That's a great question. What typically happens, I think, is that most people answer something along what they made for their last contract. (Yeah, I'm talking 1099s here.) That means that they work themselves out of a raise and lose due to cost of living and inflation. On the other hand, prop yourself too far up and you'll never get an offer regardless of how qualified you are.

So a question to the Slashdot community to make this thread useful: How do you go about that in negotiation? How do you determine your opening offer? Of course, this assumes that you are a good candidate to begin with.

Good lord. I can see how back in the BBS days these might have fit in, but nobody is ever going to pay for this.

So these child-clowns want me to dump all my personal data to their AI so it can go through it and perform actions on my behalf? Maybe some day, dude, but only if"

1. I have exclusive control of it.

2.The data never leaves my possession.

3. I have total control over the decision matrix it uses to do things.

I can just see some piece of Altman-ware trying to go through my email and signing me up for everything from dates to "friendly gatherings" to business meetings to.... Just no.

Oh fuck all of us.

Sounds like IRC may be making a major comeback.

I find this entire argument weird, to say the least. I was on the Internet ("social media") back when I was freaking 12 years old. At no point did I lose my mind, share all sorts of personal details, threaten to kill people, bully people, sit for hours on end at the computer despite other things to do, or any of the rest of this shit. Back in the day we were using IRC, and then these "convenience" apps like ICQ came around and people like me were asking "Why?!" I remember a simple web search back in the day that yielded contact information between two classmates because they used some lame e-card site that published their logs in the clear. The problem here is parents not parenting, and kids being raised to have no idea what the hell they are doing. When you "check in" on social media every time you go to a gas station, what do you think is going to happen? While the modern social media model is a cancer and a mess, don't (totally) blame the provider for your own dumb-ass decisions. These kids are idiots. It is indeed a huge problem. But it isn't because of the platform. And then how do you define "social media?" I guess that's any interactive forum on the Internet. I suppose it also includes IRC (good luck regulating that). I guess Slashdot is a social media platform. Hell, I guess the comment board at Fox News is a social media platform. Society has gone to hell. What was old is new again. This is the crypto wars all over again, just in a different form. They will lose.

Obligatory: Well, that sucks.

That's true, but we'd have enough time to design a better board that can more fully support the concept. I realize it's harder than it sounds to most people, but depending on the use-case of the system, there are ways around that. I'd find it interesting to see multichip modern processors (like 2 Threadripper CPUs or whatever) on a single board. You aren't going to do this on a laptop by any means, at least not now, but an expanded desktop might be possible. Granted, these CPUs aren't designed with that kind of thing in mind, so the trickery might not work so well.

Seems the good mid-term play is to develop a motherboard that can take something obscene like 512GB of DRAM to roll out about the time that happens.

We go back to IRC.

I did too back then across parts of South Texas where I was working at the time. Once around San Antonio, and once around Laughlin AFB out in west Texas. My question always was, though, "If I was a foreign military power, why would I illuminate my drone like this unless I wanted to try and cause chaos among the civilian population?"

This is my excuse for why my car is a complete mess. No one is going to break into it and then sift through it trying to find something valuable buried under fast food bags and junk mail.

This is why most nerds I know are slamming Monster or NOS all day, I guess.

I'm thinking lots and lots of bubble wrap.

Or having one of their drones collide with your head.