akhilcacharya

I don’t go on Blind, I don’t really see the appeal. You seem strangely unhappy about your own situation to be this fixated on Amazon

I legitimately, from the bottom of my heart, don’t care.

The ones you haven’t gotten for a year? Doubt the perks at Intel were much more impressive.

Don’t get it, why is this the response when Google did the same thing and the comments there defended it?

Another article about Amazon doing the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650430

Oops, my bad y'all!

I got an email yesterday and it was reforwarded by my skip level manager. I’m surprised you wouldn’t get it.

They do though, they pay me around $180 a month for an unlimited transit card (that I can’t use) and a transit debit card for Uber (that is currently capped because I also cannot use it). For most other folks that pays for parking.

I genuinely don't understand why a wanted criminal, famous socialite and multimillionaire thought (at the time) to be in hiding outside the country and known by nearly everyone would spend her time posting links to Reddit accruing millions of comment karma. It straight up does not make sense, and neither does whatever relationship that has to what just happened. It's a total non-sequitur.

It doesn't help matters that they were fairly well known as power user even before [0]. It's the lowest and least creative form of conspiracy theories - really superficial pattern recognition.

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-maxwellhill-moderator-...

Wait, has the Cambridge Microcenter had 3080s recently? When do they restock?

I've heard of lines in the morning at other Microcenters but don't know much about the one next to me.

The obvious answer is they probably didn't, this is probably a pseudo QAnon/Pizzagate conspiracy theory where people were "censored" for the harassment of a random person.

It's interesting that these encounters keep happening off the California coast - is the naval presence there unique compared to other regions?

Honestly, anybody that passes a certain bar is probably fine for me. We already have that with medical licensing, board exams, residency matching, etc. If anything we could probably loosen the bar, since residency spots are artificially scarce because of the residency cap.

To be perfectly clear, I don't dispute ability exists - I just don't think that should be the ideal organizing philosophy for society.

That's around my line of thinking, pure meritocracy is both too subjective and far too harsh to the people who aren't in the lucky egg club, especially in increasingly global winner take all games (an inevitable consequence of globalization).

I'm a failure by meritocracy by nature of losing at all of the tests we use to judge success and merit - test scores, elite school admission, elite institutions etc.

I'm becoming convinced by the idea that meritocracy itself is bad and a terrible way to organize society. But perhaps I'm biased by being a failure in the meritocratic system.

Why is the 9P filesystem used to frequently for these applications? Is it just that much better than the alternatives?

I'm intrigued, which model Surface with which Linux distro would you recommend in the "impulse buy" territory?

That's my favorite episode, personally!

The post office wanted to send everyone masks, but this was nixed by the admin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-scrapped-usp...

It's strange to me that several references to Jackson, Adams, and DeBlasio's non response during the start of 2020 aren't paired with a similarly withering criticism of the then-chief executive who didn't even encourage mask wearing and pushed reopenings that we know are dangerous for aerosol spread, namely full capacity indoors restaurants and bars.

I don't dispute some restrictions are silly - closing playgrounds outside comes to mind, but they were reopened in my city once it became clear aerosol spread maskless indoors is far more dangerous than fomite transmission or masked aersosol transmission outdoors. Ultimately that is following the science.

It’s really weird that people seem more emotionally affected to the episode about the dog than the ones about Frys family...

What’s the modern standard for a full stack JVM app these days? Something rails-esque, or is it still just a split between Play and Spring Boot?

The answer is that Sturgis had indoor parts too, whereas its hard to protest in groups outdoors.

Does BlueJeans/Zoom/meet not auto dial?

I can’t tell if this is a joke but Waterloo is the Stanford of Canada and is on par with the top American CS undergrads

The corruption is terrible and I'm glad he was caught and prosecuted but it's weird to me that the topline salary figure is so prominent. He oversaw a $500 million budget and made the equivalent of a Googler with 3 to 6 years experience? Or a Citadel Securities/Jane Street/Hudson River Trading engineer with 0-2 years of experience? That part is hardly salacious.

Don't know, not caring is an American birthright.

We should strive towards a more equitable society but we can't let our day to day being defined by it.

Didn't you say "its over for you" previously

You're at Amazon and probably earning more than most people here

I find that unlikely

Both scenarios seem favorable for your future

Is it?

What part of what I said is trolling?

That's rough dude. Why do you think I'm such a failure?

I'm not actually sure what semantics you're referring to, btw. AFAIK you went to CMU ECE (not SCS) and not Harvard so I'm not so sure you can make that comparison anyway. How exactly do you think I should prove it?