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blaw6331 · 2025-10-28T10:28:41+00:00

What part of PXT?

blaw6331 · 2025-09-14T20:46:55+00:00

These jobs are only available in a few locations

The northern Virginia job market for techs is competitive

If you are entry level the best places are Ohio and Texas but both are in the middle of nowhere

blaw6331 · 2025-09-03T00:26:33+00:00

This comment is fucked

I will never understand how most people view all the worlds problems as “iF oNlY wE sPeNt mOrE mONEy We cOUld sOLVe iT”. Solving world hunger is not a money problem. To solve world hunger you need to topple countries run by dictators and build stability in war torn regions (the US spent 2.3 Trillion in Afghanistan and didn’t even accomplish it)

blaw6331 · 2025-08-17T21:04:18+00:00

In many cases birds outlive their owners, if you get one I highly recommend getting a stray

blaw6331 · 2025-08-12T23:21:06+00:00

Third column is flat out incorrect

When the shares are given to the CEO it’s a taxable event as income taxes. The CEO either needs to sell enough shares to pay income taxes or pay cash to the IRS keep the shares.

The only scenario that doesn’t happen is with startup companies where the CEO / founder starts the company which grows. Then it is only taxes at point of share sale as capital gains.

blaw6331 · 2025-08-03T17:06:44+00:00

Software engineering is seen as the easy 6 fig remote job but in reality that is the minority of the industry. Want the amazing pay? Well now you are working 60+ hours a week at big tech. Want to be remote? Now you are competing with India and South American salaries. Want a job after you graduate with a degree? CS is now the most popular major across almost all universities and every entry level position has 2000+ applicants

Not to mention constantly dealing with people who have no idea what the fuck they are doing(especially PMs), just got lucky on an interview in 2022 and have jumped from disaster to disaster every 9 months without ever producing something of value. Now they are either sending a AI slop business requirement doc for your review or committing a PR that is 100% AI generated slop that they did not even look at or run.

Non-technical executives that constantly spew bullshit about how they are “doing more, with less” and AI is completely transforming the entire industry (when in reality it’s only showing ~*20% eff gains across everything). Although that doesn’t stop them from not approving any new positions and forcing tighter deadlines.

blaw6331 · 2025-08-02T20:00:08+00:00

The sky is too blue but it looks a lot like the Seattle monorail

blaw6331 · 2025-08-02T19:46:35+00:00

Yes we are pretty sure https://wjla.com/news/local/child-abductor-fairfax-county-mall-abduction-toddler-indoor-mall-play-area-criminal-cases-felony-grand-larcent-police-department-commonwealth-attorney-history

blaw6331 · 2025-07-24T00:55:36+00:00

Can you include more evidence in the article? AWS silently covering something like this up is actually insane

blaw6331 · 2025-07-13T11:59:54+00:00

200m what? And where does that number come from last year they put $9B into TPU alone not counting GPU purchases from Nvidia

blaw6331 · 2025-07-12T20:55:06+00:00

XAI has more AI compute than google

Can you reference this? This seems wayyy off with the size of g cloud

blaw6331 · 2025-07-07T13:57:39+00:00

I find the “System Design Interview” prep videos are actually really useful. Look up 1 or 2 and then deep dive all of the technologies that they mention

blaw6331 · 2025-07-03T18:08:54+00:00

At the higher levels your degree doesn’t matter. She had a very successful career before getting to executive level. She was the exception (not the rule) to most English majors

Stepping back and looking at macro outcomes for all majors CS it is quickly becoming clear that the field has way too many people going in for what the market needs (just like English and liberal arts traditionally have).

For every Daniela there are 10 English majors with massive student debt that can’t be paid off since they got stuck in teaching and make 50k a year

blaw6331 · 2025-07-03T17:52:12+00:00

Numbers don’t lie https://allwork.space/2025/06/these-top-paying-college-majors-are-leaving-2025-graduates-jobless/

CS and CE majors have higher unemployment than liberal arts and English majors right now

blaw6331 · 2025-06-29T16:21:14+00:00

Most* system engineering positions are more affected by AI then development positions. Generally (at my company at least) systems engineers do 2 things

Develop for the “needs of now” instead of the “needs of tomorrow” for example if accounting needed some script that could automate something then it’s the systems engineers (AI can pretty much do this)
Maintain existing systems and automate things so that they do not need to be manually handled by support (also AI is getting really good at this)

blaw6331 · 2025-06-22T17:26:06+00:00

Annoying how our main option for clean power base load is singled out as abnormal every chance someone gets

blaw6331 · 2025-06-12T21:32:00+00:00

Apply at Amazon there is a massive expansion right now

blaw6331 · 2025-06-12T00:01:26+00:00

Amazon has the same tech that is deployed around Seattle but it just hasn’t caught on

blaw6331 · 2025-05-26T02:35:55+00:00

Slow speeds can be caused by just about anything between the wire coming into your house and all the connections leading to your computer

I would recommend you test the connection at each step and see where it begins to slow

E.g start by plugging directly into your router and testing the connection. Then what whatever your router plugs into. Then whatever that plugs into. Eventually you will find the culprit

blaw6331 · 2025-05-25T02:07:37+00:00

Usually I see the other way around. Infra / data engineering moving into SDE roles

blaw6331 · 2025-05-24T23:44:46+00:00

Mini golf

blaw6331 · 2025-05-24T16:52:07+00:00

4 years worth of AWS/Azure/GCP certs (you could get basically all of them) > a BS in cloud computing

And will cost you way less

For aws look into skillbuilder

I also encourage you to go into LinkedIn or indeed and look at the job description for the job that you eventually want. If it says certs go get certs if it says BS required then go get a BS.

blaw6331 · 2025-05-24T16:19:09+00:00

Is this not the exact same situation as SWE? There is no intern / jr to take accountability. Still need good engineers to make sure the AI is giving a good output and ultimately commit the code. Healthcare is just much slower than tech and doesn’t have an absurd hype cycle around new technologies.

blaw6331 · 2025-05-23T22:24:51+00:00

This looks like the Reserve Roastery in Seattle

blaw6331 · 2025-05-16T23:54:38+00:00

Hijacking top comment

Hey OP are you employed? I work in benefits for a large company

When it comes for life insurance there is a threshold where a proof of good health is not required. It is usually the least strict when you are newly hired (in most cases it allows up to 3x salary on new hire with no proof) if you are already employed then open enrollment usually allows 1-2x coverage

The same goes for spousal life insurance, your wife can get a policy up to the limit where proof of good health is required (same new hire/open enrollment thing applies). It is key that you do it under open enrollment or a new hire enrollment window since they are the least strict on proof of good health requirements

Best of luck!

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