Frost1x

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by Frost1x 6y ago
As labor markets reduce financial safety through job instability and push for hypercompetitiveness, I'm not sure farming is any different than most peoples' jobs in terms of leisure time or financial stability. My grandparents and
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I recently had to use logo when migrating a model to another platform someone originally wrote in a flavor of logo. It's a mess.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Representative or indirect democracy allows much of the same with politicians who largely aren't held accountable by voters and don't seem to care about their actions on others. All we seem to do is shift the blame to someone with
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Is it time for a protected legal definition of "buy" which excludes this nonsense? I'd go much further than that, "buy" is just one of the completely business washed words which now have no meaning: luxury, unli
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by Frost1x 6y ago
If you're working with HPC applications, your choice of compilers and sometimes higher level specifications you may write in C, C++, or (gasp) Fortran often do demand you think about what your compilers are doing or choose compilers to
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Investing is quite literally legalized gambling, just for more complex systems. You're gambling that when you invest money in something it will show value, others will acknowledge that value, hopefully at a higher value than you bought
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I've used DDG for over a year now almost exclusively and while I agree it isn't by any definition horrible, sometimes when I know enough key descriptors for something I'm searching for but continually fail to find it on DDG,
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Those protective suits look like something from a science fiction work. It even looks like a cell shaded rendering at second glance. I guess these hornets earned their title.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
and a 17 million increase from 37 million to 54 million is a ~46% increase due to COVID, which I would say is also significant. Having 16% of the population in a situation of food insecurity is also quite high IMHO. Why in such a relatively
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Thank you for applying to our technical PR department, you're hired!
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by Frost1x 6y ago
It's a common trend because adjuncts can easily work near or below minimum wages when factoring in time commitments and nature of the job. It's not just universities and tenured professor positions, businesses are attacking labor
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by Frost1x 6y ago
We have a generation of management that doesn't understand this because a lot of their work didn't involve the intersection of technical and creative thinking, nor do they understand technology. Some of my best work occurs in the
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Essentially, you just need a simple mapping system to the actual data. Have labels point to a map that points to the correct data. Probably an oversight or a low priority bug for the Gmail team. Could also be something complicated in the un
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by Frost1x 6y ago
It's an absolute necessity, it's not a luxury contrary to the way it may be painted or viewed externally. Unless you want to diverge from efficiency expectations in modern society needed to work a job and instead move out to an Am
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by Frost1x 6y ago
We do have a bit of selection bias since structures still standing were likely well built while those poorly built are simply gone.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The void of funding not only limits computational resources but talent as well. Industry leaders have the revenue to pay hefty stable salaries while those funded through public support don't have enough incentive--positions are unstabl
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The question is also who is paying the price. In the US, certain groups are paying more of the debt than others.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Agreed, but I think the issue is the fact the measure becomes a target to begin with. We've structured so many aspects in society to be unforgiving of failure to meet metrics and thrust hypercompetitiveness upon everyone as an almost d
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Its VNC all the way down. Since tech trends seem to go in cycles and rediscover reasons why shifts occurred in the first place, give it another 5-10 years for people to realize providers managing everything isn't always (or even usuall
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Gamification is rarely designed in a way that's helpful to anyone playing the game but instead, the game is often designed to benefit the game designers or whomever pays them. Any help to game players is typically an unintended side ef
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I wouldn't say modeling is horse shit. It's really marketing surrounding modeling that's horse shit. Modeling is actually very very useful but is too often oversold, which drives me bananas. It's especially bad in the wo
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by Frost1x 6y ago
The only issue I have with optimization porn is that it often handwaves away the time and thought that went into finding clever optimizations. In some cases it's clear how a problem can be better optimized. In many cases, it's not
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Is COIN-OR from Google? I'm pretty sure I've met some lead developers of the group in person and they weren't from Google IIRC.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
It often doesn't to high degrees of precision and reliability. It works within some tolerance range and those tolerance ranges are managed or acceptable levels of error (often unnoticed). I recently helped move/port one fairly com
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>2) Buy/sell where you have unique expertise. If you work in the toilet hardware industry, buy/sell stocks related to that industry. A lot of success in investment seems to me to gravitate around what the general populace think
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Didn't cha know, innovation in the tech industry is all about using things differently than intended and building new compositions that result in the same end goals as older less sophisticated compositions.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
How do you manage trustworthiness? This is an issue I've been thinking about for quite some time and haven't found a satisfactory solution to. I like this idea and a lot of similar information sharing sites but I find in today&#x
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Oh boy I know a lot of H1B holders. They're far from "super talented" but boy were they cheaper than their competitors. They're not bad people but they're not "super talented" nor were their particular ski
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I've worked in quite a few fairly sophisticated technical environments, have many friends working in professional positions who have discussed the issue (from engineering, to academia, to medicine), and I've yet to encounter this
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Capital also doesn't need, I dont know: basic human social needs like a stable group of friends, family, loved ones and community opposed to living a nomadic drifter chasing money/jobs instead of wild game like hunter gathering ci

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