dheera

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by dheera 2y ago
What would you do? I'd claim the prize, sell for USD, then watch BTC crash
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by dheera 2y ago
I drove myself too hard, survived 3 cardiac arrests, no longer interested in sacrificing my health, sleep, food, hobby time, mental health, and time spent with loved ones, and finding it extremely, extremely hard to find exciting opportunit
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by dheera 2y ago
> A better way to think about what is happening is that passing a current from a power supply through an inductor transfers energy into the magnetic field. When you stop doing that, the magnetic field diminishes, transferring energy back
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by dheera 2y ago
Considering ASML makes the machines, probably not that difficult. The knowledge of how to do it exists outside of Taiwan. The bigger problem might be that a whole lot of the rest of the supply chain is in China, and if something happened in
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by dheera 2y ago
It's just a normalized dot product. People use "cosine similarity" to sound knowledgeable
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by dheera 2y ago
> but this comes off like ... You don't know more about the company than them. Most likely they saw this coming months ahead of time, and needed to figure out how to pay their own rents after actual doomsday and needed to pre-emptiv
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by dheera 2y ago
Yeah this, I had a manager that kept flip-flopping between (a) "you should do things on your own and present them as your individual work" and (b) "you should work on what the other team members are working on, not your own t
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by dheera 2y ago
The weird thing is I've gotten everything from no code to entry level to ultra-hard coding questions in FAANG-level interviews. I also have a hunch I've gotten easier coding questions when an existing team member referred me to hi
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by dheera 2y ago
Can't they just look at your code commit history ...
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by dheera 2y ago
I know founders do this (as a former founder myself), but it's also super unhealthy for the founder to do this for more than a few weeks at a time. Our bodies and minds are not designed to handle that.
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by dheera 2y ago
> People already feel working hard no longer leads to a better life. For me, it's not just a feeling; objectively, it doesn't. I tried working hard. As a PhD student, as a founder. I had my 1st cardiac arrest the week after my
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by dheera 2y ago
I just left Amazon, and the situation is identical at several other companies based on anecdotal evidence from friends, so it's very much a big company issue as well. The biggest problem with many startups I think is workaholic, narcis
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by dheera 2y ago
You're not alone, I'm burned out too and tired of every AI-related company expecting engineers to work more than 40 hours a week and nights and weekends, steal scope from teammates, fight for clout, fight for internal resources, o
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by dheera 2y ago
Suggestion: It would be cool if it could be packaged as a deb package, install itself as a systemd service, and accept a configuration in /etc somewhere. Adding nohup commands to /etc/rc.local is a little hacky.
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by dheera 2y ago
8/31 2 injured in Oakland freeway shooting https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/eastbound-i-580-oaklan... 8/27 Man, 27, shot and killed while working in East Oakland https://www.ktvu.com&#x2F
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by dheera 2y ago
I mean, who in their right mind would raise kids in Oakland right now?
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by dheera 2y ago
OK so back then using SAT words was good, and now using SAT words is bad. Got it.
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by dheera 2y ago
There are also multiple reasons for a program to read its own executable. - Decompressing and inflating a compressed binary block with a generic decompressor at the top (e.g. a bash or python script with a binary blob at the end) - Checksum
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by dheera 2y ago
An actual bank account. 1. Get a +86 phone number at any China Mobile. You only need your passport and some initial (e.g. 100RMB) cash 2. I opened a bona fide ICBC account at one of the ICBC branches in Shanghai with that +86 phone number,
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by dheera 2y ago
It's about that easy in China. (In addition to your ID you also need an +86 mobile number, which you can get in about 5 minutes by showing your ID at a China Mobile store.)
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by dheera 2y ago
Many other countries make it super easy for foreigners to get bank accounts. It's actually kind of a stupid economic policy to make it hard. If someone wants to store money in your country that's good for you.
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by dheera 2y ago
> Why wouldn’t there be? They are thieves? They would probably theft for the service, not pay for it.
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by dheera 2y ago
I would have probably just taken apart the mechanics and replaced it with an RC servo.
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by dheera 2y ago
I wish all thase sites that blast me with GDPR, newsletter, unsolicited chatbot, and 5 other popups could see that if on a mobile device the whole website us covered up in shit I have to deal with, I lose interest in the site and bounce
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by dheera 2y ago
The real problem with methodologies like "agile" or whatever the hell is that: - they are not magic solutions to a fundamentally flawed business, or a business that is building the wrong thing - they are not solutions to people is
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by dheera 2y ago
> Google analytics? Check. Add this to /etc/hosts 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com
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by dheera 2y ago
> - Comment removal, which we never expect to recover via unminification. ChatGPT is quite good at adding meaningful comments back to uncommented code, actually. Paste some code and add "comment the shit out of this" as a promp
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by dheera 2y ago
Except Google Wallet doesn't let me use these features anyway because I have a rooted device
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by dheera 2y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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by dheera 2y ago
In high school I could sleep well AND ace everything. I didn't have to study that much to ace honors and AP courses. Partially because I aced everything, I got into one of the universities considered "top". Although I was exc

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