cyberdrunk

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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
If the disciplines are related, like branches of engineering (e.g. low-level coding and rocketry in case of John Carmack), then it's not that hard. 10-15 years could be enough to get to mastery when switching branches. It's a diff
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Yep, definitely the important details are not present in this picture. However, firing even one shot at the police who's trying to arrest you justifies use of whatever force necessary to subdue the attacker.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
From Wikipedia article: > There was an armed standoff with police,[6] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[33] Police used more t
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
There are jobs, but probably, in terms of volume, it's 0.01% of the volume of backend or frontend jobs. Which in itself might not be bad(as there's less graphics programmers to fill these positions as well), but they aren't a
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Graphics is pretty mature, and also relatively niche in its applications (hence little jobs and lacking salaries for the most part). But I agree, it's very cool.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I'm not sure that working on an open source project is good way to learn a new subfield of coding. I've done it and, in retrospect, this time could've been better spent elsewhere. When working on an opensource project, you&#x
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Unabomber's [1] writings introduced me to the concept of "artificial needs". All the things that you list are artificial needs - wanting nice meal when eating from the packaging satisfies you just fine, doing a PhD when there
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
There's an unimaginable amount of business critical code written in Java already. Java is seen by businesses as good enough, so, barring some breakthroughs in CS, there will not be much pressure to migrate off it. And even if there wer
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Java licencing is manageable compared to the cost of developing a human resurrection technology in 2100 to bring back to life developers of by then long-forgotten technologies, which were hip in 2020. I bet Java will still be doing fine in
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Try getting a job on a smaller codebase and in a language whose ecosystem you understand very well (if there isn't any, work on it in the spare time you have now). This will significantly reduce the initial hurdles on the job for you.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Java is the safest bet if you want to write something that will be maintainable at reasonable cost through the next 50 years.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In a system based on merit, they would get more placements.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I'm not neccessarily considering him an intellectual, I just find the points he makes about the instinctual reaction to be outraged compelling (and pretty common sense). What he's saying on the subject is not deep, but the current
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I recommend the latest Sam Harris podcast on this subject, he makes a ton of nuanced points that many people miss when talking about "police brutality".
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> suit is designed as the ultimate comfort and convenience garment Weren't suits and shirts designed with XIX-century England in mind? I.e. very little hot summers, cold indoors (17 C was considered normal room temperature back then
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Now this isn't so dire--in fact it is no worse than what the rest of the workforce has to put up with, other than the fact that for some reason at this job people are supposed to have some internal "passion for building"
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
For most software it's obvious what the software could do - the technology (web etc.) is mature and easy to understand by product managers. That's why engineering input is not valued - the product owners can generate ideas as well
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
There are still fields where you hack on difficult technical problems - game dev, VR, computer vision, signal processing, blockchain (? - I don't know anything about it, so I may be wrong here). You can work there.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
What I've seen is that thousands of jobs for dozens of team are run on company's Hadoop cluster. Sure, each team could provision their own custom infra and run the job there, but having a centralized way to do it, with all the ext
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Its relative, "quick", has some weird historical attachments as well -- it can mean both "rapid" and "alive" (as in "quicksand" or the "quick" of a nail). Likely also "quicksilver&
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I suspect the second-order effect would be people just mostly stopping doing those breakins. They just don't pay off if you know you will be caught.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
If they're in 40s and 50s and they are in tech, they should have savings which would make the transition to a new job painless.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Your intuition is correct, programs which have to do complex processing on lots of data (e.g. a video feed) in real-time are just inherently very hard.