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I think the hard part, at least in my case, with the "this is normal company politics" is that it's hard to gauge whether that's true or not until you get in the company. Once you're there it can be hard to tell too unless you're in a particular area or division or whatever -- part of the problem, lots of times, are vast differences in how different groups are treated or whatever, due to communication between and to different areas, biases, incompetence, whatever.

In my case my friends blew off what I was saying until I was leaving, and then for whatever reason when I was in the process started actually listening to what I had been telling them for the past several years. "Wait... what??? You mean they do X, Y, Z? WTF?" It didn't matter that mutual friends had left, that they had lost 1/3 of their employees in the past 3-4 years, that 90% of the people in my division had left, that they had surveys (buried in diversity reviews) showing that 50-60% of the remaining people were seriously thinking of leaving. The secret meetings, the lawsuits, you name it. It was always the same response from my friends: "This is normal company politics everywhere." But it wasn't.

What I wished is that I had been mentored more on how to leave to a different organization (I sort of left the field), with an explanation for why. But when you hear "this is the same politics everywhere" you kind of think "ok this is what it's like everywhere."

The thing is, sometimes it's not the same everywhere. There are good places to work and bad places to work, and places that are good for some people and bad for others.

If it is bad everywhere (cf. Musk's complaints about "MBA-ization" of America), then society needs to have a serious reflection on itself (maybe that's the signal in the noise of US politics lately?).

FWIW, my experience is consistent with your bit about "as long as you have a positive career path there". I think at some level that's what prompted me to leave -- I got the sense that the reasons why some people were favored and others in the institution were not was all about weird purely personal factors, like who goes to who's wedding etc. (Yes, I believe social factors are important, that it's important to be cordial and genuinely friendly and positive and empathetic... but there's a point where all of that normal "being a good person and colleague" doesn't cut it anymore, and might actually be a detriment).
I think the game is good, it is just bugged a lot.
There is something to be said for employers that are less technologically organized and competent. A friend at a company that did this used a virtual machine to run the training.
It's amazing how we were worried whether big modern companies would show any real resistance towards states engaging in cultural suppression, racism, censorship and genocide.

In fact, they jump at the opportunity to help with it!
Wow, thank you so much for pointing this out!

I know from (my albeit limited development) experience that I definitely retain concepts I’ve encountered via a hands-on approach better, but I hadn’t made the leap to _this_ sort of hands-on approach! I’d just resigned myself to the long slog of trying to get a commit merged into the master branch haha.

Once again, thank you! I’m going to check out both of those resources!
SSC is actually where I learned about it myself. Shame he's stopped writing.
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Bad AI, NPC, cutomization, driving have nothing to do with bugs, it's just not a finished game.

A game that was in dev for almost 8 years, and we get AI that is just out of an early 2000' game.

When a publisher tells you it's going to be game changer, it's nothing we've seen before.
Super common.
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One way to get out of this rut is to go into sales. As a software engineer gone sales, hear me out:

1. You're valued more the older you get (Opposite of engineering)
2. Your job is to talk to customers and collaborate with your coworkers to get a deal done (No more internet explorer bugs)
3. You learn an awesome skill (sales) that helps you navigate through the bs politics of not only work but life.

If anyone is interested in my transition from engineering to sales, happy to chat! Email me at ju.lee@segment.com
CDProjekt reported that they've recouped the cost of development in hours after sales started. Financially, it's a smashing success. What's the lesson here?
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if only 30% of poles support same-sex marriage, doesn't that support the position that poland is not as concerned with LGBT issues as the west? in america, which is hardly seen as a bastion of social justice, that number is more like 60%.
I remember when I started coding 15 years ago, I was one of a tiny handful of people in my town who learned how to code. I got into coding because I enjoyed it. My dad advised me against it and said that I should be a lawyer instead. There weren't many jobs back then for programmers; especially in the town where I lived.

The only opportunities were web development for local businesses so it looked like a bad financial move at the time but I enjoyed it that much and not many people were interested in it back then.

But it feels like something went seriously wrong along the way. The industry seemed to have turned into some kind of giant ponzi scheme which attracted all kinds of crooks... People who don't give a shit about coding; it seems that these people managed to get themselves promoted into all the decision-making positions.

