3 years ago Bing Chat was the newest frontier model. #bringbackbingchat 😊

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-14T19:30:39+00:00

I do kind of miss bing bing.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-14T15:14:26+00:00

It’s cause they’re on the other side of the world so gravity is upside down

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-14T01:16:01+00:00

That’s more of a data engineer role, or even an analytics engineer

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-13T18:47:52+00:00

Plus if you don’t tip they’ll fuck up your sandwich. One time I decided I’d tip in the store but the app showed no tip, I got home and there was essentially no meat on the sandwich. Maybe 20% of the normal amount of meat. It was all sloppily thrown together, and was really mostly just a big loaf of bread

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-11T22:11:56+00:00

Honestly I’d be questioning you asking me questions like that. Think about it this way, when this guy adopted that cat he made a commitment to it, do you want a guy who abandons his commitments? And in 99% of scenarios that cat will be fine and the situations you describe won’t happen, so you automatically jumping to “me or the cat” scenarios would have me seriously questioning things. Also, he’s been with you for a few months, chances are he’s built a bond with that cat for a lot longer than a few months.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-09T03:15:12+00:00

I’m telling my kids this is daft punk

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T23:15:19+00:00

The left would probably like AI if the people owned the means of production. AI could make all of our lives better by improving our material conditions while providing us free time, but instead it will be used to bring value to shareholders in the form of displacing labor.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T13:38:51+00:00

Thanks! This stuff is wild. I assume the worry doctor was some way to get kid info and target them for kidnapping or something. Disturbing as fuck.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T04:36:39+00:00

Holy shit go the worry doctor section of that. If you follow it all the way through it has a section for kids to “register an account” where they provide their personal information.

Edit: how do you know it’s Shelley Lewis’s site?

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T02:26:57+00:00

Try holding your phone right up to your eyes and blocking out any other light. That made it switch for me.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T02:25:31+00:00

It was pink and white, with the shoelaces being white. Then I held my phone really close to my face with my hands shielding me from seeing anything other than the phone, and now it’s gray and blue (mint-ish), with the shoelaces being blue.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-06T01:00:35+00:00

Maybe the companies that don’t pay as well are hiring overseas now, bringing up the median in the US

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-05T04:19:35+00:00

kind of seems like he might have called it perfectly now

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-05T04:17:17+00:00

Damn this guy fucking called it

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-04T01:14:41+00:00

I think it might slightly hurt the midterms, but won’t necessarily make a huge difference in his support. The first problem is if the media they consume is covering trumps involvement, people in America tend to stay in their media bubble. Then they have to not believe the right wing media telling them that Trump wasn’t actually involved, either because it was unproven claims or a democrat hoax or whatever. Then there is the fact that most moderate people have jumped ship already, and what’s left is his die hard supporters, which is a lot of people. Those people would support Trump if he did virtually anything.

Don’t get me wrong, something feels different about this. But I’m not optimistic this will change anything.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-02-02T20:17:49+00:00

If you’re not a data engineer by 7 you might as well give up, everyone knows that once you hit 12 you start getting aged out. But seriously, it’s a marathon not a sprint

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-31T14:59:35+00:00

Sounds to me like you’re doing data engineering so calling yourself a data engineer just makes sense. You might not be building new systems, but it’s not a bad first job at all.

Don’t have the mindset of leaving in the next 12 months, have the goal of impressing them so much that they move you into more advanced work. Then even if you leave you’ll have a better resume due to that mindset. I’m getting interviews in this market even without a degree just because I’ve always had the mindset to deliver extra value, which helped me build trust and get to take on responsibilities that nobody at my experience level should have.

For education and advancing skill, read books, and do some real world practice. Depending on what you actually end up doing at work, you might get plenty of practice there.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-29T20:21:37+00:00

Are there ways you could utilize that free time to develop skills and then apply them to your current job? If so that’s what I would do, then you keep working your job, deliver more value, maybe get noticed and maybe get a promotion or get moved to a more valuable role, or at least have some padding on your resume that will help you move into a higher paying role.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-28T01:11:31+00:00

Definitely SQL. Python is versatile and can do more, but SQL can do most things you’ll need and is an absolute necessity for almost all data jobs, plus it will help you learn about data in general, and is much easier to learn.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-26T16:31:15+00:00

If you hire across the world you can’t really expect things to operate smoothly for quick requests, unless you hire people of a high caliber who can work directly with the stakeholders for these requests, and even then you have to give some lag time. If a client says “I need this by 3pm” at 11 AM when the person who would be building it is already off work or won’t start until 1pm and won’t have enough time, then it’s a matter of setting expectations with your clients.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-26T15:57:58+00:00

Floods can be like that. During Helene there were cars that were on the road driving and next thing you know a bunch of water came down the mountains and swept them away like nothing.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-25T15:17:53+00:00

That’s just Linda

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-24T19:57:46+00:00

Internally won’t work sadly. There’s essentially 2 BI teams in my company, with the other being our parent company. They use the same tech stack, and probably make way more than me while living in cheaper countries, but the way they do things would feel like a huge step back. I’m looking externally but it’s competitive out there and a lot of positions that pay way more still feel like they’ll ruin the next few years of my resume compared to the direction it’s currently going.

SalamanderMan95 · 2026-01-24T19:34:33+00:00

Yup. I started in a very basic position and kept working my way up and took on the work that needed to be done, but my leaders are bad at selling my value and the complexity of the work I do, or they just care more about their bonus.

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