dadkins

That makes sense, and is a fine approach.

I'm of two minds about this. Facebook and Instagram keep me connected with friends, new and old. True, they're filled with algorithmic crap now, but when I tried ditching them for a while, it didn't improve my connections with people. If anything, I lost touch with people because that's where they were. I'm much better off knowing what my friends -- many who have scattered -- are up to, and giving casual updates myself.

On the other hand, yes, absolutely put the phone down at the dinner table and engage with those who are present. No questions there.

Finally, my kids are getting to the age where their friends have phones and use them to communicate. My kids don't yet have that and are reliant on me to text parents, which is a lot of friction for everyone involved. Their summer is very boring because they hardly get to see their friends. So, sure, fight boredom by entertaining yourself, but that's a lonely existence.

Semi-serious answer: No, the company only gave themselves the right to unilaterally amend the terms, not you.

The big two, x86_64 and arm64, have 64-byte cache lines, so that's a reasonable assumption in practice. But I was surprised to discover that Apple's M-series laptops have 128-byte cache lines, and that's something a lot of people have and run, albeit not as a server.

Yup, this is how stuff ends up getting lost and delayed, even if the crews on either side are competent and efficient. Most people can't fill up an 18-wheeler, so some bin packing has to take place for the long haul.

I've done a couple of cross-country moves with a full house and had fairly good luck -- North American Van Lines if anyone is interested -- and by far the best experience was when my stuff was last into the truck making the long distance trip. It was delivered a few days later by the same truck and driver. Nothing was lost or broken. There was no chance to screw things up with intermediate transfers to depots.

"This was the first leadership interview loop in the past 12 months (20+ companies) in which anyone had asked me to write code."

Interesting data point for the question: at what point in your career will you stop being asked to write code on a whiteboard to prove you aren't lying on your resume.

> It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job.

That says more to me about the companies practicing this style of interview than it does your degree or the institution granting it.

You got 21 recruiter messages _with salary_?? Amazing.

I have had almost no luck getting that information from recruiters without hopping on a call. None have ever provided that information upfront.

I only managed to get that info from an Amazon recruiter after pushing the issue pretty hard. At first he bragged that Amazon had upped their bands, without mentioning any numbers. When I asked how much, he pointed to a reddit thread and levels.fyi, still not mentioning any numbers. I finally straight-up asked him to stop being coy and just name the range, after all it's law in California and I'm going to keep asking until I get an answer. It took him a couple of days to respond, then I never heard from him again.

And this is the only recruiter that has ever actually given me an answer. Ever.

(350-475k total for "L6" in California FWIW)

How can it simultaneously be the hottest job market in anyone's memory, and yet the process still looks like this? These don't look like companies struggling to hire; these look like companies being exceedingly picky and not suffering one bit for it.

Yeah, the expectation that _everyone_ excels in leadership and influence leads to some absurd situations, like everyone on a team being "tech lead" for some part of the project. Or the all-"senior" team. Presumably they're all leading each other? Same game goes for cross-functional impact.

The whole point of the separate individual ladder was to give an alternate career path to management. What a lie that's turned out to be.