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by ptero 9mo ago
> “this other thing is also bad” is not an exoneration No, but it puts some perspective on things. IMO Google, after abandoning its early "don't be evil" motto is directly responsible for a significant chunk of the curre
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by ptero 10mo ago
I would use your software skills to get in the door as a software engineer, then weasel into a sciencey position. That is: 1. Find a company that has non-software jobs that you like. Look at what companies advertise on their web sites; go t
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by ptero 10mo ago
> university professors don't necessarily have the authority or budget to hire assistants. Agreed, hiring in academia is both painful and tricky. But someone running a grad program for the department and who is as overloaded as th
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by ptero 10mo ago
It is important to clarify what we mean by "obligated / not optional", as I think there is a terminology mismatch. When I said that a particular job task is not optional I mean that not doing this task will lead to a discipli
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by ptero 10mo ago
> As for reducing: research, grad programs, journals, media inquiries - these are not optional for profs For a tenured professor (and someone who runs the department's grad program and teaches many classes almost certainly has a ten
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by ptero 10mo ago
What you describe is a job that requires a lot of thoughtful, or at least meaningful, answers to a lot of people. If each answer leads to a context switch, this lands hard on any other work you do. On the comms side, this may well be a full
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by ptero 10mo ago
Which is fine. Goals shift and can even completely disappear, forcing you to pick another one. But having and pursuing long term goals at most times is still the ticket for success. My 2c.
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by ptero 10mo ago
Nothing wrong in rationalizing content sharing; as in rationalizing copyright. But IMO the current form of the copyright for both the technical and the creative works is a cure that is worse than the disease. Recommending to an individual t
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by ptero 10mo ago
> Immich solves the wrong problem. I just want the household to share photos That is a totally reasonable view. But others have different preferences. I, for example, do not want to share all my photos with Google, govvies and anyone els
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by ptero 10mo ago
Just a personal opinion, but as an occasional job seeker here, I prefer the current system, seeing "no complaints in replies" policy as efficiency, not censorship. Were it not the case I suspect many job postings would become disc
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by ptero 10mo ago
Depends on the specific incarnation of the democracy. Not infrequently in elections the majority sees the choice as the one of the lesser evil.
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by ptero 11mo ago
For example: allocating the resources to only few industries deprives everyone else: small players, hobbyists, gamers, tinkerers from opportunities to play with their toys. And small players playing with random toys is a source of multiple
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by ptero 11mo ago
Chatgpt is not the only game in town. Any exclusivity deal will likely backfire against chatgpt.
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by ptero 11mo ago
This is probably research into protocol for time sync. Which works well for some scenarios, but not yet for others and can improve the reference implementation (I guess; I have no hard knowledge there). And given that ntp.org runs servers t
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by ptero 11mo ago
It is not a free thinking paradise in academia either. Different groups fighting for hiring, promotions and influence exist there, too. And it tends to be more pronounced: it is much easier in industry to find a comparable job to escape a t
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by ptero 11mo ago
This is likely very regional. As a single data point, raising the family in the Boston area for the last 25 years I do not recall not being able to see a doctor the same day for the regular scares, from ear pains and high fever to falling
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by ptero 11mo ago
The equivalent of dual-booting would, IMO, be a big step towards Google-independence. In my grad school days in the mid-90s I set up Linux because it let me write programs in a modern way, accessing all the available memory without jumping
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by ptero 1y ago
The toxicity is not about accepting contributions. I have zero issues with this, the project is, as you said, his personal garden. But the behavior in chats is absolutely toxic. If you put out a sign "come listen to my music" an
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by ptero 1y ago
This is all good, and as an American citizen I cheer any attempt by Europe (China, Japan, anti-China SEA players or anyone else) to provide an alternative: of tech, of weapons procurement, of social model, of political setup or of anything
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by ptero 1y ago
Neither the fact that starlink seems better not that they do not trust Musk is necessary true. In business, especially on the government side, incumbency plays a very big role. Just knowing whom to call in case of issues and how soon they r
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by ptero 1y ago
This is a regular fellowship. Nothing wrong with those, they can be government (assuming people are OK with this way to spend their taxes) or private. Those are pretty common. I was funded by a private fellowship for a year of my PhD; don&#
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by ptero 1y ago
That seldom works. Simple repeaters transmit the strongest signal they get and can be easily hijacked by a rogue ground transmitter. This is the main reason simple repeaters on orbit went out of fashion in the 1980s.
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by ptero 1y ago
Fair, but there are so many things pushing the Bitcoin price up and down: approvals and rejections of various ETFs, tax law changes around the world, corporate adoption and lack thereof, successes and failures of L2 networks, etc. And eac
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by ptero 1y ago
> Reminder, if you're invested in crypto long term, you'd better say a prayer every night that Tether is actually backed by ~$180B of liquidity. As a long-term holder of Bitcoin I do not see why I should lose any sleep due to T
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by ptero 1y ago
> Should we go back to the shack era? Of course not. I am not sure. Different people want different things. I ran a Hetzner cloud instance where I toss a simple webpage with locally hosted travel photos for friends and family. And a Jupi
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by ptero 1y ago
And later put it in an interstellar space, no less!
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by ptero 1y ago
I bet that is correct. And not just for academics, it should be OK for an AWS employee to call AI investments a bubble or worse. As long as he clearly states that it is only his personal opinion.
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by ptero 1y ago
I am not sure there is a strong societal pressure to be thin. Last several years, probably. But older generations, nor so much (see deities in any buddist temple). And there was enough time after food became abundant for the older generatio
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by ptero 1y ago
I am not sure there is a strong societal pressure to be thin. Last several years, sure. But older generations, nor so much (see deities in any buddist temple). And there was enough time after food became abundant for the older generations h
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by ptero 1y ago
I have read somewhere (on HN?) a hypothesis that such traditional diets pretty quickly wipe out genetic lines predisposed to diabetes, etc. And that the effect is not diet, it is genetics+diet. Not sure if there is any truth in that.

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