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by novok 2y ago
There were many ventures in the past that got investors without a current profitable going concern. Oil & mining speculation, chartering boat crews to go on exploration expeditions and more.
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New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it
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IMO it's very costly to compare legroom and is often obscured and switched up. Also people might use 'legroom' to also mean more expansive things like shoulder width of their seat, and that is definately not something you ca
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A neuropsychological assesment figured it out for me, helped me connect some dots also.
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I think mathematics education is pretty horrible this way. You only start actually learning the foundations of math in your 3rd or 4th year of undergrad. At least nowadays there is a shit ton of youtube resources and more, so a self intere
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Sometimes the greatest gift you can give a gifted kid is failing early at something they want, so they learn the grit to achieve it.
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You might have certain targeted deficiencies that make processing those things well difficult. Like I have a hard time finding things in visual space, so I'm not good at jigsaw puzzles. I have slower reaction times & processing s
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by novok 2y ago
Again, signs you are working at a crappy place. Those places are incompetent and you should move to somewhere where it is competent. I have actually been a manager at a big tech and a small start up, and yes there is politics at all sizes,
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by novok 2y ago
I'm guessing you've never been a software engineering manager, or was one at a crappy place? The more self managing they are, the better! It turns into a coach/mentorship role at that point.
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Those people got there because their undergrad topic had nothing to do with it. It was their general intelligence, aptitudes and connections.
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That is what ChatGPT is turning into for many...
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There are parts of SF that have another "dignity" problem unfortunately. I know too many who refuse to walk in many areas there due to feeling unsafe and the smell issues. I know another one who refuses public transit now due to
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by novok 2y ago
IMO with my experience with siri being AI-style unreliable in many ways, like bit flips when saying turn off the lights makes the dimmer go to %100, I think it's better to do the switch statement for the dozen or so query types that pr
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by novok 2y ago
As a mobile engineer, I do not have the visual & product skills that designers have. They can create something visually appealing and aligned much faster than I can and have all sorts of skill sets that take a while to hone. I might h
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Figma could adapt by making something that actually produces code well too? Although it would add a lot of complexity and designers might not like having to make different versions for different platforms, like the 'android', &#x
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by novok 2y ago
A 70B 4bit model does not fit in a 24GB VRAM card, 30B models are the sweet spot for that size of card at 20GB, with 4GB left for the system to still function.
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I kind of wonder why a lot of these places don't give "amateur" sized models anymore at around the 18B & 30B parameter sizes that you can run on a single 3090 or M2 Max at reasonable speeds and RAM requirements? It'
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by novok 2y ago
This guy is pretty smart, I wonder what he fails on in the interview process? Must be something consistently off putting? Or the agony becomes too great when he tries to practice yet another leetcode question?
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For the author: add a (non blank) favicon, it makes your website look like a blank tab in safari and it gets confusing.
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Another annoying thing is when you give it random youtube videos to summarize, many very innocent ones on top of that, it does the censorship blip. Probably because the high school bio video had a bad word in its transcript somewhere talki
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There is also other things like brominated flour which is illegal in brazil, the eu, india and canada but not the USA
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they forgot the password, so they can't
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You can google it, but it's putting EXIF data modifications and additions into an external XML file. It's a way to avoid modifying the master file directly.
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Chile feels like the Canada of South America in some ways. Even has a special work visa category with the USA!
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Huge mountain ranges separating people that are close in distance is a pretty classic mechanism of creating linguistic diversity / dialects in places that are physically close to each other. You see this with villages in various parts
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2 dishwashers idea works more in a single person or 2 people household depending on habits. The dishes in the 2 dishwashers are the ones you use frequently, and for occasional times, you get the extras in the cupboards. It's also a
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And now the fertility rate of Italy will go down even further, as less will bother to have children.
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Dimension 1 and dimension 2. They reduced a multidimensional vector output to 2 dimensions to make it visualizable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-distributed_stochastic_neigh... IMO this study feels like it's s
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An NPU is like a specialized GPU, it's just raw compute power you could use for anything, and many mobile devices have had an NPU like unit for many years at this point.
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All of this is also partly dependent on the region's availability of timber vs. other materials and if they are near fault lines. The eastern half of the USA, including Chicago, is no where near a fault line, so prioritizing less eart

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