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by xondono 1y ago
I’m hardly a “Captain”, and I’ve successfully negotiated salary increases several times. The only thing you need is leverage, and yes, rank-and-file are not going to have a lot of leverage at a FAANG. You can’t negotiate if you’re not willi
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by xondono 1y ago
Sounds like a reinvented HAM radio club to me
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by xondono 1y ago
What I meant is that it's selection bias. Lots of Women participate in these discussions regardless of if they "feel more female" or "feel more male", but men mostly participate in the discussion because they "
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by xondono 1y ago
I think Scott oversells his theory in some aspects. IMO the main reason most chatbots claim to “feel more female” is that on the training corpus, these kind of discussions skew heavily towards females because most of them happen between you
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by xondono 1y ago
Maybe, but I think this “axiomatic”/“First principles” approach also hides a lot of the problems under the rug. By the same logic, we should worry about the sun not coming up tomorrow, since we know to be true: - The sun consumes hydro
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by xondono 1y ago
And here we get into the absurdity of microbenchmarks like these. Yes, you can get the JVM to crunch some numbers relatively fast, particularly if the operations are repetitive enough that you can pull JIT tricks. Now try to run something t
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by xondono 1y ago
> Interpreted languages are now within a single digit multiple of natively compiled languages. You have to be either clueless or delusional if you really believe that.
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by xondono 1y ago
I think you’re right in that it’s an economics problem, but you’re wrong about which one. For me this is a clear case of negative externalities inflicted by software companies against the population at large. Most software companies don’t c
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by xondono 1y ago
Except you’re self selecting for a company that has high engineering costs, big fat margins to accommodate expenses like additional hardware, and lots of projects for engineers to work on. The evaluation needs to happen in the margins, even
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by xondono 1y ago
Starts to sound like the kind of task an AI could do reasonably well though
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by xondono 2y ago
That’s the saddest part, you’d think that, but the fraud here (and other similar cases) is so blatant it’s painful. Modern academia has terrible incentives. The easy path to success comes from not rocking the boat, even the guys at Data col
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by xondono 2y ago
> Why not a) finish the dissertation as soon as humanly possible, and b) now that you're bona fide, publish a separate paper disputing the famous paper which your dissertation didn't rely on? The last thing you want to do befor
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by xondono 2y ago
Sleep & suspend doesn’t work on Windows either. Power control is the kind of stuff that benefits from very tight integration, and PCs just don’t have that. Firmware is seen by most vendors as a pure cost to minimize, so you get a fragme
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by xondono 2y ago
You have to be rage baiting to make an argument this bad. First, no, it’s not all unsafe, it’s not even 50% unsafe. Second, even 50% unsafe is an upgrade from 100% unsafe. The problem is that the R4L project is raising a lot of questions ab
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by xondono 2y ago
I meant “meaningless” in the sense that your encryption is then on heavy diminishing returns territory when it comes to defending against a qc. It will likely work for a while, but it’s a fundamentally wrong approach and you’re going to be
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by xondono 2y ago
We are doing that, just not everyone is as concerned by safety and make different tradeoffs against things like ease of use or accessibility. Different applications have different tolerances and that’s fine. If and when anything quantum is
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by xondono 2y ago
> Everyone thinking politics is only about 2 parties and some controversial thinkg to even utter is the successful propaganda. You keep making a point that no one is bringing up. Not only I don’t believe that, as a non-US citizen living
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by xondono 2y ago
Not OP but I think you’re confusing “politics” with “bias”. History is biased, I don’t think anyone would debate that, but bias isn’t necessarily political. There’s lots of reasons for people to think some item or story is worth preserving,
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by xondono 2y ago
> would massively simplify iteration I seriously doubt it. It’s far easier and more effective (and economical) to have a bunch of jelly bean components around in stock. You’re going to have a hard time 3D printing anything that can be so
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by xondono 2y ago
Autopilot, FSD, etc.. are all legally classified as ADAS, so it’s different from e.g. your car not responding to controls. The liability lies with the driver, and all Tesla needs to prove is that input from the driver will override any deci
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by xondono 2y ago
The goto for most people is getting an AmScope on your budget range. There are other options, but they tend to be less budget friendly, more targeted to professionals than DIYers.
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by xondono 2y ago
This. In my experience QFN-like packages self center better than comparable BGAs, it’s just that BGAs in general are big so they are easy to line up. Small BGAs can be hell to hand solder.
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by xondono 2y ago
> In ye olde times, back when we actually raised taxes to have money to build things, we built aesthetically pleasing radio towers People still build this kind of stuff, it's just less common because it's way more expensive (it
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by xondono 2y ago
> the Artemis program was setup at a time when the private space companies were still very new. This is completely orthogonal. If it weren’t, the lander would be in a better shape, but it’s as much of a clusterfuck as the rest of the mis
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by xondono 2y ago
> The Artemis program is nominally about going to the moon, but it really isn't. It's about building and living in habitats beyond low orbit, in orbit refueling, building habitats on the surface of another planetary body, and o
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by xondono 2y ago
> Because ISP is in business of selling internet access to consumer. ISP can sell different tiers of service to the consumer, but can't sell the product twice. Netflix pays huge sum in their end. The network is not some amorphous bl
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by xondono 2y ago
The amount of pro-net neutrality in here is a clear demonstration of the opinion forming power of John Oliver, by dressing the issue as affecting users instead of companies. A lot of people seem very confused about what “neutrality” means,
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by xondono 2y ago
“Programming is mostly thinking” is one of these things we tell ourselves like it is some deep truth but it’s the most unproductive of observations. Programming is thinking in the same exact way all knowledge work is thinking: - Design in
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by xondono 3y ago
Fuel transfer with what? That would require things like docking
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by xondono 3y ago
For me this has become one of the biggest frictions when trying to help in open source projects. Most issues either look like someone has been working on them for quite some time (which seems rude to barge in and waste their time), or there

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