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by jltsiren 1y ago
I travel quite a bit. HDMI remains useful, as most monitors / TVs / projectors I encounter still don't have USB-C input. USB-A is also somewhat useful, as I charge various devices from my laptop to avoid dealing with too many
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I had one for a few years. The keyboard was bad, and there was no physical escape key. There were lot of accidental clicks with the touchbar, as it had a different logic (touch to use rather than press to use) than the other keys, or the fu
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I would rather buy the last refresh of the old design. Waiting for a redesign is risky, as some redesings are just bad (like the touchbar MBP). And Apple is opinionated enough that it often refuses to admit its mistakes and sticks to them f
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I think it's the other way around. If you need a visa to enter, the government considers you more suspicious than those who can enter without a visa. And you will likely face more scrutiny at the border. Some countries have visa-on-arr
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> My friends in high school joked that school was for socializing, and frankly, what other purpose does it serve anymore for most kids? Schools have always been like that, at least if you ask the kids. The difference is whether the paren
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It's not enough to do the job. You also need to produce value. Many attempts at onshoring production fail, because employee attrition is too high. Costs are high, productivity remains low, and the quality of the products may also be lo
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Some jobs are just inherently bad. People do them, if there are no better jobs available. If you increase the wage, people will do the job for a while, until they have reached sufficient financial stability. Then they can afford to switch t
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Home ownership becomes more accessible when homes are cheaper. Financial instruments that aim to make home ownership more accessible tend to become subsidies to people who don't need them. If people can afford to pay more, homes become
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by jltsiren 1y ago
It's simpler than that. The Koine Greek transliteration became established long before that particular Jesus was born. It was a common name in a region that belonged to various Greek-speaking empires for centuries, at least nominally.
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Why waste time and energy on chores such as laundry and shopping, if you can avoid it by taking a bit more stuff with you? A big roller bag is almost as effortless as a small one, as long as you are going to a semi-civilized place. My favor
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by jltsiren 1y ago
OpenZL compressed SAM/BAM vs. CRAM is the interesting comparison. It would really test the flexibility of the framework. Can OpenZL reach the same level of compression, and how much effort does it take? I would not expect much improvem
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This claim makes no sense. Academic salaries are higher in the US than in most other countries. But they are also unusually low relative to the cost of living and industry salaries. In many meaningful ways (such as home ownership), American
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Most of the content of most papers is irrelevant to most readers. But the relevant parts would often not exist without the rest. Writing is a way of thinking. Writing a coherent self-contained narrative often makes you understand the topic
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Data science is basically a marketing title given to what would have been a joint CS/statistics degree in the past. Maybe a double major, or maybe a major in one and an extensive minor in another. And it's mostly taught by people
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Who pays for all that? Usually it's not the students or even private funders / donors. Most of the money comes from one level of the government or another, and it comes with all kinds of regulations and requirements. Complying wi
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by jltsiren 1y ago
Most pensions are not purely free money. Employees are usually required to contribute a nontrivial fraction of their nominal salary towards the pension. For SFUSD, the typical rate seems to be 9%.
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The point was that teachers earn less than what they could get in other jobs in the same area. Comparisons should be based on the lifestyle the compensation enables rather than some abstract numbers. People generally have the greatest need
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The listed salaries are in the $110k to $120k range. To reach $150k, you need to add benefits such as healthcare and employer matches to retirement contributions. Those numbers are marginally higher than the median individual income for som
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by jltsiren 1y ago
$150k is not that much for San Francisco, especially when it includes benefits. Two people earning that salary would not affort the median home in the area. In that sense, it's lower than the salary people generally expect from a middl
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by jltsiren 1y ago
That depends on the country. In Finland, reenactment events tend to be either "ancient" or "medieval". The former focus on the Iron Age until around 1200, or prehistoric times before Swedish rule and the establishment of
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That salary gap is not particularly important. People who prioritize salary are more likely to leave the academia for industry than take a new academic job in another country. The salary gap that matters is the gap between academic and indu
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by jltsiren 1y ago
My point was that there are even fewer jobs for a physics BSc that require specifically a degree in physics. If you want to work in physics, your main options are teaching or getting a PhD.
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CS is an outlier, as most software jobs require relatively little formal education. STEM in general is not as forgiving. In many sciences, your primary job options are teaching and research. And if you are going to do research, employers ge
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by jltsiren 1y ago
NATO membership would not matter much, because the geographic scope of NATO is limited. For example, if someone invaded Hawaii or French Guiana, or if Morocco tried to annex Ceuta, it would not be an attack against NATO. The limitation was
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by jltsiren 1y ago
The number of new PhDs in the US ballooned in the 1960s. It went from 4.9 new PhDs / 100k people in 1960 to 14.5 in 1970 and 17.1 in 2024. While the growth in the number of new PhDs has been modest, the number of published papers has g
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Most companies started doing the same around that time. It's easier to port a game designed for a controller to PC than a game designed for keyboard and mouse to consoles. Bioware was always trying to reinvent the wheel. They never wan
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Geopolitics depends on geography. If you are a smaller country bordering Russia, major powers like China, India, and the US are far away and ultimately not that relevant. Russia, on the other hand, is an unavoidable fact of life. It would b
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People have different answers to that. But there is one good question to ask: Is the job more about creating value or capturing value?
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The other way around. SpaceX benefits from modern technology and modern manufacturing capacity, which make scaling things much easier than during the Cold War. Overall production has grown greatly in most fields, and top companies often riv
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The USSR averaged >1.5 launches/week from 1967 to 1989. SpaceX has exceeded that, but not by a huge margin. Once they start doing daily launches, it will be something people would not have believed 20 years ago. But we are not there

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