lostdog

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by lostdog 6y ago
I have 2 Lenovo X1's of different generations running Linux, the Lenovo thunderbolt dock and another USB C dock, and there are problems for every configuration of devices. I get dropped keystrokes, flakey network connections, flakey au
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by lostdog 6y ago
If we had invested more in developing vaccines and treatments for the common cold, then maybe we would have tricks that would have helped us beat covid faster.
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by lostdog 6y ago
It depends on the algorithm you're using, but here are some places to start: 1. How many times is the data being copied, or moved between devices? 2. Are you recomputing data from previous frames that you could just be saving? For exam
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by lostdog 6y ago
Yes (though the details are private). All the deep learning libraries are Python wrappers around C/C++ (which then call into CUDA). If you call the C++ layers directly, you have control over the memory operations applied to your data.
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by lostdog 6y ago
Glad you took another look!
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by lostdog 6y ago
This is such a great post. It really shows how much room for improvement there is in all released deep learning code. Almost none of the open source work is really production ready for fast inference, and tuning the systems requires a good
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by lostdog 6y ago
Nope, you're not even close to calculating the survival rate correctly. The population of ~43 million is the entire population, not the set of people who were infected.
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by lostdog 6y ago
I also thought your original post was advocating for open offices. Still, I'm more productive in a cramped room with a door that closes than in an open offices, and I'm sure many others are too.
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by lostdog 6y ago
It's always good to memorize at least one IP address! Very similar to memorizing at least one phone number in this day and age ;)
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by lostdog 6y ago
But the directors and VP's aren't getting paged at 3am, so the incentives of the organization still go to lower quality software.
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by lostdog 6y ago
It's been interesting to see how many places protocol buffers are now used by. I'm guessing a large fraction of companies use them internally without being too public about it, which is unfortunate because I've often shied aw
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by lostdog 6y ago
It does seem like an edge case, and often this type of industry experience is limited to candidates from academia. (Not 100% limited, but research experience is preferred).
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by lostdog 6y ago
How funny. I have always hated the "orders" mechanic in war games and other board games. How does it make sense as a mechanic? Ok, I can't move this infantry unit because two other infantry units already moved this turn. It&#
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by lostdog 6y ago
Really great to publish these builds and GPU suggestions. Putting together a system that works can be really frustrating, and knowing where to start is really helpful. I've gone with GPU spot instances for my personal experiments. The
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by lostdog 6y ago
I'm on my 3rd X1 (4th if you count my work laptop), and I would be completely happy, except that it's USB-C ports are somehow broken. Both machines have flakey connections to both USB-C docks I've tried, sometimes dropping ke
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by lostdog 6y ago
This is a good discussion of burnout overall, but it's missing a key part: Sometimes you're in a terrible environment and need to leave. The company you work for could be terrible, and no amount of emotional calisthenics will prep
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by lostdog 6y ago
AMT still applies to illiquid gains and can bankrupt people. They still haven't fixed this.
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by lostdog 6y ago
Good points. I would have expected to hate remote work, because discussing technical decisions with coworkers is a part of the job I really enjoy. However. When you take into account how hostile the modern office is to IC work, it turns out
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by lostdog 6y ago
Right, it's more of an ownership desert. The area isn't seen as valuable, so no one wants to wind up stuck there. Really, it's a leadership problem, because by adding in some compensation or praise or prestige, managers can c
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by lostdog 6y ago
...in simulation. Though it sounds like they're getting closer to having it work in vivo. Looking forwards to that video.
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by lostdog 6y ago
A few years ago, linkedin purposefully changed their notification emails to have less information so you're forced to log in and read the notification on their platform. Linkedin is also widely known for when they scraped users contact
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by lostdog 6y ago
Facebook keeps making its core product worse, probably because of short termism in their corporate goals. Pretty funny to see the article hold them up as an example of good governance.
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by lostdog 6y ago
Looks brilliant, thank you!
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by lostdog 6y ago
As soon as I figure out how to get the OOM killer to just kill Chrome every time, I might never have to hard reset my system again!
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by lostdog 6y ago
First we will see if all the memorial day barbecues caused a spike. And all the preemptive reopening orders in different states.
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by lostdog 6y ago
Don't forget that Trump has now appointed many of the judges who could decide it's "legality."
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by lostdog 6y ago
New UIs are worse because of screenshot driven design. The designer and execs only look at new screenshots of the design, and ignore usability. Maybe a few minutes of thought and review are given to how a user interacts with the site, but o
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by lostdog 6y ago
Here's dozens of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders If you want a few well-known examples: Cystic fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Canavan Disease, and Hemophilia. There's lots of obvi
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by lostdog 7y ago
Lots of normal things about human interaction are broken in Zoom meetings. * You can't have a normal conversation with that much delay. Every time you talk you're probably interrupting someone, and that starts to wear on you. * Y
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by lostdog 7y ago
Interview with both! This is a big red flag for both, but issues with the interviewing process don't always mean there are issues within the work place at the company. At worst, you just use the offers from these companies as negotiati

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