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I wish one day I'll read that Computer Scientist _earns_ $1 Million.

Most engineers here get like £60k salary (£3600 a month after PAYE tax), while companies they work for make billions out of their work. Not only that, but they also don't contribute back into the local communities, because they use aggressive tax avoidance strategies.
Corporations need to start sharing their profits with the workers and pay taxes otherwise it will eventually spark another revolution.
I can't believe VCs put another 500M$ in this (even at the same last valuation).

If only we could have that money for our Lynx[0] headset...

[0] https://lynx-r.com
> So my advice is always to not make idle threats you aren’t willing to back up.

Don't draw your revolver until you are ready to use it. This rule is universal - it applies in employment, personal relationships, and gunfights.
Proximity to Eastern Europe, with some Eastern European nations now being EU members.
>Most sources are saying 15-20 years for post-tensioned.
Which sources?

Not a structural engineer (but I have been site manager for quite a few post-tensioned bridges building sites), you may be confusing pre-tensioned with post-tensioned.

In pre-tensioned there is no difference with "normal" rebar, the steel is in direct contact with the concrete.

In post tensioned you cast the concrete embedding pipes where you later insert the cables, then you tension the cables and inject in the pipes (and around the cables) some sort of corrosion preventing mixture, this used to be a mix of cement + additives (very, very fine, no sand nor other aggregates), but depending on the project it can nowadays be also some mix of grease/wax (in this latter case cables can be de-tensioned, removed, replaced and re-tensioned).

So, unlike the pre-tensioned structures and common rebars the cables in post-tensioned structures the cables are better protected and less likely to suffer corrosion deriving from infiltration of rain or water, so that part of the structure is - in theory - less prone to aging.

Still, the cables only represent a part of the structure, the rest is "kept together" by "common" re-bar steel, and these are - generally speaking - nearer to the surface of the structure, so I would expect properly built post-tensioned structure to have the same life-span of normal reinforced concrete.

IMHO 50 years is a very low threshold for the lifespan of any reinforced concrete structure, including pre-tensioned structures, while post-tensioned should have - at least for the cables - a longer lifespan.

Anecdotally, the first bridges I contributed to build are now around 40 years old and show no particular signs of decay.
> served on the National Petroleum Council

A physicist that likes power.
".. thus we pivoted to projecting directly into the eye, while able to darken the background, away from purely additive drawing, making ML2 useful for outdoor and light-strong environments."

Okay
I think this is meant as a distinction between theoretical and applied science, phrased to a low common denominator (which, as a consequence, causes miscommunication due to not being specific enough).
to the people in this thread saying that applying Aimovig hurts - yes it does, but it hurts less than when they're drawing your blood. also, in my opinion these 15 seconds of mild pain a lot better than the constant pain I was in due to migraines..
If "twitter mob" is dehumanizing, then we really have to cut to the heart of the matter and cancel the English language and Roman alphabet.

Anything less than utter nihilistic rejection of all aspects of Western civilization is, at some level, agreeing with and abetting the Binary Intersectional Tyrannical Cis-Hetero Slave Lord Anti-woke Patriarchy (BITCHSLAP).

Or are we not woke enough yet?
I remember when the salaries in India for a full-stack engg were in the range of $2000 / mo ($24K) and it was considered a "good" salary. We had to work on Saturdays and often Sundays. And I'm not talking of some local company, but the so-called tech leaders like Wipro.

One time I was travelling with a french colleague and while I was given an economy class ticket my friend got a business class ticket on the same flight. We were doing the same work on the same project.

