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by marcinzm 3y ago
See other comments. The window has a non-glass mesh cover over it which lets air in. That increases drag. He's putting his hand against that mesh and thus blocking air from coming into the car. This reduces drag.
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> Imagine if the same thing was requested in the real world, like forced to prove your identity when you take gas, When you buy a computer, when you buy a condom. There's no need, there's fifty security cameras and phone tracke
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Exactly! I doubt solving people's problems is even 10% of the time government customer service spends talking to people. Letting them spend 50% actually solving people's problems would improve everyone's lives.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Everything I hear about public service in both the US and the UK is that it's understaffed to the point where actual people needing those services are greatly impacted. Mainly due to ongoing budget cuts that long predate AI.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> The only thing I've seen that even gets close to working is physically going to the office in person but hell finding what or where that is. They do try to discourage it sometimes. The local passport office has a sign on the door
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use AI to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you read that right.” The idea — to have citizen input processed and responded to by an
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Yes, America funded Russia's recent invasions. Yup. All America.
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Depending on the use cases PowerBI and Looker.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Metabase is more intuitive. Also, being unintuitive isn't great but not the worst thing. A project not even realizing that (and thinking the exact opposite) is much much worse. Unintuitive can be fixed with PRs over time. Delusional pr
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Superset is fast, lightweight, intuitive, and loaded with options that make it easy for users of all skill sets to explore and visualize their data, from simple line charts to highly detailed geospatial charts. I tried Superset a few y
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Sometimes they're wrong period. The source was clearly a bad one and every other source disagrees.
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> Part of this is that it is dependent on the using good exercises to begin with. For example, find a PR that fixed a performance issue and use the before code as the exercise to see if the candidate spots the issue. Do they propose the
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by marcinzm 3y ago
There's plenty that can perfectly parse RFC 4180 since it's a very simple format. That's not, however, what people want in terms of parsing "CSV" files. They want to parse a file that contains data in some type of d
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Netflix would disagree.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> If you remain 'senior software engineer' your salary will be constrained by the market range for that position. The salary range is somewhere from $100k to $600k in the US depending on the company. So if you hit the cap at yo
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by marcinzm 3y ago
In a large tech company not really. The Product Manager or Staff engineers build things using other engineers. The Engineering Manager uses their blood and sweat to lubricate the corporate cogs to make that process a bit more efficient.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
So you get paid more and have better career options without more stress... and you see that as a bad thing?
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If they're coasting then you have a 1-on-1 conversation and if needed fire them. A manager who needs some type of public shamming ritual to do that isn't a good manager. There's a manager fallacy of focusing on minimizing the
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Or you know, the impact of context switching on you and on most other engineers is not the same. But no, that's not possible, everyone is exactly just like you, they're all just whiners.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Leaders have a responsibility to ensure their teams deliver. When the teams agree to async communication --and the channels remain silent-- where is the accountability when there is no deliverable and no visibility into the scenario th
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by marcinzm 3y ago
Because many people (or their partners) use phones more often than desktops. Many may not even own a desktops aside from a dusty laptop and their work computer.
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> only really happens in US companies (see lots of other comments in this thread on this) That's not what the comments say.
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There isn't one because the by far most common failure case isn't "HA isn't running" but "the communication protocol isn't working." A watchdog must be on the device itself because otherwise it's
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I mean, why not just have HA just control a hardware thermostat that has different mode settings (home, away, etc.)? Plenty of them exist and its, honestly, easier than trying to make HA into a thermostat. I've done it in "pure&qu
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I mean Obsidian has only been around 3 years so it seems odd to set the VC bar at 15 years. Plenty of non-VC companies sell out or go out of business in various ways. The argument is likely valid but you'd want data points on both ends
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by marcinzm 3y ago
I'm curious about the day to day environment the Tsimané live in since I can see a relationship between dementia and increased accidental deaths in more dangerous environments. Let's say you need to walk 5 miles a day through a pr
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by marcinzm 3y ago
And that works right until you get to publish an incident report like this: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-data...
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by marcinzm 3y ago
> Why would they need to play constant politics if they don't have power over projects? Not everyone is motivated by the same things. They do have power over the projects. Being able to PIP someone is power over everything that pers
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A roof over their heads for one.
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The issue I see is that software engineering is a team sport. Having a bunch of intelligent driven people doesn't mean they will together act like an intelligent driven group. Work cultures differ greatly between countries including in

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