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New comment by senexes in "America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance"

senexes — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:37:45 +0000

This makes for nice political slogans but Hank Asher had the entire state of Florida DMV records in the early 90s and we did nothing. Then we did nothing after 9/11 and the patriot act. We did nothing between 9/11 and Snowden. We did nothing after Snowden. We have literally done nothing in 35 years but now is the time to start? Snowden is probably in political office in a society that had the will to do something about this.

At a deeper level, I think people would need to care more about the outcomes and higher order effects of political decisions and not just the emotional weight of political slogans. The fundamental problem is that is not the society we live in.

New comment by senexes in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

senexes — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:10:44 +0000

Remote is the big variable.

I am currently employed, remote but not in IT. I have been applying for various jobs the last 6 months because there isn't much growth left for me at my current company. I am a really strong candidate for what I am applying for. If I apply to a local company, I get contacted almost immediately. If I apply for a remote job it is crickets.

I think for remote, you are going to have to be recruited or have a strong network tie because that is the only way to filter the volume of applications. Cold applying is just a waste of your time and energy.

New comment by senexes in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

senexes — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:41:48 +0000

I don't work in IT but I use and love Claude code. What strikes me is maybe the overall software job market can not grow to surpass the post covid peak but any current professional software engineer has immensely valuable skills that can no longer be gained in the same way, if at all. I would think the counter argument to the greedy CEO argument is that AI breaks the former economy of scale in the opposite direction towards hyper specialization in business with small teams. In that scenario, as the economy grows with more and more business, the current software engineers are the substrate for a new type of off brand bargain CTO as opposed to the current , luxury brand CTO sitting at the top of oversized companies.The bull market becomes at the higher level that current software engineers step into. Most likely though, none of this is true and 15 years from now it all shakes out in a way that none of us could have really predicted from our vantage point because the prediction would sound ridiculous with the information at hand.