There is so much disparity in this world :(
I really like this package, because it not only uses the method you mentioned for checking types, but is written in TS, so you get the type checking feedback.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/is
gather.town? We used it for a few virtual meetups where I'm based.
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This guy had a pretty good series of posts on Magic Leap. They're not positive https://kguttag.com/?s=magic+leap

EG "This blog has been reporting why from a technical perspective on the massive problems with Magic Leap since November 2016. At that point, Magic Leap had “only” raised about $1.4B. They were able to raise another $1.2+ billion since this blog started reporting on their hype. Magic Leap’s total VC raise of over $2.6B dwarfs the measly $700m raised by the infamous Theranos."

https://kguttag.com/2020/05/03/magic-leap-starts-to-auger-in...
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Remember Microsoft had an issue where a Windows upgrade deleted the contents of your Documents folder as part of the OneDrive migration. Users reported it but it was ignored.

Since then, they added a field on all feedback forms to fast track issues that result in data loss. However, they clearly didn't apply the same logic to login issues, perhaps fearing social engineering.
> Out of school I put way more effort in building my infrastructure but in reality a good VPS, something like Cloudflare and some app based caching can run millions of daily views over 20+ different apps without issues.

I read such messages (and also agree to it mostly) and then I encounter my peers wanting active-active clusters with K8s on top or something and I feel I like a dinosaur.

Refreshing to see KISS still being used. Also gitea. What an awesome piece of open source software.
And here come the Rust fan boys telling us the correct way to write the code so it will be faster than anything ever written, much safer than anything ever written and better than any programming language ever written.
Sorry, I meant running different inputs on a program that does not branch or have an input-dependent memory access pattern. Any computation can be written in such a form, although there might be a large overhead compared to programs that do branch.
Lol, you'd be surprised to learn I'm not surprised in my expectation that these things will come back.

Referring to their death literally because the bars are closed for the last year and a half, despite the hit to innovation and progression that causes.

And I'll go to them once they're back, see "career progression reasons." The light ire my last comment contains is directed at the people that view these as lightweight friend happy hours, which these events have never been.

Golden rule - if my boss is remote, I'm still ok with remote. That said, your theory takes a hit with a full remote company at the eng and exec level, which many Series B/C/D startups are turning into.
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Rule based and all was long ago before data was so much abundant. Or in other words before big data era.
The trouble is in deciding which traditions are useless and which are not. Let's take some of your examples:

- shaking hands - any form of greeting involving physical contact (hugging) is a lot more powerful than just words

- celebrating Christmas - you can have a family reunion any time, or rest on any day, not just Sunday. But do you? Or do you need a pretext and a common free day for everybody and a guarantee that at least one day per week you do not work and nobody can tell you to?

- corporate hierarchies, dictatorship - any form of flat organization fails to take timely important decision because nobody can enforce them. Dictators started in Rome, where the fiercely republican senate recognized that during crises they could not unite to do anything and appointed limited time dictators and willingly submitted completely to their decisions. Also take a look at the outcomes of the Arab Spring, did the removal of dictators improve the lives of the people?
Hey look on the bright side I’be been signing up for 1 month trials of Xbox Ultimate for $1 for the past 6 months on the same account!
To be fair, the use of "nobody" in that sentence is a bit over-generalizing but isn't the sentiment of the sentence quite clear? If a group is a very homogeneous, outsiders might think that they're not welcome/ have lower chances of getting in.

I don't have any scientific proof to back up that claim but I can certainly relate from personal experience without belonging to any minority.

I think calling that "incredibly racist" and implying
Cthulhu_ is just "echoing" something from their circles is quite out of line. In the future maybe you could just point out what you think is wrong with the wording instead of attacking OP personally.

Also: There are things in this world which are "incredibly racist", which is beyond horrible. But do Cthulhu_'s remarks really belong into that category?
> Honestly, I think we mostly spent our time shit-talking people that weren't there, which isn't super healthy.

Honestly, I often feel like that shit-talking helps to keep people bonded over what can be pretty awful situations. I know that in my current job (to which I've given notice), I'd have loved to have a bunch of people from the office to talk to about it, and it might have lead to me staying longer.

