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by nwiswell 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the skepticism overdose, but ultimately this is a fallacious appeal to authority. GP makes good points. Even the Google/Verily glucose contact lens didn't work out and this is an order of magnitude more com
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Or just bad at the hunting part.
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> two groups "fires" refers to termination of employment, not firemen.
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This only works if you are trying to go hyperscale. Most side projects do not qualify.
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> TPUs accelerate any linear algebra Do they actually? Or do they just accelerate matrix multiplications of a very specific size? I am not really a domain expert for scientific computing, but for example in finite element analysis, the t
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by nwiswell 4y ago
For hourly workers, you're right. For salaried knowledge workers (probably most of us here), I think this would be a big deal. That's because a typical day usually lasts until one of two conditions are met: 1) All of the organizat
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I live in the SF Bay Area as well. He's right. We had multiple days where the smoke was so thick that the sun was blood red. Here's a couple of news clippings from different days in 2020 https://www.kron4.com/news&
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> it is a powerful tool that produces catastrophic results when wielded by those who do not understand how it works. In this case the "catastrophic result" is being forced to resort to email.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
> Nasty politics, homelessness, crime, public defacation, a general "fuck the poor" culture (on both sides of the political isle), gun violence Not to be an apologist for any of this, but I find it hard to believe any of these
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> What stops you from using discord messages as a database? :p I really enjoy this type of stuff though, is there a term for it? "Our tech stack is Clojure hosted on the JVM of massively distributed workers running opportunistically
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by nwiswell 4y ago
What stops this kind of coordination from being used to smuggle an arbitrary massively parallel workload onto the system? :o)
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Yeah, I worry about this a lot, honestly. Perhaps it's my biggest mental block for taking the plunge and changing careers into software. I'm a senior engineer, but doing something very niche that is only software-adjacent. There&#
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I'm not sure it's clairvoyance so much as risk management. They see a possible future in which they are unable to survive at current spend, and based on conservative management principles they've decided to make the tough
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I agree. > people who want to do philosophy without studying any of it strikes me as unnecessary gatekeeping. The context here is fairly basic logic and critical thinking that clearly does not require formal study. I hope that more peopl
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by nwiswell 4y ago
When a video like this goes up, prices probably spike. Tiny inventory, and suddenly a ton of interest. I've seen this effect with other obscure nerd toys (e.g., Xeon Phi hits the reddit frontpage). Maybe set a reminder to check again i
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Can't you still gain an unfair advantage using Bayesian search theory where probability drops to zero at the "revealing radius"? Or is the "revealing radius" somewhat randomized over time in a way that's invisi
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by nwiswell 4y ago
I think you're underestimating the scale of the modern data center.
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As usual, the lawyers win.
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Server power supplies are expensive, and data centers sure do care about the bottom line. If it costs $20 to fix a $100 power supply, why would you replace it?
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Hmm! It certainly seems like if it's worthwhile for anyone to do with unspecialized labor, then it would certainly be worth doing for a specialist. Why is it that I've never heard of a power supply repair technician in a data cent
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Awesome! I've got about a hundred server power supplies that need fixing, what do you charge?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
If you're defining Rock, Paper, Scissors as a game of pure skill, that's probably an indication that your definition is bad. Luck or chance in a game is any factor which causes the outcome between two players of unequal skill to b
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by nwiswell 4y ago
So superelastic nitinol could be used to fashion a heat pump by placing a wire around a small pulley in the cold reservoir and a large pulley in the hot reservoir. When the wire is strongly deformed, the phase transition causes it to absorb
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by nwiswell 4y ago
A more concrete (and possibly apocryphal) example is if the message ends like so: "XXXX XXXXXX" Fair odds that's "Heil Hitler"
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Sounds a lot like you actually are one of the many individuals who do not optimize for salary. Maybe OP is, too. If he isn't, I think my suggestion is appropriate.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
Yeah, I think that's actually part of the intent of the whiteboarding in the first place. How type-A and career-obsessed are you? Enough to spend months learning tangentially relevant material to pass an interview?
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by nwiswell 4y ago
The good news is that that's a predictor for a shitty startup (or at least a predictor for a startup that isn't focused on building things)
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Very good compared to Google and Facebook, or is that a subjective statement? But to be honest, your answer is not likely to change my opinion. For the vast majority of new grads leetcode is the obvious recommendation to maximize income. Pe
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The question answers itself, doesn't it? If you care primarily about your salary, become good at leetcode. If you don't, join a startup.
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by nwiswell 4y ago
What do you mean "too early"? Core inflation has been above 6% since January. The headline number is even higher. The Fed will be raising rates. The question is how far they have to go before inflation subsides, but it is monument

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