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by lostdog 5y ago
I feel a sense of relief when working in a language where you can paste some code, hit autoformat, and not worry if any lines might have been accidentally added or removed from a for, if, or while block.
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by lostdog 5y ago
If all companies do this, then interviewing at 5 companies eats 5 weeks of time.
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by lostdog 5y ago
We are going to have to agree to disagree here. Anything that eats a full month of my time is a big deal, and I expect companies to be more efficient with my time than this.
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by lostdog 5y ago
If you want to interview at 5 places, and they all have 40-hour projects, then what? You disappear from work for a month while you job search?
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by lostdog 5y ago
I like how it works at big tech companies nowadays. Publicly, you know what level you and other employees are, and the bands for the levels are mostly known (at levels.fyi). This means you have an idea of where your salary relates to others
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by lostdog 5y ago
Exactly, the idea that AI techniques are risky is a minority viewpoint. There is a community of smart people who are very interested in thinking about and mitigating the risk, but it's not something that most ML researchers think much
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by lostdog 5y ago
Similar thing for me. Pulseaudio sometimes takes a bunch of CPU with audio playing. Even stranger, sometimes it keeps taking 5-10% CPU with no audio playing. (I think it is related to running out of memory for a moment and using swap, but n
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by lostdog 5y ago
I didn't downvote it, but it feels like the parent comment is making excuses for rust build times being slow. As someone who's worked with C++, slow build times are a leech to productivity, and I expect new languages to have a bet
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yes, a good way to think about the value of the offer is to take the percentage, multiply by 1/2 to 1/4 for dilution, and then figure out what you get in a good exit ($1B or more). That's probably a best-case scenario. Note t
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by lostdog 5y ago
If you can't remove yourself from the oncall list... ...then you already have no agency.
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by lostdog 5y ago
The machine is a 4 year old, very lightweight laptop, running Ubuntu, with Chrome. I'm regularly seeing 500ms on page loads. Very frustrating when you open pages in new tabs, but they're not loaded when you go to switch over.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yeah, the article completely ignores that the voters are prioritizing other things. SF voters don't want to send so many people to prison. Yes, that means that criminals and the homeless have more freedom than in other cities. But SF v
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by lostdog 5y ago
I tried out Nim earlier this year. Great language, but the forum was very frustrating to use. Every page takes a few seconds to load. If you open a page in a new tab, you still need to wait for it to load when you switch to the tab. The f
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by lostdog 5y ago
Put the pain on the decision maker. If you need repro steps or the discussion, then each time they are missing from the spreadsheet, ask the PM to find them for you. Either the PM changes to another system, or they figure out how to handle
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by lostdog 5y ago
Learning a bit of ML is always useful. At worst, you'll get a bit of programming and math practice. Be a little thoughtful about trying to do ML work full time (there are a lot of people competing for a small number of positions), and
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by lostdog 5y ago
I think OpenAI tried to be Open, but then ran into two problems: First, turns out that neural nets get better when you throw more compute at them. OpenAI was full of researchers looking to push the state of the art, and the state of the art
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by lostdog 5y ago
The US government subsidized the vaccines, effectively pre-purchasing enough so that manufacturing could be ramped up faster than normal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Warp_Speed
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by lostdog 5y ago
Funny, this describes the immigrant experience pretty well too. First generations struggle to fit in and are forced to build strong communities, but after one or two generations, they are comfortable and accepted in the mainstream culture (
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by lostdog 5y ago
Ditto. I just switched from linux to Mac because of Google Meet being too slow, and it turns out Docs and Sheets are now usable again too. I wish I could break into Google HQ and replace all the devs' laptops with an older linux models
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Do you think Rand Paul's thoughts are...evidence of a handicap? They could be. Or do you just mean physical handicaps?
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by lostdog 5y ago
Here's another tip for making leaving graceful: Get rid of cliffs and discontinuities in your compensation. When I had a bonus that paid out yearly, I had to wait a few months to leave my job. You can bet that I was less focused on my
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by lostdog 5y ago
Benchmarking papers are inaccurate when the original algorithms are not open sourced, and the grad student needs to rewrite the algorithm from scratch. They can easily create different implementation details, and wind up with an algorithm t
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by lostdog 5y ago
> they pump thousands of gallons a day into the ocean As far as I know, this is an unproven political talking point, but I'm curious if you can back it up.
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by lostdog 5y ago
"Let's trap people in bad marriages" is exactly the social infrastructure I'm criticizing.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I'm more worried when the doctor is too lazy to even do a Google search. Having an expert do a web search is a decent way to filter out bad results and find a reasonable answer quickly.
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by lostdog 5y ago
The cultural infrastructure we had was extremely poor. We put a ton of focus into shaming and punishing people for bad behavior, and it just didn't work. Fat shaming has resulted in even more obese people. Punishing unmarried couples d
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by lostdog 5y ago
I split these into "doing stuff" and "talking about doing stuff" and yes, they are absolutely mutually exclusive.
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by lostdog 5y ago
lately, the major tech companies have been increasing their refresher grants to try to retain good people. Startups have always structured their option grants to make it hard to leave. Of course, as people wise up that is making it harder f
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by lostdog 5y ago
This happened to me! Left a startup and my gray hairs left me.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I would take STAR voting! The only downside is having to hear politicians ask for 5 stars in every speech!

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