VirusNewbie

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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>they have so much that they're renting capacity to Anthropic & Google they could not make use of it! That's why they're renting, they don't have access to good distributed training software, so the heterogenous
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Pretty sure you can look at the median tenure and it's not long at most FAANGs. Most people who work there do not make it long. There are plenty who are there that do, but that's survivorship bias.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>One thing I've learned over my career is that engineering seems to matter so little to a business's success So, let's see, the top tech companies in revenue are Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and some of the fast
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>Interesting to see Anthropic go with xAI and Microsoft go with Amazon. Anthropic has been very strategic about playing all the big cloud providers off each other. They're also in desperate need of inference, and I don't think
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
~1600 TPS is not 'high scale'.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
It's optionality that only has an upside financially, while the downside is just having to do more interviews. Let's say you're worth 300k on the open market as a senior software engineer. If you get a job that pays 200k a y
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Because I get way more money.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
This is why it's important to get paid in stock. I get an automatic extra 100k a year if inflation runs hot!
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
for existing , well established renters, sure. For new renters, or people who move, or people who face housing insecurity, or people who want to buy homes, it's much higher and not accurately reflected in CPI.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Housing has a massive lag when it comes to CPI. CPI works by asking how much people pay for rent. If home prices raise 20% in one year (not at all unreasonable in various times in the last ten years), it takes a long time for that to be re
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
ah, interesting. Ok, so TV dinners != microwave dinners, and maybe they're more healthy than microwaved dinners or food that comes in plastic.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Don't people eat more healthy than they did 50 years ago? Weren't microwave dinners a big thing in the 70s?
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>in china every child is treated like a treasure. sometimes even to a fault. but at least parents are not being blamed for having children, huh, I didn't know this. Thank you for sharing about your culture :)
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>My hypothesis is that as societies industrialize, they afford their population more and more activities that are simply more fun and rewarding than having children. But this is by and large not true. I've traveled, eaten at expens
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
>LLMs are simply manipulating symbols, they do not have semantic understanding. falsify this. Show me a way you'd be able to prove they do/don't, that would work for humans.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
that seems pretty reasonable. If it makes software engineers 10% more productive that's a bargain.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
as in, like, freezing so you get to see it longer?
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
I've used for dropbox for the last 13+ years, was an early customer, and absolutely love the core product. However, in the last handful of years, I've been incredibly disappointed in the stagnation of their products. Dropbox was t
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
There are plenty of people in the bay area who have kids who likely make less than you do.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Yes but with pramp.com you can get real feedback. Sometimes it's not answering wrong, it's cause your communication sucks. Or maybe you're coming across pompous. or maybe too timid. Or maybe you have glaring bugs for certa
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
I'm allergic to dust mites. Clean sheets, sleep well. After 10 days, even with afrin+allergy spray my nasal passages become completely blocked up.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Practice. Use pramp.com. Do super super simple ones. If you can't do two sum or fizzbuzz or tree traversals with someone watching you, you're not going to have a prayer for harder stuff. Just start SUPER simple. Pracitce a lo
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Anthropic, Shopify, Apple, Uber, Temu, Spotify, Ebay, Paypal are all massive users who get tons of engineering support. Also if this rumor is true, they also get massive white glove engineering support: https://www.cnbc.com/
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Let me give more detail. Friend #1 is top tier engineering brain (including all the people I've worked with at Google) and extroverted. He probably made 10M+ selling his company (He never told me the number but he has a huge house in
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
So just a couple anecdotes of friends of mine who have been in the industry a while: 1 Friend, started a consulting company, worked his absolute ass off, made many millions, but also maybe not a lot more than if he had worked his ass off in
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Not enough information. Are you making 400k in big tech or 300k at a stable job in a hot location? Are you making peanuts in a remote location, and you'd be happier making slightly more if you were in charge of your destiny? If you s
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
Spotify, Ebay, Paypal, Apple, Walmart, Uber are huge users. Lots of other big named companies are big users that I don't think are public. Then there's Anthropic... huge user.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
That's a good point, and why I'm happy to see remote offices pop up in many locations. The problem is the top .1% which can live anywhere, is often a poor representation of the depth of talent density.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
not including California? The California drought recently ended and now all the reservoirs are quite full.
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by VirusNewbie 5mo ago
The problem is most SWEs in Germany are not as good as most SWEs in the Bay Area. :(

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