jcadam

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by jcadam 5y ago
At my last job we were doing ML with full motion video. Our data scientists kept looking at synthetic data (being able to use it would have solved a lot of practical problems for us) and rejecting it :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
I'm still of the opinion that the transporter works by murdering the user at the source and creating a copy at the destination. You would never get me to use one of those things :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
I think the JVM route is smart for bootstrapping a new language since it gives you an existing ecosystem to leverage. However, at this point, I'd love to see a native Clojure.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Truth Social appears to be stillborn mostly due to technical incompetence. Otherwise, it might have been at least somewhat successful in crowding out the gabs, gettrs, etc. I believe Musk would hire the proper talent and wouldn't scre
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by jcadam 5y ago
Are formal declarations of war even a thing any more?
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by jcadam 5y ago
Inflation^2
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by jcadam 5y ago
Good points. I just wonder why Amazon wouldn't raise the base rate they charge sellers rather than tacking on a "surcharge." It's not as if inflation is transitory :D
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by jcadam 5y ago
"inflation" surcharge... one would think inflation would be baked into the price already.
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by jcadam 5y ago
> The moment he tries to sell billions of dollars of stock it’d tank. Hence the implied threat of doing so if they don't agree to his terms.
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by jcadam 5y ago
So what I'm hearing is, there may be some job openings at Twitter soon.
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by jcadam 5y ago
For the downvoters: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
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by jcadam 5y ago
There's a simpler solution to your "climate crisis" if you have no conscience. What do you think is happening right now?
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by jcadam 5y ago
Rationing is coming, guaranteed.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I blame Nixon.
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by jcadam 5y ago
And even that 8.5% number is heavily manipulated. Just like the unemployment rate.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I'd like to try Devuan, but I'm assuming a lot of software these days assumes the presence of systemd?
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by jcadam 5y ago
My file server is running FreeBSD. The biggest sticking point for using it on my dev machine is lack of docker support on BSD. These days, my dev box is running Arch.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Correct. I like ruby the language. Rails, not so much.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I did clojure as a hobbyist for years and have only recently taken a job where I'm working full time in Clojure on a large codebase (i.e., first time having to maintain somebody else's Clojure code). It's not a golden hammer
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by jcadam 5y ago
Don't mind me, I'm just jaded.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I seem to be stuck. Even companies that at first seem amenable to giving me a significant increase always try to talk me down later in the hiring process. Dropped out of a few because of that.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I went through a google interview process 10 years ago - only made it a couple rounds in and it did not go well. Started getting recruiter emails from them again recently; either they forgot that I suck, or they're getting desperate.
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by jcadam 5y ago
I'm at 15+ years of experience and not even close to that. You're describing a small fringe of the industry.
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by jcadam 5y ago
> But I found out I had vastly over-estimated my software engineering skills and that proficiency in solving puzzles does not directly translate to building good software. From the perspective of earning potential, puzzle solving is a be
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by jcadam 5y ago
I've had one potential employer give me an IQ test (literally this is how they screened people before formally interviewing them - I went in, took an IQ test proctored by an HR person, and then went home and awaited the results). I wa
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by jcadam 5y ago
Wages always lag behind inflation. We're heading into a recession, which means the labor shortage will evaporate and employers will be facing much less pressure to raise wages. Only people like our Blackrock president here will be ins
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by jcadam 5y ago
What I'm doing now: Investing in agriculture, energy, and commodities. I set aside a certain amount of money and buy a little gold/silver each month. At some point I need to have the cost-of-living raise conversation with my emplo
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by jcadam 5y ago
> a home in Akon isn’t as valuable to society as a home in SF/NYC. What an odd thing to say.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Maybe I can build that bookcase now....
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by jcadam 5y ago
Or it results in a balkanization of the FOSS community. Also bad.

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