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by pishpash 5y ago
Has anyone ever said "tests fucked me over"? Yes, some people say that, but every time I meet one I see why they tested low. Being able to stay calm under pressure and complete a task on time, and preparing for that, are important
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by pishpash 5y ago
It's not. Being well rounded is the ideal of the nobility in practically every settled culture, ancient or modern. It's the definition of "cultured". Having said that, it is a class marker, so participants of the dominan
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by pishpash 5y ago
Who says it isn't? Being in a silly club hasn't worked as well as people think it does for quite a while now. Admissions see tons of this bullshit and I bet their eyes glaze over.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Based on this MIT press release stating that controlling for socio-economic factors test score was still significant in predicting outcome in college. You want to challenge that you need to come up with data. 18 years of growth differences
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by pishpash 5y ago
No. That only tells you to fix those factors but the outcome is what they are. By the time of the ACT/SAT test it's too late to fix those things. Fix those upstream.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Learning about those things aren't necessary for those jobs but they prove that you're capable of learning something , and as such is a part of the FAANG acceptance process.
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by pishpash 5y ago
90% of software engineers don't do algorithms, even in ML -- nor are they capable of, besides rote memorization of interview algorithms. Software engineering these days is mostly a job of complexity management and automation, requiring
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by pishpash 5y ago
That's not the political argument being made against them though.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Your bet is based on anything? The second story is a potential sob story that plays better, barring subjective classist biases counteracting. That only points to objective test scores being a better measure.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Yes, the problem is the classic landowning class vs. serfs. It's just that the USA had a lot of land compared to population for a long time, but one day it will explode in redistribution when too few people own too much land.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Resilient to corrections? Nothing is. They are just the last to correct.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Micro refers to microcomputers.
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by pishpash 5y ago
That's a shallow distinction. The constant migration is because internally teams are abandoning projects. Whether another team picks up a similar project is a secondary process, and may not happen, then you have a killed product. This
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by pishpash 5y ago
What about the hardware side of this? All this talk about software...
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by pishpash 5y ago
That would be too much user choice.
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by pishpash 5y ago
The lesson is never auto-update, i.e. pin versions all the way down, like the old days when everything was compiled in.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Choice implies a non-processed alternative but hardware has been driven in a direction so as to make the non-processed alternative unusable (meh hardware, processing to fix).
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by pishpash 5y ago
They write reports to facilitate communication between people who are disconnected by the large number of people in a large organization who write reports. Get rid of people who write reports (managers first) and magically you will not need
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by pishpash 5y ago
Because they're not graded? No KPI tracking.
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by pishpash 5y ago
It's "not" funded but gets politically motivated emergency loans and sometimes one-off funds from the Treasury, or it couldn't run a deficit. It's probably quite corrupt in how it spends money.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Interesting, you're right. However does that not present a backdoor by setting up a local time server to proxy changes? It's a hack but ... a solution.
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by pishpash 5y ago
More than these exceptions, gadgets nowadays like to be IoT's and use internet time servers. The blast radius on things made since 2007 is likely smaller than you think.
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by pishpash 5y ago
People deal with a random shift of light twice a year now, they cannot deal with no change? It's not like these decisions all need central planning and we must cover every edge case: people figure out what to do in a distributed way.
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by pishpash 5y ago
That's badly written code. Timezones (globally) changed over time. Even Bush Jr. changed DST.
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by pishpash 5y ago
At $100-200 per year? No, the cushion won't be failing after a year. That would be a $30 chair.
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by pishpash 5y ago
And heat-polluted waste waters? People keep pretending there are no externalities.
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by pishpash 5y ago
First application would be for babies.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Garbage in garbage out. How do we know the emotional states are what they are? Better to use as label something objectively measurable but costly to observe like some internal brain or chemical state of the pigs.
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by pishpash 5y ago
Has it actually begun?
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by pishpash 5y ago
Maybe they ticket that behavior in Oregon?

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