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As a developer who has worked at several billion-dollar (non FAANG) companies, the only thing I get out of performance reviews are one of two things:

1. You're doing a great job. Keep at it.

2. You're doing terribly. We are going to start a paper trail to fire you (aka performance improvement plan).

The only reason performance reviews exist at companies is so they have an established way of firing people. Even if I do a great job, top marks across the board, I only receive a 2-4% increase in salary. On the rare occasion I might get a bonus. So there's zero incentive to go "above and beyond" or otherwise improve in a way that benefits the company I am currently employed for.

Now, I continue to improve every day by learning new skills. But these new skills rarely relate to what the current company needs - these are simply things I am curious about. However, these skills will never end up in a "core competency plan" because those plans, by nature, only list skills that benefit the company. Because the target / competency plan only benefits the company, the performance review (which is based off the comp plan) feels very one-sided / binary.

So instead of focusing intently on those competencies, I do the minimum necessary to fulfill them (less than 2 hours of work) and spend the rest of my "self improvement time" learning things I'm genuinely curious about. Then, when I have a marketable understanding of these new tools / tech, I jump ship, usually for a higher compensation package.

If you want performance reviews to actually matter, allow people to set goals that do not always benefit the company. Understand your employees have many different interests and give them space to explore those interests.
FWIW it looks like pandas is slow/OOM-ing because the benchmarks solely use Categoricals, which aren't as heavily used by pandas users compared to R.

In particular, I suspect the benchmark sizing is forcing falling back from numpy's int64 to Python ints as categorical labels, which easily could explain a 10x or more differential.
Seems free to play will follow that release, along with AD supported gaming.
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Electric cars are about 3 times as energy-efficient as ICE cars. So it's not 1% to 2% but 3% to 6%. And with other savings (much lighter engine, no need for transmission) it's even better.

The problem is with degradation - it seems the new batteries only last 200 cycles.
No it's not haha. I live 20 mins from the center of London and the best broadband I can have at my address is 18Mbit. Yes, Megabits, not Megabytes. And this sort of shit-tier internet is very common in England, Stadia is a non starter for many people here.
Another commenter reviewed decompiled code from the APK:

> I also did a quick passthrough of the decompiled code. There is logic there to upload log files and send phone information (IMEI, MAC, AndroidID, SerialNo). What's really nice is that most of their APIs use HTTP, not HTTPS!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ektg8u/chinese_spy...
I've become increasingly interested in collecting RPGs this past year and I've noticed that Portugeuse seems to be one of the next biggest translation targets, though mostly from people in Brazil, not Portugal. No idea why, just something that's become apparent.
As others said, I misremembered RAM as SSD.

Mandela effect!
I’m a sample of one and this is anecdata, but in my experience with VCs, there is due diligence and then due diligence after that firm has a major disaster.
Is that at Google?
Google is more of an ad platform than a traditional printed publication. For one thing, printed publications usually have another revenue stream. For another thing, Google runs adverts on other websites and develops advertising technology.
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I often wonder if any of this “age of post-truth” stuff would have become popular had the election gone the other way.

It’s nothing new - philosophers and media theorists have been writing about media manipulation for the past century or more. But the media got the last election so completely wrong that they have to find a grand theory to explain what happened.
But at that point couldn't you just upload an email list and target by that? I could be miles off the mark, but I assumed a lot of this came from getting people to take a "personality test" and then bucketing that person for particular ads.

Admittedly I based a bunch of this on Alexander Nix's utterly fascinating OMR presentation (https://youtu.be/6bG5ps5KdDo). As per the parent, it always amazes me at how easy it is to influence someone if you know the right levers to pull.
Yes, but you still need to be a really really good engineer in the top X% of your field for a FAANG whereas the startup will higher anyone whose qualified to do the job.
As a developer who has worked at several billion-dollar (non FAANG) companies, the only thing I get out of performance reviews are one of two things:
1. You're doing a great job. Keep at it.

2. You're doing terribly. We are going to start a paper trail to fire you (aka performance improvement plan).

The only reason performance reviews exist at companies is so they have an established way of firing people. Even if I do a great job, top marks across the board, I only receive a 2-4% increase in salary. On the rare occasion I might get a bonus. So there's zero incentive to go "above and beyond" or otherwise improve in a way that benefits the company I am currently employed for.

