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by vl 5y ago
It’s just a burnout, happens to everyone with the same career. You need to take time off (just pay for health insurance) and concentrate on health and sport, sleep, hobbies and other not-work-related projects that were lucking due to demand
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by vl 5y ago
There was a seasonal/Omicron spike, but excess deaths in US are tracking to all-time low since pandemics start. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/
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by vl 5y ago
But how exactly can you launder money through buying a house? If you buy, essentially you declare you have the money, thus question can be asked where you got it from.
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by vl 5y ago
We still have Halo LAN party with friends every week.
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by vl 5y ago
> despite spending thousands on Halo over the years But how could you have spent thousands? Original Halos don’t have micro transactions.
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by vl 5y ago
Some proteins break down and loose nutritional value.
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by vl 5y ago
> If you like it, there's little reason not to get one AFAICT. According to MacRumors update guide Air should be updated very soon, so I’m personally waiting for the updated version.
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by vl 5y ago
>if a tiny black hole had formed at LLC and swallowed the Earth The point is that tiny black hole, man-made or from the outer space, can't swallow Earth in any reasonable amount of time: when it's gravitationally captured and o
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by vl 5y ago
You can go meta and think about what is knowledge and what is scientific method. Knowledge is inherently axiomatic. In other words there are certain unprovable truths (“axioms”) you agree on as granted and then build your theories from base
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by vl 5y ago
>create a black hole in the lab (spoiler, you wouldn't want to) Current understanding is that there is nothing dangerous about creating black hole in the lab: it’s going to be so small that it will evaporate quickly, and event horiz
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by vl 5y ago
One of the pillars of supporting dollar as world reserve currency (and thus having endless credit) is showing that it’s backed by strong security force. Thus it necessitates periodic demonstrations and actual training of said security force
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by vl 5y ago
Russians remember iron curtain all too well, wait now, and you will not be able to leave at all. There was no freedom of travel in Soviet Union.
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by vl 5y ago
To be fair, Amazon is integrating everything they can everywhere in the business forever. I think in Bezos’ mindset end game is one MegaAmazon owning entire planet. Like Universal Paperclips.
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by vl 5y ago
In my experience, ironically, most of the model gains come from understanding and fixing data pipelines and datasets, tokenizers, vocabs. It’s surprising how a team can spend time on a complex model, but nobody bothered to runs stats and se
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by vl 5y ago
Cheese is free only in mousetrap.
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by vl 5y ago
Russian Government itself is working hard to isolate their segment of internet so they can control it and firewall it Chinese style to push their propaganda unrestricted. So willfully cutting it off for them is essentially helping the ene
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by vl 5y ago
In the month it will the best time to look for software job ever. With Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian developers cut off, companies, that used to rely on remote teams, are going to be in the hiring frenzy to replace them. Smart ones are
468.
by vl 5y ago
Not true at all. If enough hardware is available, pool only expands until reward covers electricity cost plus small margin. I.e. bitcoin mining electricity-cost bound for the long time now.
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by vl 5y ago
The irony, of course, that working conditions at Google , of all places, are truly atrocious. For years our desks were in hallways (KIR-C, KIR-D). When I left big G, there were desks literally in staircases (KIR-D). I have no idea how th
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by vl 5y ago
The reason US army is always fighting is economic. US dollar is reserve currency of the world and thus US has almost unlimited credit. But one important element of dollar stability is that carrier group shows up on the doorstep of those get
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by vl 5y ago
On iOS there is Apple Arcade, which has pretty reasonable curated games. My kids only allowed to get games from Apple Arcade for this reasons (except Minecraft and Roblox). Subscription is included anyway with family Apple One umbrella subs
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by vl 5y ago
While not direct example of this, everyone who worked at big corps saw tight clusters of Indian managers that took over some orgs. Another example of "national specialization" is some groups working on some high-complexity softwar
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by vl 5y ago
BTW, this also worked out great after WW1.
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by vl 5y ago
I saw NT running on ARM candy-bar smartphone at internal MS demo in 2004. There was a start button and it opened notepad. This was surreal, but not surprising since NT was engineered to be portable from the start. MS was dysfunctional at th
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by vl 5y ago
> In the end the only thing that matters is how the rest of the world reacts. But what exactly do you propose?
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by vl 5y ago
No, I never said it’s justified. More over, this war is highly unpopular in Russia itself (dictatorship countries can be engaged in unpopular wars). But to understand it you need to look at it from Putin’s perspective: “NATO is explicitly w
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by vl 5y ago
Operation like this takes years to plan and prepare, and if anything it comes surprisingly late, given that civil war continued for 8 years in Ukraine. You would think they would act sooner then risking losing Donabas to Ukrainians. My gues
478.
by vl 5y ago
Oh, please, since 1990 there were multiple wars in Europe and literally next door nobody gave a fuck about. Serbia/Kosovo, Bosnia, Moldova, Libya, Syria. Putin is a madman that should have been deposed long time ago, but current media
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by vl 5y ago
You, of course, is educated enough to remember that whole Caribbean crisis was in response to US placing nukes in Turkey.
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by vl 5y ago
"would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution" And it successfully achieved this specific goal, however it never claimed it is a good solution for micro&#x

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