slt2021

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by slt2021 2y ago
immigrating is very hard, smart people would love to stay where they were born. unfortunately developing countries make it impossible for smart people to stay due to corruption and small market/economy
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by slt2021 2y ago
my take is that within-datacenter traffic is best served by Ethernet. Anything on top of Ethernet, and we no longer know where this host is located (because of software defined networking). Could be next rack server, or could be something i
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by slt2021 2y ago
1. add software defined network, where transport and signaling is done by vendor-specific underlay, possibly across multiple redundant uplinks 2. term "external" is really vague as modern networks have blended boundaries. Things l
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by slt2021 2y ago
A typical software L7 load balancer (like nginx) will parse entire TCP stream and HTTP header and applies bunch of logic based on URL, and various HTTP headers. There is a lot of work going on in the userland, like filling up TCP buffer, pa
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by slt2021 2y ago
the problem with trying to replace TCP only inside DC, is because TCP will still be used outside DC. Networking Engineering is already convoluted and troublesome as it is right now, using only tcp stack. When you start using homa inside, bu
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by slt2021 2y ago
you dont need to even encrypt zip, since encrypted ZIP file can trigger tripwires during transmission. unencrypted zip, but using .docx or .xlsx format is the way to go (the best way is to hide inside one of the openxml tags or xml comments
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by slt2021 2y ago
1. I think the main thing is that Elon's own tweets are almost always make it to global broadcast via For You feed. 2. This effectively makes everyone see whatever Musk personally likes/retweets 3. It is soft of correct that there
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by slt2021 2y ago
a lot of people use the For You feed by default, since Titter makes it very inconvenient to use Following: - cannot disable/hide For you - always default for you, and no way to default to Following
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by slt2021 2y ago
I am proponent of Clean and Simple architecture that follows standard patterns. because they are easier to maintain, there should be no clever tricks or arch. all software arch should be boring and simple, with as few tricks as possible, un
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by slt2021 2y ago
old good ole Twitter was when your feed was only those you followed. new X is when your feed what Elon wants you to see and react to.
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by slt2021 2y ago
maybe its a signal that you software should be restructured into modules that fit well-established patterns. its like you are building website thats not using MVC and complain that LLM advice is garbage...
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by slt2021 2y ago
I agree 100%. With ChatGPT at everyone's disposal with entire humanity knowledge in generative form, we need to completely rethink the concept of teaching and learning. There are so many opportunities to deliver personalized Ivy League
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by slt2021 2y ago
it is incredible how social networks are scrutinized for handling PII. however telecom carriers have zero scrutiny. their outdated Call Records system probably contain numerous vulnerabilities and backdoors
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by slt2021 2y ago
I think it helps to isolate the issue and prescribe better targeted intervention measures. If we can say that for the same level, gender pay gap does not exist, but there is discrepancy in promoting women to senior/executive levels: an
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by slt2021 2y ago
> 99¢ vs. $1 for men isn't it on the border of measurement error ? Would it be fair to say, after controlling for some variables the gender gap narrows down to 1% (which is a fairly small number if you ask me). Like $1000 per year o
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by slt2021 2y ago
to me, this is actually an argument in favor of becoming a spherical object, so that you can easily switch job in case your boss is horrible. You don't want to be stuck under a bad boss, do you? or do you want to take a gamble that eac
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by slt2021 2y ago
> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherhood_penalty progenity penalty is a societal issue, not issue between worker-corp. It is individual ch
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by slt2021 2y ago
each family makes their own decision how to split responsibilities at home. Its possible that men take care of children, while women work more. my position is each wife's gender gap is compensated by husband's gender gap, and on b
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by slt2021 2y ago
sales is literally you-eat-what-you-kill. you get paid % commission on sales regardless of your gender. There are so many sales people nobody would actually bother creating a separate pay grade for women and separate for men (and it would b
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by slt2021 2y ago
did you actually read the research you cited? because it DOES NOT control for hours worked nor experience, and lumps up narrow specialties with wide specialties together in a single "finance". There is a huge difference in finance
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by slt2021 2y ago
My argument is we have at-will employment which means you are free to work at any company willing to hire you, and free to leave and join elsewhere if you find a better place. I certainly benefited myself from at-will employment and free la
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by slt2021 2y ago
do you have an argument to the contrary, besides spelling?
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by slt2021 2y ago
you can do a little scientific experiment yourself: Change your linkedin location to San Francisco, add the buzz words and $big_tech_company to your profile, make sure you are of under-represented minority in profile, and watch recruiters b
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by slt2021 2y ago
"Gender studies" is usually used as a dog whistle for low rigor Liberal Arts programs like Psychology (as opposed to high rigor STEM programs like Physics). Colleges aggressively enroll low-SAT high schoolers in these low rigor fi
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by slt2021 2y ago
this is not an issue between union and corporation, but more like societal issue. Other countries provide prolonged maternity leave (Sweden has 16 months leave) and free/cheap childcare. Its just that American lawmakers don't valu
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by slt2021 2y ago
could not disagree more. Switching jobs in tech is literally free pay raise. top tier tech worker can jump jobs every 2 years and get ~30% bump every time. You are actually leaving money on the table if you dont switch jobs (in tech specifi
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by slt2021 2y ago
Deemed “as less productive” by whom? We have a free labour market, if it was true that NYT underpaid Black workers for the same productivity, they could easily jump ship to other company and make more $$. What is stopping “black people” fro
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by slt2021 2y ago
>>According to the study, Black tech workers at the newspaper make 26 percent less than white workers >>women, who make up over 40 percent of the Tech Guild, earn 12 percent less on average than men claims like these always irk
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by slt2021 2y ago
but the model doesn't operate on token directly, right? all operations are happening in the embedding space, so these tokens get mapped into manifold and one of the dimensions could be representative of fact/trivia ?
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by slt2021 2y ago
Crebs on security - I think he is the Matt Levine of the cyber security. Joel Spolsky's blog (Joel on Software) was also very pleasant read on software back in the day

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