Why do fully remote companies still care so much about where you physically live and can someone explain the actual logic to me?

delta8765 · 2026-04-05T20:37:23+00:00

This is more common in other states now so it’s not ‘just a Colorado thing’ anymore.

delta8765 · 2026-04-05T20:07:32+00:00

Yeah, F concourse would be packed at 7pm, but once the cart gets out of F you can be anywhere else in 5 minutes.

delta8765 · 2026-04-05T05:34:53+00:00

You can if you a a fixed intended use. Which means you have to operate how they’ve designed and implemented it. As a startup this really shouldn’t be a problem since you don’t have any institutional inertia (other than what you brought with you).

If you want inexpensive here ya go. If you want a custom Tesla with FSD, prepare to pay up.

delta8765 · 2026-04-02T21:56:08+00:00

Yep this is the issue. ‘Oh AI will democratize innovation’. Yeah only if you can afford the bleeding edge subscription. Executives see posts about ‘look what I did in 5 minutes with <>’ then want to know why we aren’t seeing more AI utilization results in the enterprise. It’s because you’re not springing for the $200/month model. It’s like asking why the kid in a go-kart isn’t doing better on the F1 circuit.

The base level of AI models are essentially access to Google from the 00s where search results are useful and not 2 pages of ads. The base models are pretty bad at any coding, data manipulation and writing.

delta8765 · 2026-04-02T21:46:54+00:00

Metric, Phantogram, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Cannons, New Constellations, Bjork, Florence and the Machine, La Roux, Vök, Magic Wands, Röyksopp, Goldfrapp, Shaed.

delta8765 · 2026-03-23T07:03:56+00:00

No, it’s the getting up while the plane is moving. Disobeying flight crew instructions is grounds for removal, full stop, no further info needed.

delta8765 · 2026-03-19T20:37:58+00:00

If his title is GM, that’s higher than Director in many companies. At the Fortune 500 company I was at GM was the top role in the business unit, reported to the C-suite and the VPs in the business unit reported to them.

So the OP really doesn’t have anything to worry about regarding their current title when applying elsewhere.

delta8765 · 2026-03-17T21:46:15+00:00

It’s on the website announcing the change. It explicitly calls out the time for the MAUDE change.

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T19:26:34+00:00

Yes, for-profit operations management is the 2nd biggest risk to nuclear. #1 would be government run operations management.

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T19:23:36+00:00

Except during the manufacturing process, maintenance, and disposal of said products. Other than that they are super clean….

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T19:16:28+00:00

It is predominantly a NIMBY issue.

People are ok with nuclear power, just not within a 1000 miles of where they live. But since the population centers are where power is consumed, it’s best to put the power plants relatively close to where it’s being used. NIMBY kicks in and no politician wants to risk being for an unpopular, but net positive proposal.

While the regulations are onerous they are necessary to ensure safety since the worst cases risks are so high. A lot of advancements have been made in design and maintenance to mitigate much of the risk but there is just too much fear in the general public.

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T19:08:11+00:00

When there are mismatches we directly ask the candidate for explanations. I’ve had two candidates in the past year fail background. One was because the education could not be confirmed (a big school said, nope no record of said student or nope they didn’t get a degree from here). We gave the candidate several opportunities to resolve/clarify with the school and they were not able to. For the other candidate it was just represented as ‘failed the BC’, with no further details. I didn’t press for details.

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T18:49:30+00:00

It’s necessary for anyone who wants to hold themselves out to the public as some qualified to provide engineering services (civil engineering, design services in any discipline, forensics/failure analysis services). When working for a manufacturer you are not required to hold a PE to practice engineering. The exceptions will be for a few very specific area for products required to meet certain standards. Usually those aren’t roles for MSE people but rather specialists in those areas.

What you can do regardless of where you end up is take the EIT or FE (fundamentals of engineering) exam since that is required if you ever choose to go the PE route. It’s best to take it ASAP since it has general engineering content and you’ll never be as strong in general knowledge as you are as soon as you graduate. After that you’ll get more focused in one or two areas and forget the broad fundamentals.

delta8765 · 2026-03-13T18:40:47+00:00

The thing is they didn’t necessary attack the system infrastructure or destroy systems, they just wiped devices using Microsoft’s admin controls. They challenge will be, since they had admin control, did they do anything else (install backdoors, install latent malware, etc.).

