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by lacker 6y ago
It sucks to get kicked off Oculus for something you did on Facebook, but at least you can get your money back by selling the device. I wonder what they did to get banned from Facebook - that’s a bit unusual.
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by lacker 6y ago
You could also use six different “right arrow” Unicode symbols, and have them each mean multiple different things, automatically inferred by the compiler depending on context! See the Lean mathlib ;-)
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by lacker 6y ago
Have you tried formatting tools like prettier / black / gofmt / rustfmt? I used to have lots of tabs vs spaces type opinions but now “use a formatting tool and stop arguing about it” has replaced all of my style opinions. Onc
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by lacker 6y ago
That is correct but I think you are talking about a different area of quantum physics than the article is. In particular the Bell paradox seems to show that there is no local interpretation of quantum physics, which seems quite unintuitive
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by lacker 6y ago
Setting aside the single direction of time seems even spookier than action at a distance. Is it really possible that when two atoms interact with each other, the result is partially determined by my decision two minutes from now about what
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by lacker 6y ago
This question is just way too general. You will find many organizations successfully using both TensorFlow and PyTorch in production. In my opinion, honestly the libraries are very similar in their capabilities. Either one is a fine choice.
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by lacker 6y ago
If you say “I will resign unless X”, your employer is then entitled to accept your resignation. HR prefers to accept resignations rather than fire people, because then the company is much less likely to be found at fault, and it sounds like
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by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, exactly! - this is why building the perfect spell checker is still a challenging and interesting engineering problem, in 2020. The nature of misspelling varies from language to language, especially with non-letter-based languages like
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by lacker 6y ago
True - that's even more requests per second than search is!
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by lacker 6y ago
Google's spell checker still is a major feat of software engineering ;-) It must handle every language, handle new words constantly being coined, have low enough latency and high enough throughput to run it on every web search. (Well
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by lacker 6y ago
I think you're just misunderstanding the terminology. An org chart is a diagram that shows the connection between each manager and the people they directly manage. When you don't know who someone's direct manager will be, the
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by lacker 6y ago
And that it seems absurd for places like Facebook to say that when they reject so many applications from talented developers. It isn't absurd at all. Facebook is one of the companies doing this the right way. Facebook interviews H1-B
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by lacker 6y ago
Facebook hires H1-B software engineers for the same jobs that it hires Americans. You can find them on Facebook's career page: https://www.facebook.com/careers/areas-of-work/engineering/?... Almost any j
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by lacker 6y ago
Facebook pays software engineers on an H1-B with the same salary scale that they pay all software engineers. Some companies might work that way, but the top tier like Facebook and Google do not.
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by lacker 6y ago
An H-1B is intended for individuals with specialized skillsets. Specialized, yes, but it isn't supposed to be for completely unique skills. If someone is one of the top 100,000 software engineers in the world, that is a specialized
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by lacker 6y ago
This whole area of law is nonsense. Facebook software engineering doesn’t have “positions”. You don’t apply for some specific role. They are hiring thousands of engineers every year, they hire for general software engineering skills, and yo
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by lacker 6y ago
It’s pretty common to handle employee departures this way. I wouldn’t call it “firing” - the employee says they will quit, the company is just deciding the date the quitting happens. Usually it happens when the manager thinks the employee w
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by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, California is pretty similar. A related point that comes up a lot is that if you give notice that you are quitting effective on date X, your employer is entitled to say, ok we accept your resignation but it’s effective immediately, or
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by lacker 6y ago
By the same token, the company’s management is free to fight union creation, by sharing anti-union messages. Freedom of speech and assembly on both sides.
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by lacker 6y ago
Saudi Arabia has a decent plan, to IPO Saudi Aramco and reinvest the proceeds to hedge against a decline in the oil industry. It seems like a good idea, but a political question if they can stick to it. Similar idea to Norway’s sovereign we
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by lacker 6y ago
It’s a shame they didn’t figure something practical out! For me, I didn’t want Facebook to have access to my phone, so I just used my personal phone for personal issues instead of using my corporate phone for everything in my life. That wor
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by lacker 6y ago
If a team from the UK had already done it, I would just go ahead and accept their analysis. The US should give emergency approval now, based on the UK approval.
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by lacker 6y ago
I love bookstores but they really don't seem to be providing any value when they are online. At least for me, I buy about 100 books a year from Amazon and 5-10 books a year from physical book stores. The value of physical book stores i
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by lacker 6y ago
How is anyone at google with a brain comfortable with this feature being live? Because people at Google test this feature against their query traffic, measure how many answers are correct and useful, compare it to the number of answers th
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by lacker 6y ago
That's for "negative emissions" which are more expensive than offsets. I got my data from https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20811981/stripe-carbon-ca... which cites the $8 figure.
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by lacker 6y ago
Just multiply by 2 for a poor man’s Celsius -> Fahrenheit conversion. 200M degrees.
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by lacker 6y ago
Water use compared to personal use isn't that important. Most water used by an industrial society is used in agriculture Oh that's a good point. So for comparison, a ton of wheat takes about 1300 cubic meters of water, so 8x the
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by lacker 6y ago
I felt like this article did not clarify the problem for me, because it bounced between several different aspects of lithium production without really quantifying anything. So here's my summary. From googling around, So lithium costs a
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by lacker 6y ago
It is odd to me that they would preemptively go loud on this, drawing attention to a story that might not even get that much traction. It's hard for me to imagine an NYT story getting less traction than a Coinbase post, though. So is
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by lacker 6y ago
No, AWS offers DocumentDB which is "MongoDB-compatible". In practice, it's incompatible enough that many people use MongoDB Atlas, which is the MongoDB-provided full managed database service for MongoDB.

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