The industry is so rotten. Luckily, I managed to get into blockchain space which also has a lot of rotten parts but somehow I managed to secure an income from working on my own stuff so I don't have a boss anymore. Now I'm building a sane/intellectual community from the ground up and being extra careful about what kinds of people we allow in.
I think OP is asking, can you entangle, measure, discuss, and then go travel to another galaxy with real time communications?

Edit: or can the communication only happen once and then you need to remeasure over classic communication?
I did. I also applied the software patches I found when googling the problem, such as https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9094. It made the trackpad go from unusable to really annoying, which is progress.

Some people are looking into it: https://github.com/akirakyle/pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater/t...
That's not what the flack in various reviews is about. Read some of them on metacritic. The GP is right, those who rated it low often didn't do it because of the bugs, but because of "this near-future dystopia shows people having to make desperate decisions to survive." .. yeah, thanks. Who would've thought.
It's really good advice. My career has very little in common with Carmack, but I think I achieved success with the same mentality.

I have non-techie friends who have toyed with learning to code, but they usually get discouraged after a few weeks. I try to encourage and mentor, but it rarely pans out. There's a huge disconnect between what people are taught and how career progression works in the modern world. It's enough of a gap that I struggle to connect "Eloquent JavaScript" or a similar 101 guide with actually getting someone a job.

I'm certain there's a framework out there that could help learn and make a living in an emerging industry (outside of "work your ass off and don't get exploited"), but there's also so much garbage and bad guidance muddying these waters.
The problem with Opera torrent support was ironically that it came at a time when torrent was big, and people who were "into" torrenting at that time didn't want it as a side-feature, they wanted something dedicated: either highly featurful or highly targeted, which are niches a side-feature of a multi-feature app like a browser doesn't really fill.
I have seen this firsthand. I was a finance major fifteen years ago and for the last ten years I have run a completely bootstrapped agency.

If you have to live off your own revenues, it means you don't do any premature scaling... You have to focus on the needs of your customers to reach the next level. VC backed companies have to reach the VC exit goals which means they are forced to scale immediately even if things are broken.

Your business idea could work really well if you were given a few extra months or years to work on it, but with the VC fuse burning you can't wait.

VC's generally don't care about your passion, they care about maximizing returns over the shortest time period possible. If you don't do it their way, you will be forced to leave. I have been a member of a tech Vistage group and have seen over half of the VC backed CEO's forced out by their investors. It's really sad.
I'm waiting for someone to say blockchain
A counterargument: losing focus just means that you are encountering difficulty, boredom or frustration in your current project. Losing focus does not mean you should start exploring other options because you haven't found the best fit yet; other projects that seem shiny now will inevitably go through their own difficult periods.

If you look for greener pastures whenever your organic focus starts to wane, you'll never make it through the challenges that create real value.
> slower than on my...

May have consumed far less power doing the job though. For server farms performance-per-watt can be far more important than absolute speed per unit, especially for massively parallel tasks.
I have a threshold that if I surpass quickly becomes a chase. My solution is to go to bed at around 8pm and read until I fall asleep, which is sometimes immediate but never usually much past 10pm. That way, I can wake up fully refreshed at 4am, or I can sleep until 7am if I need it.

I use melatonin to reset my sleep cycle if I mess up and end up staying up all night. A mg or two at around 5pm helps me back into my target range, and from there I usually don't need it.

Routines are important. If I didn't try to actively control it, I'd stay awake until the sun came up and then sleep until noon, and I much prefer working in solitude when I first wake up than when I'm mentally fatigued at the end of a day.
No communication is possible BUT, I have this toy scenario where a "quasi-communication" may be possible in FTL speed.

"2 generals command 2 armies hundreds of km apart. They want to attack a common enemy, there are 2 options, A) And all-front attack. B) From the flanks. The generals want the plans to remain uncertain until the last second before the attack. So from an intermediate point, they send two "entangled coins" , one to each general, the coins will arrive at both sites at the exact start of the battle.Both will show the same face when "measured". The generals have agreed previously that if they turn out "heads" they will both attack from the flank, in the other case, they will do a front-attack.

