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by topkai22 2y ago
That 30% number seems very wrong. The entire transportation sector is 12.5% of global emissions. International trade is more like 3% or less. https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
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by topkai22 2y ago
Definitely agree, almost wrote that too, but it was already a long response :) Management is about directing resources. Good management needs leadership ability to get the people they are directing to buy into where they are being directed,
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by topkai22 2y ago
> I have no managerial experience, hence I can't get any leadership roles (either people or software), Management and leadership are overlapping but different things. You become a leader by having people who will follow you. Having
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by topkai22 2y ago
I’m trying something new on my next interview- I’ve had an LLM solve a coding problem and I’ve uploaded the output to github, I’m going to ask the candidate to evaluate the generated code adapt it to new technical and non functional requir
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by topkai22 2y ago
I haven’t been doing that much interviewing, but in the dozen or so candidates I’ve had I don’t think a single one has tried to use AI. I almost wish they would, as then at least I’d get past the first half of the question…
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by topkai22 2y ago
I’ll add that these changes place different values on different skills and we are at a transitional moment. I imagine that the junior accountant with incredible arithmetic skills but no interest in computers or saw their career prospects di
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by topkai22 2y ago
I don’t think what you are thinking of would happen because we’ll just redefine what a “junior” is. In some industries you see education inflation- apprenticeships may be declining, but you can get a 2 year degree in auto repair at my commu
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by topkai22 2y ago
I don’t really get this attitude either way. I expect my junior devs to use all the tools at their disposal, including LLMs, to solve the problems I give them. These problems are rarely so rote that an LLM can just do them- there tends to b
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by topkai22 2y ago
Mine aren’t teenagers yet, so we aren’t quite at the danger zone. So far we’ve been focused on letting them use devices in a controlled manner. I’ve set up various network level controls via Pi-hole and opendns family shorties (obviously th
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by topkai22 2y ago
Covid and opioid deaths. Opioids are bad. To quote the lancet “Opioid overdose mortality rates are alarmingly high, but measures based on death counts alone do not fully capture the impact of this crisis as they do not account for the young
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by topkai22 2y ago
The National Association of Colleges and Employers survey puts the average new grad salary at $68,000/year ( https://www.naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document... ) That’s ~$7000 more than the median
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by topkai22 2y ago
Eisenhower had some of the greatest speeches of any American president. On the theme, also read his first major speech as President- “a chance for peace”- https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercr...
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by topkai22 2y ago
+1 on a large number of matching socks. My only problem is my wife and kids keep taking them because they can’t match their own socks
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by topkai22 2y ago
The term slacker was invented for Gen X. Complaints against self absorbed and lazy millennials have been an annoying trope for my entire professional life. The ancient Greeks complained thier kids were disrespecting them. I do enough work w
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by topkai22 2y ago
It’s far more situational than that. Yes, ebooks by themselves aren’t as good as physical books, but there are plenty of studies showing positive effects of multimedia tools in various subjects. I don’t think AR is going to teach kids to re
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by topkai22 2y ago
Part of the “problem” is that much military pay is “hidden”. An e-6 at 12 years makes $55.6k. That is very low compared to the private sector. However, basic allowance for housing (BAH) for an E6 with dependents is another $20-40k, so let’
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by topkai22 2y ago
This is the study on RTO and financial performance that made waves a few months ago: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4675401 Summary is- no effect on financial performance in the observation period,
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by topkai22 2y ago
This is a great example of the non commercial works of passion that were a much larger post of the internet in the 90s. Text/picture web has lost a lot of personality of that era- this world have been crowded out by wikia or similar to
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by topkai22 2y ago
I think you underestimate how painful moving is to some people. Any house I lived in for more than a year or two I miss. It can be really painful to remember I can’t take my kids to my childhood home because my parents moved. Heck, I occas
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by topkai22 2y ago
It’s more of a prisoners dilemma than “it works when implemented correctly.” In general, all parties do better in freer markets and all parties do poorly in restricted markets. However, when one party in a trading system implements restrict
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by topkai22 2y ago
Definitely start applying. When I’ve gotten to this point in my software career before just knowing I wasn’t trapped made me feel much better. I don’t know how deep you are in your career, but I’m at 20+ years and I’ve felt like this at lea
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by topkai22 2y ago
I think you are interpreting the comment rather ungenerously. This sounds far more like finding common humanity with the deceased then somehow correlating cancer to wealth.
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by topkai22 2y ago
This hasn’t been my experience. My kids have loved Star Wars, Harry Potter, Space Jam, Looney Toons, Muppets, Uncle Buck, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, My Neighbor Tuturo, all the classic Disney movies, Mary Poppins, Get Smart, and others I’m sure
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by topkai22 2y ago
Since WWII Tibet (annexed) Korea (at invitation of the North Korean government, but invaded South Korea) India USSR Vietnam China has been fairly quiet and well behaved since 1980, but it is current quite publicly talking forcefully reinteg
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by topkai22 2y ago
Yeah, this is basically the answer- Cuban American lobby is solidly against the current regime. Less so than they used to be, but there are still plenty of voices strongly opposed to normalization and few strongly for it. Without a strong c
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by topkai22 2y ago
Code reviews don’t just find bugs, they prevent them from being introduced in the first place. Developers are more careful about what they write and submit when they know they’ll have someone else looking at it. We went through a couple ite
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by topkai22 2y ago
Here is one https://www.aclu.org/documents/employers-schools-and-social-...
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by topkai22 3y ago
That assumes that price is entirely determined by energy cost, that you need to convert CO2 to a chemical with the same potential energy level as jet fuel, and that energy costs are the same and constant across sources. That’s not true. Fue
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by topkai22 3y ago
Yeah, as an interviewer at a large tech company, it’s not uncommon to get 300+ applications for a role (if it’s remote OK and we don’t set many pre-filters), do a dozen phone screens, and 4 interview loops to fill a single position. In the
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by topkai22 3y ago
I bought a sub $700 leather coach from Costco in 2007. It lasted 6 moves and 16 years until my kids finally found its weak point (leather seams at the cushioning and back) playing “the floor is lava.” Honestly, it’s probably repairable even

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