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by moandcompany 10mo ago
Does anyone miss Meatless Mondays?
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by moandcompany 11mo ago
SuperCruise and BlueCruise are technology names from GM and Ford for assisted driving in their car products, and not synonomous with Cruise the company providing ride share services.
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Too big to burn
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Yep... Along with this Verification aligns with a specification. E.g. verify if what was implemented matches what was specified. Validation aligns with a requirement. E.g. verify if what was implemented solves the actual problem.
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Understand what your boss's boss cares about and make sure your work can described in relation to those goals or concerns.
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by moandcompany 1y ago
You can use nvidia-smi to set a target maximum power draw and performance mode to bring idle power levels down. Also make sure your computer is using the server/headless mode driver to keep idle power consumption down.
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Google and Meta/Facebook have generally aligned and numerically equivalent levels for the main Software Engineer and Engineering Manager ladders.
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Adding a correction on above -> L7 is Senior Staff Engineering Manager (M2) L6 is Staff Engineering Manager (M1) they are of equal level to the SWE ladder L6 and L7 titles
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by moandcompany 1y ago
It's been a few years, but from what I recall, a Principal is a Director-equivalent (L8) level. The prior poster is missing the L7 tier, which is Senior Staff Engineering Manager for the Engineering Manager Ladder. L8 is a Director on
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Adding some additional context on most of the above: Yes, as commissioned US military officers they become subject to UCMJ. USDS and DDS employees are/were civilian federal employees with capacity for legal authority to act on behalf o
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Sometimes you have to go with the least dirty shirt in the hamper
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by moandcompany 1y ago
Concur. This is part of why Suite A ciphers (algorithms) exist, and the second component includes robust key management practices are so important (this includes hardening of devices to prevent leakage of signals that could compromise those
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by moandcompany 1y ago
"Zonal" relates to the concept of "availability zones" which are the next-smallest unit below a (physical) "region." Most instances of a cloud ___ created in a region are allocated and exist at the zonal level
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Perfect for saline solution, right?
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Technically correct is the best kind of correct. Symbolically, in this context, they were seen as diamonds in the sky, aka stars :)
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I don't know much about his family life, but it's very plausible that he spent more time working during his lifetime than with his family, and this is a good take. Considering the company's state of affairs, I would assume he
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by moandcompany 2y ago
JH Han came from Samsung's Visual Display (tvs, smart tvs) business unit which is part of Samsungs larger consumer electronics business which includes things such as home appliances. Mobile electronics such as Galaxy brand smart phones
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The company name of "Samsung" originates from the founder's admiration of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, known as "keiretsu" and their place in its economy; he hoped that his company would also endure as a s
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by moandcompany 2y ago
1) This appears to be what Apple has concluded by the action they're taking and implied by the premise of the article, versus my personal opinion. 2) The examples given may have been produced by AI/ML-based technologies developed
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Given the size of Apple and these orgs, plausible. Siri also had a bunch of folks that came in from outside, through acquisitions, and did their own thing or tried to identify themselves and their roles as something different from Apple nor
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by moandcompany 2y ago
JG is famous for research teams doing "hillclimbing" but the organizations doing this seldom thought deeply about where they were hoping to end up, what would be good-enough, or when it would be time to find a new hill.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The Vision/Vision Pro product was also years behind schedule, based on original expectations, and some people feel that they had to launch something so that's why we got what we got.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
A few quick cliffs notes plus added info: John "JG" Giannandrea was hired over to Apple around 2018 to head Apple's new AI/ML division, which would include the Siri organization that predates Giannandrea's tenure at
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Alphabet/Google have GCP, VirusTotal, Chronicle, and Mandiant under their umbrella already.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
In theory they do have access and should, but in practice they don't. Samsung's flagship mobile phone products tend to ship with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs in competitive markets, such as USA/North America, versus their "i
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I didn't see Founder, Angel-Investor, growth-hacker, ex-Google Tech Lead in the samples...
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by moandcompany 2y ago
> Explain to me then how an Apple TV device for $125 (Retail! not BOM!) can be staggeringly faster and generally better than any TV controller board I've seen? This is the result of Apple being vertically integrated and reusing comp
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by moandcompany 2y ago
> "We are a fintech startup helping SMEs raise capital from our platform where we provide diverse financial products ranging from Term Loan, Revenue Based Financing to Syndication, we face one unique data challenge: Our data comes f
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I'd argue that a concise explanation for these organizations having keen abilities to make great impact with their research is related to their participation in the golden age of "operations research" ... they had a plethora
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by moandcompany 2y ago
It would be interesting to analyze a dataset of commercially sold prepared "coffee" drinks from vendors like Starbucks to see how many are actually coffee, versus coffee-flavored soft drinks, and how this changed over the last few

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