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by kamaal 2y ago
Most ordinary shops are just better off avoiding these stacks altogether. They don't really all that much compared to your C based languages. And its pointless to keep your hiring pool small. There is also a steep learning and onboardi
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I think people think of Carnivorous animals, when then they think of wild animals. Simply put, you catch fewer(near 0) infections eating plants. Even more so for animals in the wild.
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>>I carried a book wherever I went for just this reason. This was considered a respectable way of telling people to not disturb you only a while back.
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>>Seemingly not because those people were bad at explaining, but because if you want to explain it as correctly as possible, it just isn't intuitive at all. Sometimes its a whole lot easier to speak the truth than to speak in ana
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>>Also, JVM juju shooed many away. After I left, a coworker told me they had started rewriting part of it in Go, and that was going alright. Golang can make even Python look terse. There's practically 0 abstractions to meaningful
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>>These kinda dumbass middle manager politics sound like they help (to people with no work experience…) but they’re more costly in the end. I knew a place which did the same for stationary. "Employees are using too many notebooks
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A variant of this is watching someone demonstrate years of practice and assume you could as well(without practice). The underlying assumption is if something works that easily it must also be simple.
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>>What's happening has nothing to do with efficiency. In my experience, efficient is rarely, if ever cheap.
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How can some thing this big pass through one's body without causing considerable damage, let alone one not notice it?
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>>Tech companies are not efficient. Wait till you hear the supposed 'top talent' they hire doesn't perform any better than most normal people you would meet at any company. Im guessing when you are rich, you tend to use
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>>the problem at NASA is it has a lot of lifers who justify their positions through bureaucracy Not every job in the world works well with 'Move fast, and break things' philosophy. Doing things quickly isn't even a goal
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>>I would say instead that math is a game. Yup, and as you keep going the level too go up! But the core ideas are simple though- 1. Start some where where you understand things enough to make sense. 2. Make the smallest possible, atom
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>>when it is actually about relations, and numbers are just some of the entities whose relations mathematics studies. Well no. Math is studying anything at their most atomic machinations. That mostly involves. - Making hypothesis, t
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I did a bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication engineering. It was standard to watch things go from a diode, to transistor, to a flip flop, to a register, then 8/16/32 bit adders- Once here subtraction is just addition
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>>Weeks is the most terrifying unit of time to think in. Indeed. A week is basically 2% of a year, which is quite a chunk. You basically get 50 ticks a year, and that ticks quite fast. In case you are wondering how an year goes by tha
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>>I don't know what the outcome would be of large swathes of the government either being fired or not caring any more but we're going to find out and I don't think it will be good. Job security is a big part of why some
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>>His rule of thumb is that if you’re not adding back 10% of the stuff you got rid of, you didn’t get rid of enough in the first place. Mao moved farm labor into factories using this logic, and then a apocalyptic famine followed. He t
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>>Ultimately the system of checks and balances was designed to slow down change. I think a good part of the world still doesn't get it. Progress is mostly a outcome of stability, not change, even less rapid change. This whole con
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>>lol, there are “managers” making 40k a year (with 3 people reporting to them) that have huge egos. Power trip has its pitfalls. It convinces nobodies that they are special. Its one of the big reasons many times the middle managers e
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>>instead of thinking deeply about it. Around a decade back, I was doing lots of work on 8-bit microcontrollers, and a fairly old programmer taught me how it was done. And I learned a lot from the approach. Honestly speaking I had to
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>>many engineers pride themselves on how they solve problems. Im guessing its only a matter of time we see newer programming languages specially invented to work in the LLM era. So the same old processes like ever before continue. You
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>>I’ve even managed to go years without opening the news. If only life was that simple. If you are not Knuth or Einstein, you better be open to the world. Or you won't win at life. Focus is for people are absolutely too darn good
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>>On a side note, I find that this flow state has it's addiction of it's own. For this reason, there are societies and cultures where Chess is treated more on the lines of a dangerous addiction one must stay away from. Co-in
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>>For quite a number of people the early 40s have some pretty brutal transitions in store. For me it was caring for my dad in the hospital during COVID and his surgeries around the time. I had to often wake in the nights to drain his
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>>The computing resources are the limit on the evolution speed. Energy resources too. In fact it might be the only limit to how far this can go.
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>>However, the AI is hard to work with, it expects specific wording in order to program our code as expected. Speaking English to make something is one thing, but speaking English to modify something complicated is absolutely somethin
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>>Both are less corruptible than your average person. I honestly believe, cheating is a primal trait. Age has little to do with it. In fact young cheats are likely to cheat with more enthusiasm and energy than elder cheats. Safe enoug
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>>Government generally doesn’t have the luxury of failure because the consequences for people’s lives are too extreme. Im guessing they will eventually discover why bureaucracy even exists. That is to move slow enough to ensure big mi
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A lot of progress in many fields largely moves in the direction of inertia. Pretty much always. That of course means drawing upon experience, work and ongoing contributions of people who are around for long. Obviously they would be old. Get
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People mostly fix some issue, or implement a feature at work. And then somebody outside can do the same in the same time. In reality they need to look at this like onboarding a new team member.

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