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by creer 2y ago
Fantastic article thanks! Good look into career postings. And it seems the Ukrainians worked hard in the few years of explicit notice they got.
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by creer 2y ago
Good conceit or theme by an author - on which to base a series of books that will sell? Not everything is an engineering or math project.
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by creer 2y ago
Depends on the country. In many places, the law has gotten into this, and companies find it safer anyway to at least pay minimum wage. It won't be paid much. On the contrary in the US, I often see young people take jobs which pay aroun
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by creer 2y ago
Would killing the startup have gotten the employee paid? The threat would probably have gotten them a slow payment plan - but no attorney fees.
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by creer 2y ago
People should remember too that bankruptcy is always an option. Both for a business and an individual for that matter. That is, nobody in theory should want to stiff their employees, clients, contractors, etc. But the reality is that busine
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by creer 2y ago
These discussions happen because it becomes unlikely that the payments will ever happen. It's about finding another way. After that, you can build in ways to verify - at least until you can trust again. Like access the accounting.
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by creer 2y ago
It's refreshing and pleasant when a client is willing to discuss things in good faith and find a reasonable solution. And it's sad that in my career it has ... never happened. I have approached clients, and clients have approached
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by creer 2y ago
US debt was mostly being bought because "safe". The US being seen as politically and economically stable and the center of the world. Right now that argument is much harder to make. And meanwhile there is always a lot of US debt t
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by creer 2y ago
Filing an extension doesn't change when income tax is due - but it changes the deadline for various things. Not just the 1040 filing deadline. Other procedures do not state their own deadline but rely of [the day your tax return is due
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by creer 2y ago
> I'm interested in this as a faster intervention than QE. But BI / UBI's usual argument is that because it would be long term and reliable, it would allow the recipients to make long term choices. Such as taking on an occ
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by creer 2y ago
I don't understand, (eventually) you can read the documentation yourself or you can chat with a bot / agent that has read the documentation. Either way, not much happens if there is no documentation, no? (Never mind, that launchin
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by creer 2y ago
> In the case of the US, it's more heartbreaking because it's a rich country, and you shouldn't see people living on the streets of a place like San Francisco. It is certainly not for lack of money all around that many&#x2
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by creer 2y ago
Snow and ice is in favor of vehicles with lots of computing on board - and not the wet kind.
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by creer 2y ago
None of this is all or nothing. The school could offer catch-up classes. The school and the professor could test and refuse registration in a class for students that are missing the prerequisites. Which means they would need to test at the
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by creer 2y ago
None of this is all or nothing. The school could offer catch-up classes. The school and the professor could test and refuse registration in a class for students that are missing the prerequisites. Which means they would need to test at the
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by creer 2y ago
That seems pretty acceptable: there is a phase of new technologies where applications can be churned out and improved readily enough, without much understanding of the process. Then it's fair that efforts at understanding may not be ec
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by creer 2y ago
Frankly a LOT of improvement could be done over most of today's cars' user interface. Even HN people complain about that all the time. ... And still here, Apple CarPlay may be fine for some users but is far from it for me. Apple c
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by creer 2y ago
Apple seems to have put a lot of money in automotive projects - before pulling the plug. So not too likely that this was done in mistake. By contrast, I'm constantly disappointed in how bad CarPlay is. So many things are obviously brok
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by creer 2y ago
Money-wise, the US (where you say you are) are stuffed-full of financial help plans, scholarships, grants and aid schemes of all sorts. Many of these are small grantors which may grant just a few or one grant each year. Some pay just a few
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by creer 2y ago
Don't dismiss the intersection of disciplines. ME or EE can also lead to the intersection of mechanical and electronics (power electronics, mechatronics, robotics, low level motor/ device drivers...) Finding people who can navigat
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by creer 2y ago
Taking a course or two in it is a good idea EXCEPT in either disciplines the foundational courses can be very un-exciting, mathematical, hard to be motivated for. Discouraging. I would suggest instead to look for a slightly more advanced (i
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by creer 2y ago
> I was speaking in general about the law, individual contracts nonwithstanding. Then no. If your assistant snaps the photo and their contract doesn't try to address this, then they are the author (in US law) and could file for and
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by creer 2y ago
The receiver does not need any tax forms in the US. Payers are obligated to issue tax-related forms in certain circumstances. But the receivers don't even need those to file their own tax paperwork.
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by creer 2y ago
The Guardian is now paywalled. ... Hmmm not exactly - there's a page overlay which can be clicked past or something.
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by creer 2y ago
> A plain text file (meta.md) can store optional metadata and is readable simply by opening it To me, "readable" is not enough. Entering this data-augmentation text is time consuming: it should be as easy as possible. Including
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by creer 2y ago
I don't feel that it was a misguided attempt to "get copyright". Wasn't the attempt specifically to get copyright attributed to the AI (rather than to Thaler)? So it was some grand scheme about AI personhood or business
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by creer 2y ago
Lost? It has never been easier to do research or start a research project. What has changed is the inclination to read. Reading was a refuge for some - and probably fiction graphic novels, computer games, doom scrolling are now the comparab
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by creer 2y ago
It's almost like hardware design is its own discipline! Kidding aside, yes, hardware design is its own discipline and hardware design is hard even for hardware engineers. Hardware troubleshooting is its own distinct discipline. Design
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by creer 2y ago
4b. If the datasheet provides a sample PCB layout, use it. If you have no idea what kinds of issues that PCB layout is potentially addressing - then you also are not competent to troubleshoot these issues in your own different layout.
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by creer 2y ago
> If I tell my assistant to snap a photo, it's still credited to me, not them, though I might also credit them. You can do what you want. But only legally so if their contract says so.

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