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541.
by mcguire 4y ago
If they're working in a teaching or research position, they do get paid. If they don't work for the university, these union negotiations don't affect them.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" The same process can be used to set a fair price for grad student TA labor. " That is exactly what the union is negotiating.
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by mcguire 4y ago
That's part of your training.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The benefits don't sound all that good. " “The current child care subsidy will be enough to cover … less than 2 months of child care per year” "
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by mcguire 4y ago
3 semester hours / class, 15 semester hours per semester, 8 semesters (4 years) works out to about 40 different instructors over 4 years. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Bruce Porter, but I don't think he could replace Bob
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by mcguire 4y ago
You do have to pay tuition for those "thesis" and "dissertation" classes. In the 1990s-early 2000s, when I was a gradual student at UT Austin, I worked for the university, but not as a TA or RA; as staff, I had to pay fo
547.
by mcguire 4y ago
I've suspected for a while that companies with long, drawn-out hiring processes are using the delay to see if someone better (for some definition of "better") will come along. In the current market, you are probably right abo
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by mcguire 4y ago
What other "created social phenomena" do you think are destructive to "encourage alternatives"?
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by mcguire 4y ago
But, "It works for me."
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by mcguire 4y ago
6. It is much faster and easier to develop an application's "happy path" while completely ignoring failures. Failure handling is a software maintenance issue. YAGNI.
551.
by mcguire 4y ago
You forgot the part where they are all founded on organized crime. /s
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by mcguire 4y ago
The tech industry is flooded with money, but is enormously inefficient. How many projects are you familiar with that got trashed, often after key people moved on?
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by mcguire 4y ago
On one hand, as long as your political opinions align with those of the ultra-wealthy then the inequality shouldn't bother you. On the other, high inequality is socially unstable because that is not generally the case.
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Elon Musk Briefly Speaks to Reporters in Twitter Spaces(forbes.com)
7 points by mcguire 4y ago|2 comments
555.
by mcguire 4y ago
Does anyone remember the old maxim, "Don't write code as cleverly as you can because it's harder to debug than it is to write and you won't be clever enough"?
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by mcguire 4y ago
My understanding is that ChatGPT (and similar things) are purely language models ; they do not have any kind of "understanding" of anything like reality. Basically, they have a complex statistical model of how words are related.
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is literally the story of a Berke Breathed Bloom County (or whatever the follow-on was) comic strip.
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by mcguire 4y ago
" It is actually illegal to be going that slow on a highway, in Texas at least. This would simply be too dangerous to even allow. " You don't live in Austin or Houston, do you? :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
An entertainment for a rainy afternoon: track down the signatories of the Agile Manifesto and count how many of them were most recently selling tools, processes, and/or consulting for agile software development methodologies.
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by mcguire 4y ago
And then there was the place that (when I started) used Remedy. (Ever seen the ticket creation process there? Of course, only customer-facing people were supposed to create them.) That wasn't good enough, so they added a customized Jir
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by mcguire 4y ago
The US Attorney's Office press release about the case: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-chief-security-o...
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by mcguire 4y ago
If the question is, "Why isn't IPv6 the most prominent protocol and v4 a legacy thing?" the answer is NAT and RFC1918 addresses. And NATs within NATs within NATs. The only "real" v4 address you need is for your publ
563.
by mcguire 4y ago
At one interview, as a joke at the end, the set of interviewers asked me if I could write code to reverse a string. I replied, "In place, or...?" which apparently confused some of them.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Neither of those earns any particular confidence from me.
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by mcguire 4y ago
I notice that you do not propose any actual alternative (I mean, unless you have specific actionable plans for fixing everything .), so I assume your choice would be to allow them and those they infect to die as economically as possible.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Essentially all choices real people make are not economically optimal.
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by mcguire 4y ago
What alternative do you propose? "Helping them stay on drugs" is very much the wrong way to look at it. How about "reducing the harm they do to others"?
568.
by mcguire 4y ago
How much weight is the word "demonstrated" carrying?
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by mcguire 4y ago
And I'm sure all four of your users will enjoy your system. I'm exaggerating, but there is a reason that HN is not the most popular social media site in the world.
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by mcguire 4y ago
That is, as the article implies, one of those weird, fuzzy areas where: Yes, you are exposing yourself to some liability. But no, if you try to avoid that liability, you will run off all of your users. How many memes have you seen today tha

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