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by pradn 5y ago
I think I know the answer to this, but how bad should I feel for being a software engineer with little-to-no knowledge of deep learning. I suspect it's not bad at all since the software engineering field has split into a few camps, and
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by pradn 5y ago
In Egypt the minimum wage for public sector workers is EGP 2,400 per month. A rapid test costs about EGP 700. Are the case numbers accurate when even a rapid test costs as much as a third of one's monthly salary?
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by pradn 5y ago
I've vaxxed and boosted and will continue to get boosted as often as is recommended. I follow the local regulations, which in NYC mainly involve masking up and showing a vax proof for indoor activities like dining, concerts, and riding
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by pradn 5y ago
I'm glad options like this exist. I worry about timely security updates and the hassle of setting up the sync solution. The worst middle-ground is being a free user of Dropbox. If you're a paid customer, you get less naggy upsells
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by pradn 5y ago
> I will say that this way of working and living comes with some significant hazard to your mental health. Doing something you don't like, care about, or believe in for decades long periods of time can really mess with your sense of
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by pradn 5y ago
I'm surprised you're asking this because it's quite optimistic. No, it's not possible. The best you can do is probably patching Win11 to somehow use Win10-ish UI features.
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by pradn 5y ago
If more people are able to have healthier lives and be productive in their chosen niche (if they choose to), there might be other benefits, too. For example, many fields benefit from long expertise, like mathematics.
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by pradn 5y ago
The major states with higher fertility rates have a population of 330 million, roughly 1/4th of India's population. Uttar Pradesh: 200 million, Bihar: 100 million, Jharkhand: 30 million. Uttar Pradesh itself is roughly as populous
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by pradn 5y ago
There's certainly better opportunities for well-trained professionals in developing countries, but there's still a large pay differential. On top of that, immigrants to wealthier Western countries seek the low levels of day-to-day
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by pradn 5y ago
It's still pretty expensive! NSO charged a flat $500,000 fee for installing Pegasus. It charged government agencies $650,000 to spy on 10 iPhones; $650,000 for 10 Android users; $500,000 for five BlackBerry users; or $300,000 for five
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by pradn 5y ago
A lot of that seems like it comes from the company or industries not seeming to care about the worker: bad work environments, precarious jobs, stress, working on something commercially useful but not otherwise meaningful.
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by pradn 5y ago
I didn't know you could opt out of level visibility!
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by pradn 5y ago
Yes, these factors would probably limit massive tape archives to only the biggest companies.
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by pradn 5y ago
I'm totally with you. I like buying Blu-Rays for especially beautiful films.
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by pradn 5y ago
Well, every dev is listed as "Software Engineer" unless they change it specifically. Maybe you're forced to change it if you're a manager, but I'm unsure of that. So you never exactly know the level of the person yo
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by pradn 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. It was very different coming from Microsoft, where people's title and level (about one-two levels corresponded to a particular title) were visible in every chat dialog, to Google where you can edit your ti
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by pradn 5y ago
Blu-Rays have become specialty items, like vinyl. Even most big-budget movies don't seem to have 4k Blu-Rays, let alone smaller movies. And there's now more and more direct-to-streaming movies that will never get a physical media
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by pradn 5y ago
If you're actually hyperscale, say 100 EB of tape, then you'll have dedicated teams just for tape archives. The heterogeneity doesn't seem like much of a problem when you have 200 engineers x 300k USD per engineer to spend on
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by pradn 5y ago
Realistically, this wont be a priority until Gartner has a category for this and places all these cloud players on a ranking scale. That sort of thing seems to really move the needle for execs.
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by pradn 5y ago
The likely explanation is that there hasn't been enough pressure put on them to improve these things. They care primarily about large customers, and they already have plenty of ways to resolve cost issues, and usually sign custom contr
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by pradn 5y ago
That's not true at all. Businesses want to reduce risk. Providing cost controls assuages a client's fears. If you're picking between two clouds, cost is a concern, and cost risk is a big factor in that. Would you put your car
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by pradn 5y ago
There's 9 Vermeers just within a few blocks in New York: 4 at the Frick Collection and 5 at the Metropolitan Museum.
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by pradn 5y ago
You're right to point out that these problems arise across entire industries. You can't vote with your money if all otherwise good TVs have crap built into them. And it's not easy for a new entrant to gain a foothold in such
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by pradn 5y ago
Nearly all of the inflation is coming from energy prices (driven by the post-covid recovery in demand and petrostates declining to raise prices to protect their revenues) and cars (used and new; driven by chip shortages and the increase in
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by pradn 5y ago
Construction costs increase exponentially going into the sky and also into the ground. Costs can be recouped via condo/office sales/rents. The height/depth vs cost line has to intersect with the line of economic activity. Tha
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by pradn 5y ago
When US gov expenditures are like $4 trillion yearly, $11 billion for an era-defining, cutting-edge space telescope built over 10-15 years does not seem much at all.
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by pradn 5y ago
I didn't know this, thanks for the context. Well, if at least the common features useful for most games are improved, that's not a loss.
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by pradn 5y ago
I'm glad they're getting funds, but they're from a company trying to add NFTs to games, which at best is distasteful. Now that I think of it, this seems like a mixed bag - they could have refused and took a stand, if they had
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by pradn 5y ago
Who is doing the subsidizing?
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by pradn 5y ago
Why is there an expectation that the consumer goods economy will be robust to a once-in-a-100-years global pandemic? It's a nice property to have for sure, and we should plan for it from a public health and governance point of view. Bu

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