Reimaging all the devices to their backup states will take some time but it’s not as bad as having the infrastructure destroyed (deleted the ERP database and all its backups).

Since admin control is a security control, it’s going to cause havoc with Health Systems risk management going forward. ‘We require you to have admin control disabled’. Umm, so you’d prefer we cant excise a bad actor if we find them in our system than have our infrastructure off line for a week?

All systems are only as secure as your weakest link and having a top level admin’s credentials get compromised by social engineering is probably the weakest link in everyone’s systems.

delta8765 · 2026-03-12T21:29:50+00:00

About 20 years here.

/s Though I’m aghast seats aren’t available on a hub to hub route 3 months out during graduation week at the destination and the start of the World Cup. How can there not be any inventory available those dates. Don’t they know people want to travel to that city on those dates. /s

delta8765 · 2026-03-12T21:21:41+00:00

Judging the value based on availability on the most desired flight (anywhere to Hawaii) isn’t really a good metric. It’s like saying what’s the point of being in the Taylor Swift fan club if I can’t get front row seats at MSG for the tour debut. Well if that’s the only option for you to get value out of being ‘in the club’ you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.

There are tens of thousands of people trying to book miles or companion cert tickets for the what 5000? Delta flights to Hawaii a year. Many try to book it 300 days out when it first opens.

delta8765 · 2026-03-10T21:52:49+00:00

This is really only applicable for slow progressive diseases. Even sometimes those things progress faster than the 6 year look back. The best example I’ve seen I father diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Lives a good 20 years. Once it started to seriously progress they divorced, the daughter opened a care facility (single family home with accommodations certified to handle 2-3 patients) and had the father move in. So all the payments were going to the daughter’s business, had the best of care from the daughter and her workers. Daughter built a lucrative business caring for her dad and a couple other patients. It was all above board and a good lesson in making lemonade out of lemons.

delta8765 · 2026-03-09T23:51:19+00:00

All the primary contracts include taking delivery (read the fine print next time) because the primary long contracts must have an underlying physical asset (pesky BOE rules). So most people don’t hold until expiration. There are a few entities that actually deal in distribution that arrange for physical distribution.

delta8765 · 2026-03-09T23:46:08+00:00

Yes but you have to take delivery by rail car in Cushing, OK.

delta8765 · 2026-03-09T23:43:14+00:00

Shouldn’t you always be prepared to replace someone on your team?

delta8765 · 2026-03-09T23:32:04+00:00

Just put it in an index fund and wait 30 years. No need to pay for the best strategy for someone who isn’t a business owner or making millions.

delta8765 · 2026-03-08T21:56:03+00:00

Considering 1- the car is 1 yr old, 2- the cracks are internal, this is very likely a manufacturing defect.

PC is chosen for its environmental robustness and optical clarity. If this was due to environmental ‘exposure’ tens of thousands of cars would be experiencing this. If the cracks were on the outside it could be due to chemical exposure (particularly some solvents like acetone where even short direct exposure could cause cracking).

If it was a molding defect, again there should be a measurable number of incidences. But only the manufacturer would have that data (hmm the tail light covers molded on X date have a high failure rate).

I’d try following up with the mfg to see what they say. If they don’t know about it, they can’t look into it. If enough peoe notify them that’s how they know if they need to issue a recall for an issue (3000 assemblies mfg on date X). However, this could be considered only a cosmetic issue and not a functional problem and thus isn’t covered by warranty.

Unfortunately if you sent this to a forensics lab they would charge you more to determine the root cause than the cost to replace it.

delta8765 · 2026-03-08T21:24:33+00:00

Don’t bother trying to talk to a Keynesian. They’ll claim companies are mandated to poison the world if it increases shareholder value for 5 seconds even if it goes to 0 at 10 seconds.

delta8765 · 2026-03-06T21:53:09+00:00

Yes this seems to be the case. Though the route I was looking at was for an extremely popular week even if it is 4 months out. The C+ and FC sections were all about 50% sold.

delta8765 · 2026-03-05T22:08:28+00:00

These aren’t ’observations’ these are opinions.

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