shoo

18 ms·

211.
by shoo 2y ago
> continuous at exactly one place (0) and nowhere else after a bit of thought, less surprising if we regard g(x) as a function that is defined pointwise as either i(x) = x or z(x) = 0 depending on some highly discontinuous property of x
212.
by shoo 2y ago
there's still room for MAX(+, +) or MAX(+, PRO)
213.
by shoo 2y ago
see also: Richard Fabian's data-oriented design book -- the chapter on existential processing discusses enums https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/node4.html Rough idea: model everything as relational data -
214.
by shoo 2y ago
i think there might be merit to gdiamos's point that python is a popular language with a large number of users, and this might mean that python package management isn't unusually bad, but more users implies more complaints. i thin
215.
by shoo 2y ago
You can hand that GELU definition to a mathematician and they can interpret it as a function of a real number b. The definition does not depend upon b being a floating-point number with a particular bit representation. In contrast, the fast
216.
by shoo 2y ago
Paul Vojta p546 http://www.ams.org/notices/200605/fea-lang.pdf
217.
by shoo 2y ago
the same author has also published an interesting series of "annual review" blog posts summarising his progress trying to get different software businesses off the ground -- including being quite open about the finances. If you&#x
218.
by shoo 2y ago
if this is just a workload vs capacity thing -- where the workload exceeds capacity, is there a way to add some back-pressure to reduce the frequency of on-call issues that your team is faced with? are you / your team empowered to push
219.
by shoo 2y ago
Some people in industry wearing a "data scientist" hat may be working with R. I worked with a few people in a for-profit megacorp who had developed a particular forecasting model in R -- that model ended up getting rewritten in P
220.
by shoo 2y ago
> What reasons have you found that make you want to stop being a Software Engineer? this is an excellent question. each individual may give different reasons, and the reasons could suggest completely different occupations as a good fit.
221.
by shoo 2y ago
> My advice: find the best paying SWE job you can find. > At the same time minimize your expense. Some people frame this as first accumulating savings, then quitting the job & depleting those savings to buy time while ta
222.
by shoo 2y ago
/dev/null : the optimal solution for write-only workloads
223.
by shoo 2y ago
yup. i recall first being exposed to this while trying to understand why a memory-hog backend service was being oom-killed in production while attempting to spawn a resource-light subprocess via fork+exec, while there was still a good porti
224.
by shoo 2y ago
what decision / downstream process is going to consume the 1B node graph render? is producing a render really necessary for that decision, or is rendering the graph waste? is there a way you can subsample or simplify or approximate th
225.
by shoo 2y ago
I am not familiar with the job market in Germany, but here are a couple of comments based on what I have seen in Australia Some large companies/organisations have an annual intake of graduates in a grad program. Some grad programs offe
226.
by shoo 2y ago
> Keep reminding the team I need a review but only the tech lead actually reviews anything idea i (less healthy): maybe that gives you an angle -- if the tech lead is behaving like this with your other colleagues, maybe you can privately
227.
by shoo 2y ago
microwave?
228.
by shoo 2y ago
that is indeed an excellent read, thank you for sharing it
229.
by shoo 2y ago
it's dodgy reframing, but you can't conclude that non-Telsa manufacturers made up the bulk of it, at least from that isolated quote Suppose Tesla had 99% market share at the start of the period. Sales of the entire market growing
230.
by shoo 2y ago
once those custom codegen tools become established and popular, someone will have the idea that if they slap a GUI on the front it'll be much easier for non-engineers in the business to pick up and use. this is reminiscent of https:&#
231.
by shoo 2y ago
ssshhhhh, not so loud, they'll hear you and add scarecrows to the checklist of mandatory runtime security requirements for production services
232.
by shoo 2y ago
Joel Spolsky touched on Sun in Strategy Letter V (2002): https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ > Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements. [...] > Headl
233.
by shoo 2y ago
it's important to figure out where to set your own boundaries. people out to exploit you will seek to see how far they can push. congratulations for leaving. one thing that catches out some junior folks is that they may believe this k
234.
by shoo 2y ago
as hypothetical product owner given i heard about the benefits of minimising WIP to improve cashflow in manufacturing processes and given i believe what is best in context A is also best in unrelated context B provided similar word
235.
by shoo 2y ago
jackdawed has shared a gem of actionable advice here for anyone reading the thread and thinking "i will also quit my terrible SWE job and pursue my dream of being a bookstore cafe owner/operator" > Laptop & Lattes ESRI
236.
by shoo 2y ago
a board game store might be challenging if you are doing it as bricks & mortar retail and competing against online sellers. i think it can work but you would want to be somewhere with a lot of retail foot traffic. you are going to need
237.
by shoo 2y ago
math is a subject that stacks abstraction on abstraction on abstraction, year after year. if a student didn't understand a fundamental math concept in an early year (perhaps for no fault of their own -- perhaps an undiagnosed issue imp
238.
by shoo 2y ago
six mountains dewing five bajas blasting four attournies generalising three jokes fading two eyes closing one final line
239.
by shoo 2y ago
> it's more like opening a community cafe and hanging a sign on the wall saying "please bring a dish for our free communal meal - we'd be happy to add it (when we get around to it, if we like it, and if the cafe is still o
240.
by shoo 2y ago
> Sidenote 2: cloaking devices are often misused in science fiction. When a ship is cloaked, it is invisible, which means it lets through all light from behind. This means that this light is not entering the cloaked ship, which means tha

More ›