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Location: Near New York City, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, especially within the US and to the UK

Technologies: Python (esp the general software eng side but also the scientific side—Jupyter and all), OCaml, Java, SQL, HTML/CSS/JS, C, x86-64 assembly

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Hi! I'm a motivated software engineer with 2 years of experience. I've been a contractor at a major pharma company, building up tooling around our internal scientific database and doing some data analysis on the science side while I was there. Later, I was with a smaller fintech company and built out the VS Code language support for an internal scripting/templating language—this was all done in OCaml.

I'd love to work on software whose target audience is other developers. I'm very interested in programming languages, compilers, OS/systems programming, databases, and back-end work in general, but happy to stretch to front-end or (if a position calls for it) software eng/data analysis that's closer to the natural sciences.
Oh come on. Are you seriously saying that someone with a full-time job shouldn't have time for personal projects and fun? If you can do your job in 30 hours, you should be able to.
Jesus completed (fulfilled) the requirements of the law and prophets ... so what requirements are left?
Location: Dubuque, IA USA

Remote: ONLY

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And good enough ones are trivial expenses for pretty much any US software engineer.
Right. But the obvious solution is to just not do that. Create a template and base production/staging off it, then use that template. Or use the same bootstrap/migration process to create the template as you do staging.

Regular tests shouldn’t assume access to staging/prod, anyway.
On one hand this project just uses an Apple II as a front end for something running on a raspberry pi.

On the other hand, the 80386 and 68000 are both '80s era CPUs. The 80486 just barely squeezed in in 1989, with the first systems available fourth quarter. Super VGA video cards were available by 1987. Macintosh system software had a TCP/IP stack in 1988. I would think that you could access modern social media from an '80s era computer if you went with the latter half of the decade. If you are talking about the first half? Not likely. A 1 MHz 6502 would have a hard time keeping up with SLIP over 9600 baud, let alone 56kb.
incorrect: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015a7.htm
> Laptop shopping is harder than it should be. You can easily get lost in a sea of numbers and technical specs,

> We’re launching eight new laptops

This reads like satire.
Sounds like they are trying to make people quit to avoid layoffs/paying severance which is another dimension of this...
> Also, inevitably remote/async work flips the priority such that employee would be much more responsive to interrupts/errands of their own life than to focus their full attention on the employer's concerns.

Which is how it should be. Life is a lot more than living for your employer.
Times change and so should companies. It's also not unreasonable for people to expect more from their job than a simple transaction.

Before COVID, most places operated without tools such as Microsoft Teams and an assumption that remote work is untested and unproven to work in their setting.
This is now not the case, and people are rightly questioning why a return is necessary. They've proven they can make it work and that they know what works, but are unjustifiably being told otherwise by people that don't actually know what works.

When the internet goes down, why aren't people simply just sending faxes?
An example of pride in their work: Imagine being asked to work for a week on a project and once completed, being told to delete it without consideration because management irrationally decided to go a different direction before considering your project, you'd be understandably upset even though you were paid to do it.
Just for context, what experience is that based on? What fields in academia? Do you work there or have friends there?
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What do you think about attempts to overturn Trump's electoral win back in 2016?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...
On December 14, the Unite For America campaign released a video[36] published on YouTube and other media addressed directly to Republican electors urging that each of them individually, plus 36 of their colleagues (at least 37 Republican electors in total), vote for a Republican other than Donald Trump for President. The video featured numerous public figures,[37] including Debra Messing, Martin Sheen, and Bob Odenkirk, urging Republican electors to prevent a Trump presidency, expressing several times the message: "I'm not asking you to vote for Hillary Clinton". In electing an alternative Republican, the featured speakers ask the elector to become an "American hero" by using the elector's constitutional "authority" to give "service and patriotism to the American people" through a vote of "conscience."[36]
It was kind of a big deal
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-moore-appeals-gop-el...
Search the ArXiv: Find similar papers or search semantically
For day-time advertising they seem to be superior to anything, including high-quality print.

For night-time advertising, the advertisers will want the brightest possible display. A huge amount of insanely bright billboard screens have popped up in my neighbourhood recently, that are so bright as to become traffic dangers. Just waiting for them to be smashed by vandals, honestly.