Of course you dont need a quantum system for this, you could have agreed on other stuff (like it if it is raining that day at certain place or sending a framed coin by regular mail) but I think the quantum solution is the more elegant, assuming no 3rd party snooping.
I wanted to help train and mentor people. Went to work in state government as a developer at 47+. Could not be happier. I feel that the obligation of helping tax payers get their moneys' worth is "old school" internet. Being able to present government information the easiest and cleanest way possible on the net. Started doing web dev back around 96 and felt like the ethos have evolved into something I just couldn't ethically believe in anymore. Found a second life doing what I love in state government...oh and they treat me like a human being. Excellent insurance, more time off than I can use, and people (other developers) who believe in what they are building.
it seems like a reasonable proxy to me. most people who care about LGBT rights also care about misogyny and xenophobia, or at least claim to. this is what they call "intersectionalism".
>it's more like a new Deus Ex game

Only if you have never played a DX game before. It is a much lesser experience than any DX game, so that is a real sour point for players expecting, or at least familiar with, that.

And the bugs are not a sideshow. I played 2 hours on PC and returned it. When I had mission markers coming and going completely unrelated to any quests I had started I said "enough". If the game is made playable, then I'll buy it again and likely enjoy it as a cut-down DX Fable-like in a pretty setting.

Edit: the trip point for me will be when the game actually provides a non-lethal path through the game. Currently there is no polish or thought given to this aspect of UX. There are quickhacks and non-letha weapons, yet the game throws you into mandatory shootouts (namely the first scripted car chase) before you have access to non-lethal methods of neutralizing enemies. Maybe there is one small path of points dispersal that could lead to non-lethal options, but if there is it is obfuscated. They never signal to the player how to perform non-lethal combat. It feels like the options are placeholders and the game is meant to be murderous. This is a far cry from a DX game that gives a fair option to go non-lethal, full stealth as a challenge. The DX games were actually playtested.
And prohibition is doing the same thing for the Mexican drug gangs.

I used to oppose decriminalization and legalization because the most abused drugs are the legal ones, but the inability to deal with our addiction problems is destabilizing Mexico and Central America to the point of virtual civil war, and killing people like only war can.

Decriminalization and legalization will stop the flow of money, and flow the money back into legal businesses and taxes, remove the need for mafia-esque and corrupting drug enforcement regimes in the police, save money, fund rehabilitation, make the supply safe for users, help in tracking use/abuse, etc.

For those on the far right spectrum, illegal immigration is likely driven to a great deal by the destabilization of the drug war, especially in central america. It is closer to libertarian ideals, and shrinks government funding and government authority. It will reduce crime. It will reduce prison populations and the associated government funding of those prisons. It will keep many more people out of the criminal system and keep them in the economy.
Excessive regard for people's most superficial immutable traits; e.g., racism, sexism, etc, whether "well-intentioned" or not.
Jetbrains is mostly Russian. Their main development center is in St. Petersburg (Kotlin is actually a name of the island in St. Petersburg archipelago).
I explicitly said I have no idea how AMP isn't a web framework. Are you saying that it's a CDN too? If that's problematic then fork the web framework code on GitHub and replace GCS with your own thing to make a buck.

The root problem is search engine ranking policies. Frameworks can't fix that systemically. If Google was actually downranking websites that go too far with bloat and popups then people wouldn't do it. It's not complicated. What frameworks actually do is help you "check off a box" for misguided views Google holds about things like mobile friendliness, which punish small web sites, and favor big bloated complicated ones that can afford to devote engineers to sitting around checking off boxes.
PyCharm is fine for me. IntelliJ, on the other hand, will periodically freeze my work Macbook when trying to reindex parts of our monorepo[1]. Makes me wish I wasn't forced to use a laptop... or a monorepo.

[1] Note, just a handful of top-level targets comprising 2%-3% of the whole repo. Indexing the entire monorepo at once is a non-starter.
I do not think that would really work either. It would be suicidal for either EU or Russia to fight each other. All this "threat" talk I think is just a way to squeeze the money and governments always need some enemy to deflect attention from their own fuck-ups.
> Has anyone tried machine learning on this or the Graviton2?

