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2nd gen AirPods Pro’s Adaptive Noise Cancellation feature does exactly that.
Re:GitHub slashes engineering team in India on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @11:36AM (#35342779)
82 LPA may be an outlier but the range you mentioned is wildly incorrect. I’m an SDE2 making 57 LPA ($70K), and know other SDE2s making >70 LPA ($85K).
Re:SVB Depositors, Investors Tried to Pull $42B Thursday on Saturday March 11, 2023 @02:08AM (#35106186)
What does owning a dollar even mean? Fundamentally, isn’t your dollar bill also a legal certificate with the Fed?
What baffles me is that in the US banking system one can claim refund for a payment made two years ago without a proper legal process! This should significantly reduce trust in the system.

As a business, the money in my bank account can be taken back at any point and the onus of fighting back for it is on me. How is that reasonable?

Re:Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services? on Saturday December 04, 2021 @07:05PM (#29445503)
This information is confidential and only provided under NDA by cloud service providers. In the past, my employer was provided with detailed service dependency documents upon request. But unless you’re a major customer spending millions of dollar every month, you likely can’t request this information.
Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap on Sunday March 21, 2021 @03:06AM (#26528659)
Constantly reconciling business logic with changing environment is exactly what devs do at GS. GS powers the likes of Apple Card, Stripe Treasury, etc. There’s a lot of engineering required to handle the scale.

There are very few companies that are “technological innovators”. Most SV devs aren’t writing a new distributed system or a process scheduler for the Linux kernel.

Re:Acing the technical interview on Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:10PM (#13888716)
I find this style of writing quite playfully elegant. Anyone knows where I can read similar stuff (books, blogs, etc.)?

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