daxfohl

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by daxfohl 4y ago
Survivorship bias is more about believing a task is safe/easy because you only hear from the survivors/winners. Not about saying someone is better at a job because they haven't died/lost yet.
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by daxfohl 4y ago
Instead of spending a bunch of money to ship stuff to Asia, then spending a bunch of money to upgrade their waste management facilities, why don't we just have our waste management companies toss unusable plastic from recycling into th
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Surprised Elon bought that dumpster fire instead of something like this.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
100% agree, but I'm still not seeing the flaw in the argument.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Sure, but the paradoxes listed on those pages go away because the black hole never fully exists . The mass inside any volume is always just short of what would be required to make a black hole. And so of course we can expect to see cra
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Here's what I've never understood. From an outside perspective the black hole will evaporate before the thing falls in. Thus a thing can never fall in. From its perspective the hole will emit more and more intense radiation and fi
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I think that's the point. From an outside perspective the black hole will evaporate before the thing falls in. Thus a thing can never fall in. From its perspective the hole will emit more and more intense radiation and finally evaporat
878.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I'd be judicious about who you tell. Some will view it as an opportunity to take on new things, others will view it with dismay and start slacking.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Let someone else step up! Hopefully there's someone on your team looking for extra responsibility. Take advantage of that! If you recover, you'll know you have a helping hand and it will either set you up for being able to take on
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by daxfohl 5y ago
How do you avoid language familiarity bias? I've had one interview like this and am sure I did much worse just because the language was Javascript, which I have limited experience with. Intuitively I'd expect that not to make much
881.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Ultimately the problem of potentially missed opportunities for parallelism there in regular sync code too. If we take the author's point seriously, we should all be programming in a language that requires explicit continuations everywh
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Yup, recently got one for work. I still do my open source work on Windows with a maxed out XPS i9 laptop, since I've used Windows almost exclusively for 20+ years, and VS is a bit nicer than VSCode for F# (or maybe I'm just used t
883.
by daxfohl 5y ago
My takeaway after reading all the other comments is that nobody knows, but everybody has someone to blame.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Why is foreign investment in Canada real estate so big vs the US? Is it just a pyramid scheme or something, or are investors actually making use of the properties?
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Find a job you like. I thought I had a decent job in a field I enjoyed but just was unhappy all the time. Switched to a job I thought I would be less interested in, and love it. There are so many add on effects of having a job you like (or
886.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Though, I remember having a conversation with some classmates in college, and the only one that said they enjoyed their childhood was the one who had been "outsourced". The rest of us just remembered being mostly bored.
887.
by daxfohl 5y ago
What's the end game? Even if we continue to grow population now, we can't forever. At some point we have to reach a solution for a population equilibrium.
888.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Couldn't embracing remote learning have solved most of these problems? I took a few classes over the last two years and loved remote learning. I don't get why it was so quickly cast away.
889.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Also wars tend to make viruses evolve to more deadly variants since it's harder to isolate the sick, or at least that's the hypothesis about the 1918 flu.
890.
by daxfohl 5y ago
Easing restrictions will open whole new pathways to social groups who have not yet been infected. China is about to explode, so transmission and variants to come from there. Most people are not boosted, immunity isn't gonna be as stron
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by daxfohl 5y ago
My guess, we'll be back wearing them again in two months.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
University of Washington
893.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I loved last year being able to take university courses online. I knocked out analysis, topology, and quantum mechanics as a non matriculated student. I'd had those books for years but never could get through them alone. (The main thin
894.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I guess I'll never hear the end of my parents saying it's all Bill Gates and the WEF's plan to kill us all.
895.
by daxfohl 5y ago
I got a 6 pro gathering dust somewhere and am typing this on my 2XL because I still like it better than anything else.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
I'll add, "knowing what you're worth". I keep thinking levels.fyi, blind, etc. are underappreciated in their value as "disruptive" initiatives of the last few years, and will have a far greater social impact th
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by daxfohl 5y ago
> Getting a job Though negotiating is way easier with things like levels.fyi and blind.
898.
by daxfohl 5y ago
This reminds me of Dan Abramov's post about identifying when not to be smart. https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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by daxfohl 5y ago
In ten years ML models may be "thinking" the same thing about us. Our "more understandable" code is full of inefficiencies and bugs and the bots wonder why we can't see this.
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by daxfohl 5y ago
Do note that bonus and promotion are tied to performance, which is huge at senior level. So if you're not motivated to perform, you may actually be better off taking a pay cut to follow your passions, both emotionally and financially.

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