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But views and norms are shared within a country and you can make accurate predictions about people based on their race, country of birth and country where they grew up. - A white person from Sweden is likely to be pro choice by American sta
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Elites in Kiev had all kinds of fancy stuff. They’re not the ones working for 30% of a western developers wage.
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The hard part of software is the communication. The easy part is writing the code. Outsourcing makes the hard part harder. If you completely misunderstood what your manager wanted, would your productivity be 80% or close to 0?
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You are underestimating how difficult it is to communicate with people from different cultures. I did an electricity project with developers from the Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bi
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Letting your opponent gas out is an effective strategy.
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> and life is pain So glad you finished with this. Right now I’m working with a guy who wants to write an interpreter…
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Emergency braking is much harder at freeway speeds. At 35mph you can have something (radar/cameras) look a few meters ahead, then if there is a stationary obstacle you slam on the brakes. At 60 that doesn’t work because braking distanc
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
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Yes our modern world does not make good use of grandparents. Given enough time you might expect that the cost of carrying elderly relatives is enough to select for quick dying grandparents. It might also select for healthy long lived grandp
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Grandparents contribute to the survival of their grandchildren. Evolution has selected for long lived grandparents. The same thing happened in elephants and whales.
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Hopefully that means we’ve got 20 years left of employment.
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In the olden days people died much younger. If you were middle/upper class you could expect your inheritance right as you were raising your kids. Also a lot more was expected of grandparents. They did a lot more childcare.
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This is incredible from a stakeholder management perspective. Normally non finance people in the organisation get hoodwinked by investment sales people. Then they pressure the finance guys into perusing a complex high fee strategy.
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Can you put a licence fee checker into the code? I’ve quietly released license enforcement into a client’s system before. They paid up very quickly. “Your licence has expired. Please contact xxxx for a new license”
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Talking abstractly is usually better in social situations. Your audience can get the main point really easily, and if they want more details then there are lots of questions they can ask. Diving into concrete details is bad because. - Expla
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This guy could have had so much fun travelling the world. Sure he’s not got much status in the tennis community, but everyone else is impressed if you say you're 378th in the world. All he had to do was spend time with non tennis ppl i
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You need a compelling story for why you want to go back to being an IC. Good options are, love of programming and dislike of the tough challenges of leadership and management. People are worried that you’ll quit after 3 months when you get
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Good point.
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An alternative is a really slow and old android phone. One that has a visible lag as it logs in and you have to wait for a minute or so before the apps open.
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You’re already managing a few hundred dependencies and their versions. Each venv roughly doubles the number of dependencies and they all have slightly different versions. Now your 15 venvs deep, and have over 3000 different package version
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Two problems intersect: - You can’t have two versions of the same package in the namespace at the same time. - The Python ecosystem is very bad at backwards compatibility This means that you might require one package that requires foo below
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It’s not mentioned in the article, but R struggles in a production environment. Things like security and TLS support are afterthoughts. If you're planning on scaling up, or working with confidential data then get as much of your pipeli
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> As a result the modern ID card system and citizen registration is decentralized by design. When you move between two Bundeslände (states), your records are digitally transferred. They may not under any circumstances exist in two. This
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Occasionally a bad government will come along. When the bad government tries to do the bad things it will use the tools it has to hand. If there is a national ID card system that is required for daily life then it is much easier for the bad
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If you put $1M into a globally diversified stock market index fund then you can withdraw 3%-4% for the rest of your life. That’s an annual salary of $30,000 - $40,000. Alternatively you could leave it invested and let it double every 10 yea
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Embrace simplicity and understandability as the key architectural tenets. If you understand it and it’s simple then it’s good enough. YAGNI and KISS are my key architectural tenants.
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There is no discussion of hiring/internally promoting a manger, then stepping back from running the company. Did you consider that option?
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I wonder how helpful “prompt unit tests” would be here? Write the initial prompt, and write some tests to validate the output of the prompt. Then as the prompt grows you can observe the decline in performance at the initial task. Then you
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Regarding #1. Will there be performance implications when adding the secure layer? Will there be cost implications when adding a secure layer? Will the secure layer add risks to the project? Governments are already bad at delivering defence
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The debate is framed as privacy vs security. Really it’s internal threat security vs external threat security. Measures to reduce personal security also reduce the security of the traditional armed forces. 1) The armed forces use most of th

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