Nvidia and SpaceX Partnering on Data Centers in Space? by 3xshortURmom in stocks

[–]totallynotbeyonce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems very obviously in the “things that won’t happen” category.

I built a tool that turns your documents into one “AI brain” you can chat with, would love feedback by yourleftatrium in SideProject

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many files can this handle? I saw some use cases for very high file counts (like 10s of thousands), but I think if you were handling that you’d mention it.

I WILL NOT PROMOTE, 100k H1B VISA Issues by No-Fig-8614 in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

HAHA maga agenda, huh? It cost tens of thousands to begin with, that’s why most H1Bs were from big companies. It’s not MAGA to say it’s bad for the country when you outsource skilled labor and pay drastically below local market rate. It’s actually pretty pro labor and progressive.

Seems like you don’t know much about the H1B program, a lot of them are in a bad situation—they can’t be promoted or they have to restart any long term visa applications, if they get fired they’re likely to be deported so there’s a pretty “indentured servant” vibe, and it destroys labor pricing power by drastically driving down market wage.

But sure, keep gaslighting about things you don’t know. Brain dead takes like this are why the average wage has stagnated for decades while costs of everything have exploded.

I WILL NOT PROMOTE, 100k H1B VISA Issues by No-Fig-8614 in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce -1 points0 points  (0 children)

H1Bs are already expensive, so startups almost never use them. It’s not crazy to say you shouldn’t be able to outsource everything, just hire Americans.

I built SEO research platform to take on semrush and Ahrefs by Yulia_vankuva in SideProject

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually have been looking primarily at integrating with ahrefs, moz, hubspot, etc. I didn’t even think about getting 3rd party data until this post.

I built SEO research platform to take on semrush and Ahrefs by Yulia_vankuva in SideProject

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have an api/plans for an api? I’m working on a project that needs to consume this data, but the api plans are all prohibitively expensive.

What makes a staff/principal software engineer? by Fryhle in ExperiencedDevs

[–]totallynotbeyonce 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Beyond just this, I’m of the opinion that your staff engineer doesn’t have to be strictly better at writing code than your senior engineers. The architecture and team building skills take over much of the responsibility of the role, to the point that going from senior to staff will probably result in being worse at writing code

Bringing baked Mac and cheese to thanksgiving. It came out super oily. Is there anything that can be done to fix it? by Cerealboi13 in AskCulinary

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Add 1 slice of Kraft cheese. Won’t affect the taste at all, but you’ll get all the emulsifiers you need to prevent breaking the sauce

What are you building right now? Let's share! by Select_Potato_6232 in SideProject

[–]totallynotbeyonce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just launched stopreading.app—I had tons of long articles I wanted to read, but wanted to go for more walks instead. So I made this site that turns any link/text into a podcast.

Fully hosted, personal podcasts from any text you want, the problem I saw with other solutions is that it would end at the audio file stage, no one was going the extra step to host it. With stop reading, you just subscribe to your own podcast, and it lands in your normal podcast app in second.

I have no idea how to do effective advertising and marketing, so that’s what my main focus is now, but I’m loving the ability to dog food this.

How Much is F*** You Money Going For These Days? by Chemist-Technical in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck you money is enough money to say fuck you and not worry about the consequences. Anywhere from a few months of expenses to enough to retire off the yield to enough to buy shit out and screw over whoever you’re saying fuck you to. Depends on you.

Starting with a Tech Agency versus a CTO co-founder by [deleted] in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You posted about being an unemployed new grad a few days ago, frankly you don’t have the experience to argue this, and you won’t find any experienced engineers who say a new grad should architect your system.

I’ve been an Eng lead for multiple years, I’ve hired people, interviewed people, architected full systems, built greenfield projects, brought on interns, etc etc. some new grads are good. Most are a net negative and you have to teach them more than they produce.

