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by jlebar 6y ago
OK, that's your view on the gender pay gap. I disagree, but set that aside for a moment. We were talking about whether it's appropriate to discuss one's opinion on the pay gap -- among other things -- at work, despite its be
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by jlebar 6y ago
> Workplaces are a neutral environment. You want activism, do it outside of work. Equal pay regardless of gender is a political question. In the name of "leaving politics out of work", should we disallow women and nonbinary fo
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by jlebar 6y ago
We did this in XLA. It runs as part of CI, which I always found pretty amazing. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/bd2608178bca1b... Found a lot of bugs this way.
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by jlebar 6y ago
Six Stages of Debugging 1. That can’t happen. 2. That doesn’t happen on my machine. 3. That shouldn’t happen. 4. Why does that happen? 5. Oh, I see. 6. How did that ever work? http://plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/
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by jlebar 6y ago
This is super-cool. For those of us who can't adopt it right away, note that you can compile your cuda code with `--expt-relaxed-constexpr` and call any constexpr function from device code. That includes all the constexpr functions in
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by jlebar 6y ago
If the private loans are guaranteed, what incentive do the private lenders have? That's my point.
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The high end is for students who are "independent", i.e. not with their parents (or similar). This is a tiny minority -- they make it very hard to declare independence.
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by jlebar 6y ago
The central claim in TFA is that when the government gives out loans directly, instead of guaranteeing loans made by banks, it's easier for students to get student loans, and therefore college prices go up. a) Zero evidence is provided
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by jlebar 6y ago
> 10% decrease in grain yield Wikipedia has a good article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_agriculture One thing to consider when you're reading anything about the predicted effects of climate
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> The reference you are looking for (includes executable C++) is Numerical Recipes by William Press et al. I bought this book hoping it would be to floating point what Hacker's Delight is to integers. It is not that. I'm not re
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by jlebar 6y ago
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. I mean, it's also lunacy that the US government would run concentration camps, right? ht
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by jlebar 6y ago
> The program machine code can be scanned when loaded to look for specific assembly opcodes to determine the required capability of the CPU to execute it on. That works as a heuristic, but it's not perfect, since JITs and self-modif
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by jlebar 6y ago
> We are doing what we can to mitigate loss of life. Some individuals/business-owners doing what they can to mitigate loss of life caused by the reopening of their businesses, yes. Some people are wearing masks. This is by no means
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by jlebar 6y ago
> 1. It’s the syntax in the manual. The last thing I want to do when reading or writing asm is to mentally translate from the manual to AT&T syntax. Right! I worked on C++ compilers for years and I don't even know where is the
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by jlebar 6y ago
My point was to respond to your "what if there's never a vaccine? Will we hide in our homes forever?" There's a middle ground between "no attempt made to mitigate the loss of human life" and "safe and eff
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by jlebar 6y ago
> For how long? What if there is never a vaccine? Will we hide in our homes forever? [...] Lockdowns just can't last forever Indeed. The purpose of the lockdown was to buy us time to build e.g. contract tracing infrastructure, mas
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by jlebar 6y ago
> if they take reasonable precautions Who decides what's reasonable? To me, "reasonable" might mean, "precautions that minimize unnecessary risk to human morbidity and mortality". Even if we were to agree on th
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by jlebar 6y ago
Here's a mass resignation, but in protest for officers being disciplined for shoving the old dude. https://mobile.twitter.com/GaryRidesBikes/status/12689856604... Where are the good apples?
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by jlebar 6y ago
> I feel like this entire movement is really taking away credit from the "ok" and "good" cops. I'd really like them to step up. Where's the intervention and condemnation from the presumed silent majority of
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by jlebar 6y ago
So the difference is prominence, highlighting this one particular reply because it was written by the platform itself? I'm still not seeing how this is a big deal. What are the second-order effects?
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by jlebar 6y ago
If you say something, and I say, here's some evidence that you're wrong, does that make me an arbiter of the truth on the Internet? I mean, how is what you did (saying something) any different from what I did (also saying somethi
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by jlebar 6y ago
Isn't the context also important for people to know? Like, if the President of the United States is saying something that's factually incorrect and might cause people e.g. not to register to vote (because they expect every Califor
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by jlebar 6y ago
Can we agree that people will be harmed on both sides of this? Like, if organ donation is the default, at the very best, it's extra work for people who want not to donate their organs after death. OTOH if organ donation is not the defa
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by jlebar 6y ago
>> Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO? > I remember when Trump took no actions at all toward pulling the US out of NATO In times of peace, alliances exist only in rhetoric. NATO has strength only insofar as people b
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by jlebar 6y ago
I've been building a tool to make it easier to upload chains of dependent PRs to github, https://github.com/jlebar/git-pr-chain Works pretty well for me, but there are lots of ways it could be improved if anyone i
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by jlebar 6y ago
> Welcome to USA. Smart Move TSMC and Taiwan. You have earned a friend for life. Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO? Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years? Am
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by jlebar 6y ago
> The only real choice is a mixed policy that just have strict guidelines for businesses serving customers. How is this different from what the article proposes?
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by jlebar 6y ago
Suppose we had data that we agreed was reliable showing that women software engineers who had read Damore's memo and Yonatan's post would overwhelmingly be unwilling to work with Damore and overwhelmingly be willing to work with Y
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by jlebar 6y ago
OK, if I'm understanding this right, the argument is that because the document was not initially printed in full (i.e. with figures and citations) in the press (and had inflammatory headlines), many people got the wrong impression abo
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by jlebar 6y ago
How does the fact that people criticized the memo without reading it in full speak to OP's point about the memo having been taken out of context? I'll also suggest, reading this memo was incredibly painful for many of my female

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