Edit: Here are the new E Ink Spectra 6 displays I was talking about, pardon my Chinese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7V2EFAcbtU
> The US spends more on education than the military

"The US spent $877 billion on military in 2022, a new report says — more than 10 times federal education spending"

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-defense-military-budget-c...
Nice! Definitely my own necessity. Unfortunately no large showcases, because the toolset is not ready yet.
Marvel’s Avengers Video Game, Just Three Years Old, Is Gone
By “got worse” I mean more stores started having Sunday hours, extending open hours on weekdays late into the night, and being open on holidays.
I don't understand why both sides are getting screwed. Remote people are forced to come in, and on the other place, at many companies, people who do want to come to the office every single day are forced to hot swap desks.

Just let people do what they find the most productive and let their productivity speak for itself. If you can't properly measure productivity, then that's the issue you should focus on.
And inherently a far less ram using browser. I do 500 tabs in under 3GB. By also not implementing all the useless attack surfaces like DRM, Integrated PDF reader, WebRTC, and friends it avoids many of the exploits which make modern browsers like FF and Chrome insecure. Overall it probably balances out. Especially since PM users are likely to have JS execution disabled by default (like I do).
It appears they are dealing with it by asking people to come in to the office.
So you can reply to text messages, obvs!
Are you suggesting that they might not have social skills and send creepy text messages to female colleagues because they're a furry?
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"
Honestly, as someone that actually likes in-office work, I would hate this. Nothing I care about with in-office will happen in those 2 days.

I like the fun of being able to just joke around with coworkers around you. I obviously don’t want to bother anyone that prefers uninterrupted focus though. The ability to choose WFH or office self selects for people like me to come in. Makes for a much more fun office environment post-COVID IMO.

Forcing everyone into the office, even for 2 days, means you’re going to have 75% of people just annoyed they have to come in for 2 days. What have you gained? Everyone is unhappy.
Get too much attention and it'll turn into extrajudicial killing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_b...
And they’re raising prices again next year.
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Availability: 20-25 hrs / week

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I eat sleep and breathe JavaScript. So much so that my license plate used to be NODEJS https://twitter.com/joshmanders/status/853640782460456960

I’ve contributed heavily to open source both in tools I use, and my own code being open sourced.

Most of my time is building the next version of the indie hacker/bootstrapper build in public community https://getmakerlog.com

I’m available for whatever you need. If I don’t know it, I can pick up on it quickly to get the job done.
I recommend everyone involved in this discussion pick up a book called "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor. It was released almost 3 decades ago, yet remains an eye-opening account of the history and current reality of "middle class" work patterns. There's a part early on about piece-work (which was done in the home, before and at the advent of automation), and I think readers will find the attitudes of the companies that employed these workers to be familiar to anyone fight RTO. Over a century later, the issue remains the same: NOT productivity, but control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overworked_American
That's how it went in Germany.

Lots of people are redirected to trade programs. I'm definitely of the opinion that for a lot of folks, college doesn't really make sense. I would hazard a guess that also in Germany, lots of kids who might not be able to attend college are able to, because it is free.
Firstly, you make switching employers sound like as easy as changing your outfit. Not every job has thousands of companies hiring remotely ready to go.

Secondly, companies that pulled this bait and switch deserve to be called out and loose reputation among workers for it. My current employer had recruiters and even the CEO bragging about our remote work policy, just to pull it out from under everyone.
>We should just return to the status quo before COVID

The status quo was horribly broken, and it took a worldwide pandemic for many people to realize that things could be different and didn't have to be so awful.
But...the advice is about ultimatums...
Family: "We're going to an area where there's no WiFi, no distractions, no internet, just quiet solitude!"

Me: "Awesome! I'll get my laptop so I can work on some personal projects without distraction."

The only part of the puzzle I cannot solve is the Figma issue, which is an online tool. If your designs are already done, you can generate PDFs or PSDs to take with you.

For documentation, if you're anything like me, I refer to it constantly, there are tools that you can use to clone entire readthedocs areas, along with many others documentation projects. Simply keep them local.

You can create a local clone of an entire npmregistry, there are tools to do this for build systems.

Alternatively, pick up a tutorial style programming book that is outside of your regular knowledge area, download whatever tools you need, and work your way through the book.

You know your workflow better than anyone else, so try working your workflow without internet for a day and see where it falls short. Again, you can work around most of the problems, except for those "I need a back-end server to work" tools, e.g. Figma.
Yep. Remote work since 2002.
I can't speak for FaceTime, but I've found much better success with all of these platforms if everyone in the meeting is wearing headphones. A lot of the latency is from echo cancellation, and that turns off if there's no echo.

