[Coronita]

[quote=svelte]The first guy mentioned (holds jobs for 2 months, does nothing, gets paid then fired) would never be hired by me because I’d trash-can his resume as soon as I saw the length of his stay at his prior employers.

The hire-folks-to-do-my-work path is riddled with problems. What if those folks steal code and pass it off as their own work? Many companies today check very closely the licensing of software they reuse out of fear of being sued. Not knowing who is “writing” your code and therefore whether any of it is proprietary to another company or covered under some sort of license (BSD, GNU, GPL, MIT, Apache or more restrictive types) leaves the company wide open.[/quote]

For most of these jobs, they are wannabe FinTech startups that got a lot of VC funding. Most of them want to make a proof of concept so that the company can raise the next round of funding, get acquired, or go public.
80% of them wont be around in 2 years. we arent talking about a defense or public sector job or something requiring a security clearance. Think a company like WebVan or pets.com. these are the companies thats so lax on review process, interview process, so yes you can get away with it if you dont mind compromising your work ethics.
and theres a lot of short term money to be made this way. Silly Silicon Valley…

Your concerns about code stealing, licensing, etc are overblown. The code isnt important enough or revolutionary enough to be worth stealing in most of these fintech startups….and you wont be able to tell if you are the guy obtaining the code from the the cheaper outsourced labor, do the code review, and the gitlab/github checkin, which you would do if you were trying to pass if off as your own code…at these fintech startups, no one gives a shit… thats why these people can get away with what they are doing…its one of the reasons why i got out of these fintech startup bay area pushes i generation ago. the goal is short term exit strategy and to cash in…different for the few of us that are in the game trying to make a difference, where we use our rental income to pay the bills so we can try to find an opportunity we enjoy doing … hopefully ill get there one day.

[Coronita]

[quote=deadzone]It is so obvious that a large percentage of folks are just effing off most of the time with this work from home situation.
That’s why I don’t believe for a second that this is going to be a permanent or long term shift.

At some point corporations (and even government) are going to have to be productive once all the pandemic related and other corporate handouts wear off.[/quote]

if corporations wanted to be productive, they would fire all the bloviater status bean counting project managers, specially in the defense industry and public sector. when i interned at a defense company, god talk about the endless meetings after meetings. Please, dont tell me about efficiency…. in most of these industries, having 10 engineers in meeting after meeting is hardly efficient. even before work remotely… and this problem at these american companies have been around for decades….despite all the feeble attempts to make a conpany more efficient….and when layoffs do happen, its rare that these bean counters are the ones to get laidoff in the defense and public sector.
..since they have visiblility to the directors, vps, and ceos…they are usually the last to go…the first is usually the workebee grunts stuck with the 2.5% COLA raises. just saying….

[Coronita]

wait, how are you srguing theres no inflation on this thread but on the other thread talking about how rents are going to the moon???

https://www.piggington.com/rents_appear_be_mooning

dont get it.

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Subcontract[/quote]

Actually, two of my guys were joking about this because they work out of Mexico City most of the time. (They have a greencard, but with remote work, they chose to remain in Mexico City)…

I was joking that what they should do is go find 10 of these jobs, and hire 15 engineers in mexico city at 1/5 of the cost of a US engineer and let them do the work….and just manage the work….

They asked if they could do this for their own work in my group. I said, don’t say, dont tell. My only condition is if they could find me a director to at 1/5 my cost….lol

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[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita]one thing about backup usb drive. i dont leave it connected. A RAID usb backup drive mitigates against hardware failure with your main storage, and the dual RAID drive mitigates against a single hard drive failure in the USB RAID drive….However, these backup drives wont do anything against a computer infested with a virus. So i only have the backup drive connected when im backing things up.[/quote]

I use similar strategy. None of my data is stored on the computer – only software I install which isn’t much nowadays.