I have not done any machine learning on AWS Graviton2 CPUs but I ran many other CPU benchmarks on Graviton2 CPUs and overall I have been disappointed by their performance. They are still much slower than current x64 CPUs (x64 CPUs are up to 2x faster in single thread mode).

According to the benchmarks from Anandtech the Ampere Altra should have much better performance than Graviton2 CPUs as its performance is neck to neck with the fastest x64 CPUs.
Avoid VCs
i keep going back to emacs/vim for coding, but jetbrains in one of the few bigger vendors about whom i’ve got nothing bad to say, ever. i love their tools, just prefer the terminal. one of my teammates did get me to convert from psql to datagrip for most of my data work. that alone is a testament to the quality of the tools!
Tweet threads are normalised at this point, with support from Twitter as well (using the + button). Besides people are more likely to read a thread than to click through to your blogpost.
Oooof, this hit me hard. Burnout to the max from the sound of it.

The only way I've managed to solve any of these qualms is to just tell my boss, more senior engineer, director, etc, "No". Work is a relationship just like any other and your job will treat you exactly as you let it, and if you never say no or stick up for yourself and say I don't like this or that, of course it's going to grind on you.

Just like everything else with life, there's going to be some bad with the good, just be sure to draw a clear line in the sand as to what you're willing to put up with and when it gets crossed, stand your ground.
Not the person you’re asking, but I too use DDG because AMP is a bad experience
This reminded me of the following exercise, which I hopefully recite correctly. I’ve first heard it in a podcast with the monk Anselm Grün, who counsels burned out managers in Germany:

Think about what you could do for hours as a child. What kept you so interested that time just passed by?

Then examine what wish, image or interest underlies these activities. You will often find clear links to your current occupation.

The assumption underlying this is that our interests are unique and not random, and that we have to find or rediscover them as they tend to get overshadowed over time, which removes us from feelings of flow and focus.
why bother getting the degree?
I had no idea this could be done using relatively inexpensive tools and (to use your word) mechanical technique. It reminds me of discovering the backyard astrophotography community after long assuming photos of stellar objects could only be captured by huge telescopes owned by institutions. Thank you for sharing!
16ms is basically 60fps. That should feel pretty smooth.
Because it's a gnat on the windshield of a 20,000 car freight train moving at high speed.

Advertising rules all, everything else is a cheap experiment to find a way to push out more advertising.

Anything embedded-related out of Google should be treated as a throwaway project by an intern that is already gone. Lots of us don't even look at announcements from them anymore.
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Don't forget alcohol; the go-to for self medication.
Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78
Johnson & Johnson: $8.50
Sanofi/GSK: €7.56
BioNTech/Pfizer: €12
CureVac: €10
Moderna: $18
Of course fundamentals are invaluable. But a stable career is equally if not more important to most people, I think.
"It's a shame that this game now has such a bad reputation for relatively minor & mostly avoidable reasons."
I disagree this adds up to minor reasons. If you bought the game for PS4 based on the advertisements getting a buggy mess isn't minor.
How is linux better than macOS for dev?
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>Not really handcuffs.

Ok, temporary handcuffs. The author of the original post on reddit mentions feeling as if escaping prison so there's something to handcuffs after all

>Oh, you're going to fire me if I don't do xyz, go ahead because I don't need the job.

That is only true when you have accumulate something and are ready to do your thing. Till then one is willing to put up with plenty of BS. But it's true, fat checks offer this alternative of exit. However, they are also keeping one from getting a more sane alternative because they pay isn't as good. There are still decent companies and jobs out there that you can run into if you're willing not to cash in fat checks.
I picked street kid and I still was confused by why the first part of the story was even necessary. The game could have taken a lesson from Kurt Vonnegut, who said to start a story as close to the end as possible.
If a brick and mortar store refuses services and kicks you out for disruption... breaking in at night, taking what you want, and leaving money is still illegal.

I love web scraping (it and tampermonkey basically got me into CS) but lets not act as if this behavior has no moral precedent.
Since when is Call of Duty so based? Count me in for a copy
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