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There are zombie startups. The business has stalled out, but breaks even. The staff and investors are checked out. Ambitious product people show up with big ideas that never work and then leave. They keep going until someone finds a buyer or the business fails.

Promos before the terminal level are easy because your manager wants to retain you. After the terminal level, they're used as carrots to squeeze more work out of you. One scenario to look out for is the company doing well. You realize your RSUs are worth more than job hopping, so you aim for adequate, but the company doesn't like that you opted out of the staff promo rat race.

I've been on the IC version of this. You have to be on the right team, do well, and have the right friends to get a promotion past the terminal level. Ask yourself where the team is in its lifecycle and how much growth it really has ahead of it.

> Great points - however this can keep your fridge running for 2-3 days (a pretty long outage).

$1,000 buys a lot of groceries. It's cheaper to to have a small supply of shelf stable food for outages.

> It can also do arbitrage and charge when it’s cheap and deploy the power when it’s expensive.

This has the same problem. It takes a long time to make back the $1000.

Where does it say Mozilla has your browsing history or sells it?

> Mozilla is selling your browsing activity in Firefox "privately" to advertisers

Do you have a better source for this?

> no one asked for water resistance

Manufacturers put water-sensitive indicators in electronics to flag this during warranty claims. Before water resistant phones, people would desperately google for how to save their phones.

> don't care about phone thinness either

There are rumors the next iPhone with have a thin model. You should also look into the original Motorola Razr. It was the original sexy phone precisely because of how thin it was.

Now you're trading off water resistance, size, and capacity. Choose 2.

It doesn't take very much effort to look at ink costs when buying a printer, so this is on consumers. It might even be the rational choice for low-income consumers since it's cheaper in the long run than buying a more expensive printer with a 25% APR credit card.

I had one of these phones that would crash under load and the update fixed it. The technical fix was sound. Batteries can't supply full power as they age, and the CPU needs high power when it runs faster. It's an annoying reality of battery powered devices that looks like a conspiracy to boost sales.

Are you talking about Coyote Vs. Acme?

If this doesn't give FF a noticeable bounce, FF really is a lost cause.

This happened to me. There was a layoff, I got overwhelmed with work that had to get picked up, lost motivation, and burned out.

> there are a lot of jobs that make it difficult to continue past a few years

This has been a lot of my career. All my long, successful jobs have lasted around 2-3 years, and it's the time it takes for the company to realize the initiative wasn't worth it. I count four of these stints where I left, and the team was essentially dissolved within a year. I'm not saying I was the key person for the project; I just saw the writing on the wall.

It's been career limiting not having a large-scope project on a growing team, but I don't know if this is something about me, something about the projects I'm a good fit for, or the reality that a lot of projects and teams don't survive 5 years, and I've been exposed to some survivor bias of smart people who have gotten lucky.

Maybe, but the gold chain, million dollar watch wearing CEO talking about masculine energy doesn't help the brand.

I'm not sure if it's accurate, but a certain nautical themed torrent directory currently lists Office 2016 as the third most popular Application torrent.

I got a copy of my background check a few times. They contacted my university (who has my graduation date wrong). I'm not sure if they actually contacted previous employers (who usually just confirm start and end dates) or just checked theworknumber. Contacting references is hit-or-miss.

> In Youth, you fantasize about one day meeting your idols

Towards the end of my youth, I got to date a celebrity crush and work at my dream job. Both sucked and left me heartbroken.

Not WaPo, but chuckr is back at Meta because of the political shift. Chuckr is well-known for being a firearm enthusiast.

When he killed the Harris endorsement, that sent a stronger signal than endorsing her.

Projects I've seen at work. Projects posted on Hacker News. Data races aren't usually an issue for backend services, and modern Java/C# is multi-paradigm.

This, but I'm getting tired of people using Rust for things that really should be in C# or Java.

How's Paraguay? I'm told it's one of the safest places in South America outside France, and safer than Chile.

Chile is further south than you think and more developed than you think. Unlike most of Latin America, the tap water in Chile is generally safe to drink, so their electric grid might also be better than you expect.

Musk fanboys are always impressed by how much he does, but it's becoming clear he can't have time to be the CEO of Tesla, owner of X, CEO of the Boring Company, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of SpaceX, CEO of xAI, owner of Neuralink, Reichsleiter of the DOGE, and top-20 Diablo IV player.

What do you propose? Continue social distancing and masking? About the only middle ground is masking in medical settings and crowded, non-social spaces. I guess vaccination rates are low, but that should be a good thing for people who are vaccinated.

What's your test for when a use is ok and being held back by copyright law versus when it's damaging? Why is one ok but not the other?

> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, stirred alarm among developers last month when he predicted that A.I. technology sometime this year would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer

Either Meta has tools an order of magnitude more powerful than everyone else, or he's drinking his own koolaid.

Humidity in Taiwan can be very high.

The number of M3 and M4 SKUs suggests they have yield problems and are disabling bad memory and cores.