seansmccullough

That makes me feel really old.

I also went to ROTC field training at Maxwell, and had a similar experience. Once on the way to the dinning hall with another cadet, we were saluted by two new medical officers who were very confused.

A lot of times you have to set a “deadline” when interacting with other teams/orgs, or they will just never get back to you.

> deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment.

This sounds like a great way to cause a live-site incident.

> while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

Unless you are a manager, in which case you are working more like 12 hour a day.

Yep, it's just a backdoor layoff.

Ya somebody is getting paged right now.

It seems like the Nvidia marketing team should have thought of this before launching the product.

Your principal and interest payment can never go up, but your property tax (which is included as escrow on your mortgage) definitely can. I live in Texas, and my mortgage will be $400 a month more next year because of rising property tax.

A reasonable US-specific problem. EV limitations like this are are why millions of people aren't currently interested in buying EVs. Compared to ICE, and EV car is more expensive, and essentially has the "road trip" feature removed.

Iowa State is a good school, I went there and ended up at Amazon and then Microsoft. The engineering programs are pretty decent and have good student outcomes, I don’t see how going to Iowa State would be disastrous for your son’s future.