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by euix 3y ago
I don't know how it was in SF but here in Toronto it got pretty bad and even now large tracts of downtown are devoid, Toronto has an underground pathway system (sort of like a mini-city) that connects a large part of the downtown core
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by euix 3y ago
Have you ever looked Ulam spiral? I find a lot of ideas in number theory to be magical - I would never have the talent for it professionally, but I know enough to appreciate the discoveries when they are explained to me. https://
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by euix 3y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, a big part of growing big as an organization is becoming extremely sensitive to the political winds, and Youtube's "content moderation" is really a function of politics in the West. Were Rumble to
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by euix 3y ago
Good point, if the government removes privacy focused apps from the public what are they going to use?
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by euix 3y ago
I remember failing a Facebook SWE interview a couple years back after a few months of studying "Cracking the Code" and some other textbooks - I blanked out on a rather basic question in retrospect ("reverse a linked list in p
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by euix 3y ago
I am currently reading Kolyma Tales, during the pandemic I read the Gulag Archipelago - while the times are different his critique and analysis of society and the way human being behave in bad times are just as relevant today in the West.
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by euix 3y ago
I had experience with Shopify a few years back - around the start of the pandemic in 2020, not quite so disastrous as it didn't go that far but basically after an initial recruiter phone screen I had a technical interview with one of t
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by euix 3y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Toronto/Montreal, Canada Remote: Remote only We are a boutique analytics and IT consulting service based out of Montreal, Canada: https://www.themlhs.com/ . We specialize in data science and ML sol
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by euix 3y ago
Is NPR state funded? (real question - I actually don't know). What is the definition of state funded? Here in Canada all the media take government subsidies especially the big ones - a lot of that I think is the economics, they simply
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by euix 3y ago
My partner works at one of these big four companies and the way she puts it - they essentially function as outsourced expertise for governments the world over - essentially expert functions have been hollowed out of state governments and in
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by euix 4y ago
I have a T15 gen 1 running pop_os! like others I loaded linux right at the start everything works except the camera basically appears like it doesn't exist no matter what I do, its as if its not detected at a hardware level.
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by euix 4y ago
The advances Steam has made to linux gaming has really brought alot of people over to permanent linux - including myself. Before I used to still have a dual boot system but for the last 3 years there hasn't been a Windows computer in m
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by euix 4y ago
I think without the stimmy checks, loan deferments, liquidity injection, etc the lockdowns could not have been implemented, so many people lost their jobs or couldn't get revenue, the only way to keep them somewhat compliant was a brib
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by euix 4y ago
It's akin to how most people would be disgusted if shown how animals are slaughtered for meat but most people also have short memories - they will have their outrage and make some commitments about vegetarianism - the equivalent of the
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by euix 4y ago
I started working full time on a game in Jan 2021, minus vacation I have probably spent a 1 year on it. I also have a side hobby job, doing some data science consulting. I started with big ambitions the initial inspiration was Battle Brothe
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by euix 4y ago
I used to do this kind of work in the banking world, we built massive models to predict fraud in retail banking. The key observation - improvement in model performance was directly related to its invasiveness - i.e. the more you know about
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by euix 4y ago
I have been using LineageOS on old Pixels/LG phones for over a year and half now. So far no real problems and it is hella lot faster then the stock Android they came with. I find my needs really just sit between a dumb phone and all th
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by euix 4y ago
Starting to go off topic but, there is no such thing as painless oppression or making it "less painful". You can view the matter in abstract from a distance like this, but if it ever falls on you or your family then it becomes a d
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by euix 4y ago
Do you want to make it even easier for the government to do that? Sure the government can come to our house tomorrow and seize from us under one charge or another - but there is a price to pay in terms of public opinion and the physicality
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by euix 4y ago
"* money that is programmed to only be spent on certain goods or services" This is basically a rationing system, like the olden days in China and the Soviet Union, where it wasn't enough to have money, you also needed a ratio
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by euix 4y ago
Also unless the inflation rate goes negative, the actual price of goods is not going down, it's just increasing slower because you had a whole years worth of high inflation. If YoY inflation goes down that just means last year's i
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by euix 4y ago
Can you be more specific as to what was the nature of the work you were doing? Was it software dev, analytics, etc and can share a rough range of what your initial $ rate was? Also did you ever represent yourself as an agency? A couple of f
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by euix 4y ago
I second this. Institutions come and go but the people and connections you make throughout your working life is what counts and transcend your workplace. This is especially true for technical people, if you are middle management/execut
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by euix 4y ago
I saw this being explained by the Caves of Qud developer recently and it was quite impressive, as someone who has been working on procedural generation the way it can be used to generate believable dungeons and maps is very neat.
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by euix 4y ago
I ended up in Data Science and ML, my dissertation was primarily analytics related so it was a natural fit. The role was initially staffed primarily by ex-physicists disillusioned with academia to begin with. If you are set on a permanent r
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by euix 4y ago
Yes, it's doable but what are your plans after? Do you intent on an academic career? I can tell you the market for permanent faculty positions in physics is extremely small and ultra competitive. I went the opposite way as you, never w
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by euix 4y ago
Agree with this, the experience of workplace Covid mandates has left a permanent distaste in my mouth that will likely never leave. I think the Greek way of choosing elected officials - randomly - within some reasonable sampling criteria, i
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by euix 4y ago
I believe this is a common trend through the west. Here in Canada the current Federal Liberals won the last two election with about 30% of the vote which when you take into account how many people even vote amounts to something like ~5 mill
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by euix 4y ago
I think it's a reflection of western society. Working in the US and later back in Canada I have had a feeling of dislocation and malaise about the world. The last couple of years due to Covid has really accelerated this feeling. Before
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by euix 4y ago
Hear hear!

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