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by aix1 4y ago
Is this US-specific (in terms of coverage and availability)? I got curious and tried looking at it, but it's not even listed on the UK Play Store.
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by aix1 4y ago
Very common in Zürich also.
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by aix1 4y ago
But what the government does is food _safety_ inspections, right? This is quite different from the quality of customer experience, ambiance, service, even how _tasty_ the food is. I don't know about the US, but in the UK food safety r
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by aix1 4y ago
> as long as you're willing to float them the difference for a year ...and remember to ask for a refund.
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by aix1 4y ago
> Losing weight is very rough. As someone who went from 105kg to 75kg, I wouldn't describe the process as "rough". It took a series of small, sustainable changes to activity levels and diet over an extended period of time
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by aix1 4y ago
Here is one relevant study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19855335/
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by aix1 4y ago
That could well be the case. But I suspect that there's also a great deal of variability in what people mean when they say "conversationally fluent". For example, I completed the entire French tree in Duolingo a few years b
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by aix1 4y ago
> I’d estimate that I’ve spent maybe 200 hours over three years with it, which has taken me from not knowing a language to being conversationally fluent in that language This really jumped out at me. 200 hours to get to conversationally
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by aix1 4y ago
> Has anyone had success with finding tutors on platforms like italki.com? italki - yes, absolutely, but taking your time to do the research definitely pays off. My method was to shortlist teachers who: (1) fit my linguistic needs (count
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by aix1 4y ago
> For these reasons, I think the most realistic answer for the best way to learn language is private tutoring. Based on my experience of language learning, I agree with you. > The OP take about having used Duolingo for almost 10 years
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by aix1 4y ago
Is that proposition based on experience or conjecture? I can offer the following data point. I work for one of those American companies (Google) based in Europe (Zürich) and I've never had better work-life balance in my 25-year career
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by aix1 4y ago
For reference, €1 is currently worth US$1.04, i.e. they're basically at parity.
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by aix1 4y ago
At Google specifically, the term simply refers to someone who does not have formal people management responsibilities. (For example, if I were a tech lead on a major project but did not have any reports, I'd refer to myself as an IC.)
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by aix1 4y ago
> running training for 10 hrs only to have a validation loop fail because of a shape mismatch. I agree that tracking array shapes at build time could catch certain classes of bugs (and I would love to have that capability). However, it&
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by aix1 4y ago
Cannot recommend that game enough, thank you for mentioning it.
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by aix1 4y ago
Care to provide more details on what you mean by this?
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by aix1 4y ago
I have zero knowledge of Tesla cars, but do wonder why this can't be pre-calibrated at the factory?
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by aix1 4y ago
Probably depends on where one is, geographically?
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by aix1 4y ago
I'd love to understanding how this auto-tuning works. Could you ELI5 or share some resources? Thanks.
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by aix1 4y ago
Oh, I see now. Thanks for the clarification.
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by aix1 4y ago
I haven't yet fully adjusted to the walrus operator, but to me the choice would depend on what happens _after_ the "if" statement. In both cases, "foo" continues to exist after the "if" even though the sec
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by aix1 4y ago
I didn't recognize this use of "as" as valid Python, but tried it in 3.9 just to be sure. Got a syntax error (as expected). I am not fully up to speed with 3.10, but quickly checked the docs and it doesn't appear to hav
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by aix1 4y ago
Total Compensation (salary + bonus + equity or whatever the Tesla equivalent is).
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by aix1 4y ago
I tried googling for evidence of that, but couldn't find anything. :)
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by aix1 4y ago
Could someone ELI5 what makes GaN PSUs/chargers more efficient than earlier technologies?
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by aix1 4y ago
I have a similar method: I keep all cables in a set of small boxes. All USB cables go into one box, networking into another etc. I don't allow the boxes to overflow. This does three things: 1. Makes it easy to find the right cable or
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by aix1 4y ago
> One possible example would be Scotland voting to peacefully leave the UK. It's very possible the UK would change its name after that, since it's not really the union of those two kingdoms anymore. It's the United Kingdom
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by aix1 4y ago
> The fact he knew phonetics just makes me believe he served or at the very least, was heavily exposed in another function. This is just one data point, but I'm a random software engineer with no military or aviation background or i
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by aix1 4y ago
I really enjoyed that interview, thanks for sharing! The guy is a legend.
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by aix1 4y ago
They have to continue meeting the requirements of their level (in this case L4) but there's no expectation of growth beyond that level. Even the old system, where there was a formal expectation for every SWE to grow to L5, wasn't

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