All of my data is on external USB – I have a 12TB drive and two 12 TB backup drives plus a 12 TB backup sitting in a safe deposit box which I swap out every 4 months. I will lose a week’s worth of work if my 12 TB main USB drive fails. I don’t keep any drive past 5 years of age – all failures I have seen have been on drives 7-10 years of age. Backup drives are plugged in only while backing up data.

If my house burns down I’ll lose 4 months of data, but if my house burns down I’ve got bigger problems than data.

If my computer goes belly up, all I do is unplug my 12 TB drive from my old computer and plug it into my new computer. Install 2-3 sw packages and I’m good to go! Easy.[/quote]

When I use to work in an office, I leave a single drive backup that replicates the raid drive in my office… no office anymore…

[Coronita]

[quote=gzz]I had no idea Ryzen 5 had such better built in graphics as Intel chips.

Ultimately it’s not very important. ZK will probably barely notice his new PC is faster than his 4 year old one, and not notice at all the speed difference between these two PCs, unless he is doing some power user stuff like video edits.

I still use my 2011ish Gen 1 i7-890 desktop, and it really is barely any slower for most daily tasks than my shiny new Omen 25L.

The biggest difference for general office use is that the new PC does OCR of large scanned documents a ton faster than older PCs. Not sure how often people need to do giant OCR projects however.[/quote]

If you plan on doing some photo editing, or use a drawing app like CorelDraw, it makes a difference too. Not sure if these cheaper boxes allow for a ram upgrade. A lot of times, to cut cost they started soldering the memory directly onto the motherboard.

I would say for the talented, you could build a much better system if you wanted to assemble it yourself, but that takes a lot of work.

[Coronita]

i laughed…lol.

[Coronita]

[quote=The-Shoveler]LAUSD is threating to lock down again, not sure if that applies to UC schools or not, but it looks like LAUSD may go back to remote learning.[/quote]

LAUSD is offering free lunches for all students….

[Coronita]

[quote=zk]I think I’m going to go with this

https://www.costco.com/.product.1487294.html

Lenovo w/ 512GB SSD, 12GB RAM, 10th GEN INTEL i5. $500.

I have a 2TB external HDD for storage, and I’ll be getting another 2TB external HDD for storage (storing the same stuff (pix/videos) on both for safety). I’ll be putting the pix/videos on M discs soon (“soon” is the plan anyway).(I have an external device to write to M-discs)

The non-pix/video stuff I need to save fits on a thumb drive.

I considered (would continue to consider if I receive further input on it) the dual-drive computer gzz put a link to. But I’ve read that as SSDs get full, they slow down. And that basic, necessary stuff might get a 256GB SSD to a point where it’s full enough to do that.

I understand that backing stuff up to 2 external HDDs is a pain, especially compared to backing stuff up to the HDD in a dual-drive computer. But it seems pretty cost-effective.

That’s the plan, anyway. I really very much appreciate the input so far, and if anybody would be so kind as to point out any flaws in my plan, I would very much appreciate that, too. Thanks again.[/quote]

that PC sucks… For starters it has a last generation Intel I5 in it.

This one is better, albeit less ram …

https://www.costco.com/hp-pavilion-desktop—amd-ryzen-5-5600g.product.100767850.html

CPU comparo

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_5_5600g-1877-vs-intel_core_i5_10400-1153

[Coronita]

one thing about backup usb drive. i dont leave it connected. A RAID usb backup drive mitigates against hardware failure with your main storage, and the dual RAID drive mitigates against a single hard drive failure in the USB RAID drive….However, these backup drives wont do anything against a computer infested with a virus. So i only have the backup drive connected when im backing things up.

[Coronita]

[quote=zk]Turns out I have a bad hard drive.

So instead of asking for recommendations for computer repair, I guess I’m asking for recommendations for a guy/ place that does data recovery from a bad hard drive. Thanks.[/quote]

Not worth the cost of doing this unless the data is absolutely must save because often times what these people do is very painful and tedious. (Disassembly your hard drive, finding an identical drive, physically move the platters from your drive to one that is working, etc.) I’ve done this myself one time. It was painful and time spent versus the importance of the lost data, ended up not being worth it… Ok, maybe it was worth it since most of the videos of Evelyn Lin would have taken a long time to find again…… I’m kidding….

