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by valdiorn 6y ago
software jobs in the UK are insane. They are illogical. I work in finance in London, which is about the only place (in Europe, perhaps) that's even comparable to US/California rates. I make a six figure base (GBP) and a hefty bonu
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Hi Snakedoctor. I've been quite fascinated by this thread. I have a small piece of feedback for you, as someone who's interviewed about 200-300 engineers over my career I've talked to a lot of people and feel like I have at l
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by valdiorn 6y ago
They can put people in jail for using crypto, which is a strong enough deterrent that 99% of people won't do it.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Github hosted anything suffers from the same problem, obviously. Russian govt. would just pressure github to remove any content they don't want.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Google is the new Yellow Pages. I've shared this opinion before. It's great for looking up services, companies and big websites, news articles, etc. "official content" you might say. It's absolutely shite if you nee
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Does he have an option to pay a safer, fixed rate? Are you 100 percent sure that is available?
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by valdiorn 6y ago
You've got me super curious. What sort of industries are you catering for when making your own products?
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Only if the disagreeing was in relation to ethical AI. As far as I know, she's made this about perceived sexism, racism, and personally attacking hermanagers for failing to step up regarding various topics NOT related to AI ethics. The
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by valdiorn 6y ago
She's also not publishing this as just herself, she works for Google and is publishing on their behalf. Of course they have veto power over what she publishes. You take issue with that; quit. Which, I believe she did (she didn't g
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Her call outs had nothing to do with AI ethics, though, and centered almost entirely on alleged perceived sexism, racism, shady HR practices with a sprinkle of political correctness on top, with regards to her colleagues firing. She started
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Hundreds of dollars? And he did just say he's unemployed. Not everyone has enough cash around to even pay for a consultation.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
I swear, a lot. I work in London finance. It very much depends on the company. I used to work for a clandestine hedge fund with a pretty crazy culture, and swearing was the way to communicate efficiently. I loved it, it fit my personality.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
That seems like a deal that's slanted extremely in favour of the company. Don't expect passion and dedication if the company doesn't offer the same guarantee back when the going gets tough or they change direction. You treat
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by valdiorn 6y ago
3-5 years I guess is a reasonable expectation, but all of the windows devices I have, have lasted longer than that. And keep lasting. My Surface Pro 3 is coming up on 6 years, and my XPS 13 is close to 7. And the thing is; I can see ZERO re
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by valdiorn 6y ago
as someone who actually works in finance, I've just decided it's not even worth engaging with people on reddit, trying to explain that the actions of RH and other brokers is justified. There too much of this "us vs. the evil
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by valdiorn 6y ago
This will get lost in the pile, but I've done some tests with a dumb-as-a-brick neuralnet, 5 layers of 128 nodes, reLU, and the thing shows INCREDIBLE quality. I build VST plugins as a hobby, and have done several amp and guitar effect
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Tangentially related; I wrote some python code to come up with every possible pentatonic scale (including some restrictions for musicality) - If nothing else, I learnt a lot about scales and how they relate to one another https:/&#x2F
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by valdiorn 7y ago
This might be the most entitled thing I've read all month. You might even be more entitled than the toilet paper hoarders.
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by valdiorn 7y ago
Isn't the "system provided web engine" now Edge on Windows 10, and has been fore a while?
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*requiring
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by valdiorn 7y ago
> On another note, this is going to suck for "low-skilled" brits who want to move around the EU as I assume EU put some symmetry to this. Well, that's sort of the point; keep the brits in Britain, get them to fill in the g
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by valdiorn 7y ago
I found All About Circuits to be a great resource when I was a teenager. after skimming this site, I'd say it's too focused on math fundamentals, and not enough on "yeah but how does it ACTUALLY work?". I feel like All A
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by valdiorn 7y ago
you can have the greatest tech in the world, but that won't help you if you can't market your product properly. I've never even heard of any of these brands, yet I'm actually an avid fan of chinese breakthrough tech in m
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by valdiorn 7y ago
I switched to bing on my work machine at the start of this week, and have found I've been getting better results than google gives me. Especially if I'm trying to do any type of complex query, like filtering by domain or multiple
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by valdiorn 7y ago
ehm, are you not forgetting the small detail that if you forget to contribute to your "investment" (i.e. your house, i.e. pay your mortgage) this month, you become homeless? > Paying your mortgage feels more urgent than contrib
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by valdiorn 7y ago
It's the Dictator Problem from game theory; in general, if humans feel like you're not getting an fair slice of the pie, they would rather destroy the whole pie and make sure nobody gets anything, than to accept their unreasonably
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by valdiorn 7y ago
I had a similar experience with a wireless boiler thermostat in our rented terraced house in London. It was one of the more common modules; a cheap one from Wickes or a similar DIY store, so every other house on the street had the same unit
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by valdiorn 7y ago
I struggle with a more basic issue here; there are plenty of things at my current job which are just "accepted". Lots of "this is the way it has always been", but are actually really bad for productivity and our ability
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by valdiorn 7y ago
The idea that the parent poster mentions is indeed referred to as an arcology, the idea being that you have a small city completely encapsulated within a single monolithic structure. Remember those weird giant buildings from Sim City 2000?
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by valdiorn 7y ago
This is all well and good, until you end your employment at a firm that is extremely vengeful, and as a deterrent to other employees, does in fact decide to take you to court and make your life miserable for several months. Because, remembe

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