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by urthor 4y ago
Note almost the entirety of the lost revenue is from Europe, quarter on quarter year on year. Considering Meta's business is advertising . The fact advertising revenue is flat in the Americas & Asia is a strong signal companies ar
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HR and recruiting are very aware of this? They're absolutely trying to filter out the overqualified. Overqualified candidates will resign the second they see the terrible projects the company contains. They're looking for the swee
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Limited scope software simply exports functionality to a "de facto" support structure. An ecosystem as it were. To get adopted, your "total experience" must be better the status quo. So, authors of software need "d
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Layout, rather than switch, I should have said.
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Oh, I'm speaking from a performance per watt/single threaded perspective. Feature oriented. If you're buying your laptop for reliability, not quite the same thing.
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Peak vs idle is the question. I haven't seen 13th gen extremely closely. It'll get very, very complicated though. The performance per watt at the top of the voltage frequency curve for the performance cores, is very different t
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MacOS keyboards are dire though. I wish the Thinkpad wasn't so awful. Unfortunately, the screen, silicon AND power management software of a Thinkpad + Linux is miles behind MacOS.
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Apple is innovating fantastically. You get the feeling, all their best people are doing amazing work on the Apple Watch, then the iPhone. User facing MacOS improvements are a dead end for career focused big tech employees sadly. They'
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This. I am all for salary data to defeat discrimination. What the OP is doing isn't salary data. It's a blog of their life story. And it reflects terribly on them. Do not do what OP has done. Submit your salary data to an anonym
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Dark patterns in mainstream IDEs, Jetbrains & Microsoft, are extremely common. Jetbrains actively forces developers to avoid the terminal for vendor lock-in. Microsoft, ha. Embrace, extend, extinguish, (first Python, now Copilot) isn&#x
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Above needs to be more prominent.
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That's fair. I think the part of the point about the EFF's political position still stands, my understanding was they're VERY big tech aligned.
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Learning through straight osmosis is highly effective.
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On the topic of programming things, I'm surprised you don't have a bot to automate this.
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It's not a directed graph edge. It's a bidirectional graph edge. Goes both ways.
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There's a kernel of truth. My life is VASTLY better, because my profession I do 9-5 is something I dearly, dearly, love. I'd read it as: "Find something to work in that you love. Or Else."
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It's more like folk who enjoy the craft run off and join the big tech companies in my experience. You can work in a skyscraper, and not find a single one. Off you go to the other skyscraper. There's a whole bunch.
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EFF is mostly funded by Google and co, and mostly advocates for policies such that they do not hurt Google and co . This involves advocating for good things, like opposing the FBI lead mandatory encryption backdoor. And... the opposite.
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Unfortunately, nuclear fusion is physics research . The unsaid part underlying physics research is "if you fund us, we promise to whip you up an atom bomb in 5 minutes if the Russians invade." Physics research involves precisely
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Isaac Newton spent more time turning lead into gold than mathematics. Time & money doesn't make dumb ideas good ones. Bread needs water, flour, AND yeast to rise. Ain't gonna do much without all three.
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I reference Alan Kay, who's spent 50+ years complaining Xerox Parc only happened when they wrote a GIGANTIC cheque. Then forgot about them. Good science basically requires atrocious amounts of money, to quite a small number of peopl
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May.
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Psychiatry & neuroscience today are some of the closest equivalents to physicians applying leeches in the 16th century. Through no fault of their own. We, simply, have legitimately very little knowledge of those fields of science. Our
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Ben Hoffman might have gone to the talking school. But, he's missing the point here. There's two types of conversations in life. "Brain in 5th gear conversations." Every word carefully chosen. And the second type, &qu
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This is a core problem with all of medicine. When the treatment involves the patient changing their behavior, most doctors give up and don't bother. And yet, the majority of diseases are rooted in patient behavior.
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I feel like this is already tested, extensively, by the "video games cause school shootings" crowd.
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Pro rata it to the day they leave. Job done. Employee is happy, employer is happy.
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Whilst that's a valid point of view, it needs to be balanced against good old "don't reinvent the wheel." I'm not quite sure how I would marry those two concepts.
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"Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again. One of the most unintuitive, clunky interfaces of any software I've ever used." Emphasis mine. The link has a bad title. The CTO's problem isn't Git. It's
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Tbh, it's less of a research problem per se, and more of an implementation one, in many ways. The current pace of development is such that that they are plugging stuff in and hoping it works in LOTS of different ways. A small army of

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