Josh
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Manufacturing and healthcare are cool. Occasional rants on the esoteric. Problems are soluble
Joined July 2024
The design of scientific measuring devices is one of the clearest examples that theory precedes observation Without first having a theory you have no idea what to observe and how you would be able to observe it
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Dis track against Drake in halftime show we really might annex Canada
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@bryan_johnson Being very fit and healthy says a lot about a person, their ambition, agency, and discipline. It’s not a perfect filter but I think it’s pretty good proxy for hard workers
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@Austen 19 is too young for most formal credentials. That’s literally it. They can’t fathom that you actually can just do things
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Got it that makes sense. My bias is filtering my view at the start too, which is why I don’t get alarmed. I’m immediately thinking this is access to databases/apps with relevant data for payments (contracts, purchase orders, etc) which is likely whatever ERP they use. They might also be looking into employee records or department policies since they seem to be on a hunt to eliminate policy language and positions around DEI. I could also see them looking at regulations but those are publicly published. This journalist throwing in that there are nuclear secrets ~somewhere~ in the “IT system” is irrelevant because it’s completely outside the scope for a financial audit. That data is stored in completely different systems and requires completely different accesses. Access to financial data doesn’t automatically grant access everywhere. That would’ve been cool if you made it, I think you would’ve brought a good skill set. I think you’re right it would’ve been a headache though because I agree with you that the media is more concerned with making it sound scary than making it transparent to the public.
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So from an IT perspective accesses are hopefully managed centrally. But each app/DB would have a separate user group for accessing it. There’s not really “an IT System” just a conglomerate of different apps and data stores that may or may not be connected. So when someone says they have access to “the IT system” I register that they don’t really know what they themselves mean by that or are intentionally reporting it ambiguously. For a given department there may be dozens of apps that are business critical and to users that only use one of them that might be subjectively “the IT system”. The most frustrating part is this is bad journalism for everyone that cares on both sides. The side that feel journalists are attacking them unwarrantedly think they are exaggerating. The side that is really anxious about this is even more so because they have no transparency into what this actually means. Do they have access to everything? If not what exact information do they have access to?
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Idk the logic that goes into this. Like say every engineer can now return $200 of value in 1 hour where they used to only return $100. Why would your response be to reduce the number of engineers when you are now getting double the value for each one you have?
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Idk the logic that goes into this. Like say every engineer can now return $200 of value in 1 hour where they used to only return $100. Why would your response be to reduce the number of engineers when you are now getting double the value for each one you have?
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Idk the logic that goes into this. Like say every engineer can now return $200 of value in 1 hour where they used to only return $100. Why would your response be to reduce the number of engineers when you are now getting double the value for each one you have?
I think software engineering jobs will shrink by 67% and salaries will get cut by 33% in the next 3 years. For example, a team of 36 making $300k/yr on average will be outshipped by a team of 12 making $200k/yr on average. This has happened before—in finance, journalism, and media. Ultimately, the only way to earn an outsized living in these industries is to take risks and start your own thing.
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@travisthomson_ @Austen There’s always more work to be done unless you have no vision for your product/company. Amazon doesn’t just sit back with profits, they invest in more lines of business, more R&D, more improvements. It’s just basic capitalism at work. You’re always growing if you can afford it
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@travisthomson_ @Austen Where do all the cost savings go? If they aren’t reinvesting in more engineering work then they are going to lose to companies that are. When you get more productive employees you don’t lay-off to return to previous output levels, you invest to get even more output.
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@ZcohenCNN Pro-tip: there’s no such thing as “the IT system” anywhere. You should ask “which ones” next time. If you know which ones and are still reporting it like this that’s journalistic malpractice to everyone requesting transparency and it’s only goal is to spread fear
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