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by ken47 3y ago
You're comparing a one-time-use resource in U235 vs. the land required for a solar plant, which will last indefinitely for all intents and purposes. Adding the "in a day" constraint is quite misleading in your comment when th
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by ken47 3y ago
Amazon has been known to be a relatively undesirable place to work for those with options. So I’m not surprised at all by this article’s content. If it wasn’t part of the arbitrary FAANG acronym, they’d have a really hard time finding talen
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by ken47 3y ago
The issue is quite simple IMHO. The company has a motto that is almost completely PR. If they truly cared about doing the right thing, don’t be evil, to the extent they imply by making it their motto, then they would have an interview proce
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by ken47 3y ago
Both code review and documentation require architectural knowledge to execute properly for a large app. This is not within the reach of current AI, and won’t be for a long time.
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by ken47 3y ago
It feels like this article was not written by a programmer, and it feels like a number of the commenters are not professional engineers. What part of a programmer jobs can AI realistically replace in the near term? For the sake of argument,
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by ken47 3y ago
Fastest at what?
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by ken47 3y ago
Titles like this irk me. It’s likely the fastest growing because it’s fringe.
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by ken47 3y ago
Safety is certainly a huge concern with this class of vehicles. But by programming these cars to drive extremely conservatively, they cause disproportionate congestion as well. This seems to be underplayed in approval discussions around the
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by ken47 3y ago
The problem is that so many people are "CEO" nowadays. Anyone can become a CEO tomorrow by registering a corporation for a few thousand dollars or less. The businesses that produce great value, and may reflect well on their CEO&#x
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by ken47 3y ago
My understanding is that the CEO's in question are not even remotely comparable to Lebron James's stature in basketball.
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by ken47 3y ago
Until very recently, AMD was struggling for survival. Rather than making the big bet on AI, they went for the sure thing by banking on revolutionary CPU tech. I'm sure if they were in a better financial position 5 years ago, they would
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by ken47 3y ago
You're stating something that should be obvious. How are there so many software and software-adjacent people who take headlines at face value?
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by ken47 4y ago
Every job could eventually become unnecessary.
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by ken47 4y ago
Our jobs are safe for now. That's not my takeaway. Our jobs will eventually be "unsafe."
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by ken47 4y ago
The promise of globalization was primarily about improving economic efficiencies, not liberalization. Has it succeeded in that regard? Given the extremely myopic system under which our largest corporations (in America) operate, they've
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by ken47 4y ago
And/or find a developer who makes your other developers better. I've been on many teams now where basic principles of establishing positive team dynamics are ignored so that people can gratify their insatiable egos.
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by ken47 4y ago
Perhaps you're thinking about empires that were primarily held together by military force. Those are inherently unstable. As it pertains to globalization, the more relevant trend over time is the formation of nation states that primari
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by ken47 4y ago
Nations have clearly been trending larger over history, on average. Unless there's a good reason for this trend to stop after thousands of years, globalization will be the end result. But the process will happen organically, and slowly
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by ken47 4y ago
The top chess engine was ELO rated at 3546 in 2021. The top rated player ever was Magnus at 2882. To put that ELO difference in context, even if Magnus gets the first move, the chess engine is expected to win 0.979934616 of the time. Within
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by ken47 4y ago
Time spent at the keyboard is definitely not the mark of an effective coder. Code is just the implementation of a design. For any nontrivial module, the design should take up the majority of your time. If you're designing as you'r
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by ken47 4y ago
I see other people's points that these quotes aren't the best reflection of these leaders, but I'd give them some benefit of the doubt in that we're lacking context. We're just getting the sensational headlines and
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by ken47 4y ago
Well, we're viewing these messages without context. Absent of context, I would say that Zuckerberg's messaging is too aggressive, and many otherwise decent employees would find it toxic. Now, if there was a proper build-up of mess
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by ken47 4y ago
They theoretically facilitate capital allocation by increasing liquidity and hence aid in price discovery, if they operate strictly within the market maker role. Whether it plays out like this in practice has been debated elsewhere.
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by ken47 4y ago
No group of people, Republican or Democrat, can stop the perpetual cycles of human history. At best, we can only delay the inevitable.
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by ken47 4y ago
Within its statistical boundaries, the scientific method is absolutely trustworthy. Humans though? Not so much.
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by ken47 4y ago
This is the worst kind of publicity for ZURU. They thought it was difficult to hire employees because of a handful of critical reviews on Glassdoor? It's about to get a lot harder. The company should have spent those extra resources
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by ken47 4y ago
This sounds fun. I wish I had access to teachers/mentors like this in high school instead of teachers who simply wanted to maximize the average score on AP Calc exams; for those in Europe, it's quite easy to get maximum marks on A
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by ken47 4y ago
If you ever read these comics, I think you'd understand that it would be extremely odd to see these characters in an ad for e.g. coca cola or some such. Calvin and Hobbes have very well-defined characters that would seem very out of
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by ken47 4y ago
I find the title a little bit strange. Japan, the country, did not propose anything. Specific entities within Japan did. Perhaps I'm too post-nationalistic for this article's title.
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by ken47 4y ago
What is the point of university rankings? To gratify the human need for someone to dumb down a complex system to a simplistic measure, just so we don't have to live with the "unbearable" uncertainty that one university may no

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