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by lumost 2y ago
It was a high altitude mountaineering event where the only real choice was forward. 5 hours in the 160+ hr range was… unpleasant. This was also my first exposure to such durations of cardio activity.
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by lumost 2y ago
You can feel this in extreme cardio endurance activities. After a certain point you can quite literally feel pain in your chest while being earstwhile healthy.
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by lumost 2y ago
I suspect that we are trending towards a baseline where interviews are gamed too heavily to be useful. If your pool of interviewers becomes calibrated to external candidates who either use competitive programmers in their stead or well tune
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by lumost 2y ago
So this begs the question - did anti hydrogen fall like normal hydrogen?
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by lumost 2y ago
Same thing that stops other countries from doing this. It would create a (multi) generational block against all foreign investment and devastating sanctions. Cuba did this as part of the revolution. The nationalization of American owned bus
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by lumost 2y ago
People have to care about outcomes in order to get good outcomes. Its pretty difficult to get someone to work extra time, or care about the small stuff if there is a good chance that they will be gone in 6 months. Alternatively, if leadersh
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by lumost 2y ago
Private equity firms and large management consulting firms gain extreme visibility and influence into an entire sector. If mckinsey recommends raising prices, its likely everyone in your sector is raising prices. If everyone in the sector d
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by lumost 2y ago
Product, and infra companies may continue to open these models by virtue that they need to continue improving their product. Omni chat app is a great product.
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by lumost 2y ago
I've been keeping tabs on NVidia’s venture arm. The arm seems to invest massive capital (hundreds of MM) in credible startups focused on compute scaling. These startups then spend back on NVidia chips at a 98% margin. I'd guess th
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by lumost 2y ago
Different to investors are chasing different dreams. As an exercise, imagine you have a portfolio which will in a typical year lose around 1.2% to the tax man for capital gains. Rather than accepting the guaranteed loss of taxes - you take
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by lumost 2y ago
There is no law of economics that says that a society must improve. It is entirely feasible for capital to concentrate to the point that the productive classes are no longer able to produce due to lack of surplus investible capital. The rea
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by lumost 2y ago
This is pretty much it. When you are at HPC performance requirements, the rust pain doesn't matter too much - but... You can also get decent perf in any language by being careful about the allocations. The lack of gc provides an at mos
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by lumost 2y ago
This is a good rundown of the pain of rust development. I had imagined that I'd reach a nirvana of rust dev where I could just write the code and feel like I knew what I was doing. This ultimately never happened after N learning attemp
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by lumost 2y ago
Aye - I don’t tend to have a problem honestly with “classic” lc tests. I tend to take issue with uncommon/nuanced Dynamic Programming questions and clever uses of binary search. Both of these categories tend to rely on the engineer kno
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by lumost 2y ago
Out of curiosity what do you find wrong in the s3 solution? This is a data volume that rdbms can manage, but are you looking specifically for the engineer to say something like “I’ll maintain a Write Ahead Log in the database”
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by lumost 2y ago
Big tech interviews tend to be daunting. Many long term employees lose the skill, and fear the impact of work interruption on their resume as well as their ability to get in again. Anecdotally, the LC bar for many firms has risen to the poi
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by lumost 2y ago
Europe had no reason to spy on the US before, why shouldn't the EU produce a carbon copy of the F-35? There is already a plant making them in Germany. If the US is tearing up treaties then why can't the EU tear up their promise of
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by lumost 2y ago
Aye - this is a limitation of the current tech. For any project greater than 1k lines where the model was not pretrained on the code base…. AI is simply not useful beyond documentation search. It’s easy to see this effect in any new project
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by lumost 2y ago
We are in a rather peculiar situation in US history where a party representing roughly 48% of the population has absolute control over all branches of government. The party representing the other 48% has no authority, and often believes the
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by lumost 2y ago
Alternately everyone is just trying to ensure they have a dominant position in the next wave. The history of tech is that you either win the next wave or become effectively irrelevant and worthless.
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by lumost 2y ago
There is a bound on the degree to which terminal patients are willing to be human guinea pigs, and a bound on which the data is statistically useful to anyone. I’ve read many reports of terminal patients who wish that they hadn’t wasted the
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by lumost 2y ago
Anecdotally, I see a major under appreciation for just how fast and efficient modern hardware is in the distributed systems community. I’ve seen a great many engineers become so used to provisioning compute that they forget that the same “s
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by lumost 2y ago
Main use case for me would be RLAIF. Given a prompt, generation, and a code execution result - rank N alternative executions and execution results for DPO/other training patterns. In complex use cases like building a bi engineer, it’s
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by lumost 2y ago
Is it possible to reuse the same paused VM multiple times from the same snapshot?
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by lumost 2y ago
Institutions can become caught in a trap of paying high prices for consultants and low/no prices for internal experts. Obviously, consultants are incentivized to cultivate this codependency. In many cases, the institution would be bett
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by lumost 2y ago
Most B2B firms live in the grey area between consultancy and product for most of their lives. I’ve known of more than one database company with greater than 50% of their HC tied to bespoke asks from top clients. In my opinion, the differenc
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by lumost 2y ago
Name the companies? This has not been my experience in startups or big tech across 15+ years.
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by lumost 2y ago
Quintiles is a poor measure given the extremes of inequality. The Pareto distribution of income and wealth has folks in the top 10/1/.1/.01 percentiles with vastly different lifestyles compared to the other percentiles.
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by lumost 2y ago
I don’t think it makes me a better parent, apologies if that was how it was interpreted. The point is that there is no other alternative. My observation, at least in tech - is that the expectation of greater than 40 hours of work per week i
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by lumost 2y ago
Lack of involvement can come from multiple issues. I don’t spend as much time with my kids as I’d like. Partly so that we can have good education, a decent home, activities, and college without stress. The push into college is kinda the las

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