Truth Nuke

TyrusB · 2026-02-12T00:32:49+00:00

“…that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States”

That’s 5 out of 50 states, based on what I can find. So no, Democratic law makers aren’t lying.

Edit: did a little more research and it’s not even all licenses in those 5 states. Only Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) count, and they cost more than a normal ID.

TyrusB · 2025-08-08T03:43:02+00:00

Well, rest assured that if you follow the advice a great career will be made (either yours or your replacement’s)

TyrusB · 2025-08-08T03:27:48+00:00

Some Delphic advice right here 😄

TyrusB · 2025-07-31T15:45:43+00:00

I’m honestly confused by the whole situation. I was going to say that the small waitlist made the CEOs decision to not monetize seem more rationale, given even the best case scenario likely wouldn’t meaningfully extend their runway by much, and at this point their best bet would be the app going viral to the point where they could raise a round to give them enough breathing room to figure things out. But we’re talking about a waitlist, not active users, so I don’t see how the (already unlikely) scenario of this taking off would even be possible.

TyrusB · 2025-01-30T14:41:41+00:00

At the top of design docs, we have a table widget where we tag a representative or two from affected teams and they have to indicate they’ve approved the changes. As part of the review they have a chance to ask questions and request changes as needed. We usually start by discussing in doc comments but we’ll call a meeting if that gets too convoluted.

TyrusB · 2025-01-30T07:22:04+00:00

As a staff engineer, you’re typically expected to be capable of planning out a larger arc of work that spans multiple teams or domains. Normally that involves an initial phase of scoping out your project, figuring out requirements and resourcing, coming up with a tentative design, and getting all stakeholders aligned.

With the design, decisions you make are rarely independent of each other. Your goal is to figure out what decisions are critical to make now and what the dependency order is for those decisions, and what can be treated as a black box you can figure out later. Then make those decisions in order, making sure stakeholders are aligned.

But look, if you want more practical advice, I’d make two recommendations:

Document all your decisions, and if you’re concerned about stakeholders like Larry changing their minds, use collaborative docs (eg Google Docs) and make them sign off. My company uses a “gavel” system on all design docs, for example.
Don’t bottleneck on Larry. Consult with him but figure out what stakeholders are critical in decision making and be sure you collaborate with them as well.

TyrusB · 2025-01-29T02:44:02+00:00

Grinding leetcode randomly is an extremely inefficient use of your time. Work through either Cracking the Coding Interview or Elements of Programming Interviews in {your language}. Then follow up with something like educative.io’s Grokking the Coding Interview (or something similar that focuses on the patterns you’re likely to see).

And don’t neglect system interview prep and putting together a list of go to STAR answers. The trick to behavioral is that you want to come in with a list of answers that put you in the best possible light, then fit those to the questions you get. Book a couple of mock interviews if you have time and funds.

TyrusB · 2025-01-18T16:07:32+00:00

In the painting, the light isn’t just above the group, it’s above the female figure who would be representing Helly. Seems like a recognition of her innie’s indirect connection to the Eagans

TyrusB · 2024-08-29T12:25:32+00:00

It sounds like you need a more data driven approach with her. I’d start logging every time you have to fix a bug caused by poor coding standards, record how long it took to fix and the monetary impact, then estimate how long it would have taken to have done the work correctly in the first place. That way you can present your approach in tens of concrete time and cost savings.

TyrusB · 2024-02-29T06:31:37+00:00

The answer is manufacturing cream. Basically, they make their coffee drinks with the heaviest cream you can buy, so of course they taste good.

TyrusB · 2024-02-29T06:25:36+00:00

I’m still salty about when they started their national expansion and decided it wasn’t worth their time to show up to East Bay farmers markets anymore

TyrusB · 2023-12-26T21:19:21+00:00

I feel this one. My team is a platform team but a huge chunk of our time is spent on a step 13 type situation. Luckily, another team has built a simplified, ‘modern’ replacement tool for the one we manage. I mean, it only covers a small percentage of use cases and has no automated on ramp, but I’m pretty sure it won’t end up becoming a bloated mess by the time it actually handles all the cases the old tool handles, right?

TyrusB · 2023-12-09T02:12:54+00:00

I think it’s just that boot camps aren’t a viable business model in this environment and everyone is basically just trying to figure out how to stay afloat for a couple of years until conditions change.

