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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
People saying it is deferred PIPs or house cleaning are deluded. At Meta and Amazon I know some senior people who were laid off. People got decent severance so not too much negative comments, but I think it is a blood bath. 10% is not a sma
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Lowered spending a bit assuming I am already laid off. X-mas, black-friday did not help my budget. One major thing is we are omitting a fancy vacation in our plans this year. Had to explain this to my non-tech spouse but she got it, as othe
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I was shocked that this was the case and wished I knew about this sooner. Also had kids in mid-30s and it is complicated to say the least. I thought 40 was late (as had some friends succeed at that age).
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I own a 3090. Skipping on the 4090 for now as I am disturbed by melting-connector-gate. The Youtube and reddit threads scared me off as a customer. Don't recall this for previous generations.
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Great point that consulting provides a window into the processes of various clients and across industry. I apologize .. did not mean to be insulting. It is not my cup of tea as I do deep tech/infra, but I appreciate how solutions are w
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
On the positive, a loved one getting chemo does not seem to have any of the bad symptoms. It is a weaker therapy due to age. So pls don't freak out about side-effects (we did and it was for naught). Good luck!
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Ask HN: Plans for Weathering the Tech Recession?
39 points by throwawaybbq1 4y ago|87 comments
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I thought the article was written in a very humble manner. The lessons shared were honest and heartfelt. I spent my life in corporate. Lesson 6 (Planning is often the highest leverage work) touched something inside me. In a large corp, I ha
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Tangent: Is occlusion culling on HoloLens different from that done in games? Btw .. the site in your profile does not work.
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
You could use an NVIDIA Jetson (it is a lot heavier but close). Intel had the Movidius stick and the openvino platform. Not sure I have seen anything recent there as well. CES is coming up .. maybe we'll see something new. It is a hard
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
How did you sustain yourself during periods of failure?
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
The issue is who pays for the welfare state. Finland got a lot of its wealth through off sea oil I think. Not easy to replicate in almost every part of the world. If you make the population pay for the welfare state, you are essentially rob
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
No .. when you do MNIST in a DL tutorial it all looks easy. The problem is when things don't work as expected (real-world TM). I have a freakin PhD in CS (top school where a bunch of this stuff was invented .. some of my friends are &q
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
Just a comment .. looking at salary in tech is silly. Lets ignore benefits which are likely impossible to quantify. Most tech workers in hi-fi companies and roles get stock (even I don't understand how to properly value but big diff if
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I'm a fellow UAE born! Hello!! I live in Canada. Was just looking up moving to Scotland after seeing footage of Balmoral castle. Something about the beauty of the highlands captures the imagination. I'm of South Asian decent so I
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
I moved from the Bay area to NYC and met my now wife after less than a month. I wish I stayed in the Bay area back then (circa 2010) .. I likely would have hit gold at least once by now. Yet ... the toil continues.
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by throwawaybbq1 4y ago
In an R&D org where this is not a thing (pair programming). Any pointers on how to get started? (mechanics wise .. who controls the keyboard? Is the senior dev supposed to be quiet unless an issue? Is there talking throughout?)
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
"Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman" - sort of like an autobiography of Richard Feynman but from recordings of some conversations. I'm a scientist and this resonated with me a lot. "The Game" - very immature and
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Freecodecamp has great courses on youtube. A quick search showed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGOBQPFzWKo&ab_channel=freeC... I skimmed it and it is not bad. After this, perhaps a university-level data structures co
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Is there as a (good) college-level text book on the topic of image and video encoders? I never took a digital image processing course .. curious if someone has a favorite book on this topic.
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Good points .. however, my advice for the cash strapped students on HN: Buying 1 good machine will last you 4+ years easily these days. Buying a system like Alienware with a 3070-3080 was under 2K Canadian over the recent Black Friday shopp
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
I have a 3090 for serious (hobby) work and a 1070 from 4ish years back next to my bed. I think getting anything 1070 or better is good enough at the beginner level (training baby datasets/models from scratch such as MNIST/CIFAR, t
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Thank you! So is pipewire a replacement/superset of gstreamer? Or is it supposed to be a higher-level component (more user facing than gstreamer). Alternatively, is Pipewire about connecting audio devices (instruments, speakers) to sof
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
I thought SGU had an excellent premise and did take the show in a different direction. Are you sure it wasn't depressing because you knew how they left off?
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Ask HN: Ghosted contact who I met a conference. Now need their help
2 points by throwawaybbq1 5y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Good courses/specializations on coursera plus?
2 points by throwawaybbq1 5y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
I also experienced this and from Canada (so eligible for a TN, which is usually quite painless). I also think I have some time left on an old H1B from a few years back .. so I'm a bit surprised. At least one job where I was a good fit
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
I think this thread is correct on the artificial nature of the scarcity. I had an epiphany that this is what we are doing in the stock market (via tax codes and retirement plans), and something similar in the housing market via credit schem
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Concept 2 rower (just a bit over 1000 and lasts a long time), cheap equivalent to peloton bike (e.g. Schwinn IC4)
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by throwawaybbq1 5y ago
Thanks for your kind words. I took it in a positive light, and appreciate your thoughts. I usually bottle it in, but wrote the above post as a release. I'm definitely luckier than a good fraction of the planet. I also truly believe tha

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