noisenotsignal

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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
Sorry, I didn’t remember the start of the thread by the time I got here. But in later comments you said “in addition, if you are 400k+ you'd probably enjoy the privilege of skipping the interview and even having a position opened for y
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
>400k and fully remote is still not easy. Most of the obvious high payers in big tech (e.g. Meta) have required days in the office, and I can think of very few high-paying companies that don’t have N days RTO at all levels (literally onl
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
Sorry, I meant replay really broadly because I could not come up with a better term in the moment. For example, a password can be leaked in many ways (guessed, by a breach if the website has poor password storage, etc) and be “replayed”, as
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
That’s the trade off being made for convenience. It’s still somewhat multifactor though (I’ve seen people call it 1.5FA); authentication codes have the benefit of being resilient to replay. So, you’re not pwned even if someone steals your p
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
My university had lecturers that were precisely this (masters in CS, focused on teaching intro undergrad courses). However, I think there is still a lot of benefit from having researchers teach upper level courses. Firsthand experience in r
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
4 engineers for an entire phone company sounds scary. I’m sure your engineering is robust enough such that outages are minimal, but that still sounds like a lot of on call (rotation of 4 = once a month?). Even if you only get paged once eve
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by noisenotsignal 3y ago
Years of study are definitely not required to get up and running! I attended a 3 day workshop for TLA+ and spent ~2 weeks modeling a new project that my team was working on. I found lots of potential edge cases that would result in data inc
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Ok, I’m sorry for not enumerating all possible itemized deductions when we’re talking about charity specifically. However, charity is probably the most well-known deduction that you can control (in contrast to stuff like state taxes, whic
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
You can’t deduct charitable donations unless you don’t take the standard deduction. Instead, you must itemize your deductions. In practice this means you take the standard deduction because most people don’t total more than the standard ded
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Right, and further not being perfectly financially rational is quite fine! Finances aren’t the only factor in any decision, nor do they need to be the primary factor.
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
This seems a bit extreme. If you can afford to move, does interest rate really factor in? If rates get worse you’ve still locked a better rate, if rates get better you refinance. Besides, there’s plenty of reasons to move besides for a job
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
It makes sense why someone who is good at LC via pattern recognition might not be as good at competitive programming. However, it’s not clear why the reverse would be true. Surely someone good at solving unencountered algorithmic problems w
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Are those “with a track record of making a difference” also ok with interview tests, white boards, and/or take homes? I don’t know if viewing excessive tests with disdain is a characteristic solely exhibited by ex top tech; I feel like
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
This isn’t necessarily a useful anecdote though. If your previous payment processors weren’t using a bank that failed during that time, then you getting paid on time isn’t a sign of redundancy; they were just fortunate! It might be fair to
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Can we assume that Facebook did a good job onboarding remotely? I guess maybe the argument is that given poor onboarding, in-person is better than remote, and going back to in-person saves having to invest in better onboarding. But that’s j
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
There’s also relocating across machines. For example, maybe your build environment has access to internal registries but your release environment does not. I naively thought you could build your venv and just copy to the new machine (both e
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I guess your system works, but I hope you’d agree it’s quite the hassle! It also seems you’d be ok with paying fees for pure money storage, though hopefully you can see why the average person would hate such a setup. I think from your POV t
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I understand the mechanism that occurs in reality, but also in practice the average person puts money in the bank primarily for storage. If you ask someone why they have a bank account, odds are the answer is not “to make money”. They do it
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Depositors don’t put money in a bank expecting profits!! Yes they might get interest, but the main goal is safe storage of easily accessible money. Where exactly do you expect people to put money if not a bank?! And do you really expect, an
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Any reason why you would use jq over Python? Certainly this can be attributed to my lack of knowledge in jq, but anything beyond a simple query is going to be done with Python for me. Beyond not having to look up query syntax, doing it in P
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Agreed, when I commented earlier I was also thinking about mentioning something similar with regards to classes of bugs due to interactions between systems. Unless you have a setup where you can easily run one system with a debugger attache
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I think it’s dependent on the person learning the material. My college had a similar course and it was also highly regarded as useful by students. However, while I found the course fun I already knew most of the basics from my research job,
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
You don’t need breakpoints all the time though. If you’re familiar with the code (or just “talented”), you might have an intuition for what the problem is and it’s faster to just think through it (and maybe write a few quick prints) instead
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
Broadcast-type announcements can be a little weird to announce in a group chat though. A very basic example, but let’s say you’re in a group chat mainly for gaming together. Are you going to be the first to make a big personal announcement,
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
I mean, sure it worked before Facebook, but having grown up using Facebook, it feels much more natural to use social media than a Christmas card, email list, or whatever! Besides, those alternatives still feel intimate - you made an effort
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
There’s ID.me [0], which the IRS uses. They seem to be geared towards government services but I’ve always thought a natural extension is auth for other sites. [0] - https://www.id.me/
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
If you are in multiple group chats and have something to say (e.g. a life update), do you post in each individually? Or do you pick and choose which groups get the update? If your groups overlap, now some people get the same update twice -
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
You should not be taking over the keyboard!! If you are typing, they are not learning, they are spectating. If there’s something that’s just annoying and not super relevant, like a command they don’t know, you can paste it in the chat. In t
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
As long as you have shared hours for collaboration, this still seems achievable. The “standing over a chair thing” is just a ping, call, and screenshare away. I’ve been both a new grad and mentor to interns and entry/mid level hires al
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by noisenotsignal 4y ago
This is cool to see! I’ve been working on a website for online ordering, and a key requirement is free hosting [0]. After some searching I figured fly.io + SQLite would be enough for my use case but I can’t be 100% sure until I actually dep

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