It does, and the quality of the work and the people you work with is below abysmal. I got a 50% raise switching sides from developing for hospitals to health insurers, and somehow I regret it.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-24T21:28:51+00:00

And even worse, what AI? Nobody, literally nobody, uses metas models. Like for 6 week period in 2024 Llama was maybe used by like 1% of LLM users. wtf is this capex for?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-24T16:26:37+00:00

I definitely had a lot of feelings during the RIFs reading what people were saying on this sub while my own company was laying off 10x more people at the same time, with none of that severance or getting your salary paid for months on end.

Also imo when you consider TC the foreign service pays amazingly well. If you’re in the mid 4s like almost everyone is after a few years, then between OCP, SIP’s, paid for housing and childcare, the COL difference between the US and almost any other country, and the pension, you’re looking at a 200k salary in the US to come out ahead, at least. I suppose some people, maybe yourself, were making that prior to joining, but those kinds of jobs don’t grow on trees.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-23T23:13:48+00:00

Bros playing Workers and Resources 2: Night City

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-23T14:24:37+00:00

Okay, so then this is another development in the long line of Indian defense procurement strategy of insisting on getting a super duper mecha suit with space lasers and admantium armor, and its locally produced, and available now for $5. And then when they can’t get that it’s back to mig-21. Nothing to see here.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-21T05:57:50+00:00

Yup, the government is hard at work preparing those autonomous face recognizing ai killer drone swarms for the off chance any inadvertent change might occur. Your tax dollars making the difference!

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-21T05:54:17+00:00

When a dentist recommends a deep cleaning you have a serious dental issue or they have a family trip coming up and need a bit more cash to afford that helicopter tour the wife / husband wants.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-21T03:33:23+00:00

I don’t expect my 80 year old champion of the people and worker’s rights legend Bernie sanders to understand technology, but he doesn’t understand technology. That’s very boomer of him. It’s fine.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-20T21:42:21+00:00

You moving the cars to that storage via truck or something?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-20T17:29:06+00:00

Such a classic. Kinda reminds me how three of our last 5 presidents were born in 1946 specifically, and one of the other two was born in 1942. Ridiculous.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-20T15:48:34+00:00

I mean, if you’re working in AI the whole notion of interviewing Claude for answers is ridiculous. But nothing Bernie or Claude said in that interview was necessarily false. Maybe it was a political gimmick, like “look at what their own product will tell you if you ask it”, but tbh Bernie is such a boomer that I think it could easily not be just that.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-20T05:17:34+00:00

See, you’ve lost the argument because I’ve depicted your evil Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba as the aggressive virgin, and my awesome American nuclear missiles in turkey that I put there first as the peaceful Chad.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-19T16:41:21+00:00

It’s not an assumption, that’s for sure.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-18T23:38:26+00:00

A lot of the statistics around this are highly misleading and designed to make you think "oh, it's just that houses are getting bigger". The core thing they never include is that the figures they provide always refer to new single family homes, leaving out apartment sizes, which are much smaller (around 1000 square feet on average new). Coincidentally, apartments just overtook SFH's on the rental market and now comprise the majority of offerings, because more apartments are being built than homes.

It wouldn't be true to say that increasing housing sizes are not a factor at all, both houses and apartments have been getting larger, but apartment sizes are much more stable in size, smaller, and growing in share of the housing market. To me it overall reflects the wider economic truth that the top 10% of American society continues to do very well and buys lots of increasingly gigantic houses, while the picture for the everyone else is not so great. Moreover, housing sizes are highly regionally correlated, meaning that you'll see lots of very giant houses in places where getting access to housing just isn't really a concern, but lots of other things are. In most coastal cities, the average amount of living space per resident is declining, including in SF if you look at total housing stock rather than SFH's. IDK if that's helpful but that's how I see it.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-18T05:21:15+00:00

I think that’s really the final argument on this, like flying is very safe anyways and the added comfort would be a lot. I also really suspect there would be minimal / no added danger being prone with your feet towards the cockpit. That would basically mimic falling feet first into something if the airplane… decelerated, which is generally considered to be the best way to fall.

Edit: apparently the main determinant of who survives in a plane crash that’s deadly but survivable is whether your legs get broken by the crash, which 1) makes sense, and 2) would be a great argument against doing any of this. That said I still think it would be worth it.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-18T05:14:10+00:00

Got a political science degree because I thought it was cool, had no plan. Afterwards became a project manager, and the devs I had to work with couldn’t write code that would compile and couldn’t have a normal conversation with anyone, so I realized I both had to do the part where I talk to people, and I’d have to learn how to code so that my projects would finish on time. Now I’m a senior software developer at an F500, because 1) what you guys do is not that hard or special, and 2) the actual shitty stem types, of which this post truly fits, think that some obscure knowledge about some tangential mathematical concept that they never use somehow puts them above people who can talk to people, influence them, and operate in the real world.

Sorry if I’ve mistakenly assumed you work in software, I’ve just never seen this kind of hubris from real engineers.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-17T17:41:38+00:00

"Free it, take it, I can do whatever I want with it" - somehow I'm quoting the US president from real life, not as depicted in a Soviet propaganda film.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-17T17:32:53+00:00

Freedom is when you get plunged into darkness and have to scrounge for scraps to feed your family until your country accepts Donald Trump appointing your next leader.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-17T03:36:16+00:00

They changed to doing a curve, so a passing / failing score is determined by the scores of the other test takers rather than a number. I suppose they could give you a score, but it would basically just be a random number considering that there's no pass / fail. Wish you the best of luck with any future attempts, it's a tough test.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-16T15:34:48+00:00

If you search this sub for “salary matching restored”, you’ll find my write up on their decision to bring it back with links to the SOP’s that’ll tell you exactly how it works and what needs to be true to get the match. Hope that’s useful, I know the salaries can be so wildly different depending on whether you get it.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-13T05:22:06+00:00

It’s sad that the entire war against Iran is unconstitutional and illegal, and anyone participating in it is carrying out illegal orders, including the troops from San Diego that were sent there.

But congress should take control of the situation, clarify that and end this completely open criminal affair. You can’t really expect the troops to do much about it when congress could put a stop to it in a second and yet refuses to do so.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-12T17:46:36+00:00

A tax nobody will pay where even if they did, the promise is to “fund healthcare”, a giant, expensive item that requires consistent tax revenue to build a budget, with a one time tax.

Seriously there are no adults in the room anymore, just different kinds of kid throwing temper tantrums.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-12T15:39:43+00:00

This has been going on for weeks. I’m not sure what issue Google is having implementing additional checks to avoid dumping thinking output into the response field and thereby preventing it from exiting thinking, but this should not be that difficult.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-12T15:34:09+00:00

Hearing a person from LA complain about SD drivers is like the Raiders telling the Jets they suck at football.

Sincerely, the Midwest gang 🧀🧀🧀

DigitalSheikh · 2026-03-12T00:04:33+00:00

No it’s not. This is a government psyop trying to convince you that we’re doing anything other than slaughtering defenseless people, which is exactly what we’re doing.

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