Hard to know for sure though.
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You can even turn off automatic updates on Apple systems. Microsoft lets you pause them for 35 days, then requires you to update before you pause them again.
Respect the candor!
I assume you're from the UK? Where? I ask because salaries in London are definitely higher. A senior engineer should get 80k and a principle engineer/architect should be on 90-120k.
Symbian was started to look quite good with Carbide, PIPS and Qt.

It was the burning memo that destroyed all trusth from third parties.

The transition to Qt/PIPS was the third of its kind, so most just decided "I am out of here".

I used my Symbian Belle device until that stoped being an option.
Thanks for the information, I will try to figure it out for more. Keep sharing such informative post.

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I use https://www.hatchbox.io/ , like Heroku (git based workflow), but you can choose what infrastructure you run on.

Hatchbox manages the deployment, backups, rollback etc.
There's a lot of variation in Europe, but IME the salaries in Western Europe are comparable to Canadian ones.

Also, the Canadian healthcare is not exactly stellar. For some reason, dental care in Canada is "only cosmetic" and not covered by insurance.
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> In a JS datepicker, I could force DD/MM/YYYY (or whatever according to the user record) and that's it.

This is the entire point of datetime-local. And why other native date fields were dropped and replaced by this one.
Military and government can pay for stuff also using deficit spending, which is not "our" money. It's either FED's money which they create (and thus steal value from us) or it's borrowed money from wealthy interests.
I pay money so I can sleep easier at night!

Envoyer and Forge for PHP stuff.

Render/Heroku for node.js stuff. Netlify for static stuff.

For the more complex bits I have, I use Pulumi to manage everything through IaC. It's still complex but at least it's robust and I can sense-chech changes to infra through a PR to myself.
Good. I actually watched it, and felt he struck a decent balance. I keep hoping events like this are the turning point where people learn to ignore Twitter mobs.
I've been using Beanstalk for my new project, which is like an in-between for full on AWS and Heroku, but if you need you can decompose it into individual AWS components. It's more difficult to get started and there are way less sensible defaults, but I still got everything deployed for my POC in less than 4 hours.

As for DBs / engines and such, I try to go for hosted services as long as they're not stupidly priced. I'm currently using Elastic cloud. If I need a relational DB I'll probably deploy Postgres on AWS and install some scripts to back up the data to an S3 bucket every day or so.

I chose NOT to use k8s or Docker because, like you said, it's basically a fulltime job to maintain. I don't think it's needed at all unless you're a large organization.

So basically: a mixture of roll-your-own, streamlining platforms, and hosted services. Do whatever works and is easiest, and don't worry so much about having ALL the goodies.
My (Swedish) BankID definitely doesn't run from the sim card. :S I've had 4 phones in Sweden and I had to enroll it as a new device each time in Nordea.
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> I appreciate that "big" is in peoples' minds associated with "strong"

In my mind, this is now called Pakled reasoning, from the scene in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Pakled rebel turned leader:
"I am now Pakled leader. Behold my giant helmet!"

Other Pakled:
"He is strong!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv1uhAa_M_U&t=193s
Explanatory quote from the linked paper (and thanks for the link, qPM9l3XJrF!):

"Rather than trying to create models that are inherently interpretable, there has been a recent explosion of
work on “Explainable ML,” where a second (posthoc) model is created to explain the first black box model. This
is problematic. Explanations are often not reliable, and can be misleading, as we discuss below. If we instead
use models that are inherently interpretable, they provide their own explanations, which are faithful to what the
model actually computes"
I saw a “dead” comment with the following content, but I think the mods were wrong to delete it. The CCP is accurately described as the Nazis of our time. This is technically relevant to OP’s technical question.

“ The CCP are the Nazis of our time, and currently have border disputes with all of their neighbors. There's an arms race in that region because they won't respect WTO rulings.
Huawei's founder is "former" PLA, which is the CCP's military arm.
Huawei has gutted Western telecom competitors by dumping equipment on the West, which reduces tech job opportunities.
Any Huawei router is one firmware update away from giving the CCP access to your network.”
Wiz has a $6B valuation after only 18 months
I run my own Heroku clone which is then licensed by my other companies.

