mechEpleb

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by mechEpleb 5y ago
The most important thing is just to apply because unless you're connected, the job search process is much like a lottery.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
Establishing the habit of regularly checking your schedule and thus being aware of any upcoming events would mostly solve this.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
You'd think that, wouldn't you? Yet here I am, someone who grew up thinking computers were obtuse and boring because getting the computer to do anything interesting seemed like it would require knowing a thousand things not relate
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
I get the feeling that the world was significantly more open to kids growing up with access to computers in the 80s and 90s, because as someone whose formative years were the 00s and early 10s, the interesting bits of technology were alread
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
And they did that because it makes sense from a military perspective, not because they were aping go strategies. Are you being obtuse on purpose? You're taking two radically different problem domains and producing a shaky, extremely hi
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
I would argue that this is ridiculously reductionist and probably has nothing to do with the actual decision making process on either side.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
I said nothing of qualia. Science has no tools to even begin trying to model, describe or explain them. All I am saying is that from a physical perspective, a mind is just as deterministic as an orbit. So far nobody has discovered anything
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
Getting it out there. If your goal is just to ensure that a well supported open source solution exists and people can use it instead of having nothing at all or only paid proprietary garbage, a permissive license makes far more sense. If yo
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
>You can show all sorts of chemical and biological explanations for the behavior, but it is still "behavior." It can be predictable, but it is not deterministic. What makes it non-deterministic? A neural network is a system wit
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
>Like, if someone thinks what I does suck I always invite people to tell me so. That's you. Plenty of other people will defend whatever they come up with regardless and need to protect their fragile egos.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
I'm not sure misogyny is the only possible explanation here, and I am almost certain it doesn't account for the entire gap.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
> Though I think that's mostly on Google "optimizing" my queries by dumbing them down. I'd say it's become a lot worse than it was just a couple years ago when you could massage the queries to get you exactly wha
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
I don't think derisive attitudes in the workplace adequately explain it, because there are a lot fewer women in CS/engineering school too.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
>There are lots of actual engineers being outearned by boot camp grads with two years experience. Hasn't that been the case for decades now?
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
You can't demand more when plenty of others will do it for far cheaper.
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
In house there's less incentive to underbid and overpromise
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by mechEpleb 5y ago
>hey intern, here's the topic, here's some buzzwords, here's the word and slide count, you have 3 hours
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Yes, usually that reason is that once you are unemployed you fall to the bottom of any hiring manager's list of eligible applicants.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Because you are already stuck on the path you picked and have no choice
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
That would be true if said intelligent people were optimizing exclusively for the metric you're looking at right now. In reality they usually are not, as they are themselves stuck in a system where their incentives are to optimize for
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
>You can argue that your processor's clock speed hasn't changed, the program has just memoized some intermediate results and no longer has to actively compute them, but that seems like a disingenuous argument. A disingenuous ar
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Engaging in political activity would require leaving my room.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
Power lines are not put under ground in most of the world. Nobody wants to pay an order of magnitude more to hedge against occasional downsides in reality.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
The number of people who need cars to survive is far greater than the number of people who can afford to fix every nuisance fault. So long as it can keep rolling and comply with whatever minimum safety requirements actually get enforced, pe
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
The first is an example of default argument syntax, it doesn't mean you can call functions with extra arguments, only that a value will be provided from the declaration if the call doesn't.
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
But there are strong incentive structures in place that introduce a correlation between the interests of these individuals and the company's success at driving up share price or even making money. It's not as straightforward as th
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
It boils down to the fact that there are large potential (if improbable) downsides to messing with DNA, and people have a strong cognitive bias against actively inflicting harm vis a vis just allowing harm to happen on its own. I personally
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
If I show up at the capitol building alone and demand to be put in charge, is that also a coup attempt? Obviously where you draw the line is subjective, but this event never had anything close to the requisite backing to become an actual co
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
4chan is still mostly teenagers and 20-somethings from middle class families shitposting for fun
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by mechEpleb 6y ago
If you just want to use their software, the community doesn't matter at all.

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