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by roughly 1y ago
For what it's worth, the two tricks I found for leet-code interviews were 1) do the simple stupid thing first - get something _working_, and then make it good and 2) explain what you're doing and what you're thinking about to
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I've got a VPS and domain I've had for a long time - for most of these, docker compose + the VPS did the job just fine. I was in the same boat - I'd fallen behind on a lot of the ops stack, and project setup wound up being a
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by roughly 1y ago
The joy of personal projects is they can look like shit! You'd also be surprised how much you can learn by just screwing around with something for a day. A big part of the whole exercise for me was getting out of my comfort zone and le
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by roughly 1y ago
One of the best things that I’ve done for myself, career-wise, came during a 6-month sabbatical between jobs. I had a bunch of projects that I wanted to do, but I kept finding myself stymied by scope creep - when you don’t have any constrai
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by roughly 1y ago
> I don't think they want Genocide. They look at the Palestinian extremists and say that they will never change. No matter what we try they will always try to kill us. So if it's us or them it should be us. This is a bit of sem
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by roughly 1y ago
> But I guess you have your own version of that... Indeed we do :-) > That is why the Palestinian authority never joined Hamas's war against Israel. The PA's reward for this is the settlers. I think a basic problem for Israe
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by roughly 1y ago
So, first, noting from your other comments here that you're not getting to armchair this from the safety of abroad like the rest of us - I sincerely hope you and your family stay safe and can know peace. I'm putting a lot of words
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by roughly 1y ago
One thing worth note here - TPUs are optimized for a fairly constrained set of operations. Google’s had good success with them, but, like many of the other Google architectural choices, this will constrain Google’s technical choice space in
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by roughly 1y ago
Aside from the specifics of Nvidia vs Google, one thing to note regarding company valuations is that not all parts of the company are necessarily additive. As an example (read: a thing I’m making up), consider something like Netflix vs Bloc
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by roughly 1y ago
Again, I’d encourage you to stop thinking you’re dealing with people fundamentally different than you, and start considering why they’re acting the way they’re acting. You’ve referenced Palestinian fighters a couple times - I’d suggest the
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No, the western kind of logic here is to assume the people we’ve taken as enemies are irrational and fanatical caricatures, instead of normal-ass humans who are attempting to maintain agency over their lives and responding to the actions of
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by roughly 1y ago
And yet, for twenty goddamn years now, they’ve been negotiating with us and have _not_ built a nuclear weapon, despite repeated threats and provocations by the US. Iran is not an irrational actor. They are a state under siege by a superpowe
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by roughly 1y ago
> doesn't the Iranian government know that it would instantly be destroyed the moment they used a nuclear weapon of any kind? YES. They Absolutely know this. The point of an Iranian nuke is deterrence, and the reason Israel finds th
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by roughly 1y ago
> I expect a major US city to have a nuke set off in it by Iran within the next 5 years. This absolutely will not happen. Iran will make a nuke, and they will test it very publicly, and then the political math in the Middle East changes
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by roughly 1y ago
Now and again the actual engineers at NASA or ESA or the like pull something off like this to remind the rest of us that we're just cosplaying
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Just to call it explicitly, because I think this is one of the big points of misunderstanding between pro- and anti-nuclear people (take that as a very rough categorization and not an accusation) - There is a difference between “something c
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by roughly 1y ago
So, the beginning of that sentence is: > I had jumped through the relevant bureaucratic hoops
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> one has to pay to enter the toilet. I’m not sure what people were expecting when they implemented this policy. There’s plenty of places to pee in the world, a restroom is a request it happens in one particular place.
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One note on this with regards to the “flat” design - the technical reasoning for that was it decoupled the interface from the screen. Flat designs were all vector, and could scale to any screen or interface size. This has effectively unpinn
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> People do not want invasive glasses, even if they make them as small at normal glasses. I just don't see it becoming anything other than a niche product. Wait, are you arguing that consumers will reject something that puts, say, a
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Defector had a great piece on roughly this point: https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-wo...
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by roughly 1y ago
So’s Azure? https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ This is where we get to learn about the one common system all of our “distributed cloud” systems rely on, isn’t it?
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This is neat! I’m not fully through it yet, but just wanted to emphasize this: > And understanding molecular motion is key for everything in biology, everything in biology is vibrating molecules underneath the surface! Coming into bio as
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by roughly 1y ago
If you’re looking for a hobby computer, Framework’s laptops are a lot of fun. There’s something about a machine that’s so intentionally designed to be opened up and tinkered with - it’s not my daily driver, but it’s my go to for silly proje
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by roughly 1y ago
Advertising is a fungus. You let it into any part of your product and it’ll be everywhere before you know it.
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by roughly 1y ago
Yeah I got a couple places on my resume I don’t like to talk about anymore. Turns out an awful lot of things are bad for the world in the wrong hands. Still, if I’m going to spend a third of my life on something - and, more importantly, if
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by roughly 1y ago
> I admit it is exciting to make something you truly believe is good and helpful. I want to double down on this - I’m lucky enough to have worked places where I truly believed the world would be a better place if we “won,” and not on the
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by roughly 1y ago
I recommend “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow - they do a good job dispelling this myth.
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> People who imagine that they'll emerge victoriously from the chaos are really quite childish; odds are that the accelerationists will suffer like all the rest -- or worse. They're like children who read medieval history and i
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGRLGkm0QE I’m reminded of when the US military figured out it should just replace all its proprietary field drone controllers with Xbox controllers because every single grunt that enli

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