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lukeify
·19일 전·discuss
I stopped taking this guy seriously after he proposed "just" digging canals to bring desalinated ocean water into the U.S. desert.
lukeify
·24일 전·discuss
I find it interesting you label the majority of voters in the populace who voted for Brexit as "far right", and not just "right".
lukeify
·24일 전·discuss
Great, so all I need to do is to authoritatively check each plausible combination of domains that _might_ work and rule each of them out before I can make my claim, according to you?

What a load of pedantry.
lukeify
·24일 전·discuss
Within the last month both Mapbox and Etsy blocked my attempts to signup using a Proton Mail alias. How many services do you sign up for in recent years, on average? The practice is becoming incredibly common and more than likely you're just grandfathered in.
lukeify
·24일 전·discuss
Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
Disliking mass immigration isn't xenophobia.
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
Immigration has been directly responsible in the last decade for the huge run-up in housing prices in New Zealand.

It is not _the only reason_, but it is a big reason.
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
And it's criticisms like this that isolate people further from each other politically and emboldens support for the parties you dislike.

There are valid and reasonable reasons to dislike large-scale immigration beyond supporting despots for the sake of doing so. The mainstream parties are not offering alternatives, can you blame those who are disaffected by this rapid societal change from reaching out to support the first name that voices critique at policies they dislike?
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
Yeah.

So what will realistically happen, if we look at the trajectories of other countries, is that immigration will continue to rise, more people will be peaked by the discontent it can sow, and the popularity of this party will rise further.
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.
lukeify
·26일 전·discuss
Without these kinds of policies you'll just see the rise of more "new-right" parties like One Nation in Australia and Reform in the United Kingdom (yes, I am aware both are not "new", but they are newly popular).

It turns out there is a sufficient amount of immigration that is disliked by the populace that they will dump support for long-standing parties in favour of those who promise change.
lukeify
·2개월 전·discuss
This is written beautifully. It's like a much more inconsequential variant of Chernobyl.
lukeify
·2개월 전·discuss
The constituent particles of nature are under no requirement to be apparent or achievable to you.
lukeify
·2개월 전·discuss
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lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
> Having juniors and mid-levels is about being able to promote an existing mid-level that knows the team and the system, with zero downtime. It's much easier to replace a junior than a senior.

Yeah but the point of this post is that it makes an assumption that your company doesn't have mid-levels or juniors.
lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
That's probably the bulk of senior developers. We're not all inverting custom proprietary binary trees.
lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
This is pretty much what's occurring in New Zealand right now, yes. 2020–2023 had pretty much zero international movement due to closed borders with COVID-19, with a low official cash rate which caused business to be in desperate need of development resource; so salaries were high.

Market rate for developers has either stagnated generally or depending on the role dropped as hundreds of applicants are willing to undercut each other on what constitutes an acceptable pay check.

But most employers don't go around reducing previously-hired people's salaries for a variety of reasons.
lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
> A senior engineer says “I want a 40% raise or I’m leaving,” and the company’s ability to respond depends entirely on what their alternatives look like.

Except where I live there's a glut of people wanting any job they can find—for a variety of reasons ranging from high levels of immigration to layoffs in the last two years—and willing to accept discount rates because the alternative is being unemployed for another 3 months (New Zealand).

Both the employer and employee know this. So the employee is either foolish or risky enough for asking and gets turned down, or they do actually leave and the employer can hire a new senior engineer at below market rates to accommodate the specific learning they have to do for their new role.

End of story.
lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
Steve Jobs existed in an era where he could show us new technology when new technology brought a sense of joy and amazement; whereas due to a multitude of factors, new technology no longer causes such emotions for a substantial portion of people.
lukeify
·3개월 전·discuss
We didn’t have any. The project manager set it at 3 story points.