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by jldugger 3y ago
I mean, it is, in the sense that spanish is a latin language.
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by jldugger 3y ago
In the land of the blind...
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by jldugger 3y ago
Aww jeez, and I cant edit the comment. Here's a working link: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200442275/aiml-engineer...
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by jldugger 3y ago
I totally understand the concern about organization paralysis, but the point is to keep it simple, focused, and relaxed. By writing things and ideas down in an organized way I don't have to track it in my head, and I can get back to wh
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by jldugger 3y ago
Don't even have to take their jobs. Here's one example[1] from the OP's former employer: > The base pay range for this role is between $196,000 and $299,000, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, ex
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by jldugger 3y ago
Yea, each addition was lined with good intentions -- I don't want to prioritize the entire backlog but do want to filter out the worst ideas and the "hurry up and wait" stuff.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I've not bothered with a physical board, but I have a massive Trello board. For teams I strongly recommend specialized boards for projects and processes -- the process to migrate a MySQL database will be dramatically different than bui
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by jldugger 3y ago
Well, the only policy I've seen on this front is windfall taxation, which is a kind of "heads the state wins, tails the company loses" dick move that only makes sense if your goal is to punish greed. Strategically it is a mis
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by jldugger 3y ago
But in terms of causation, "greed" isn't a great answer, nor curing it great a policy solution.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I'm not sure this is as strong an effect as the research[1] suggests. Is it not possible that, when in choosing which of two liked papers with conflicting schedules to watch, researchers are demonstrating which is the better paper? [1]
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by jldugger 3y ago
I was gonna for citations too, fwiw, but found this comment and upvoted it instead.
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by jldugger 3y ago
I recall fondly the years of Daily Show with John Stewart, and tried to watch as much of that clip as I could but I just don't think he's qualified to ask useful questions here and the adversarial dialog isn't shedding much l
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by jldugger 3y ago
I've met plenty of engineering leaders being paid double that who are not "good at their job." It's a hard job to do well; it requires you care about technical details but also deal almost exclusively with people. It&#x2
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by jldugger 3y ago
> America is the King of burgers and Beef production so would expect to see cheaper options. There are, in McDonalds, Burger King, In-n-out etc. What you are paying for is labor and the fast food places are optimized to reduce that speci
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Where are the docker/redis/next.js/linux kernel/qt/roller-coaster tycoon creators Well, we know stories behind each of these: - linux kernel: comp sci Msc student - redis: written by a startup founder (in TCL[1
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Hasbro/WotC has done some sketchy stuff recently, but this seems extreme even for them. I'm told their security executive used to be a pinkerton.
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by jldugger 3y ago
>> If all the CEOs in the world were forced to make $0, it will not meaningfully change the amount of money in workers' pockets. > That's just not true. But its not far from wrong -- cutting a ten million dollar a year ex
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by jldugger 3y ago
On the other hand, that dude is going to write the FAQ in LaTeX and then complain nobody else contributes.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> It all sounds fine and you think it's great right up to the point it's on a topic you know /anything/ at all about. Suddenly every single time, just on the topics you know just something of it has no depth These are
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by jldugger 3y ago
Federal Reserve strikes again!
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by jldugger 3y ago
AFAICT, its more that they can't keep GPUs in stock. Even large users of GPU have to request quotas in new AZs.
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Both are addictive. If this is your takeaway then I picked the wrong metaphor. My intent was highlight that people have baseline preferences, but the post engages in arguing that their tastes are somehow _logically wrong_. I thought ch
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by jldugger 3y ago
The framing was not great. "If you hate tik tok, just know that it has only wonderful qualities that are impossible to hate." You might as well be arguing that nobody should hate chocolate ice cream. --- If you hate chocolate ice
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by jldugger 3y ago
> Honestly, I can't see Google failing here. Like other tech giants, they're sitting on a ridiculously large war chest. Worst case, they can wait for the space to settle a bit and spend a few billion to buy the market leader. I
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by jldugger 3y ago
Yea, best to lean on legal, who will ask "who owns intellectual property written by openAI?" and look at the USPTO decision and the supreme court refusal to grant cert[1] and decide "not us." [1]: https://www.
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by jldugger 3y ago
This is how every bank works though. The trick is in modelling and mitigating risk, of which there are many: 1. Duration risk. With demand deposits, banks borrow short and lend long. Demand deposits come and go daily, but the banks use them
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by jldugger 4y ago
Seems like Meta is pursuing a reverse LBO: lay off a bunch of people, _then_ take on a bunch of debt to pay out as a shareholder dividend.
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by jldugger 4y ago
> I became aware of that difference in leadership structure when I met people at American universities to discuss education programs. While all of the important decisions about our education programs were made by faculty, the Americans I
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by jldugger 4y ago
I use Trello for a lot of things. I'm not saying notion is this thing, but customizing the dessign to the workflow works better than One App To Rule Them All. My go to example here is grocery lists. Most "productivity" apps h
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by jldugger 4y ago
> I had no clue where it came from. Siri started life running on Android and iOS. They took it down when Apple bought the company two months after launching. So if you blinked you might have missed it =)

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