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by cwp 4y ago
That'll only be a problem if you're up against significant number of candidates that have both experience and a PhD. HR will certainly filter resumes based on something as clear-cut as a degree when they can. But they can't j
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by cwp 4y ago
Nah, you wouldn't have to quit. If you've got 5 years experience, even on non-cutting edge projects, the PhD won't matter. Sure, you won't be able to get any job you want, but there are lots of ML jobs that list a PhD re
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by cwp 4y ago
Yes and no. Yes, because Turing completeness. But no, because if you tried to do something like the Nix package manager with a language like Python or Java or even Scheme (yeah, I'm looking at you Guix), you'd end up with a worse
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by cwp 4y ago
That's gotta tank the share price, though, right? Some shareholders will sell to avoid the dilution, and others will buy, but from the company rather than the market. So the market sees a bunch of sellers and few buyers.
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by cwp 4y ago
Yeah, it probably won't be triggered; even Musk would wince at that kind of loss. But that's exactly why we have to wonder, or I do at any rate. The poison pill seems suspiciously like a free lunch for the board if you only look a
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by cwp 4y ago
I'm kinda curious about what would happen if Musk triggered the poison pill. Yeah, his existing stock would be diluted. But... how much? What would it do to the share price? The poison pill is essentially a gun to the head of all the o
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by cwp 4y ago
I stand corrected. Clearly being private is not a factor if public universities are leeching off the public even more. That amounts to corruption in university governance. <sigh>
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by cwp 4y ago
The problem is that many US universities are private. So when the government puts money into loans and grants for students, the universities just raise tuition, rather than expanding to accept more students. In the end it's just a tran
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by cwp 4y ago
Yup, this. I think a big part of this is that Eelco is really only interested in NixOS. Nix is a large community and there are plenty of people that do care about other platforms, so these things do tend to get sorted out. Still, the core d
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by cwp 4y ago
Back in the day I had some dealings with Joyent, and I pitched them on Nix for SmartOS. I couldn't get them to take me seriously, because they were old-school Unix heads, but damn that would have been a great system. Define a zone with
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by cwp 4y ago
That demographic advantage was twenty years ago. Today China has a terrible demographic structure—more old people than young people and a fertility rate well below replacement level. The One Child policy worked too well. And yes, much of
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by cwp 5y ago
Also in the manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/opt-common.h...
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, frustration on both sides here. On one hand, I can see how the nix evangelism can get annoying, especially here on HN. On the other hand the nix crowd is seeing a parade of ad hoc, informally-specified, niche implementations of way-le
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by cwp 5y ago
If all you're interested in is getting a good job, you don't need a degree at all. The information is available for free in a variety of presentations and formats. The source code to just about all the software you'll use is
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by cwp 5y ago
I always had this problem with Mexican food. - Burrito... ew - Alambre. huh? - "al Pastor" ok, that must be lamb... it's PORK??? WTF??? And then I order "papas con cuero" thinking this must be yet another
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by cwp 5y ago
Dunno about the merits of this, but it does seem to be part of the overall effort to rethink how to organize large groups of people working together. With the internet we can afford peer-to-peer communication, and we don't have to or
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by cwp 5y ago
Count me as one of those against it. I'm all for not changing our clocks anymore, but DST is stupid. If you want to get up earlier and have more daylight in the evening, great, do that. If you want to get up later so it's not dark
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by cwp 5y ago
Maxed out? No probably not. But by the end of 2022 they will have spent 680 billion Euros on the transition. All the low hanging fruit is gone, so getting another 40 percent of their power needs from renewables will cost more than that. T
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by cwp 5y ago
You'd think. But there are a lot of people talking about "doing more" to help Ukraine. The idea of a no-fly zone is being bandied about. They wave away the nuclear concern while advocating shooting down Russian planes (killin
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by cwp 5y ago
It's poor thinking even if you leave geopolitics out of it. Solar power in Germany is a terrible idea from first principals. Wind is a bit better, but there's not enough energy there to power the country. A legit criticism of nucl
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by cwp 5y ago
It could be geographic considerations. The USSR/Warsaw Pact had pretty secure boarders, but that ended when the Soviet Union fell apart. If Putin can get control of Ukraine, that would put the Carpathian mountains between him and an in
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by cwp 5y ago
Funny, I've had the opposite thought. If registers are a certain width, and all memory access is aligned anyway, why do we need pointers that can address arbitrary bytes? Heck, why are bytes even a thing in a 64-bit machine?
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by cwp 5y ago
Heh, yeah. I think that falls under "lose everything you invested". If you invested more than you have, well, you lose more than you have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by cwp 5y ago
Well, the downside is capped at "you lose all the money you invested". I think. Did I miss something?
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by cwp 5y ago
I can't speak for the GP, but here's my answer: I don't feel I'm owed anything. I just refuse to consume ads. Sometimes that means I pay a subscription fee. Sometimes I read it with my blocker on and the creator goes wit
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by cwp 5y ago
Well, if you're comfortable with functional programming, that's great. Seriously, awesome! But you're in the minority. Hard disagree on the "decent programming language designer", though. Nix-the-language is beautif
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by cwp 5y ago
The trouble is that it's the foundational ideas that people find weird and difficult. Functional programming is still niche and so both immutable package installations and nix-the-language don't build on what people already know.
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by cwp 5y ago
I once had a girl ask me if she looked Indian. I said no, she got pissed off, and it was quite a while before I realized she didn't mean "from India." Turned out she was from Whitehorse, "full blooded Indian" she sa
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by cwp 5y ago
Minnesota with "Darth Blader"!
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by cwp 5y ago
No, that means it's likely very useful for coding instead of English. You just need a custom dictionary. Code has a smaller vocabulary than prose, even with the domain-specific words that get used as identifiers . You could probably

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