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Computer Engineering PhD here. I’m seriously considering transitioning out of my program because I’ve reached a point where I’m just writing tons of code on a graduate student stipend and quite frankly, it seems doors are opening to me which I had previously thought would only be open with the PhD.

I feel like my experience would be very different if I had one full-time research engineer who was paid a respectable sum to just... help me write code. I like working with undergraduate students, but I can’t do expect them to commit to the task like I would, or a full-time employee. They just don’t have the time.

I’m doing my work extending / improving open-source CPU simulators and it’s just such a huge amount of code. I feel like my work would be so much more useful to others if I just had another pair of hands to work on docs, do ops work, go back and forth on decisions. My advisor doesn’t have the time for such things.

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On the topic of academic pay: as a PhD student in Boston, I get paid $2000 a month pre-tax. Studios and 1BR apartments renting for under $1500/mo in a 30-minute commute radius of my campus are basically non-existent, so roommates and/or long commutes are a must. I’m realizing now why so few US citizens participate in graduate CS/CE programs: if you aren’t looking for a path to citizenship, it just doesn’t seem like a great way to spend your mid-to-late 20s.
I still have my Newton. It won me a copy of Adobe After Effects from John Knoll at MacWorld. In the presentation showing how to do special effects, Knoll offered a copy of the software to anyone who could draw a picture of Bill Gates — on a Newton. I raised my hand and scribbled a smiley face as I ran to the front of the room. Forgot I was in handwriting recognition mode. It changed my drawing to “OK” right as I showed him. Got a good laugh and the software.
Yes, organizations do (and should exert) pressure when they give something, but is it done against the will of the citizens (i.e., government agreeing to things the citizens don't want. A vocal opposition is not enough to claim that)? A country is free to isolate itself etc. if the people there are happy with it.
> I don't think it's incredible, it's easy.

I'll give you $5000 if you can get my product rpgplayground.com on top of the mainstream media. If you find it easy, I will be happy to pay you the $5k.
Oh, and to add to this: I also had the distinct feeling that in the US I was often billed at 'partner' rates when the work done was at 'paralegal' level and I always wondered what would happen if you were to audit a large legal office to see if there was more partner time billed than there was partner time to begin with.
This was around 2010, although some of the motivations began in the several years leading up to then.

After eating chicken or ground beef, even if supposedly high quality more expensive offerings from grocery stores, my stomach would be upset (similar to how you might feel after eating four bags of fast food french fries).

Then around 2010, one after another big meat manufacturing recalls occurred in the US. Then I either watched a movie or read a book about a long time cattle rancher who became vegitarian, and his reasons. I forget the name, and I may not be remembering the exact background; but the gist was that this was a true meat person, and they left meat.

As I was serious about fitness at the time, particularly long technical single-track mountainbiking adventures, I wondered about how fitness might suffer without meat. I did some searches for professional athletes who were vegetarian, and I was surprised by the results. Suffice to say that not eating meat doesn't seem to prevent some people from being true top physical specimens.

So I went to the grocery store and decided to try no meat for a while. I started making big stir-frys in a wok, with lots of veggies. I got pretty good at that, and I could eat as much of that as I wanted without worry about calories. I also ate a LOT of salads.

I found it very satisfying, and I came to love veggies. I still love meat, but I almost never eat it... maybe once every few months, and usually just a small taste. No fish either, due to concerns of what's in fish and how it might be detrimental for my body.

I am not a fan of meat replamements. Those are often disappointing and relatively unehalthy (manufactured). And frankly, well prepared vegetarian dishes can be so good that my dining pleasure is at peak anyway... nothing would make me happier at the time.

Health-wise, there's strong evidence that cholesterol and other measurements which we think are important tend to be worse for meat eaters than vegetarians. So by not eating meat, I feel a bit less guilty sometimes eating some junk food. That's not my motivation though.

Lastly, I had a period of a couple of years after becoming vegetarian where I was doing pretty serious weight lifting. I was just shy of being at a competitive level. I did drink protein shakes a few times a week, but they were plant-based (not whey). Whether the shakes helped or not I cannot say; but being vegetarian didn't seem to prevent good quality muscle development.
Increased regulation around leveraged products would be nice!

The regulators are already asleep at the wheel in terms of oversight on traditional exchanges (or more specifically what is happening outside of them). Sure, additional oversight would be nice in crypto-land, but increasing the regulator's scope seems like wishful thinking to me.