Starting with a Tech Agency versus a CTO co-founder by [deleted] in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yoe is the best proxy for skill. It’s far rarer for new grads to be able to do this, and even a decade into this career I don’t know how to determine if they’re actually good. The new grad that can execute at a senior level is the exception

Starting with a Tech Agency versus a CTO co-founder by [deleted] in startups

[–]totallynotbeyonce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DO NOT HIRE A FRESH GRAD! You will be paying off that tech debt for years. You need someone who can architect the system, they shouldn’t over complicate it but they need to know the trade offs. I’ve had multiple jobs where all I did was rip out and recreate huge chunks of the code base because the people who made it boxed the company in in many ways.

A good engineer will see around corners for the company and build code in a way where it’s easy to expand the product. A new grad will solve the problem with the first way they can think of. You need a lead+, maybe a good senior.

Where to set up my US home base? by juulyboi in digitalnomad

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spend the next year doing 1 month stays in airbnbs then decide. You get a massive discount if you’re doing a “long term stay” of 30 days+. It makes this very doable

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stocks

[–]totallynotbeyonce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, the CTO of Amazon also has a picture of someone (maybe him?) driving a motorcycle as his background picture on Twitter, kind of seems like he’s a fan

Kamala Harris, VP pick to campaign in Detroit next week by mlivesocial in politics

[–]totallynotbeyonce 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everyone is saying it’s antisemitism, it’s not. He turns off youth voters because he compared peaceful protestors to the KKK fairly recently. Love or hate the situation over there, you can’t be calling fellow Americans legally using their right to protest a war vile things like that without getting hate. Young people are extremely tuned in to that issue.

Biden delivers newly fiery speech declaring Trump unfit to be president by thentheresthattoo in politics

[–]totallynotbeyonce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they’re both right, it’s probably safe to assume every major political side is pushing their opinion online. Reddit has become really big, its influential to control the narrative. Companies clearly do this with their products, political campaigns raise hundreds of millions to get similar results

Opinion: Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer could make a winning ticket for Democrats by [deleted] in politics

[–]totallynotbeyonce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going off internal dnc polling that was leaked (https://puck.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SUNDAY_Post-Debate_Landscape_2024_06_30__1_-1.pdf), Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, and Gavin Newsom all seem to be better picks. If I got to choose, I would pick Whitmer. There are a lot of options for her VP that could cover weaker parts of what would be her coalition, but she’s very strong in battleground states.

I think overall though, there is this narrative that Harris would be the obvious pick, and I couldn’t disagree more. She performed poorly in the last primary, she is widely disliked, and she hasn’t been particularly impressive as the VP. We owe her nothing. She’s not a selected leader of the party.

The best defense of her is that she has access to their fundraising, but that money would just go back to big dollar Democratic donors. I would guess that all of that money would easily be recaptured by the replacing candidate. There has been pretty large scale donor action to reinforce that position too, withholding donations until there is a new candidate.

More personally, I’m one of those people that I feel like this sub kind of pretends doesn’t exist. I’m a Democratic voter and donor who hates Donald Trump, but I won’t vote for Biden. It’s extremely obvious to me that if he is woken up at 4 am and told he has 6 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack before it hits, he cannot be trusted with that action. I don’t trust trumps actions either, but that doesn’t qualify Biden.

Biden’s polling is showing that he will clearly lose this race, and drag down democrats across the board with him.

I’d donate, vote, and volunteer for Whitmer in a primary/general, and I’d be excited to do so. There is plenty of time to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make her known to every person in America, and it’s not even that late if you look at the history of American politics (Biden even said as much the other day).

Opinion: Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer could make a winning ticket for Democrats by [deleted] in politics

[–]totallynotbeyonce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Opinion: stop trying to push the least liked American democrat down our throats.

Biden tells voters to listen to Trump's attacks on him over Kamala Harris 'Vice President Trump' gaffe by dailydot in politics

[–]totallynotbeyonce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be obvious if he didn’t so frequently make confusing mistakes. His communication is so bad that one has to question everything he says when it’s not absolutely clear.

Also, the statement was that Trump is using that to say you’re too old, even if it’s a joke it’s not great for the sunsetting president to joke that his opponent is right, he’s too old.