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by bobsomers 4y ago
> you can’t even fly at night or in weather without an instrument rating Minor nit: You can fly at night with a Private Pilot's certificate, but it must be under VFR like all your daytime flying.
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by bobsomers 4y ago
If you've got 50 minutes for a very complete and in depth answer, this video by Aurelien who works on the pixel pipe covers why Darktable tends to look washed out (out of the box) compared to other apps and how to conceptualize what it
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by bobsomers 4y ago
Most static binaries are not completely statically linked. The system libstdc++ and libc as well as a few other things are almost always linked dynamically. In particular, it’s almost impossible to get glibc to link statically. You need to
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by bobsomers 4y ago
I completely agree with this, having spent an awful lot of time with both Bazel and Make. There is a much tighter, cleaner, simpler build system within Bazel struggling to get out. A judicious second take at it with a minimal focus, while t
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by bobsomers 4y ago
This completely mirrors my experience with Bazel as well. As long as, like Google, you have plenty of engineering effort to waste on nothing but maintaining your build system, sure why not. But if you actually have to get something done for
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Bazel is a fully reproducible and hermetic build system. Yes, and it's very important to note that Bazel does nothing to solve the problem about having a reproducible and hermetic runtime . Even if you think you aren't linki
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Being invaluable to the team gives you negotiating leverage. In my experience it hasn't panned out like that. We desperately want to believe it, because we see how valuable we are to the business. But the reality is that the peo
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Well the obvious example is RenTech's Medallion fund which consistently out-performs human stock traders. The article isn't critical of mathematical models, it's specifically critical of deep learning. Is there any evide
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by bobsomers 4y ago
It's definitely not idiomatic in C++. The standard reserves names starting with an underscore and a capital letter or containing double underscores in any scope, and identifiers beginning with an underscore in the global namespace. Mos
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by bobsomers 4y ago
I'll happily disclose anything if they ask about, but the goal I'm trying to get to is that you land at requirements through conversation. Starting with a blank slate and saying "Give me all the requirements" and expecti
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by bobsomers 4y ago
It can be used for a software architect role, but in general I'm just trying to poke at systems design ability regardless of the job level. Expectations are different for different job roles, obviously. If a software architect didn&#x2
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by bobsomers 4y ago
This has not been my experience, and I give "systems design" interviews. Generally the entire interview is, "Let's design an X", where X is some kind of system that has a substantial software component. The goal is
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by bobsomers 4y ago
Meanwhile, at TuSimple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymD8_DGwP50
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> GMail (consumer) stopped scanning your mail for ads personalization five years ago [1]. IIUC, the paid version already wasn't (never did?). I appreciate that this is probably true, but ultimately I moved all my personal email from
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Only if you need to update all N other projects every time, which is unusual. This isn't true in my experience at large companies. For this to be true, you would either need to have absolutely no shared core libraries, or core lib
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> I would be willing to bet substantial sums of money that Google tracks metrics for these alternative results and has concluded that they add value to the user. And I would be willing to be substantial sums of money that any metrics Goo
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> I shouldn’t have to deal with that or be expected to get a new job. Did you try asking him to stop, or to eat somewhere else?
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Can you provide a list of cloud-based shareable free office suits? You've moved the goal posts to narrow the focus onto Google Docs, though. When my grandma wants to write a letter, she doesn't go searching for a "cloud-
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by bobsomers 4y ago
Another “minority” checking in.
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by bobsomers 4y ago
> Crypto fans want deregulated finance. Crypto fans get mad when deregulated finance is comically unfair. I don't think this is a fair characterization. Most crypto fans I know want regulations, they just want them clearly defined a
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by bobsomers 5y ago
I don't think you quite understand the problem. The problem wasn't turning on optimizations or getting debug info, the problem was getting Eigen-based linear algebra code to run at a sufficiently reasonable speed when optimization
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Eigen is the standard choice (for good reason!) for many linear algebra projects, especially in robotics, but there is a big downside users should be aware of before they chose it. Eigen makes extensive use of expression templates in C++
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> I would have thought a highly talented person isn't concerned about jumping between interviews, getting hired, quitting after 3 weeks because it's not a good fit and repeating the process until they find a good match. Am I ju
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> This is an important aspect of systems engineering that we haven’t even scratched the surface of when it comes to self driving cars. There are definitely people in the industry who are thinking about this and working on it, but AFAIK n
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> A trusted ledger is valuable, but a ledger doesn't have to be public to be trusted. When I swipe my card at the grocery store, I'm not shaking in my boots with my fingers crossed, doubting whether the transaction will be reco
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by bobsomers 5y ago
I'll be honest, I find the "blockchain is for crime" argument to be worn out in 2022. It feels a lot like "think of the children". Of course blockchains can be used for crime, almost anything can. In fact, if you wa
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Thank you for saying this, this point seems to be completely glossed over frequently, but it’s literally the point of blockchains. To be explicit, the reason blockchains exist is to have a globally consistent database that doesn’t require
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by bobsomers 5y ago
I've talked to some folks from Tesla whose stories absolutely reinforced the parent's point. Some of the silly things Musk has dictated turned into massive wastes of resources for the engineering team.
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Very true, but retrofitting good transit into a city that didn't plan for it is extremely expensive and disruptive. I see these kinds of services being a great complement to public transit in cities that have struggled to make them att
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> The vast majority of the contiguous United States is decidedly not "on the table" as of now. So the vast majority of the US has either significantly worse weather than SF, or a significantly harder ODD than SF? Could you el

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