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by nvarsj 4y ago
Yes, plenty of people. In fact, 2022 was the highest recorded immigration in history [1]. The fact remains UK has one of the best university systems and best opportunities for skilled work outside of the US. Yeah the Tory gov is trying thei
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Spend as much time with my kids and grandkids as I can. There’s nothing else as fulfilling.
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IME, having worked with "tech celebrities", the veneer they can work so hard on maintaining isn't exactly reflective of actually working with them. I worked with one particularly famous person, who barely did anything interna
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by nvarsj 4y ago
We’re sliding into that post capitalist world that is depicted in so many “scifi” books. It’s apparent but everyone just seems to accept it. Things are going to be very bleak in 50-100 years with most people living in poverty with a tiny ri
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by nvarsj 4y ago
There is something messed up in modern dating. IME a girl who is a 5/10 can get a date/laid easily, with barely any effort, and usually with a more attractive male. A guy who is 5/10 has to do insane antics just to get a shot
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by nvarsj 4y ago
After using plexamp for the last year, it just reinforced my impression that the UX of Spotify is cosmically bad. Plexamp feels a lot like winamp, it is a nice pared down experience that just works and is fast. But I guess I'm just one
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by nvarsj 4y ago
There were lots of reports of this with the hobbit, e.g. https://theweek.com/articles/469863/why-isthe-hobbit-making-... . Being on a big screen probably makes it much worse. Also I’d conjecture video games are dif
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High refresh rate makes people feel sick. It's "too real", such that the brain can't synchronize what it's seeing to what it's feeling motion wise. Ultimately a 2d plane is not optimal for a realistic experienc
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That's a good insight. A bit like unit tests, A-B tests drive the design of the website to make them testable. Not sure that is ultimately the best choice for UX, but here we are. I suppose it makes it a lot easier to justify one'
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Apart from IF, I still sorely miss playing MUDs from when I was younger. Some of the worlds created by amateur writers were truly magical. Something I haven't ever quite got the same feeling from any graphical MMO.
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Hah, I think they were pretty buggy when they were first enabled by default in RHEL/etc.. We used to turn it off in our prod fleets after running into some serious memory / perf issues with them. I think they're in a better s
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I think we're all affected to different degrees. I've done a few interview loops in the space of a couple weeks and it never got easier. It just got worse as my insomnia got worse. I feel it's a miracle I can pass interviews
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by nvarsj 4y ago
> More people than you might imagine take Xanax to get through interviews. You know, that's actually a great idea I never thought about. I'll see if I can get a script next time I go through interview loops. Might make the proc
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by nvarsj 4y ago
> They had a _full_ pipeline, interviewing every day for three weeks straight. I honestly think I'd be physically incapable of doing this. I'm on the HSP side and even a single set of interviews is enough to drive me into an in
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by nvarsj 4y ago
It's funny to me because this has been happening in tech a long time and is happening to the current giants. The old giants like IBM, GE, Motorola, etc. all suffered similar fates. And it's been discussed ad nauseum by disgruntle
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Does THP not work for you?
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Specialisation is a risky long term bet though. The amount of companies a good generalist software engineer can work at is orders of magnitude more than an ML engineer and I imagine it will remain like that for a long while. Same thing for
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Def the opposite experience for me software wise. Latest joy is chrome hanging whenever tabs are moved. Things randomly seem to crash all the time. Maybe it’s normal for OS X but my Linux experience is pretty much the opposite - rock solid,
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Worth pointing out the shuffle twice thing is only for Best of 1 to reduce the variance so it is similar to Best of 3. It’s strictly a casual format though.
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Interesting to know this as well. I'm planning to "retire" to gamedev after a few years in big tech and I've built up a safety net. As far as I know, from second hand knowledge, it's a lot higher risk and generally
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Having swapped to workplaces recently, I terribly miss threads.
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Yes this is what I discovered. Being on your own for extended periods without anything to do can be terrifying and even worse for mental health.
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by nvarsj 4y ago
HFT makes money off of volatility. The more the world burns the more money they make by keeping markets liquid.
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Fairly sure they use HTC vive which seems to be the standard for overpriced VR experiences. It’s mostly fun to play in a group I think. But the actual games are very underwhelming - they feel like tech demos. And on top of that the staff ne
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Been a golang dev for a long time, although got out of it recently (I got very tired of it). Many contributions to k8s in the early days, etc. Thing I find the most frustrating about golang is the community. It almost seems to be made of pe
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by nvarsj 4y ago
I was laid off in 2010 and I can relate with a lot of these points. Especially how long it took me to find a new job. Despite what I thought was a great CV it took me nearly 6 months. I thought I’d find a job easily when I got laid off. It
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by nvarsj 4y ago
I actually dropped NixOS after using it for 2 years. It's just not practical for day to day work unless you want to be messing around with Nix config or fighting shared lib issues all the time. I'm using OpenSUSE atm and couldn&#x
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Plexamp is great. Even has built in EQ so I can use autoeq profiles on iOS etc. Reminds me a lot of Winamp of old.
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> That's intriguing. I would love some examples of these projects / products. It's literally the definition of skunkworks projects. Many companies have been saved by a small few ignoring all the "Nos" and just do
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I don't know about your friends, but playing Alyx opened my eyes to the level of immersion VR can achieve. It's a kind of gameplay that can't be repeated with 2d screens. I really do think it could be revolutionary, based on

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