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by xen0 3y ago
The flip side is 'do you want to work for someone who's ego is so fragile that asking a couple of questions might tank your interview'? Maybe you're OK navigating around that person, but many are not, and I'd rather
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by xen0 3y ago
The secret sauce is more than a 10 year old engine.
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by xen0 3y ago
It's really easy to use it without violating policies. In fact, we were literally asked to.
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by xen0 3y ago
I personally won't have a bath or shower with first donning my drysuit, wearing a hard hat and steel toe cap boots is mandatory in my kitchen, and I keep said boots next to my bed at night so I can put them on when I need the bathroom
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by xen0 3y ago
The Wikipedia article linked literally says that they were not "unaware". It's right there in the second paragraph. > The pilot then told the Haradas about the attack and the two agreed to help him. Nishikaichi and Yoshio
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by xen0 3y ago
Encountered a few enterprising Germans driving their own cars on my last trip to Cornwall. Perhaps, unlike tourists driving RHD cars, they're much more able to kiss the hedge on the narrow roads there without fear when other cars have
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by xen0 3y ago
Beyond a single course at school I took when I was 17, I only really started programming when I was 21 and started my career. I like to think I've enjoyed some success over the past 11 years, but I would definitely fail your friend&#x2
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by xen0 3y ago
But growing another cow is straightforward.
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by xen0 4y ago
This doesn't work when someone else outside of the group initiates a conversation. It's a fantastic feature; meaning I am never distracted on a European Monday morning by what someone sent me on an American Friday afternoon. ;)
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by xen0 4y ago
I lost it when, in the first round, ChatGPT called out one of the reasons why Bard was so poor.
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by xen0 4y ago
Quite a lot of people don't bother with the Mercurial layer, and it barely got a mention at my orientation three years ago.
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by xen0 4y ago
In war, everything is simple but the simplest things are hard. I feel that Brood War embodies this part of Clausewitz quite well.
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by xen0 4y ago
Start with one Sergeant Major General, then cut the off letters to taste.
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by xen0 4y ago
You're right that there's a problem with 'Let f be a choice function on...', but that's the problem the axiom of choice solves. Sure, it's non-constructive; you don't know much about f, just that it exists
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by xen0 4y ago
So the statement "let x be an element of y" is already problematic? If so, your problem is not with the axiom of choice. Edit: "Not being able to describe the choice a choice function makes" and "not being able to c
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by xen0 4y ago
That would let me derive your mother's phone number. https://xkcd.com/704/ It's different because there's nothing that says such a choice function _cannot_ exist (short of an axiom that says explicitly s
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by xen0 4y ago
> But that set must have a member whose value is closest to zero. Must it? "Let x be the smallest element of the half-open interval (0, 1]" isn't really something that you can say *. * Assuming the standard ordering of r
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by xen0 4y ago
The OP's argument seems to be just that you cannot always construct a choice function. But the entire point of the axiom of choice is to say "that's fine; you're still allowed to use 'unconstructed' choice func
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by xen0 4y ago
> they will move their money if Google doesn't do what they say - namely cut costs etc... Why would Google care? This fund owns Google stock; it isn't giving money to Google, it gave money to whoever it bought that stock from.
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by xen0 4y ago
I used to work for a non-profit scientific research facility. That was 6 years of definite 'not evil' work. Maybe not impactful, but not evil. Now I work for a big tech company. Maybe it's evil, but if that's true, at le
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by xen0 4y ago
Even in Germany, the 28th November 2022 was a Monday. Source: writing from Germany on Tuesday the 29th.
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by xen0 4y ago
There is a material change in comp when a 'growth stock' stops growing.
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by xen0 4y ago
There is a huge disconnect between two types of companies. The majority of companies seem to view email addresses and phone numbers as largely permanent identifiers. Then there are the companies that actually provide you those things. To th
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by xen0 4y ago
Deutsche Bank is fined with some degree of regularity (yes, even in Europe).
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by xen0 4y ago
Now I think about it, that is actually weakness; it's really easy to use the wrong sized bit. Too small a bit works, until it starts stripping your screw head.
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by xen0 4y ago
A little harsh to call an intentional compromise 'a failure'. A feature is that pozi is compatible with Phillips bits, just without its advantages. For people with older or smaller toolkits, that's actually quite helpful.
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by xen0 4y ago
This is a false equivalence. When crossing the street, other people in cars don't want to actually kill you, and those crossing are generally aware and cognizant of the danger. The biggest mistake you can make is 'forgetting to lo
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by xen0 4y ago
> Surprising that this isn't a business model for an overseas technology analyst firm. How much are you willing to pay for a legally dubious benchmark?
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by xen0 4y ago
Most of my interview prep when I was last looking for a job was basically how to handle these type of questions. It took me a while, but I ended up with a lot of notes describing my past experiences. That way there was no memory test; all t
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by xen0 4y ago
Depending on the definition of RSE, I may or may not have been one. The company I worked for was a Synchrotron Light Source; I worked on software for data collection on X-Ray beamlines. I would say that only about half of those in the same

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