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New comment by chris11 in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

chris11 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:19:26 +0000

I think it's both contact and wire resistance.

It is technically possible to solder a new connector on. LTT did that in a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzwrLLg1RR4

New comment by chris11 in "Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics"

chris11 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:52:04 +0000

The newsletter is much better than the posted article. It's a detailed critique and discusses alternatives. Efinancialcareers posts a lot of low effort blog posts.

New comment by chris11 in "Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi"

chris11 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:12:52 +0000

You can custom order electric versions of random gas vehicles. Toyota can make an EV. https://www.zelectricmotors.com/tesla-porsche https://www.electricclassiccars.co.uk/

New comment by chris11 in "Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking"

chris11 — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:33:41 +0000

It's not just extras. Jet Li turned down The Matrix Reloaded because they were requiring that he also sell the rights to the martial arts moves used.

New comment by chris11 in "A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews"

chris11 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:12:26 +0000

> Nowadays, it's obvious to me that it's my responsibility to make it easy for them to see that I am good. That's what practice is - it's you working on your ability to articulate your fit for the role

I second that. As an interviewer it's much easier to pass someone if they directly articulate how they meet the question rubrik. For coding interviews that can mean explicitly communicating a methodical approach and covering edge cases. For behavioral that can mean clearly communicating a situation and it's impact. This does take practice.

New comment by chris11 in "$900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI"

chris11 — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:16:35 +0000

I don't think that's a fair example. I'm not sure what it's like to run a small business in California. But the answer to that situation is progressive taxation, and California has one of the most progressive tax systems in the US. https://taxfoundation.org/which-states-have-most-progressive...

New comment by chris11 in "$900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI"

chris11 — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:12:13 +0000

Is Netflix really that bad? They aggressively state they quickly fire people. But I've also seen reports that their turnover rate is low, and they don't have a PIP culture. It looks to me like people are reasonably happy there for the most part.

New comment by chris11 in "Quality of new vehicles in US declining on more tech use: study"

chris11 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 02:07:01 +0000

Personally I'd really like to use that screen with google maps.

New comment by chris11 in "SEC to Weigh New Artificial-Intelligence Rules for Brokerages"

chris11 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:11:50 +0000

I'm not familiar with the rules. But if you train AI on customer data you might end up with something that looks like front-running.

New comment by chris11 in "Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted"

chris11 — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:44:02 +0000

Manufacturers and retailers will also change models for sales. Black Friday sales are sometimes cheaper, lower quality versions. Discount clothing retailers sometimes get items made specifically for them. And that's ignoring bad QA. Patagonia just filed a lawsuit against Nordstrom Rack for selling counterfeit clothing.

New comment by chris11 in "Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive"

chris11 — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:47:13 +0000

And telling IT to support a new operating system company wide could be an expensive decision.

New comment by chris11 in "Investors brace for a painful crash into America’s debt-ceiling"

chris11 — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:27:29 +0000

Republicans are following the Two Santas strategy. The democratic Santa is increased social spending. The Republican Santa is cutting taxes during their administration. The debt ceiling is used to force the next administration to pay for them, either by raising taxes or cutting spending.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski#:~:text=The%20...

New comment by chris11 in "Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley"

chris11 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:17:11 +0000

I'm at a FAANG adjacent company and we do hire older ICs. Though I wouldn't want to be interviewing right now. Senior level interviews can be demanding, and junior positions hard to find.

It's crappy answer to age discrimination, but people pivoting can leave less relevant experience off of resumes. I've done that.

New comment by chris11 in "Former Meta staffer reveals she had to ‘fight for work’"

chris11 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:55:26 +0000

It could make sense. I'm assuming they will be doing actual work during that time. A paid 12 month long apprenticeship would be good for both parties. It's enough time for Meta to decide if they want to hire an employee full time, and a year would give sourcers a decent amount of experience if they wanted to leave.

New comment by chris11 in "LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken"

chris11 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 02:51:55 +0000

Access control isn't great if an engineer was able to transfer vaults to a personal plex server.

New comment by chris11 in "CMU CS Academy: a free online computer science curriculum by Carnegie Mellon"

chris11 — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:37:17 +0000

Top tech companies could reduce comp by lowering hiring bars and wages. They don't think it's worth the cost.

New comment by chris11 in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

chris11 — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:36:52 +0000

Twitter is private, but Elon definitely destroyed value when he took it over.

New comment by chris11 in "Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account"

chris11 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:08:48 +0000

Trust and Safety is an extraordinarily difficult problem to handle at scale. Ideally guidelines should be public and applied consistently. That's a high standard.

Elon came in saying he was pro free speech, even saying ElonJet wouldn't be banned. But he fired moderation teams and replaced them by personally making individual decisions. Twitter can't get consistent application of public guidelines from that.

New comment by chris11 in "Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account"

chris11 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:59:51 +0000

Information being false or libelous is another reason to ban someone. That makes it more hypocritical that LibsOfTikTok was unbanned but ElonJet was banned.

New comment by chris11 in "Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports"

chris11 — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:12:46 +0000

FSD marketing has always seemed sketchy to me. Though I like Open Pilot. It's a much smaller scope for an L2 system to keep you in your lane and keep you a safe distance from the next car. It works well for highway driving.