engineeringwoke

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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
From what I have read, they all wrote when they were sober, not when they were drunk. https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrydevries/2018/12/11/ernest-...
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
I also agree that this attitude is much more common in Europe than the US. Founders and CTOs constantly blowing their feet off because they can't seem to give technical people any power, and it doesn't seem to be changing any time
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
Don't do it without a parachute of course, but as long as you have a monetary cushion, what do you have to lose? Move to a country with good healthcare, don't own a car, what hardship could possibly happen otherwise? Outside of ex
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
> Really stupid. My advice is don't listen to this advice. If you are getting itchy feet go on a fucking holiday for a few weeks. You could also call this quite myopic. How do you know what is out there without trying it yourself? S
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
But also to the contrary this is the exact line of thinking that causes the large majority of people to sleep walk through life, as the author says. It is a hard truth of life that the large majority of people (80+% I would say) do not take
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
> To make this more clear, if you process 1000 tokens the neural network will have gone through a sequence of 1000 states. That isn't how transformer architectures work
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by engineeringwoke 3y ago
Citation?
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Somebody else has a shiny new toy and he's jealous
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> If you really can overachieve while working very little then all it means is that you could have achieved more in your life if you spent more time working. I mean, not really right? That's the whole thing with the totem pole syste
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
I am 100% one of these people. Unless something really unexpected comes up, then I choose whether I'm working that morning (which is less than 50%) and will usually finish the work after a few hours, then commit it either at EOD or nex
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Or a magic 'greed' button that they refused to hit before now. There's some empirical evidence from Australia that this is exactly what they did. Also an island nation that heavily imports food https://www.the
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
The big issue in northern Europe is private debt, not government debt. Totally reasonable to not know
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
When did I ever say that you should do that? We know that the government will backstop BofA. They aren't going to backstop SVB. FDIC is only intended for regular people as you imply.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Funny you mention BofA. They have $116 billion in unrealized losses. What all these banks are doing is very typical. If you've ever worked in the industry, you would know that. https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status&
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
If you are risk averse have your money at a big global systemic bank with a big customer base and therefore deposit base, not a bank focused on holding money for high-risk ventures.
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
A swap has two sides. Someone still holds the bag, so what you're saying here doesn't make sense. What SVB was doing is typical; regular banks don't hedge anything. You can see everything in a Bloomberg terminal
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
There's a $40 billion hole in their balance sheet...
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Re-renders are incredibly cheap in the big picture. They are not a source of performance bottlenecks in 99% of real world applications
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
I'm not sure you really understand the technical complexity that goes into Apple's most basic products. The top to bottom in-house software stack is one thing, but that's the tip of the iceberg. Their manufacturing is best-in
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Great advice
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> All antidepressants were more efficacious than placebo in adults with major depressive disorder 1 in 4 American adult women take anti-depressant drugs. Do they all have major depressive disorder?
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Clinical depression and mood issues need to be treated with medication. How to know someone is American before they even mention "other English speaking countries"
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Sometimes you push hard, and a good glass wine is exactly what you need. Because it makes you feel good? You certainly don't need it. It's a crutch. For socialization, sure. But to "wind down" or "de-stress&quo
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Of course. But I think it's quite common to claim that one's problems in life are incontrovertible when they are not. You stated it as a fact when we really don't know
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> Neuroscience shows that this is not the case, and that those with schizoid personality disorders have true physiological and neurological differences. Sure, but you assume that the physiological and neurological differences exist in th
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> It's about "when this function executes, what data does it see, and did any of those values get changed out from under it in a way that could potentially break the logic"? You're just describing the semantics of fun
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
> This works because closures capture data in a scope, whereas mutable class instances could have gotten changed and refer to a single `this` instance. So `this.state` is hard to optimize? > Hooks had nothing to do with v8 optimizati
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
How would Facebook convince the community to dogfood their new API without some marketing buzz? It's pretty obvious that V8 has trouble optimizing changes to object properties because of the design of the spec, and they were also prett
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
It is purely because `this.state` is hard for V8 to optimize, nothing more and nothing less. They did it for their own purposes, for better performance on low-end machines. You can almost certainly just use classes for 99% of use cases
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by engineeringwoke 4y ago
Sure, but the government should legislate that companies be given a reason and not stonewall customers. The absurdity of allowing companies to giga-scale and not have real customer service is just dumb and bad for society

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