Now, I continue to improve every day by learning new skills. But these new skills rarely relate to what the current company needs - these are simply things I am curious about. However, these skills will never end up in a "core competency plan" because those plans, by nature, only list skills that benefit the company. Because the target / competency plan only benefits the company, the performance review (which is based off the comp plan) feels very one-sided / binary.

So instead of focusing intently on those competencies, I do the minimum necessary to fulfill them (less than 2 hours of work) and spend the rest of my "self improvement time" learning things I'm genuinely curious about. Then, when I have a marketable understanding of these new tools / tech, I jump ship, usually for a higher compensation package.

If you want performance reviews to actually matter, allow people to set goals that do not always benefit the company. Understand your employees have many different interests and give them space to explore those interests.
Funny that both Honor and Seismic seem like good deals from a quick skim. Both have established their products and markets clearly, pull on decent revenue, have been growing continuously, no scandals, no weird CEOs, nothing illegal, no "break it till you make it" attitude. They are both on sectors which are extremely profitable and whose customers' churn rate is relatively low.

SoftBank: Nah, I think I'll pass.
Yeah, why did people not fix ALGOL instead of writing new ones like C?
>boiler plate views [] on SV with no real insight.

Judging by only this article and the author's n+1 article, I get the expectation that the contents will be not-wrong but not-far-enough. The "boiler plate views" as you put it are popular because they contain blind spots - intentional or not - where a lot of damning criticism can be found. But their exclusion gives comfort to people with one foot in the valley bubble. People will more readily accept criticism of something that involves them if they get to sit on the periphery unscathed.

The risk to such coverage is that the reaction is surface level adaptation. Where problems don't get fixed, they just evolve to be less tangible.
I've only gotten gushing reviews for years, and at some point I started wondering how real they were.

I've come to the conclusion that I really am doing well, but the reviews are not a way to prove that. They just prove that the company still wants me around, not that I'm excelling at my job.
I live near London central (20 mins from Oxford circus), the best internet I can get is 18 Megabit, and this is in a relatively modern building (< 15 years old). My situation is not uncommon here in the UK, Internet infrastructure here is terrible. Google Stadia is a non-starter for me.
I don't think I could survive any coding job... with out knowing that at the job was just a means to allowing me to work on my side projects.
My point being that "NPM is bad for security" is probably the wrong take to convince a software team to avoid the ecosystem.

Instead, phrase it as, "well obviously we need to review our dependencies, so why use an ecosystem where that's hard?" Don't phrase it as a security problem, phrase it as a development time and overhead problem.

Or better yet, let your team use NPM as long as they review the dependencies, and if your dependency tree is really a problem, your team will naturally become annoyed by the extra work and will avoid large dependencies on their own without a lot of extra prompting.
It could have been AOL. The underlying power of the internet remains the ability to use it for virtually any application.
That sounds very familiar.
The biggest issue in democracy is that the majority of people vote irrationally. For example a lot of people will vote the same party no matter what or will vote for a candidate because they like him/her regardless of the program.
Probably not. In fact Obama did more or less exactly what Cambridge Analytica did:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...

> "Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database.

The only difference is that at the time it was heralded as being technologically savvy because it produced results that the media and tech companies desired.
if you read Linus' post, he says as much immediately after. He says he includes himself in that "you", and notes that the kernel is a result of decades of development by many people working to fix issues that pop up implementing the hard stuff.
Nowhere near. The Tesla battery pack is 1000 lbs. There are entire cars that don't weigh that. Race car engine is 200lbs.

And battery packs have cooling systems too. So no savings there.

Specific energy (watts-hours per kilogram) is the entire ballgame with batteries and transportation.
You can still do that, but 1) much better email lists exist that the RNC was already sharing with the Trump campaign, 2) algorithmic targeting almost always beats uploaded lists nationally anyway.
My knowledge of linux scheduling has gone up 10x thanks to this debate!
Just for clarity for anyone reading, the Zig author does not claim that Zig is safe and has in fact said that is unsafe. Could change in the future, but there's no denial about what it is today.
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Thanks for the response, I appreciate the feedback. With that type of capital, wouldn't it be best to invest in real estate, and rent them yourself?
Well it's been 5 years of no grass, it is the worse. The weeds are everywhere I have to use roundup to kill them or they will take over the yard. There is just too many to uproot. If you live in an area where people live close by and use leaf blowers to clean, keep the grass and your sanity.
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Kinda. Normal Windows applications use a system call to wait for new messages to arrive, and then react to those. This is very similar to waiting for a mutex, and it allows the kernel to put the thread to sleep until a message comes along.