Also, I review how much time each product / feature consumed each year and then decide what to deprecate. Each April I then have my own little party where I ceremoniously turn off last year's time wasters.

I'd say it all boils down to "know your customer lifetime value"
I personally have not experienced dizziness per se, but have certainly felt the effects of prolonged screen usage. For me it generally manifests as pressure headaches and irritability.

> I’ve gotten a lot better by taking regular breaks (fully away from the desk every hour), following the 20/20/20 rule, and getting out for a walk at lunchtime. I also cut monitor and screen usage outside of work down.

I think you nailed it with this. As difficult as it may be at times, complete separation from the screen is the best solution.

I'm actually extremely interested in health implications of computer hackers and write about it on my blog. So, there are a couple of other considerations to keep in mind that may be contributing:

1. Your posture; particularly your shoulders and head/neck position. The tl;dr is poor posture puts a significant amount of strain on your nerves and blood vessels which can lead to a whole host of problems including dizziness. I wrote a bit about that here [0] if you'd like to read more.

2. Electromagnetic sensitivity [1]. Our computer monitors, amongst every other electronic device around us, emit electromagnetic fields, and some of us are more sensitive to them than others. And one of the most commonly mentioned symptoms is dizziness. An interesting way to combat that this is with a concept called "earthing", which is basically a means of discharging the buildup in your body by direct physical contact with the vast supply of electrons on the surface of the earth [2]. This is a new concept to me and so have limited details. It is something I'd like to look into more and write about, but wanted to share in case it may help.

[0] https://healthyhacker.co/the-ideal-posture-for-typing-on-a-k...

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26372109/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/
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Is it just me, or is that announcement full of weirdly specific statements. Like "Magic Leap 2 will be the industry’s smallest and lightest device built for enterprise adoption", implying that smaller/lighter devices exist, just not ones specifically built for enterprise adoption.
I’d love for others with more knowledgeable to chime in, since this feels close to the logical end state for non-user-facing distribution.
At a protocol level, content basically becomes a combination of a hash/digest and one or more canonical sources/hubs.
This allow any intermediaries to cache or serve the content to reduce bandwidth/increase locality, and could have many different implementations for different environments to take advantage of local networks as well as public networks in a similar fashion as recursive DNS resolvers. In this fashion you could transparently cache at a host level as well as eg your local cloud provider to reduce latency/bw.
first of all, 57k in NL is definitly NOT top segment. thats mid level. top segment for seniors is more like 80k to 95k.

thats a huge difference already!

also mind that those online figures not necessarily include 8% vacation money, 13th month, 25-30 days pto and pension fund (up to 100%, usually 50%)

source: i had this salary myself after 6 yrs and subsequently hired a lot of people in this segment for roughly that amount.

contractors can demand even more. its not unlikely for React senior people to charge 100-120 p.h.
Here's a practical application:

I have a device with 512k flash. I use 64k for a bootloader, 208k each for two possible application versions, the rest for settings.

If I can use relocatable code, I can download a new firmware version during normal operation of the device with no need to switch over to the bootloader. When it's time to switch version, a quick reboot is all that's needed. This means downtime of a second or two instead of several minutes, and that's very valuable.

A possible work-around is to prepare two binaries for each firmware version, one per possible location, but then I'd need to negotiate with the device to know which image to send. Better to just have one image fit any location.
Are the any AR headsets that will give me a good multi-monitor setup where I can still see everything going on around me? Id happily pay $1500 for something like that.
Where's the line? Louis CK ?
Thank you very much for that comment, it's exactly what i try to express, the focus on skin-color is as racist as it can get.
> They're technically below the noise floor, and receivers have to use shenanigans to get a usable signal at all.

