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by dpe82 2y ago
What do you think are the current problems contributing to your slow transfers?
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by dpe82 2y ago
Yes, some people in this world still prefer to operate with paper checks and use the telephone.
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by dpe82 2y ago
They were not. The bank failed; FDIC came in and shut them down and then sold the remaining assets to First Citizens. Previous SVB shareholders were wiped out. That's how the system is supposed to work.
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by dpe82 2y ago
That assumes a company that has dedicated QA staff. Most these days don't, and the above comment discusses engineers doing their own QA.
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by dpe82 2y ago
That's all well and good, but even a halfway engaged PM is going to play with the product while it's in development, and they will tell you about what they discover along the way. It may not strictly be their job but they're
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by dpe82 2y ago
Those are requirements, not metrics.
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by dpe82 2y ago
Perhaps read the section dedicated to this point: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-googl... Some cross-cutting concerns are about more than just code, but things like "how will you monitor th
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by dpe82 2y ago
> Is this not just a story about how the Japanese were able to gain military intelligence on Western manufacturing and machine shop techniques from these brilliant craftsmen with their "secret" lathe? Seems pretty unlikely; sim
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by dpe82 2y ago
See my comment above; administrative rules generally take a couple of years to work their way through the system before they can take effect.
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by dpe82 2y ago
New rules take time. Depending on the complexity of the regulation it can take a year or two to write (lots of internal reviews) and then there's a long statutorily-required public comment period during which an agency is required to r
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by dpe82 2y ago
Because we have a Democratic administration that is taking this stuff seriously.
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by dpe82 2y ago
Reasonably well paid people are susceptible to bribes, too.
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by dpe82 3y ago
That's a distinction without a difference; the consent agreements and cases arose as a result of antitrust regulations. What has changed since then are the legal theories of when and how to apply antitrust regulations. The law as wri
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by dpe82 3y ago
Today we avoid radiating electric generation equipment by running two steam loops through a heat exchanger; one that interacts with the hot reactor and a second that spins the generators. Perhaps you could do similar with molten salt loops?
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by dpe82 3y ago
For themsleves? Some people can, sometimes. For the commons? If humans were so naturally inclined we wouldn't be having this conversation. Blaming the problem on "people who don't habitually operate based on long term plannin
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by dpe82 3y ago
I think you deeply overestimate people's ability to make painful near-term decisions to avoid long-term pain that they can't see, have never personally experienced and also nobody they know or have even heard of has personally exp
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by dpe82 3y ago
Part of the beauty of eg. CNC mills is they don't necessarily care what the units are.
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by dpe82 3y ago
Not the wings and not recently, but there has been major failure due to metal fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243
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by dpe82 3y ago
...and the Cloudflare "are you human" infinite loop for Firefox strikes yet again.
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by dpe82 3y ago
Society has used the apprenticeship system to pass down specialized knowledge for thousands of years; it seems to work reasonably well.
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by dpe82 3y ago
In many US states, you can already do electrical work on your own home without a professional certificate as long as it's done to code and inspected.
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by dpe82 3y ago
One might argue that time in a seat doing a job under the supervision of a licensed professional, without getting fired, is a good demonstration of competence - and has the added bonus of the student getting paid for their time while learni
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by dpe82 3y ago
Did you read the rest of the article? Much of it is a criticism of the distribution including multiple application launchers, file managers, etc. that don't necessarily work well together, and contrasting that with Ubuntu distributions
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by dpe82 3y ago
Eventually when Waymo is deployed globally the expensive upfront engineering will be absolutely dwarfed by the cost savings of not having drivers.
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by dpe82 3y ago
I haven't taken a Cruise, but I've used Waymo several times and my experience mirrors yours. I've seen Cruise cars on the street get confused and back up traffic enough times not to trust them.
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by dpe82 3y ago
Having been a Google engineer who bootstrapped a new recommendation system with the advantage of existing data and distribution... I'd take the latter any day. :) It comes down to: engineer A says we should do X to make the system bett
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by dpe82 3y ago
Google absolutely does have some very smart employees, and their research org does amazing work. But as they've grown headcount they've certainly regressed toward the mean.
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by dpe82 3y ago
> The New York Times dubbed Pandu Nayak, a Google vice president of search, "the face" of Google's defense, which is that it's not Google's access to more data that keeps Google leagues ahead of competitors in se
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by dpe82 3y ago
Oftentimes, in practice it's the same. Aside from things that may lead to accusations of violating equal opportunity employment laws, you can ask just about anything. Many previous employers won't do more than confirm employment t
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by dpe82 3y ago
Google has a large number of experienced and dedicated kernel engineers who are well versed; it should have gone through thorough internal review with them first.

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