Games often integrates the message loop into their game loop. In their loop, they poll to see if any new message has arrived, and if so handles it. In any case it does it's game thing.

If there's not much to do, because the game is paused when it's minimized for example, this spins much like a spinlock spins. If, in addition, it has some other threads it's synchronizing using spinlocks then yes, it can cause it to burn several cores worth doing nothing.

Better games handles the loop differently while the game is minimized, for example doing the default wait-for-message variant.
I actually second this. I found it struggling to keep the pace, and the thing with study is, if you wait for a few days and try to pick up, you usually have to start over from a previous "milestone", which really sucks. That means unless you are really disciplined, it's difficult to learn the whole stuff by yourself.

But I think at least one should be able to learn 2 topics by oneself: A programming language, Basic data structure and algorithm as well. Then he can learn the others leisurely.
No doubt it's a judgment call for the court, but your car radio is farther from the engine then your TV wifi module is from the TV receiver. Your TV is all likely to be on the same DC circuit, maybe even all soldered together on one board.
I believe ERP SaaS would fall in the category "falsehoods programmers believe about how companies store their data".

There is always this exception that makes a SaaS ERP not fit for a company.
> I would love to see the following analysis: A map of repetitious tasks, spreadsheets, and manual data extraction by function in the Fortune 500.

This is basically asking for a market gap in a potentially very profitable market. That's silly, everybody wants that.
They can track and establish the base rate of such effects conditioned on a random population to blur the role of one's "biological makeup", and then apply value judgements as to what doses are useful for their purposes, yes.

In that sense if you're allowing whether or not a drug is recreational to depend on a person's makeup, how could you have known I was taking a recreational dose? Could bad trips not also occur at lower doses considered sub-recreational if a person is particularly sensitive? Likewise what happens if the drug only ends up benefiting a person past the point where they also have hallucinations as a "knock-on"?
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"200mb uncapped internet in the UK is super common and pretty cheap (£30-£35 a month), as it is in most of western Europe."

This isn't accurate coming from someone living in London. Most of my co-workers do not have access to "200mb" internet and most common is 25mb or less. I personally only get 18Mb on my home connection, i.e. roughly 2MB/sec and this was the best I could get from any provider.

The state of Internet infrastructure is fucking terrible in the UK given how small a country it is. Coming from California to the UK felt like going back in time in terms of Internet speeds.
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I would hope they could find other money too if they are as you describe.

Presumably SoftBank's decisions maybe were influenced by internal changes / concerns / etc.
Purple Air has been extremely popular in our community due to the wild fires here in California. There are quite a few sensors around town, and it gives you a good idea about how to prepare the kids for school and whether we should be riding bicycles.
> Golly I wish bureaucrats would pay more attention to the nuances of science.

Instead we get a PR campaign to put an self-described unstable 16yo who can “literally see invisible CO2” on the world stage frowning and yelling about stolen childhood.

I have no hopes for political reforms to actually look at nuance while this nonsense seems to work.
1.2M house on the penninsula is going to be extremely crappy and definitely in a very bad neighborhood, maybe previously was a crack house.
Melacha is the 39 base categories of avodah (translated, but not literally work) that went into the construction of the temple. The talmud then expands upon how we learn about and understand these - including their sources and the discussions in Mesechet Shabbat (the Sabbath Tractate).

Over the years Rabbis have clarified and expand these definitions to understand how they relate to the current generation and modern world. This is a long conversation.
Most batteries handle partial charging better than full charging.

But, assuming it’s an issue a hybrid design with say 150 miles of daily driving lithium ion and 150 x4 = 600 miles of extended range is another option.
I'm a contractor these days, I work with clients for a few months to a year or so at a time and then switch company, project and everything else.

