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by jp57 2y ago
One might think that they're using "group" because Apple is a multinational with subsidiaries in various other countries. But the article is in fact about a dispute between the US company and some of its US employees.
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by jp57 2y ago
A bit off-topic, but I find it weird that they use "group" to refer to Apple, instead of, say, "Company". Is this an FT thing? I kept thinking that they were talking about some larger group of Silicon Valley companies
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by jp57 2y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by jp57 2y ago
Date: 1 April 2025
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by jp57 2y ago
Makes me wonder if dogs can smell your DNA.
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by jp57 2y ago
He's been there since he left Bell Labs, in the mid 2000's, I think. The U of A is, or was, rich with Alberta oil sands money and willing to use it to fund "curiosity-driven research", which is pretty nice if you'r
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by jp57 2y ago
I have a child. In fact I am an empty-nester. So here we are again.
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by jp57 2y ago
At 56, much of this piece resonates with me, but this passage seems to have been taken from my own thoughts: In his youth, he vacationed differently. Everywhere he went was a place he could live, a potential future life. He could live here
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by jp57 2y ago
Approximately 99.0%.
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by jp57 2y ago
It took me into my forties to realize that I needed to stop thinking about what I want to be and focus on what I want to do . Only then did I have enough perspective to understand that when I tried to make career decisions based on expe
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by jp57 2y ago
The sort in the OP isn't Exchange Sort, though. In exchange sort the inner loop runs from i+1 to N, not from 0 to N, and the swap order is transposed.
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by jp57 2y ago
I love this paragraph from the paper: There is nothing good about this algorithm. It is slow – the algorithm obviously runs in Θ(n2) time, whether worst-case, average-case or best-case. It unnecessarily compares all pairs of positions, twi
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by jp57 2y ago
Well. 50 was six years ago for me. I just "retired" back to being a senior IC after a six year stint as an engineering manager. I absolutely want to be doing this until I retire from full time, paid work. (After which I will s
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by jp57 2y ago
Godwin's Law is now just part of the zeitgeist.
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by jp57 2y ago
Getting away from the Manhattan district attorney's office, probably.
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by jp57 2y ago
Euronext Texas, based in Paris.
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by jp57 2y ago
I helped my daughter do a human study for her fifth grade science project. There were inevitably jokes among my friends on Facebook about getting approval from her school’s IRB.
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by jp57 2y ago
In grad school I took a formal methods class where we proved properties about programs that completely changed how I think about bugs. The main things I took from the class were 1. Correctness of a program is distinct from its performance.
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by jp57 2y ago
Why would you even need to simulate? If you have the parameters of the normal, couldn't you just solve for the size of the (hyper-)tail?
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by jp57 2y ago
If I were to use this credulously, I'd be committing the same error as believing everything in my X feed. I have no idea who made this tool or what their biases are, why would I believe their analysis any more than I'd believe a s
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by jp57 2y ago
My first job out of college (1990s) was as a programmer in a university research lab. It didn't pay as well as industry, but it was enormously rewarding in so many other ways. I had a ton of autonomy; I got to speak face-to-face with
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by jp57 2y ago
We imagine software efforts that go through a clean, neat flow: We write a design doc. Then make small incremental changes in a PR to rollout the functionality. Our git histories look clean and orderly. Like a steady march of progress.
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by jp57 2y ago
Sure, and if you want to go at non-relativistic speeds you hardly need to carry much fuel at all.
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by jp57 2y ago
I don't have references in front of me, (EDIT: I do!) but IIRC it takes about a kilogram of mass-energy to accelerate a kilogram mass to about 0.85c. But that kilogram would have to be carrying another kilogram of matter/anti-mat
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by jp57 2y ago
There is a paragraph with four economic reasons why buildings are converging on the same set of styles. It is reasonable to infer that divergence would make properties more expensive, and the article doesn't even attempt to suggest th
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by jp57 2y ago
Perhaps, but the tone underlying the article, as with most art and style critiques, is if you don't care about the considerations they are critiquing, or if you even prioritize them lower than affordability, ease of construction, and l
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by jp57 2y ago
There's a distinct snobbery to some of the architectural commentary, particularly in lamenting the sameness of stick-built "blocky, forgettable mid-rises" providing apartments for the masses. It is a critique that could only
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by jp57 2y ago
Wait a second. If the liar says, "All ten-foot tall men have brown hair," we cannot conclude that there must exist a ten-foot tall man. EDIT: I'll clarify to say I wasn't taking issue with the derivation , but rather w
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by jp57 2y ago
Business schools call it a 2x2. A friend who teaches at a business school told me, "You can't be a business school prof if you don't have a two-by-two." But the idea that every 2x2 is a state space that has some kind of
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by jp57 2y ago
Indeed, having locations internally represented in software with a resolution of nanometers is as ridiculous as having your calendar's internal times represented as milliseconds since some arbitrary moment more than fifty years ago!

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