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by Fordec 5y ago
As an interviewer I've given you a heads up before the meeting what is being tested for. Some time to practice, do pre-work, research the company, etc. Dumping at the start of that meeting out of the blue this criteria, is not a two-wa
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FB has had a big problem for years. Zuckerberg, notwithstanding everything else, to his credit has demonstrated he is intimately aware of it through his acquisition strategies. If it's in a blink of an eye, it's your eye. To other
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140705/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29701155/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65908-y But can't sa
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What seems to be hinted at through this and other research out in the past 12 month: Reduce fat intake. It's not the cause, but the carrier of toxins across the blood-brain carrier. Reducing fat would reduce the rate of toxin build up.
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Except they aren't "writing code faster" but started 8 years later and the industry now has these things like source control, GPUs and cloud computing and a new project is moving far faster with the new tools than the competi
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Probably because Wendelstein 7-X is making progress at a far faster rate than the ITER model has the current goal, without accounting for delays, for a 2050+ delivery time for the PROTO reactor.
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In that case, get off HN and get back to work! You're needed in the ICU. We can only do one thing at a time and you're here?? /s
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I would contend that, while a subset, GAMMA companies != all tech companies as the headline implies
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By getting off NPM entirely and new projects internally banned from using it from day ome. Luckily all the backend stuff isn't in javascript which is 80% of the battle.
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Could install a Pi hole to block them off your home network entirely. But yeah, I'm also phasing out my google usage. Personally getting off gmail and professionally migrating off firebase and already refuse to work with GCP in any cap
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I can't speak for you, but for me, I actually audit the company before accepting a job offer for and I'm proud of the conduct of every position and team I have been a part of. You can't buy reputation, which extends to who yo
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by Fordec 5y ago
It would be luminal. But combine the knowledge of the location with speed of light and you can backwards engineer the difference. But because it's luminal without needing directionality, that cuts out a bunch of the question marks on
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Or backups failing silently in some manner not being a "known" problem until you know .
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Could quantum entanglement do this? If you collapse the wave function on one end, the other collapses instantaneously. It may not be any good in itself for transferring information, but it could be used as the signal to synchronize on?
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While it's not the single barrier, but room temperature super conductors would go a ways to reduce the necessary bulk. But the magnetic fields would still be huge, you wouldn't want to just turn one on in your living room before
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Oh it is far different to oyster sauce. It's more like a very mild rice vinegar loaded with MSG with a tinge of raw fishyness to it.
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That article is literally by the same "beat" as the parent article. But on your point on boycotts, yes they did[0] and on congressional hearings, also yes they did [1]. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt
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Wasn't that the name of Steve Mann's AR company?
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Ya'll ever heard of Worldcom? https://youtu.be/KbbZc2pab9k
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A lot of adults today weren't even alive in 95. Also, the assumption that people are familiar with windows vs other operating systems is becoming less and less valid. And as the world gets more globalised and remote, it's no longe
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If the was more interconnection between the Dutch and Norway to take advantage of Norways hydro storage that would mitigate some of that issue.
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Sometimes a project starts off aiming to solve a problem. maybe it's a data science problem, so support already exists in python so lets do that. Ok, it worked great and it's catching on with users. Now we need to scale, but we ar
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by Fordec 5y ago
Antisocial - "when a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others". I don't think antisocial fits as a descriptor, at all. When I think of antisocial behavior I think o
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Yeah that's not a "competitive" difference any more, that's approaching levels of annual compensation nearly a full seed round for a whole startup. I used to buy into the whole risk vs reward of startups, but the numbers
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> We still couldn't compete with conventional electricity plants, even with a $30/tonne price on carbon in Canada. Was this Canada specific? A country with both very abundant native oil & gas and abundant hydro energy with
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by Fordec 5y ago
Not going to lie, if I could enable stricter compile time conditions without debug mode that would be a very welcome RFC
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I have no interest in setting up a bunch of engineering equipment to listen to a bunch of 60-70 year olds broadcast their uncensored perspective on things. If you know what I mean. If they want to protect that as "one of the best parts
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The 10x exists, I've met and worked with him and it's not me. But it is a guy who graduated Stanford before he could legally drive a car, so good luck finding many like him. But yeah, if I had to use a word to describe him, humble
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Dare I say its because AI succeeded. AI is no longer a barrier to entry, there's plenty of off the shelf libraries and python examples out there to get you going. The result is, that a lot of under the hood intelligence is automated. A
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Is it just me, or every time there's an issue with facebook server side, the FB SDK just absolutely damages any software with it installed as a dependency. The thought put into failover states under the hood is very lacking. It speaks

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