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by badpun 2y ago
> My electric bill is tiny and my clothes last forever because they're not getting beat to shit for half an hour every week They still are though, in the spin dry part of the wash cycle? Or do you not use it?
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by badpun 2y ago
Agreed. Even better, live in a small house (or, better yet, apartment!) close to work to minimize commuting.
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by badpun 2y ago
> I think it may be due to some sort of "outcome compression". The life of working a bottom tier-job isn't materially better than a life of not working at all. The Hikkikomoris in Japan are all sustained by their parents.
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by badpun 2y ago
3d computer vision is very cool. You basically take a bunch of pictures of a scene, or a video shot by camera, and do a 3d reconstruction of such scene. The math behind it is tricky. If you manage to code even the basic reconstruction algor
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by badpun 2y ago
> I think one can do an engineering job as easily with or without a degree. In theory. In practice, few people have the intelligence and discipline to self-study engineering subjects for a couple of years - that's what higher ed sch
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by badpun 2y ago
I think there's still training for positions (which often means - the company's specific tech stack) - it's what the "junior" positions are. If, on the other hand, the candidate more or less fits the tech stack and
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by badpun 2y ago
I've got an offer in a field I was interested in (machine learning "researcher" for a computer vision application), but it was paying roughly half what I was making previously as a backend dev, so I declined it. How I got the
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by badpun 2y ago
1. What you're describing seems to be a criminally underfunded universal healthcare. In properly funded ones, you aren't limited to one or two visits to a doctor a year. 2. Public healthcare does not prohibit people from using pri
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by badpun 2y ago
Which relational databases can simultaneously do milions of updates and milions of selects per second, to the same table?
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You can also put Windows on it. That's what I do with my 2013 MBP.
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by badpun 2y ago
The difference is that the government agency actions do not cause deaths (it merely prevents death from independent causes), whereas "major car manufacturer" kills people with their faulty rear differential.
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by badpun 2y ago
Indices are no good if you constantly do large amounts of inserts or updates (say, entire clickstream of a popular global site) - keeping them up to date will massively slow down the inserts/updates. Wheresas, in NoSQL, you can do as i
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by badpun 2y ago
In NoSQL world, you often store multiple duplicates of the same data, each of which is optimized for a different use case.
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by badpun 2y ago
> And how the Saudis choose to run their society is none of America’s business. By "the Saudis" you mean the ruling family? Those are the only people who are deciding anything in SA.
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by badpun 2y ago
> The vast majority of philosophers believed that (...) those of lighter skin were superior to those of darker skin Source? We don't know the actual skin tone of Ancient philosophers, but it's likely that Greek and Roman philos
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by badpun 2y ago
In Poland state universities are free. You only need to pay for books, and they're reasonably priced (i.e. the textbooks prices are not extortionate like for example in the US), like normal books.
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by badpun 2y ago
In Europe at least, it's still alive in government projects. Governments are often paying companies to develop large system for them, and system analysts are the people who describe requirements in detail so that the developer company
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by badpun 2y ago
Power struggle is always there, the question is only if your group pushes back. If it largely doesn't for a couple decades, you eventually get results like young families cannot afford a basic place to live in 2024 in some of the wealt
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by badpun 2y ago
> Individual expression had had some boosts during the Renaissance, during Romanticism (perhaps due to atheism, as a first response to globalism, and due to scientific discoveries regarding the mind) and again after World War II (perhaps
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by badpun 2y ago
Exactly. In the US culture specifically, in the XX century before the hippies, there were limited pockets of "self-expression" (discarding previous culture, really) as depicted by Henry Miller, and later the whole Beat Generation.
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by badpun 2y ago
> Nature is brutal, and if I am not among the best, I'm going to experience pain. Working so hard to get into the 1% is also very painful. Looks like, in your philosophy, pain is inevitable, and you only get to choose which form of
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by badpun 2y ago
If they really used money towards that goal, wouldn't they cease to be HNWIs? The fact that they still holding large wealth kind of contradicts what they're saying.
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by badpun 2y ago
I don't think those are the main issues. There's tons of money wasted as well as bullshit laws in the US (hell, their tax code is so complex that it famously practically requires software to fill out a tax return form), but it doe
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by badpun 2y ago
Europe is not stagnating, its economy is just developing slower than in the US.
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by badpun 2y ago
Can you elaborate please? What happened to Ireland?
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by badpun 2y ago
Waterfall is good for developers, as you get unambiguous requirements that you just need to translate to code. Job is nice and easy. However, waterfall can be disasterous for the organization. If a single big iteration takes a year, the ent
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What?
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by badpun 2y ago
What you’re describing are just run of the mill backend jobs. They aren’t very sophisticated in terms of algorithms or theory. What I had in mind is working on say Cassandra or ElasticSearch, or internally within FAANG on one of their datab
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by badpun 2y ago
Now that I no longer need to work, what should I do with my life?
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If the banks gave cheap credit to businesses without any collateral or any real liability, they would quickly go out of business because of people taking advantage of them. Credit without collateral is available (e.g. credit cards), but it’

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