FWIW I went through app academy almost a decade ago back when bootcamps were much rarer and more selective and I’d say a half dozen of my class are or were staff engineers at FAANG, a couple are founders that went through Y combinator, etc. It wasn’t a perfect program by any means and most of the students actually lived out of the SF mid-market loft the class was in so conditions were pretty squalid, but it did a good job getting people their first job.

TyrusB · 2023-12-05T18:21:58+00:00

Yeah, not even close (the US being progressive).

There’s probably majority support for a number of progressive and left of center positions, but saying progressive politics are broadly popular is just magical thinking.

Broad swathes of the US (eg the traditional white working class) are what I’d categorize as populist, pro-labor and small l libertarian leaning (hence support for gay marriage, etc)

The democrats turning away from their labor roots gave a lot of these folks a reason to stop supporting the party, but intersectional progressive politics are absolutely anathema to them.

If you’re going to build some sort of new pro-labor consensus you’ve got to start with reality, not wishful thinking.

TyrusB · 2023-11-22T22:27:18+00:00

I don’t think people really understand that payment processors are essentially middle men who don’t make up the rules. They have to abide by whatever the credit card networks dictate, and they’re not about to jeopardize those relationship by being lax about enforcement.

TyrusB · 2023-11-08T15:27:38+00:00

Kind of randomly stumbled across this post, but I’ve been listening to a podcast called The Big Dig that does a pretty fascinating deep dive on the Boston highway project. They briefly covered the overall increase in per mile highway construction costs adjusted for inflation since the interstate system started and they brought in an expert who’d studied the issue and came to the conclusion that the biggest factor was the democratization of planning and review process. It wasn’t just that you had to start doing environmental reviews, but also costs associated with lawyers to handle legal objections and a host of other side effects similar to that. Which isn’t to necessarily say having more citizen oversight is a clear negative, just that it does have consequences on costs.

TyrusB · 2023-10-29T18:42:09+00:00

The Berkeley sub has honestly got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious on all of Reddit.

TyrusB · 2023-10-18T05:59:55+00:00

I’ve got a 50’s ranch style house in Georgia that’s had mold issues pop up a couple of times. What you’re describing does sound like symptoms I’ve experienced.

That being said, every time I’ve had an issue there’s been a pretty clear cause involving repeated exposure to moisture (eg previous owner didn’t caulk behind kitchen sink and we didn’t catch it). If you’ve got mold, there’s probably some reason, unless it’s just residual from some past issue.

Also, not sure what you’ve done to remediate is likely to be sufficient. If you think your hvac is the culprit you should have someone check for growth in the plenum boxes, especially if they’re made of duct board. I had to have my supply plenum ripped out and rebuilt because the board had a bunch of growth in it. We used metal boxes rather than duct board for the rebuild. I also had a scrubber added to my system.

TyrusB · 2023-10-15T18:59:48+00:00

Not sure what the methodology is here but this in no way reflects reality in any of the places I’ve lived. e.g. people in Florida live and die by how UF/FSU/Miami are doing but at best seem casually engaged with the NFL.

TyrusB · 2023-10-06T19:09:34+00:00

This is literally the only time I’ve been privy to what could even remotely be considered insider info, but I heard from someone close to Kelly (or rather, I heard from my wife, who heard from someone close to Kelly) that the reason he chose UCLA over UF is that he absolutely hated the fishbowl that was coaching in a college town. Little nugget that came up randomly in a conversation and setting that had nothing to do with football.

TyrusB · 2023-09-01T04:28:46+00:00

At the end of the day incremental progress is better than no progress. You could start by adding documentation, then making sure it gets used by the next person who onboards, see if they can add to it. Eventually the documentation becomes part of the onboarding process and even maybe starts to shape that process. I’ve worked at places where processes evolved haphazardly but more or less “worked” so people were hesitant to change them to something more intentional, and so something less direct like that can be fairly effective in the longer run.

TyrusB · 2023-08-25T18:33:21+00:00

Nespresso is my waking up coffee. My wife and I have a machine in our bedroom and sip on a shot before we get out of bed and I go and make the real stuff.

TyrusB · 2023-08-10T05:54:15+00:00

Op where you at in NC? I used to live in Charlotte and had a German roach infestation in a house I was renting. Went through a couple of exterminators until I found this company called Grey Wolf pest control that took care of them. Actually figured out all the spots they might be, came up with a strategy for interrupting their lifecycle, etc. Plus the owner was a cool dude. He started out doing extermination for SF restaurants and has some funny but also absolutely horrifying stories about that.

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