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by gaius 8y ago
Take advantage of it for working on a side project, learning something new, or just self-reflection. Once I had ditched my FB habit I now use my commutes for EdX on my phone. Doesn’t always work - for some things you really need to be sit
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by gaius 8y ago
A cheap (but not free) option is leadergpu.com - no affiliation, they just seem like super nice people and have per-minute billing. They are Dutch.
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by gaius 8y ago
I felt the same about “Why’s poignant guide”
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by gaius 8y ago
I’m OK with this. Wasps as far as I can tell serve no useful place in the ecosystem. They are not bees after all. They just sting people and that’s it. Good riddance!
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by gaius 8y ago
After the first couple hundred "free" plugins you will find that you pay in other ways - this is the same in anything that supports a plugin. In any system I manage the cost of the plugin simply isn't an issue - if it's
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by gaius 8y ago
But it’s his employees that he’s making work more hours, so that doesn’t make any sense
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by gaius 8y ago
Do any of these supposedly lazy employees have meaningful equity participation? Or is this just another self-entitled techbro whining that other people aren’t making him richer at the rate he’s accustomed to?
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by gaius 8y ago
I'm kind of intrigued by what a pro-focused Mac Mini could be. It would look a lot like the previous Mac Mini, quad core with upgradable memory and two drive bays. Before they crippled it to try and sell more Mac Pros.
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by gaius 8y ago
Indeed. How embarrassing!
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by gaius 8y ago
Perhaps they could have gone with a connectivity vendor with an extensive 4G network for backup if the (inexplicably) non-redundant fixed line was cut.
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by gaius 8y ago
We're partially responsible Those who implemented the user-hostile features that necessitated regulation in the first place are 100% responsible, direct your ire at them.
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by gaius 8y ago
Agreed. It’s classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” stuff right up until the Fiorina era which was just wanton destruction for the sake of being seen to do something but having no idea what.
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by gaius 8y ago
cannot find the link right now, but the gist was that those teams move very slowly and work very hard towards correctness. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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by gaius 8y ago
Well, it depends. Any F500 hiring manager would pay top dollar for an ex-Amazon guy to work on their cloud effort, maybe not as much as a FANG but 9-5 with decent job security. If you were looking to settle down somewhere long-term it might
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by gaius 8y ago
You could probably leverage 2-3 years at Amazon to a much better job somewhere else as a cloud guy. It is all about credentialling and other signalling, to get your foot in the door. Remember the only purpose of a CV is to secure an intervi
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by gaius 8y ago
I’ve been keeping my eye on the Surface too You won’t regret Surface, fantastic hardware and W10 is not nearly as bad as the haters say, esp. with WSL now. I’m a switcher from MBP myself and I am very happy with the decision.
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by gaius 8y ago
Yes, stealth defeated by "obsolete" equipment. F35s don't stand a chance against modern Russian S-400s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
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by gaius 8y ago
The F35 is “military grade” too. It’s massively over budget, doesn’t work and never will. Oh and rival states already stole all the blueprints.
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by gaius 8y ago
Didn’t Google call one of their HTTP extensions SPDY? Or am I thinking of something else?
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by gaius 8y ago
You can get a fair way these days without knowing any maths at all, the tools and libraries are very good and there are a ton of tutorials and sample code out there. But what a grasp of the maths really gives you is intuition which you will
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by gaius 8y ago
I have been getting more into machine/deep learning et al recently and have been pleasantly surprised that the calc and linalg I learnt 25 years ago I just need to review, it all still works the same! So refreshing after the short shel
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by gaius 8y ago
Ha I remember one client, the only thing open after dark was a roadside strip club. Never got stranded at that airstrip fortunately!
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by gaius 8y ago
the Saudi sovereign wealth fund? The one dedicated to keeping oil a viable industry? The Saudis are worrying about what happens to their grandchildren when the oil runs out. They are desperate to diversify. While prolonging oil as long as
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by gaius 8y ago
Also see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/gap-sorry-t-sh...
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by gaius 8y ago
the airports in question are likely to be so large You might be surprised. In my years as a consultant I would often be flying out of airfields that were little more than a shed near a runway. Not all the time but probably 30-40%.
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by gaius 8y ago
if your manager doesn't care These are the managers who bragged about maintaining blacklists, remember. They certainly do police thoughtcrime.
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by gaius 8y ago
FAANG Maaybe. I'm not sure how this breaks down actually. Obviously Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (and probably Twitter and a few others) are competing over one pool of candidates. But that that really/fully overlap with
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by gaius 8y ago
"hiring people you'd want to have a beer with" In consulting it's "wouldn't go crazy if stuck in an airport for 12 hours with"
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by gaius 8y ago
There’s actually no reason the web couldn’t have been made of hyper-PostScript. Imagine how slick that would be.
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by gaius 8y ago
Nobody keeps track of this stuff. Google probably runs sentiment analysis on all its internal lists and tags everything to each persons HR file. They analyze Gmail already after all (tho’ having switched off or at least hidden its link to

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