What a time to join the new company. 2 weeks in and they announce a 15% layoff. Like Jesus Christ can I just focus on work for a few months without the constant worry. My last company is probably laying off 15k tomorrow as well. The whole tech environment is just so goddamn sad right now it’s not funny. This is the worst tech has been for this long.
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Our neighbors across the street have a son who is one year older to R. They didn’t shovel the entire weekend. Today that teen basically cleared their entire driveway by himself including walkways, sidewalks and part of road to make it easier for their cars to navigate. My kid helped a lot as well, well beyond what I could ask for, but goddamn the difference in muscle strength between boys vs girls as they age is so visible especially in physical tasks. (This is not meant to be sexist so please don’t come at me.)
For years if not decades Indians have had a solid advantage over their Asian counterparts in software industry, thanks to engineering focus of 90s generation and English fluency. But with AI/ML this is changing – I now see Asians (primarily Chinese) absolutely dominating this space. When it comes to modeling, ML optimizations, deep AI expertise Asians now are way ahead of Indians. Competition is always good and I hope it jumpstarts a knowledge competition of sorts. If young Indians do not get out of their back office mode or invest in new tech instead of just being satisfied as a “programmer”, Indians are going to lose any competitive advantage they had in knowledge industry to Asia in coming decade/s.
Went outside for a check. In spite of shoveling 3 times yesterday we are left with a couple of inches of just frozen snow at this point. The shoveler won’t work and the ice won’t break. Fuckity fuck. We are basically now stuck inside the house for a week at least if not a few more days before this can even be handled.
The kid decided not to go ski weekend trip sparing the us the trouble of having that convo with her parents. Her reason was that she just recovered from her knee injury after weeks of PT and she didn’t want to injure it again, especially for a sport that she didn’t enjoy much (much like me she prefers beach and summer sports!).
Round number two of shoveling done. Our neighbors helped with their big ass snow blowers to shovel some of the big mounds away from entrance. It’s freezing raining / sleeting with gusto. I shudder at what it’s gonna be like towards evening and morning tomorrow. Practically gonna be an ice rink!
As more time goes by I have begun to hate Biden more and more. I used to believe he was one of the best presidents we have had but I no longer think so. He failed the most critical test of his presidency and put the country and world in danger. Surely he and administration knew how much of a danger Trump and his loonies were to the society and yet, he barely scratched the surface. He should have foreseen this and take much much more decisive actions especially when Supreme Court made him the king. Instead he let his ego blow out. History should not be kind to him.
lol I actually asked Gemini what is the best strategy on parking my cars to ease snow shoveling later and it came up with suggestion that I agree with. Our neighbor across street is covering is suv with thick plastic cover – I thought that was just an instagram trend but if it works for him I might try that next time!
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In two weeks, the kid is going to a sleep away weekend at a ski resort for one of her BFFs from swim. A and I are considering giving R digital copies of her passport, birth certificate and our passport pages as well to keep. Most of the ski resorts are in trump land Virginia and that’s making us nervous. We plan to talk to her friends parents too and relay our concerns so they can keep a watch. They are the kind of white parents who are super nice but also super oblivious to anything beyond 15ft of themselves, so we have to do the needful and open their eyes a bit for safety of our own kid. Congratulations America, this is what you voted for.