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by eitally 2y ago
It still works this way. If you're a seller and don't work this way or don't know the game, you'll probably find yourself looking for a new job every year.
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I've worked adjacent to technical consultants for a decade, and in tech sales leadership for the past few, and there's a lot of misleading information in this thread. For one, there's a huge gulf between product sales and ser
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This is absolutely true on both counts. For as much as social media is decried for negative effects on mental health and IRL socialization, healthy lifestyle & fitness inspos are absolutely having an impact. The nice thing about this
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This is what they agreed to, in order to win the OpenAI partnership. In exchange, OpenAI doesn't have to build or support their own infra. In theory, a win-win, but only if MSFT can effectively sell OpenAI-on-Azure.
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by eitally 2y ago
El Reg is basically The Onion but targeted at enterprise IT. That said, for things in that domain -- like SAP or Oracle, but especially SAP -- they really do know their stuff and offer frequently insightful content.
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Those output examples are absolutely horrifically bad compared to what I get with a cursory request to Gemini 2.0 using Imagen3 via gemini.google.com.
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There are a lot of things schools themselves have done that end up essentially requiring it. Here's a short list from my kids' district: * Use an LMS called Infinite Canvas. Among other things, the kids have to submit homework o
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by eitally 2y ago
Inspectors need terminal degrees and the pay doesn't match what they typically get in industry. The same is true for veterinarians employed by USDA to do ranch & meat packing inspections.
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Supposedly no, but in reality what happens is that when a drug is approved, lots of documentation about that drug + formulation is already published as a result of the R&D processes along with agency oversight in various countries. When
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by eitally 2y ago
I disagree. I think what you're saying are "a lot of exceptions" are primarily going to be in what are historically referred to as "revenue sports" in the US -- football & basketball -- and also in individual s
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Even without WhatsApp for business, it's changed the world. I'm an American in the US and have multiple messaging apps on my phone, but have recently taken recruiter calls via WhatsApp from overseas headhunters. It was surprisin
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by eitally 2y ago
I dunno. It honestly feels a lot like how Google must come up with their adaptive color schemes in newer Android versions. The difference is that Android provides two related colors plus a complementary accent color, and then the fourth
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I'm with you (just to be clear): the educational system is perfectly fine in the US. The problem is that the educational system in the US is designed to be fine for the subset of kids who come from families that 1) speak English, 2)
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by eitally 2y ago
While IQ may vary by racial groups, overall math attainment not at the very top couple of percent has far more to do with socioeconomic circumstances & parental education than it does any inherent potential.
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Fortunately for you, if you don't want to use race to distinguish you can instead use these characteristics to define your subgroups: 1) kids with two married parents at home 2) kids of parents with a college or professional degree 3)
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by eitally 2y ago
Why would we not? If I didn't control for demographics, I probably wouldn't have my kids in our local public schools (in the wealthiest county <? - Santa Clara> in the country) because the Great Schools ratings show only
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by eitally 2y ago
Indeed. The problem is that for most people income doesn't really go up unless they change jobs. Or, at least it goes up so slowly (0-3%/yr) as to be undetectable compared to, for example, the price of a loaf of bread going from
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by eitally 2y ago
I've lived in LCOL, MCOL and VVHCOL cities in the US. Just because everything is outlandishly expensive in the bay area, that doesn't mean the same is true everywhere in the country. In large swaths of LCOL and MCOL areas, your
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Several years ago (when I was a manager at Google) one of my employees needed to relocate overseas in order to facilitate coming back under a more preferable visa type, and they were looking at options. For the same role where they were ea
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by eitally 2y ago
That doesn't explain the astronomical wages for tech workers at all. Tech workers are paid highly because their employers are generating huge revenues per employee and the cost of living in these coastal hubs is exceptional [even befo
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by eitally 2y ago
This is the kind of comment written by someone who only knows a country from its headlines. The US, as a resident, skews wildly from the popular narrative in many ways much of the time -- regardless who is in charge.
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I agree with this. And once that kinda tailed off a bit, it was time for the cloud firms (plus Nvidia, and for a time, Zoom, Tesla & Netflix) to create renewed demand.
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I'd add HTC's mobile phone unit to the list of strategically important Google acquisitions (and prehaps Dropcam, too). Without either of those -- even with all the fits & starts, they'd never have gotten to where they ar
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If you actually literally meant "or VMs" in your statement, I'm curious what sort they were that were not VMWare? VMWare absolutely owns this market in the enterprise. It's been reliable, it's well-supported, there
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Dating back 10-15 years, that premise was exactly what drove the enterprise shift away from a Microsoft stack (.Net + SQL Server + Windows Server) to a LAMP stack (where the L-A-M-P were each substitutable by various OSS options). It requi
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I used to run software development for the rest engineering and quality tools used internally by Sanmina (high-tech electronics mfr). Granted, we had some control over the hardware in use at our factories, but we have been doing similar wo
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by eitally 2y ago
I highly recommend this National Geographic series, Filthy Riches. It has an episode about "burl hunters". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3654672/
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I use an adblocker and also Reddit Enhancement Suite and have subbed to probably 40 subreddits. Except a very few of those (like /r/politics), they're all niche enough to mostly avoid the bot plague. As long as I'm log
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> The extent and magnitude of health disparities in the USA are truly alarming. In a country with the wealth and resources of the USA, it is intolerable that so many are living in conditions and with health outcomes akin to those of an e
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I received my engineering masters from NC State, but not this department (I was in the Industrial & Systems Eng. dept, in the IMSE program: https://imsei.ncsu.edu/ ). That said, my program was intentionally broad &

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