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by ska 3y ago
Isn't that sort of what I said? For some people the trade off is worth it, some it isn't. Academia BS vs corporate BS is just one of the aspects.
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by ska 3y ago
This assumes everyone's primary motivation is $, which just isn't true. I've known super bright and talented people who gone off to wall street or FAANG for big $, but I've also known equally strong people who turned it
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by ska 3y ago
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago… At the end of the day, industries are principally responsible for the health of their workforce overall. If there is a shortage, it is a failure of leadership. That is why “labor shortage” is
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by ska 3y ago
While this is true in the short term, it usually means the roles didn’t pay enough to keep the “funnel” open, so it’s an aspect of the same problem.
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by ska 3y ago
Wikipedia has a summary of some of the earlier history here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by ska 3y ago
This is approximately true at the moment - but it's an open question how much that is worth to customers. The market will sort it out, but it's not clear that all of these "wrapper" startups have a workable business mod
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by ska 3y ago
Isn’t the point of the OP that this “top of the line” fridge has poor ergonomics and features relative to the 70 year old one? If true, that is at least interesting.
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by ska 3y ago
> It's less like you're walking in traffic and more like the car is intruding on a pedestrian space. As far as I can see, this is essential to ant attempt a truly "walkable" city (assuming that is your goal). City st
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by ska 3y ago
Lots of systems with bulky and expensive cooling (think MRI scanners, e.g.) could become vastly more accessible. Wildly improved efficiency on some sensors, antenna, motors, etc.
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by ska 3y ago
This works fine as long as you only do things for which someone else has written the c/c++ parts you need already. Really the premise of Julia is to make their life easier, while leaving yours equivalently easy (or better).
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by ska 3y ago
I always have the same gut reaction - then I realize I know people who lose at least 10k every 2-3 years on a new vehicle; one that they are financing and driving 2+ hours a day. So factor in gas and insurance etc., you can see it.
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by ska 3y ago
Some of it is hubris, some just naivety. It's very true that in a e.g. a "pure" software tech company, software engineers have much more power than they do in say an oil exploration company. This isn't surprising, it&#x
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by ska 3y ago
> The actual people who succeed by not running the company in the ground are the engineers This typically just isn't close to true. If you are in a tech based business, having competent engineering is table stakes, but that's n
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by ska 3y ago
Doesn’t sound plausible. Doctors aren’t really casting around for work, these visits aren’t particularly or unusually straightforward for a GP - and at a guess a majority of women who stay on hormonal birth control have had some problems w
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by ska 3y ago
Of course it needs some leadership, but the multiple "C" levels are mostly just about ego management, very little to do with day-to-day or scope, in practice. Hell you don't need any C levels at all. The legal structure does
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by ska 3y ago
Does "get ahead" mean only salary level? Most technical people I've met who bemoan the "fact" that they would make more at their company as a manager (mediocre or otherwise) would also have the option of moving co
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by ska 3y ago
> it'd seem a bit weird wouldn't it? No weirder than a little young startup with a CEO, a CTO, a CMO, etc. etc. Titles in general aren't that meaningful without context, no?
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by ska 3y ago
" you are just way more valuable in the force-multiplying role" Isn't this sort of the point? It's not a matter of respect so much as impact. Having say director level impact as an IC requires working on the right sorts
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by ska 3y ago
> to turn off the engine at every stop, and starting a vehicle is fuel intensive in an ICE vehicle This is backwards. The whole point of these systems is that it costs more in fuel at idle than it does to stop and restart. Lots of &quot
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by ska 3y ago
Multiprocessing does basically the same thing, but in python.
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by ska 3y ago
Is your problem that the c part of GDAL isn't concurrent and you are calling it multiple times, or are you blocking on something you shouldn't? Python calling a concurrent c thing is super common. For more complex things there is
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by ska 3y ago
Why are you proposing they chose the team because they were "smart" rather than because they "ship things", as per GP comment?
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by ska 3y ago
I think that's what I was suggesting.
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by ska 3y ago
That argument works the other way around too, either way you are asking others to accommodate your preference. I think “let people choose” is the right idea at the “choose your job” or sometimes “choose your team” level.
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by ska 3y ago
> It can do well with optimization and readability if you ask it specifically for those things My experience so far (including -4) this isn't really true, even when focusing on those aspects. I'm cautiously optimistic this
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by ska 3y ago
This doesn't really sound like SA, which is a principled approach to avoid the local min problem in descent algorithms and end up with a true global optimization. The general result is clean and impractical, the approximations hard to
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by ska 3y ago
I wouldn't classify any of the output I've seen so far as "optimally readable/understandable". Some if it looks pretty ok, especially where it overlaps with well established approaches.
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by ska 3y ago
> enters into essential matters for the well-being of society. Which has poorly defined boundaries because people disagree on essential. In practice "Big Government" is used only for PR value. It sometimes seems the more a pol
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by ska 3y ago
> yet you define your online persona with it how do you figure?
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by ska 3y ago
The term "grokking" has been used for something like "deep understanding" for many decades now, after it's introduction in an early 1960's novel. Perhaps not falling into completely general use, but popular wi

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