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by Frost1x 5y ago
>If we don’t estimate then we are saying that software engineering is not an engineering discipline. Not a mature engineering discipline. If you can budget a planning phase in development that allows you to quickly explore the unknown
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Working out is another example, depending on what your workout goals are. I had a relative who went into body building. Lifted for years and put on some muscle mass, more than me but not much for all the time he spent. Started steroids and
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I've seen far too much malice feigning stupidity to ever take this concept seriously. There's a lot of stupidity, but there's also a lot of corruption parading around as stupidity.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Google already proved its possible to make money and be a viable business without going this far years ago. The issue is that profit motive nd competitive factors leaves an insatiable appetite to optimize at all costs and society becomes th
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Very explicitly . This was for a project paternship with a university and hospital to improve patient outcomes with some new exploratory tech approaches. A short document that followed some standard study participation format was generated
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by Frost1x 5y ago
"Gaslighting" and "conflate" have picked up markedly in use in online discussions I've more recently noticed: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=C... https:&#x2
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Information is information and the more you have, the easier it is to figure out where it came from. Some data makes it easier than others. I worked with a hospital awhile back with patient radiological data (for free and for science). Pati
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Pretty sure they predicted media spin on this and headed it off directly and explicitly in the announcement, in the exact same sentence as the resignation none-the-less, as to the fact he resigned from all boards (other than his baby of cou
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>I do understand the nuance in that the investors are putting their capital on the line, and that is worth something, but a line must be drawn to avoid runaway inequality. Agreed. The significance of the capital risk loss on most investo
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by Frost1x 5y ago
>If my choices are Amazon, or a bunch of lesser known, less prestigious, or lesser paying companies, I'd take the shot at Amazon and do whatever possible to last at least a year so I could put that Amazon name on my resume for futur
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I like older grandma cars in an additional sense: they're usually low mileage, gently driven, garage kept, and well serviced because older people tend to take care of their cars so they last and also often don't use them that much
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Would be interesting to know. If you're alarmist about COVID affecting brain tissue long term and we have protections against other diseases that also have long term effects on brain tissues, it reasons to me that you should also be as
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Sounds like an HR policy to reduce labor costs. As long as Amazon keeps a steady supply of labor behind you and at least some of them don't have other comparable options, they're going to agree to these terms and their hiring team
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by Frost1x 5y ago
AWS has the advantage of having so many engineers behind the scenes available for firefighting with a culture of pushing more than is reasonable that as a customer, that would sort of disappear. They simply have to occasionally make trade o
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Your simulated environment needs to accurately represent everything you're simulating for RL to be useful, otherwise, it will simply find artifacts of flaws of the sim itself or may fail to discover n-th order effects since they won&#x
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by Frost1x 5y ago
This is definitely no Stuxnet or even remotely close. In fact, it's not even a very new strategy, themes of this have been done several times to varying degrees of sophistication.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
I absolutely never always disagree, most of the time.
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by Frost1x 5y ago
That assumes the backup couples the data and compute together, like a system image or something. If the backup is just data and is somewhere else, you can just rebuild the compute infrastructure from a known secure state (which arguably may
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by Frost1x 5y ago
On the list of screw-ups I've seen, this is pretty benign. I'm sure not long after this happened, they either realized their mistake or a flaw on the system they were working with. No reprimand needed, maybe some joking criticism
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Depending on the time period, it's pretty easy to clean out nice well patterned spam like that these days. In the days of yester-year, it could be a largely manual process. In AOL one prank was to flood someone with emails because it w
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The lack of accountability isn't helped by the fact that terms can be 1, 2, 4, 6 years and it's incredibly difficult to remove someone once they've been elected. Many voters often have short-term memories and are so pre-occup
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Short of further machine automation, I wouldn't be surprised to see Amazon start promoting fitness programs in public middle- and high-schools: more gyms, lifting, running, etc. "Welcome to the new national Amazon gym program! Up
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by Frost1x 5y ago
It's what tech companies already try to do recruiting fresh out of college and promoting their specific tech in highschool curriculia as well as just hoping to pad the future workforce. Not that different than the military and its ROTC
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Are You a Current or Former Amazon Employee?(nytimes.com)
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Definitely not a BS reason, at least for me. The less code I write, the less I have to work (in general). If I can reduce total effort, accomplish the goals for those who pay me, and still pull in good income, I'm happy. If I get bored
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by Frost1x 5y ago
For people who immigrate to the US from a reasonable or well off quality of life, they are often less risk averse in the US than your average US citizen from my sampling. Many take risks to start businesses, make big purchases, pursue a nov
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by Frost1x 5y ago
This was linked elsewhere and it only talks about home ownership and says nothing about renting which is the only viable option for many Americans. It doesn't say how many are renting vs owning and how renting has fared in growth/
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by Frost1x 5y ago
Narrative is important because the language it provides frames a way of life for many who haven't framed their own perspective based on the information they have and haven't seen. It's easy to pickup a narrative, it's fa
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by Frost1x 5y ago
The more interesting information on that page to me is that the living space per capita has increased. I was suspect that while square footage may be increasing, that could easily be offset by the number of people living in those houses but
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by Frost1x 5y ago
On the point of slavery, it's possible for a bunch of free exploited labor is a requirement to build the levels of wealth we see now. There's probably also another requirement factor on how you utilize those resources. I'm

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