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by bartwr 3y ago
This sounds like an insane conflict of interest. CEO of a company (or worse, non-profit!) and a member of its board creates another, for-profit company (in partial secrecy/lack of transparency) that the non-profit would eventually pa
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by bartwr 3y ago
This completely misses the point that I'm using it as a tool and I am ok if this tool is sometimes wrong and I need to double check every. As a tool it saves me insane amounts of time (much more that I spend on verifying), a time s
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by bartwr 3y ago
How's your sleep and emotional state when using it like this? With an elimination half-life of 15h, 2-4 days a week it won't leave your body. I personally hated it for this reason - poor sleep, tossing and turning even with a slee
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by bartwr 3y ago
Being cynical, conspiracy, or half joking (or maybe all of the above? :) ): this means that the big tech bets on the orange guy coming back. Let's entertain this idea: They have much better behavioral and sentiment analysis tools than
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by bartwr 3y ago
I used to be a daily smoker for over 2y and a casual/social smoker for close to a decade. Since moving to US, for the last decade, I don't smoke as "nobody" smokes here (compared to Europe). I smoke now 1-2 cigarettes a
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by bartwr 3y ago
Sadly things take so long because democratic rule of law law "has to" work slowly (you would not want "innocent" businesses closed overnight or citizens arrested because of allegations). It's not great, obviously, a
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Technical debt or technical weight/burden? (2016)(bartwronski.com)
2 points by bartwr 3y ago|0 comments
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by bartwr 3y ago
One aspect of SBF's downfall that is not discussed enough, IMO: amphetamines (even taken for medical reasons/ADHD) release a ton of dopamine, seek more release, and make you do some weird stuff and seek risky behaviors (and reinfo
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by bartwr 3y ago
I know everyone looks for a perfect "process" - and hence all agiles, scrums, whatever, but I am a bit cynical (or naive? not sure which one haha) and don't think there is one, all are bs (and implemented in a toxic org stay
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by bartwr 3y ago
I don't have the latest iPhone, but mine shows a "macro" icon immediately when it switches to the wide lens? And I can either move back, or turn it off.
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by bartwr 3y ago
The evidence - people's statements and experiences. I worked there for 3y and can give "on the record" statement that it was the most toxic company I ever worked for. 80h work weeks, management shouting at people and calling
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by bartwr 3y ago
The latter is the reason why we launched Night Sight. And a ton of people were pissed that it's slow and their subjects won't stay still for so long. We were not conflating user groups, just that if one group is literally 95% of
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by bartwr 3y ago
Before switching to big tech I worked 8y in video games - and agree. Many practices of gamedevs - like designers literally just exploring stuff without any plan for years before commiting to any feature - would make SV directors and PMs (no
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by bartwr 3y ago
I think the author doesn't understand consumer products, especially cameras and what most people care about (taking photos!) and need. Generally, people don't care if the phone uses expensive 5x lens or not. I don't really kn
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by bartwr 3y ago
I have not used dating apps myself (have a single partner for 15y+ and generally was always meeting romantic interests through friends), but ~half of my friends got their partners through Tinder 5-10y ago. They were very happy with it - tho
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by bartwr 3y ago
This quote says nothing about product , but about continuing research . Most researchers don't care about products. Many don't even care about any practicality (just the scientific pursuit). How do I know? Well, I happen to work
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by bartwr 3y ago
I have a simple answer for you - researchers measure impact differently. If they measured it primarily by shipping products, they would work as engineers, not research scientists. As a researcher you realize impact by researching and publ
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by bartwr 3y ago
But we already have this dream. It's called the internet. And video games. And movies. :) The question of "metaverse" is: 1. Do we need a head strapped device? Does it add enough to the experience to justify it? 2. Do we need
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Differentiable Slang: A Shading Language for Renderers That Learn(developer.nvidia.com)
7 points by bartwr 3y ago|0 comments
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by bartwr 3y ago
You have clearly not programmed in any of those. :) OpenCL was almost unusable due to how difficult it was to set up, plus limited support. Vulcan is terribly ugly and verbose and provides no benefits for pure compute workloads. Writing a &
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by bartwr 3y ago
Fascinating, so safety and cleaniness have nothing to do with the budget? Do you volunteer to clean trains and buses for free?
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by bartwr 3y ago
I keep telling my friends who get really into stock investment, read some stuff, invent strategies - and end up much worse (sometimes losing money) than me just dumping everything into a few almost random indices: 1. Greed (not as a pejorat
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by bartwr 3y ago
I agree with both your points. The experience varies and depends a lot on the manager. And about the cognitive dissonance - but to me, personally, it's not like there is one Google, but it's many companies with completely separate
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by bartwr 3y ago
Why do they sound horrible? This is a serious, non provocative question. :) I personally loved working for Google. Low workload, great work-life balance, amazing perks, mind blowing salary, potential to do really cool stuff that hundreds of
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by bartwr 3y ago
That last sentence is a total strawman. Unions are not there so you get everything you want. They are there to turn individual negotiations and protection into group and collective one. So it's not just a single junior programmer fight
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by bartwr 3y ago
The amount of people here saying it's ok or even a long lifespan (?!) is shocking. At college, around 2008 I had electronic circuit labs where we used Soviet oscilloscopes dating back to the 70s. They worked perfectly well (we couldn&#
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Praising hacking and low-tech solutions. ChatGPT wrote me a JavaScript “plugin.”(bartwronski.com)
3 points by bartwr 3y ago|0 comments
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by bartwr 3y ago
I worked at Google and I didn't get that impression. At no training I was told to not try to overtake the market, at many meetings PMs and directors were strategizing how to overtake the market, but the trainings were all about avoidin
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I work in Graphics/AI and left Silicon Valley for NYC 2.5y ago – a retrospective(bartwronski.com)
6 points by bartwr 3y ago|0 comments
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by bartwr 3y ago
I review 10-20 papers a year. It's a ton of unpaid, volunteer work, if I want to be a high quality reviewer then it's at least a day (at least 3 thorough reads, taking notes, writing the review, reviewer discussions, post rebuttal

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