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goldchainposse | 6 months ago | on: I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

I understand how the US and EU have different electrical outlets, voltages and frequencies. The systems developed independently, standardized on compatible versions locally, and standardizing globally would be very expensive and almost impossible to do safely.

I don't understand how North America and Europe settled on different EV charging plugs.

goldchainposse | 10 months ago | on: Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)

> Why do you assume it's a drag for them and not a competitive advantage?

Because despite them being very open about it, no one else does it, and every distinguished engineer who pushes a weird tech choice will justify and defend it.

goldchainposse | 10 months ago | on: The great displacement is already well underway?

Some quotes stood out to me

> ...in fact I own three houses

> ...I left behind everything and everyone i know and love on the west coast to come to New York specifically for this opportunity of helping care for my family and growing long term equity with real estate

> With my full time engineering job bringing in around $150k, a salary that I clawed my way slowly and steadily for 20 years, I could just about manage covering all the expenses, maintenance, and planned improvements for the long-term vision of the properties, maintain my 16-year-old daily driver car, and maybe even have four or five thousand dollars left over each year to take one little camping trip and make a couple stock and crypto investments.

Rather than building a career as a software engineer, he spent most of his time as a small-time real estate and crypto(!) investor subsidized by his software engineering side hustle.

goldchainposse | 10 months ago | on: Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)

I know Jane Street love OCaml, but you have to wonder how much it's cost them in velocity and maintenance. This is a quant firm blogging about a programming language they're the most famous user of.

goldchainposse | 10 months ago | on: How the U.S. became a science superpower

Whether or not it's efficient isn't as much of a concern as if it's being gamed. Reports of growing university administrations, increase in the cost of an education, and biases in the publish-or-perish model show the old model is no longer effective.

goldchainposse | 10 months ago | on: Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court

She shouldn't have signed the nondisparagement agreement when she had juicy material for a book.

These are usually a severance thing and not a term of employment. Some employers are extra clever and make the contract secret and the arbitration secret, so the public has no idea anything even happened.

goldchainposse | 11 months ago | on: Googler... ex-Googler

I want to get enough time at $MEGACORP to have FU money. After that, my fear is a lot of smaller companies are working on thing even more boring, but with less scale. Gluing a domain-specific API to a few LLMs sounds boring. I got into tech because I liked learning it, but a lot of it is getting repetitive.

goldchainposse | 11 months ago | on: Googler... ex-Googler

If Google realizes they made an oopsie, I hope he respectfully tells them "no, thanks." I could never go back to an employer that did this to me, then said it was just a mistake.

goldchainposse | 11 months ago | on: Googler... ex-Googler

> diversity field

If this was even in the spreadsheet, whether or not it were used, the current administration would love to hear about it.

goldchainposse | 11 months ago | on: Open guide to equity compensation

I was a hired early to a startup (my hiring manager was the CEO) that's now public and worth $10B+ that you've heard of. It took them over 10 years to go public, and I would have done just as well putting my money in FAANG, but with lower risk and more liquidity.
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