One of the major reasons I switched from regular employment to this model was not having to deal with bullshit like annual reviews, personal development plans, coming-year-business plans etc etc and other corporate nonsense.

Maybe it works for those organisations, I don't really care, it always been just a waste of time for me. Particularly the annual reviews where you're supposed to show how what you achieved this year matches up to or exceeeds the plans agreed at the beginning of the year. Without fail those plans became irrelevant within a couple of months and I'd done something entirely different to the plan for the rest of the year. The review result thus always came down to how much management liked and appreciated what you had done for the year, which is a metric they would have used anyway and without the need for a tedious process.
Did you mean to post this a second time?
Harsh remote pay disparity was much more common ~5 years ago, but in my experience it's significantly better these days.

There's definitely a large swath of companies that try to use remote workers to lower costs, and there's usually some hit to package size, but the serious companies make extremely worthwhile offers.

Two anecdotal data points:

I work semi-remote for a non-FAANG enterprise company and my comp is bay area level. I'm in Seattle, which helps negotiation, but my colleagues in rural areas have a quality of life that suggests competitive compensation even in middle america.

A friend in rural NY got a remote job that was within 10k of his bay area salary. ~120K for a non-engineer at a company with ~13M series A.
They also need to recognize that asthetics is not the only factor. You can't kick a soccer ball on a lawn covered with shrubbery. While a natural landscape can be fun for kids to play in, it's not very versatile when you just want space to roll around and have fun with kids. But sure, if you never go outside and never set foot on your lawn, then a maintenance free lawn is fine. All the rednecks in trailer homes where I come from think so too. You could even store your older vehicles that no longer run on the lawn in case you need parts later.
Glide apps also falls into this realm. You make an app from a Google Sheet. Found out about it from HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163081

https://www.glideapps.com/
To add to that, Vote Leave used AggregateIQ which is essentially the same company as CA.
Hard to say what's 'rational' when voting. Lots of metrics; lots of theories. Vote for the person (character etc) vs their promises? Vote for the organization that will guide them (party) instead of the person?

I'd say its entirely irrational to vote for the program as outlined by the candidate speeches. Because they rarely happen.

It's not a problem with democracy. Its a problem with people and power.
The environment is the training data and you are forcing the NN to hit the target. It isn't self taught. No.
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Depends. Whilst the Talmud allows for the use of natural boundaries (lakes) in an Eruv, buildings cannot be unless they're a courtyard (for example) that is fenced in. This was simplified.
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Both :) We'll be using a "Sketch-style" pricing model, licenses work forever, but updates are only for a year.

I'd say that most developers are like you, invested in one editor. It's hard to change, especially given how much customization is possible. Chime's really tailored to people looking for a dialled-in macOS experience. Usually, the people that want that kind of thing are out looking for it. It's pretty niche.
This is the classic FOUC that has been around for like 20+ years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content
Does any one know something similar as a primer on Markov Chains? I get the idea of simulating the pattern of behaviors or states with the Markov chain, and how the Monte Carlo is useful for that, but how to actually make a Markov chain and then test it mathematically with the Monte Carlo is something that I don't know how to do.
Didn’t say that.

For most adults it’s not always so much meeting a bunch of random people so much as nurturing the relationships you already have.

As for romantic ones, most people these days do find their partners on dating apps, so “blindly” meeting dates that can turn into your most initiate relationship is not only accepted but is the norm.
Sigh. No nefarious intent meant. I suspect that it started off as genuine employment, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if things changed. I have known a number of folks like that.

Personally, I like them, and I completely support this. It's far better than writing from an ivory tower.

In fact, I find it rather interesting that you assign nefarious intent to me.
For anyone else curious and bad at wikipedia language swapping, [2] in english: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichrostachys_cinerea
One of the reasons that oil can more or less easily be validated is that there is a spec to the engine and the spec can be show to be invalidated when oil is not used.

Directly measured, the engine cylinder walls will grow wider and compression will be lost. Indirectly we can do an oil analysis and see the metals deposited.

One of the reasons we do not understand the cost of low internal quality code is that we do not know the "spec". Defect rates is one proxy measurement, but it's hard to know if it's just "bad programming" or "bad internal code quality" ...