This is nonsense.
Her most cited paper is https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10154 and it references a lot of her other work. It provides a good representation of what she does and what she is well known for.
Ex-Googler here and 20+ year veteran of SF startups.

It sounds like you have a great set of intuitions, and you're right, all that infrastructure is a nightmare to set up and manage.

Step 1: Question every requirement

Step 2: Drop everything that is not critical

Step 3: Profit!

Git hooks and Makefiles are great!

I have an HP workstation I bought from eBay under my desk that has 32GB of RAM, 2x 12 core CPUs and a static IP address. It's probably 8 years old, but fast enough to serve whatever we need for a long while.

The machine (Old Blue), hosts our Git repos, web app, database and integration service (git hook that calls, 'make publish').

We're not serving Google scale traffic, so we don't need Google scale infrastructure.

Keep it simple whenever possible and don't let the modern stack complexity creep in until you absolutely need it.

Even going to the cloud, when you've done it 10 times and know how, is way more work than you need when just starting out.

Take on those costs and complexities only when your traffic requires it, and you may just find out that you never have to pay rent for compute.
A lot of my US friends are paid a lot but have 0 free time. I'm not paid as much but I have a lot of free time and holiday (31 + public holidays). Also being sick doesn't use holiday days
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Oh thanks for the pointers
Adding to that — if Poland accepts European law and courts today, then tomorrow it has to accept a European law it didn't write about corruption, or a ruling by European judges who weren't appointed by the accused ministers.
It is quite common for engineers with Cynthia Rudin’s ability to earn > 1 million. If you have that level of ML skill you can lead teams at many companies for over that amount.
s/will/may
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I must admit I'd forgotten about Magic Leap, amazed to see they're still going and raising even more money.

In my head, I always put them in a bucket with Theranos and uBeam, Startups who made product claims which experts in their fields said were not possible.

I guess slick marketing wins over those doubts in some VC circles but you wonder if anyone at the early stage Magic Leap investors is getting asked tough questions about why they approved it, or if they've all just moved on to other roles.
After reading and running his code etc, it is a shock to see him turn up here.
No, that does not exist as of today.

If you can settle for VR, you might be happy with Immersed and Vive Focus 3.

There are no AR headsets today that would be remotely useful for day-to-day work, let alone with any kind of passable software support. Stuff from Varjo (like the XR-3) is getting there, but it's not there yet.
they probably have a large patent portfolio
There is a very similar level of magic for converting a raspberry pi to do AirPrint

https://github.com/willswire/balenaPrint
I wouldn’t. Also I wouldn’t work for parasitical corporations such as Facebook/Google etc. You’re ethical enough to ask the question so there’s hope your decision will be too.
thanks for clarifying I always thought NI contributes to NHS. Shame that it's not, makes sense now why NHS is in this state...
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I've never seen a CV that didn't include significant mendacity.

My CV was always pretty straight-up, I think; but it certainly included some "check-box" skills that I either didn't care to exercise, or on which my real knowledge wasn't exactly complete mastery.

I think my CVs were successful not because of the check-box skills, but because I would take a lot of care over spelling, vocabulary and grammar. Many employers filter-out CVs with poor English. And many employers don't know how to detect a superstar, either from their CV or at interview. They use the standard of written English as a proxy.

It's not fair, of course; I've worked with superstar engineers who had bad written English. But it's reality.
Wonder how this architecture is limiting the space, though - all biological brains train continuously. Our DNNs are more like a brain upload snapshot that's always run for one cycle and then rebooted.
It's reasonable that "ties to the Zerg" would raise more eyebrows. Ties to a foreign entity are different to ones from the same political bloc/your own country.
My experience is the opposite. I get the “I don’t work in this dept. I’ll call someone”. Then I wait in plumbing for 10 minutes until someone shows up. When the person shows they start looking in the same place I have been searching for the last 1/2 hour.