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by t8sr 2y ago
I guess I'm officially listed as a "staff engineer". I have been at this for 20 years, and I work with multiple teams in pretty different areas, like the kernel, some media/audio logic, security, database stuff... I end
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by t8sr 2y ago
I mean this in the nicest way possible: this paragraph, with all the repetition and constant use of the word "expert", is completely unhinged. I really recommend re-reading what you write.
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by t8sr 2y ago
What you're describing is not how it works. Chiefly, the hiring pipelines are not set up for a single role, but a whole family of them. They are filled ahead of need. (Or were, at a time when this would've been taking place.) Ther
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by t8sr 2y ago
Started 15-20 years ago, whereas Uber and Tesla hopped on the bandwagon late and tried to play catchup. I remember talking about the self-driving project at Google in 2008 or something like that. (IIRC they were trying to use Haskell for so
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by t8sr 2y ago
And this is why I now have to read 30 page design docs that could have been 3 pages and said the same thing. Please try to understand why people have such strong dislike of floral writing, especially in technical texts. If you read a lot of
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by t8sr 2y ago
This is amazing, but crashes with a 500 every 30 seconds.
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by t8sr 2y ago
It's definitely harder, as you say. Not only do you have to think about technical aspects of security and privacy, but also the legal requirements for those things, and how they differ across countries. But the complexity is not so mu
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by t8sr 2y ago
This is nihilistic nonsense. The author's problem is that he's only ever seemingly worked on web stuff. People stay in their domain far too often and then come up with big statements like "I have 20 years of experience and do
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by t8sr 2y ago
The culture around Rust is perfectly calibrated to set off middle-aged C/C++ developers. 1) It's very assertive without having a lot of experience or a track record. 2) It's extremely online, filled with anime references and
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by t8sr 2y ago
You hire juniors on potential, seniors to fix a gap. Right now, 90% of hiring is focused on plugging gaps in the next 6 months - that's just where we are in the cycle. As to why we're here, I think it's obvious at this point
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by t8sr 2y ago
You wrote a pretentious post to say the movie was pretentious. Maybe Coppola made an obvious movie to say a thing is obvious? Or maybe not, and neither one of you was being clever.
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by t8sr 2y ago
As a physics student, I feel compelled to point out, to any readers who might now go read Hossenfelders other articles, that many of her views are generally not shared by a majority of physicists today. She is a real physicist and not a koo
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by t8sr 2y ago
What are you talking about, my marginal tax rate in Switzerland is 50%. When I last went to Prague, I changed trains at a station that prominently said it was financed by “friendship funds” from Switzerland. My taxes already are paying for
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by t8sr 2y ago
I don’t buy the idea that it’s mainly because of network complexity and line length. Local lines, even ones that don’t share tracks with any other trains, are routinely cancelled or delayed, as well. Other large countries manage to run trai
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by t8sr 2y ago
There is an outward force from the neutrons, called neutron degeneracy pressure. It's not really a case of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, as much as they are both different descriptions of what's going on with the wave function.
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by t8sr 2y ago
It’s watching the system for events like “file was opened” and “process started”, and looking for patterns resembling hackers/malware. It’s different from AV in that it mostly looks at runtime behavior and not signatures.
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by t8sr 2y ago
The author is unhappy with how signals work, and proposes some really wonky ways to get the behavior he thinks is correct. But for a programmer, it's a lot easier to just do things the way designers of signals intended. For example, mu
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by t8sr 2y ago
How well does this work in practice? I am skeptical about the power of static analysis with a language like Python. Many times, the hidden state in Jupyter lives in another module, or somewhere deep in an object hierarchy. If you’re going t
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by t8sr 2y ago
You get the behavior you incentivize. In the “early days”, design docs were a tool to agree on a direction and provide context to your coworkers about what you’re doing. Later, as new people joined at an exponential rate, they were told by
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by t8sr 2y ago
This is similar, but actually gives you additional tools and a statically compiled bash: https://github.com/wowsignal-io/android-tools
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by t8sr 2y ago
But you’re not talking about Tim Cook, this is a guy running a company of ~10 people. Someone on the internet, with a following and an audience, has written an essay about how Vlad is a bad person, and now is implying the latter is abusive
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by t8sr 2y ago
At the risk of sounding grumpy, a big difference between the tech community today and in the Usenet days is that the Usenet crowd's interpersonal skills weren't two standard deviations to the left of the mean at your local Target.
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by t8sr 2y ago
The author's response is perfectly calibrated to drive someone up the wall. Sling some mud and then hide behind "help, I'm being cornered." Imagine doing this in the offline world. How well would this kind of behavior go
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by t8sr 3y ago
Seriously, what audience is Apple playing this to? The insinuations made in this press release should get them sued again for libel. Not to mention how off putting this kind of tantrum is for their customers. JFC, they really need to fix th
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by t8sr 3y ago
This is marketing copy, I think, and not great copy at that. Even after skimming it for 3 minutes, I still have no idea what it's about, other than that they're trying to sell a container control plane of some kind.
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by t8sr 3y ago
This is cool study, and the results match my intuition. Without trying to go off-topic, it's interesting that the actual study involved no walking, or even eye tracking. The data is self-reported from showing the participants images on
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by t8sr 3y ago
The current lack of anti-monopoly enforcement and corporate oversight in the US is a race to the bottom. Should the rest of the world compete by letting corporations run amok, acquire all competition and build monopolies? Or should they try
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by t8sr 3y ago
/me sips Alamo from the can Yep.
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by t8sr 3y ago
I probably over-stated that a bit. I don't think there's a hard stance against it. I do think it's rarely a good way to structure your program, because it makes it harder to know what's happening, and the goal should be
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by t8sr 3y ago
There's an experimental feature in Go that lets you write python-like generators that work with range() and the callback is called `yield`. Here's some details: https://go.dev/wiki/RangefuncExperiment That&#x

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