At my last company, I let everyone on my team expense comfortable headphones with a boom mic, and it made a huge difference on Google Meet. I've found Zoom to be similar. I can't speak to Slack's latency issues.

I'm also a big fan of Tuple[0] (the pair coding app) for extremely low latency screen sharing / pair coding and that was a huge advantage too.

[0] https://www.tuple.app
Sadly, that's an Intuit product.
It's much more multi-faceted than this.

I enjoy going to the office from time to time, and if you establish no rules, I'm pretty likely to go to the office about 2-3X per week and coordinate those days with others, because I'm also a social human being.

I also enjoy being able to see my partner for a week here and there. Some have a "4 week work-from-anywhere policy", but if you're in an LDR you know 4 weeks per year is really not enough.
I think it's assumed that it's within reason and in situations where the ultimatum has the purpose of pushing you into a situation you would prefer not to be in. The WoW example is an example of dysfunctional behavior and the HR example is a routine process and not unexpected from the recipient nor is the cost of filling it in extreme. Your examples don't apply and it should be obvious why.
I don’t know about btrfs, but zfs (correctly tuned) is also famously CoW and simultaneously a good option for many Postgres deployments.
> require someone to actually be at their workstation and available.

No guarantee people will be at their office desk either to be frank. They could be hiding in the toilet, loitering at the water cooler, out on smoke break, getting coffee, ... etc.
I don't see what the issue is, if you don't want to return to office you're welcome to work elsewhere that is fine with remote. The people who want to work in person can do so and be happy and you can work remote and be happy.

It's weird to demand from your employer when you're in control of where you work.
Announced or cancelled? It's 50:50 if you don't put it in title.
It depends.

A lot of times they are stuck with the recurring why loop.

Same with the conspiracy theorists.

Tbg. Sometimes they do find a farfetched reason that actually makes sense somehow.

The normal rule is that it's too farfetched by then. And you could just say: do you realize how crazy that sounds? What if it's "just" .... x.

Eg. for Elon Musk. He probably believes that Russia would nuke and he's just scared.

Or his business in China is at stake. Which means he's getting hated in the West for something he will already lose in the future...

Simple > conspiracy theory
Still, that's 4x back. It really helps incentivize buying a larger powerwall, and disincentivizes the power company from sapping the battery dry right before you need it.
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It's a poem advocating empathy, people, not an edict on border control policy. Are people really so sensitive that they can't handle being reminded that other people may think differently than them?
> What's the problem if they get the tasks required of them done?

At least in Software Engineering, tasks are rarely that clear-cut and specific. Yes, as a remote employee you will have enough data to justify "I did what was expected of me," and the employer have no specific performance concerns, but at the same time, I posit that you would have likely done more stuff that was not particularly written handed down to you had you been in the office.

> they might not respond to that urgent request immediately

It is not just your boss that you'd respond to immediately if you were in office. It is also the random questions, code review requests, etc. from everyone else that would be prioritized and the other party would get unblocked much more quickly if done synchronously, which would lead to more work done across the team.
...timezones
Spectroscopy. [1] The most amazing thing about it is how simple it really is. Each element has a unique absorption/emission scheme for 'light' / electromagnetic radiation. So light radiated from a body will have tell tale missing segments when broken down into its spectrum, absorbed by the atmosphere it passed through.

Think about how light passed through a prism splits from white light into its rainbow colored components. It's the exact same thing. All you need to do is see what's missing, and you can discern the elemental composition of the atmosphere[s] that said light passed through. And it all started with Newton playing with a prism, and thinking beyond 'my, what pretty colors.'

The really cool thing about this is that it also can tell you some things that defy 'common knowledge.' For instance the Moon actually has a persistent atmosphere, and it's made out of sodium! It's exceptionally thin, but it's there - and can be picked up by spectroscopy.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy
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A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky
The reason I've asked you all here today is because my boss told me to do it. So here we are.
iPhone 15 Pro Max Passes CR's Drop Test
They also don't hire in all states. I was shunted out of the interview pipeline because I don't live in one of their supported jurisdictions.
Merriam Webster helpfully defines "ultimatum" as:

> a final proposition, condition, or demand
especially : one whose rejection will end negotiations and cause a resort to force or other direct action
Are you using a VPN for work? It's possible that the network bandwidth is not decent enough to allow for lag free video conferencing.

