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by jjmarr 2y ago
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of constantly changing our methods of assessment. A 90 day target is questionable, but regularly changing the metrics are a good way to keep people from gaming them.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I'm riffing on password rotation requirements and the meta-nature of trying to make Goodhart's law a target. I could've been a bit more obviously sarcastic.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I can confirm this. We've standardized Goodhart's law creating a 90-day rotation requirement for KPIs. We found that managers would reuse the same performance indicators with minor variations and put them on sticky notes to make t
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Sorry, I had it set to Canadian loonies and got inflated numbers. Economists assume utility of money is logarithmically proportional to the amount, so losing a certain % of one's wealth hurts the same at every level.[1] Nadella made $8
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Have studies been run on spinach consumption and cancer?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The CI tests could take hours because of compilation time + waiting for hardware. Trivial rebases without conflicts got exempt from additional testing, because by the time the test finished, someone else would've submitted to main. Mer
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by jjmarr 2y ago
He would've had 5 million more dollars this year if he didn't ask the board to change the terms of his contract to give him less money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
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by jjmarr 2y ago
A Senior SDE at Microsoft makes ~~$332k/year~~ US$241k/year. Median income per person in the USA is $42,800/year. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/microsoft/salaries/software... You're sol
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by jjmarr 2y ago
If you got "needs improvement" on your performance review and missed your target bonus, but the company's stock went up 30% meaning your total compensation still increased, what would you expect? Would you consider that to be
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by jjmarr 2y ago
For reference, he cut his total comp for 2024 from $84.6 million to $79.1 million. That's 6.5% of his TC he gave up, and it wasn't a discretionary bonus. I wouldn't call this a symbolic gesture. Everyone here would feel a 6.5
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by jjmarr 2y ago
We have no standardized tests in Ontario. You just pay for expensive sports, extracurricular competitions, or private schools that provide the two. Realistically, it's much easier for a person of average means to study for a standardiz
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I didn't have to use git bisect. I looked at commit history directly and guessed what caused the regression. As we all test different parts of the microprocessor and the tagging system reflected those parts, I could rule stuff out by l
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I was on a team where we wrote software tests for computer hardware. Regressions were frequent. The underlying hardware wasn't very reliable because it was all very early-stage and hadn't been tested yet (as it was our job to writ
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Nope. This is basically what Waterloo math competitions are, though. Except only Waterloo can see the results.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The term "co-pilot" implies a company has to hire a software engineer to guide the AI. The term "agent" implies you can give the AI full access to your repos and fire the software engineers you're grudgingly paying
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I'm convinced good students don't need good universities as much as good universities need good students. I get the same internships and job opportunities as someone that went to UofT and I'm studying much of the same curricu
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by jjmarr 2y ago
In 2024 you are not getting into Waterloo CS with anything less than a 99% in your top6. And that's the entry level. If you really want to get in, you have to grind math competitions, clubs, etc. I go to a mid-tier university (Toronto
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by jjmarr 2y ago
What happens when the buyer says "no, I'm not paying" and sells the phone? Instant money. Meanwhile the telecom company has to sell the debt at a massive discount to a collections agency or spend a ton of money collecting on
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I imagine it's more complicated than "spray insecticides everywhere" otherwise it'd be easy. Here's the WHO white paper on it: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031357 It
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Extremely disciplined students always feed papers into AI detectors before submitting and then revise their work until it passes. Dodging the detector is done regardless of whether or not one has used AI to write that paper.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07856-5 LLMs already discriminates against African-American English. You could argue a human grader would as well, but all tested models were more consistent in assigning nega
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Do you have any citations? I would like to read them.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
And? How does that make Elon Musk a con artist? It's possible to physically get in a Tesla and have it drive you from point A to point B. That's a self-driving car. You're saying it's unreliable, makes mistakes, and can
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Even if it's double taxed, the salary differential would make it worth it.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Is it possible, as a Canadian with an engineering degree, to work 3 days in-office from the USA and 2 days remotely from Canada? Ideally, it'd be nice to have a US salary and live mostly in Canada.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Cringe emo girls are trendy now because the nostalgia cycle is hitting the early 2000s. Your kid would be impressed if you told them you were a goth gf. It's not hard to imagine the same will happen with primitive AIs in the 40s.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
At the time, there were no people of very high ranks. I also queued office only which didn't help. It's basically impossible to keep one's rank at Supreme if you only play against Gold Nova or so due to the way the rating sys
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I regularly played CSGO in Europe because the North American ranking system were screwed up. I got to Supreme (2nd highest rank) with 150 ms ping. The people I queued with hit Global. It's possible to play legitimately with very high p
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by jjmarr 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet
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by jjmarr 2y ago
That takes time which is why AMD is making acquisitions and hiring like crazy.

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