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by lacker 4y ago
That makes sense. So as a system we need to be spending more money on TAs, but not to raise their hourly pay, per se, mostly just to hire more TAs. You are also correct that the author is a former lecturer. Too bad it's too late for me
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by lacker 4y ago
This article doesn't describe the problem very directly. I found this op-ed by a student to be more informative. https://www.dailycal.org/2022/04/08/a-personal-view-of-uc-be... Ten years ago, the depart
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by lacker 4y ago
Software is simply not valued in Europe, and not because there aren't amazing developers there -- there are many. But software isn't considered important In many ways this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. An organization thinks so
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by lacker 4y ago
You are completely correct that there are a lot of dependency bugs here, I would just like to pedantically complain that the issue in question is PyTorch supporting MPS, which is basically entirely a C++ dependency issue rather than a Pytho
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by lacker 4y ago
If you are a manager taking leave then you need someone else to manage the team while you are out. Often there is nobody on the team who is really ready to manage it. Then you'll need to get help from elsewhere; perhaps your manager ca
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by lacker 4y ago
I feel like the title of this article is misleading. The state orders have exceptions listed and the ranchers want to use these exceptions. The Shasta River Water Association sent a letter to the Division of Water Rights Deputy Director Er
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by lacker 4y ago
Yes, that's right, InnoDB is the default MySQL storage engine and you can replace InnoDB with RocksDB. To summarize in one sentence, InnoDB is better at reads and RocksDB is better at writes, but if you were making an actual decision y
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by lacker 4y ago
IMO it's just confusing to call both, say, RocksDB and MySQL "databases". They sit at different levels of the stack and it is easier to just think of them as entirely different things, your "SQL database" and your &
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by lacker 4y ago
The license does seem impossibly vague and broad. Usually what happens when software projects use custom & demanding licenses like this is that large companies refuse to allow the software to be used because of the legal uncertainty, sm
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by lacker 4y ago
Initially I agreed with the headline but the content of the article was almost entirely not what I was thinking. To me, cars are getting a lot better recently. Parking cameras and all the different warning systems like lane changes or rear
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by lacker 4y ago
Can you code or are you looking for a non-coding role? If you can code, the path back into tech from a lost decade is pretty straightforward - practice up on coding interviews, spam enough companies with resumes to get interviews, then do w
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by lacker 4y ago
The malicious wallet could encrypt the data it's reporting before splitting it into bits to report it. Then there won't be any pattern to show up on statistical tests.
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by lacker 4y ago
Nowadays, journals and peer review solve the problem of, people need to make hiring decisions and funding decisions. But these decisionmakers don't have enough technical expertise or time to evaluate all the papers from all the applica
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by lacker 4y ago
The problem is that looking at journal quality is the best quick way to evaluate how good a paper is, when you aren't an expert on the topic. And a lot of employment and funding decisions are made by people who aren't experts. Now
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by lacker 4y ago
They should give you a refund if you don't want to provide personal information and you didn't agree to this up front, but at the same time, I do want Minecraft to police its userbase pretty actively, because my kids use it and th
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by lacker 4y ago
I feel like the author is only thinking about high-quality production code. Often you're just writing a 30-line snippet of throwaway code to test something out. And then unwrap() is a bit nicer than expect("").
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by lacker 4y ago
I am not an expert, but right now it seems like the police generally keep around your biometric data, but they don't keep it in a very useful way. I can't walk into the police station, show them a video clip on my phone of someone
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by lacker 4y ago
That is conceivable, if it works as intended. Small enough to fit in a shipping container is small enough to put on a ship or on a campus. Of course, that's a big "if", and I don't have much to go on besides material tha
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by lacker 4y ago
What I would like to see is for the police to actually track down crime when people give them video evidence. Here's a video of someone stealing a car, stealing a bicycle, breaking into a house. Go arrest them! Instead, the police just
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by lacker 4y ago
In general, cutting-edge astrophysics does not necessarily use cutting-edge software engineering. For example, the JWST also uses a proprietary version of JavaScript 3, made by a bankrupt company. https://twitter.com/michael
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by lacker 4y ago
If you get this pushback from a few of your customers, you should probably just politely explain the reasoning behind your time estimates. If you get this pushback from most of your customers, that means your team is widely perceived as und
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by lacker 4y ago
It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising. And at this point, every large tech company does the same thing. Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. They all make significant reven
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by lacker 4y ago
If you are ever going to try any illegal drug in your life, a vape pen with cannabis is probably the way to do it. It's pretty safe and the effect is really not crazy, it's sort of on the order of magnitude of alcohol. And soon it
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by lacker 4y ago
I quit marijuana three or four months ago, but before that I was vaping marijuana nearly every day for four years. During that time I’ve achieved more success in my career than any other time. I think it was good for me to quit. I feel mor
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by lacker 4y ago
Yeah exactly. Like a lazy night isn't the worst thing in the world... it isn't even all that bad. It's not like you're breaking into cars for meth money or drunkenly assaulting people. But still, do you really want every
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by lacker 4y ago
The real danger with cannabis is not that it'll make you sick or have some nasty side effect like this article describes. The danger is simply that you will like it, you'll end up using it every day, all different times of the day
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by lacker 4y ago
At some point DNA sequencing will be cheap and sensitive enough that consumers will be able to do it whenever they feel sick, and measure even tiny fragments. Instead of swabbing your nose for a Covid test, you could be swabbing your nose f
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by lacker 4y ago
This article is really focusing on the negatives... Sequoia led the $5.5m Series A investment in Unity in 2009. https://unity.com/our-company/newsroom/sequoia-capital-inves... Sequoia made billions on that investm
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by lacker 4y ago
Recently I tried buying some shoes from somewhere that wasn't Amazon. My order never arrived and I never heard anything from them. To get a response I had to call their 1-800 number. "Oh yeah, it looks like that shipment has been
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by lacker 4y ago
As far as I can tell, almonds are mostly grown for export. 80% of the world's almonds come from California, 70% of Californian almonds are exported to other countries. https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/05

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