When Zoom has issues system-wide, we get lag, but I'd say 98% of the time, there's no perceptible latency or bad audio quality.
I’m an open borders guy but the “sanctuary city” I live in seemed to never consider the costs of such sanctuary.
Yeah, the ADX guys sued to get that back. They lost it at some point and went years without. I tried to sue, but it is almost impossible to sue for lack of sunlight because you need to employ expert witnesses to even have a chance to prove that lack of sunlight is harmful to your health.

I was held in cells without windows for five years. The other five the cells had windows but were so dirty that practically no sunlight entered. Never went outside. Maybe a total of 10 hours outside in 10 years. The first five years in a facility where they didn't design any outside into it because it was built in the middle of a downtown area and there wasn't space. The other five in a facility that had large outside areas but no staff to organize corralling a whole cellblock of inmates, getting them through the corridors of the buildings to the outside, monitoring them so they didn't escape and then getting them back. That requires a lot of staff, and most jails and prisons are vastly understaffed.
> devalue the diploma from the public college

Huh? How so? If the only change is that you no longer need to pay for college, but otherwise admission standards and education quality remain the same, then why would the value of a diploma change? Unless the diploma was implicitly a signal for wealth, of course...
I'm in a field that would have to change significantly if funding agencies demanded open access. I would love it.

Right not there's basically zero funding for people who work on making our data open. It's kind of a hobby project that you do if you have free time and no one has found a real job for you.
Or they can find another CEO that'll pay them $500k per year and not ask them to be in the office three days a week
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A lot of people are in a position that they don't deserve. The max value is coming from the company that gave them the ultimatum.

If you are quitting your job as coach of the New England Patriots during your losing season don't expect to get $20/million year at your next job after you did your worth searching.
> 7. You can put them in the source where they are relevant.

> Got a hairy state machine? Stick a comment at the top with something like nomnoml's syntax and anyone can follow what's going on without having to trace through the code.

For that use-case a markup graph language is a poor solution. Use https://asciiflow.com instead to produce something that people can digest without needing a third-party tool that may not even exist anymore.
It’s right under the title:

> Humane, founded by ex-Apple talent, might be working on a laser projection system to that replaces our phones and tablets

Laser projection system

So either a projection on a surface, or maybe directly into the eye

Either way, they probably end up displaying the same info as a screen
How Google alters search queries to get at your wallet
Could you please support this statement: "The US spends more on education than the military"?

This view (https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/agency) suggests Defense spending is $1.1 trillion in 2023 while Department of Education funding is $208 billion.
They use the `pyperformance` package[0] that, according to the readme, use real world scenarios. So I expect it to capture every significant improvement.

[0]https://github.com/python/pyperformance
Seems like you're associating characteristics found with specifically bad employees as universally true for all WFH employees.
That's because they are actually struggling to admit deeper problems with the company culture and processes that they don't know how to solve, and so they're trying RTO to see if it fixes things.
There are definitely companies (and individuals) who are making the decision that "the benefits of RTO emerge from/rely upon our entire workforce being mostly in the office".

I don't personally hold that view, but I know people (including individual contributors) who do and, depending on why you think in-office work is good, it's an entirely reasonable view for some people and some companies to take.
Yeah thats why it’s so appealing. Neat, what kind of battery life do you get? And how are temps/thermals?
If you put your employees on an airplane flying westwards, you can have people work up to 36 hours per day.
Good luck https://mastodon.online/@alexeyten@mas.to/111166351426290784
Just because something draws the viewers, it doesn't mean it can be olympic.
If you want to be a CEO, it's a lot better to network with the kids of all the CEO's than the kids of the dentists and middle managers, if you can arrange it.
Which the counter examples here are not.
> I always find hilarious that it is the most free market advocates who tend to ignore that.

A lot of free market advocates don't seem to understand how markets work.

One of the main ways you grow an economy is to add people to it. You are adding jobs, by both creating labor supply and demand for goods and services. It's really very simple. The economy is made of people, stupid!
Manufacturing buggy whips doesn't work if only five people own buggies. This is a problem for the buggy whip manufacturer to solve, not the people who bought a car or took the train.

There's a third option beyond forcing everyone into boxes in the middle of nowhere (old and busted) and everyone working from home (new old hotness).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_assassination_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shootin...
You can get all of those slightly outside a 100 mile radius from you. Remote doesn't mean you have to hire on the opposite side of the planet.
You could probably have people travel for what an office in a major metro area costs.