For your new system, besides getting an SSD as your main drive in your computer, I would also an external USB RAID drive (with 2 disk redundancy at minimum) and setup a backup schedule to regularly backup important files like pictures/videos/media to it….

I have one an older version of these:

You probably don’t need 24TB of backup storage, you can probably deal with just 12TB RAID of backup storage which would be roughly half the price of 24TB RAID… Unless you happen to collect a lot of videos of Evelyn Lin…. I’m really kidding….

In addition to the raid backup, I also backup my photos to Google Photos. if you run out of storage, create a new account each year and segment the photos per year… And for video, I upload them to YouTube private and Google Photos. Pictures and videos are backed up to the cloud and to the raid drive…… Except for the videos of Evelyn Lin, which are copyrighted and cannot be uploaded to Youtube……. I’m really kidding here….

SSD drives are great, especially for laptops because generally they are more rugged than normal hard drives. So for instance if you drop your laptop, you are less likely to crash your hard drive. However, they do fail too, and when they fail, unlike hard drives, there’s usually no early warning sign like a click-clack you often hear with a hard drive or just get a few bad sectors. Often times it’s a total failure all at once. So you definitely want to plan for that. But SSD offers significant performance. For instance, for a 2 hour long video of Evelyn Lin…seeking to the relevant parts of the video is a lot quicker and less laggy than with a normal hard drive…. I’m kidding, really….

[Coronita]

[quote=sdrealtor]Yup change takes time and builders are slow to move. It took them a couple decades to dismiss the formal living room despite calls for that in focus groups long before they did. The point is, the modern look is not inferior in the eyes of currrent buyers on the whole[/quote]

when will the interior charcoal gray look fad go away? 🙂

[Coronita]

[quote=an][quote=flyer]My post was about our friends kids recently buying in CV vs MM, based upon their preferences. Good or bad, that was their choice. Others make other choices, which is probably great for them. We lived in CV many years ago, and still have rentals there, but haven’t lived there for quite awhile.[/quote]
This is the first time I’ve heard of anyone who cross shop CV w/ MM when school district is remotely on their radar.[/quote]

dude, you are recycling what you say over and over again on just about every post about what you inherited and nobody cares. If you’re trying to fish for complements on an internet blog to somehow make yourself feel better among people wealthier than you, its probably not working because no one either believes you or gives a shit. Everyone is a billionaire on the internet. Now excuse me. i need to figure out how to extend my garage so i can fit my cessna that my uncle just bought for me in there. Apparently the HOA doesnt like me just leaving it on the driveway…I mean, i prefer to leave it on tje driveway because it boosts my ego in my otherwise low self esteem among my billionaire friends, just so i can thumb my nose at all the plebians CarmelV folks that dont have a cessna…..

[Coronita]

[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=Coronita] Just look at Evelyn Lin….[/quote]

Do you mean that literally, or figuratively?[/quote]
Thats up to subjective interpretation

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic]

The most important thing for health is to be better than those around you. More stressful to be the small fish.[/quote]

In america, what’s great about this country is…no one really needs to give a shit how much wealthier anyone else it. It’s not like it’s a zero sum game that someone wealthier means you have a shittier life. It’s like that in fcked up 3rd world countries and even parts of asia where literally if you aren’t in the in crowd, you are totally fucked. But here, in umerica’… doesn’t matter in the long run.

Everything they teach you about how it’s not just how much you make but what you do with it, is so true. You can be a janitor would smart financial decisions and do pretty well. You could be someone making $300k/year and blowing every dollar and be piss poor… Anyone that looks down on someone because of the work they do… fuck them. kick them in the groin…. That’s what makes this country great. Just look at Evelyn Lin….

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