With decentralized exchanges at least, all of the data necessary to audit what is happening is all public and instantly available... so maybe things will flip and the additional oversight for decentralized crypto exchanges will be trivial?
A computer system being down is no excuse to refuse a pre-auth. They can write the details down on paper for later computer entry. They 100% broke the contract by refusing to process pre-auth details with or without a computer. How did we get along without computers? Paper and phones. If this company can't operate without computers, they shouldn't exist.
In short it’s a bad manager. Another case of someone being successful at something (here investing) being deluded they are a universal genius.
I feel like most of my build or deployment pipelines always end up as just a bash script executed by the CI/CD tool anyway.
Yeah, I was kinda alluding to that. If ordinary people can do amazing things in a single year with almost no prior skill, it shouldn't be difficult to rationalize why/how a company could find ordinary people to do their much-less-glamorous work given just a few basic background checks and a single specialist in a primarily supportive rather than developing role, instead of the complete charade going on right now. And studies keep coming backing this up (or at the very least unable to refute this).

Then you add on top of that, companies tend to give pretty strong incentives to do their work anyway (you know, survival and luxuries). Even "cash-strapped" ones tend to pay well over median.
Once again, why are companies like Stripe [0], Moneygram [1], still using cryptocurrencies then? Perhaps they recognise that not all of them are like what you just described, and they waited for further regulations to be clearer and chose mature cryptocurrencies to use for what they needed?

Also why haven't the law makers in congress, the SEC and the White House totally banned all of them yet but are instead writing down regulations to determine complaint and non-compliant cryptocurrencies like in ISO 20022?

I know people skeptical of crypto are going to hate this and people who are in favour of all cryptos taking over the financial system will also hate this but I have to say it:

Not all of them are going to go away and only a few of cryptos will survive past regulations. That is the hard truth I'm afraid.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-29/moneygram...

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
OpenMOSIX is something I miss so much. I watched people build entire functional clusters using off-the-shelf hardware in a very tight budget and in just a few hours (most of the time was just unpacking things) using network boot and (IIRC) ClusterKnoppix. It was just "fork and forget" and boom, your job was now running in multiple processors.

I'd like to do that with my spare ARM SBC's.
Pretty much this (also remote work and free from big company sameness)

A job is not only a salary. Yes, salary is important, but I wouldn't take a 50% increase to work on a very inconvenient office location with no free coffee.

Also, don't waste the candidate's time with a BS hiring process. You want to bring this person you don't put them under the steamroller. Be gentle.
How can a gap be negative?
It doesn't have to be due to Azure itself but the migration process itself (which can sometimes take years)
> You find a photo from user "anon2522" on platform X that last posted 8 years ago. The attribution information is really soft and fragile, it doesn't really link to an actual person and the little information you have may disappear at any time.

Is this really a problem? We've found stone tablets with authors' names on them from thousands of years ago; they're attributed, even if we know nothing else about their authors. CC-BY doesn't require being able to track down the person to be useful.
Guilt —- I was coming out of a lifelong emotional fugue state and starting to critically examine who I was, and I realized how wretched I felt for contributing to animal suffering. Started as vegetarian in February, went vegan a few weeks ago.
Here is a guide to set up vdirsyncer with Google Calendar:

https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/config.html#google

The Khal CLI calendar reads from vdirsyncer. I just recently set this up, took 10 minutes from "I've never heard of it" to having it set up and running. Highly recommended. It supports setting the first day of the week, using ISO-8601 date format, and even my Right-to-Left Hebrew text entries. Seems very well developed.
I don't think we really want a lot of pensioners to return to work though that may be an eventual need. The numbers for younger males are pretty bad and their never working means a lifetime of social services.

Sure statistically they have various health problems in excess of past generations but I think it is rare that they can't do lighter service jobs which should mean more drastic difference in pay or qualifications for heavier service jobs than I usually saw in the US (though I may be out of date on this).

Things like ruining a worker by funneling kids through a piecemeal system that ultimately pushes them towards a rap sheet or just some kind of permanent black marks in education are much more significant problems that lead to a lot of young men sitting around either at home or in groups on streets depending on social/economic levels of their families, etc.
NANDputer lives!

http://blog.kevtris.org/?p=62
Another alternative that Im using and very happy with - Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/). Also provides import from Evernote which mostly worked in my case.
Doing this to BBC Four is definitely a "fuck you" to the government from the BBC.

TL:DR - BBC moves channel aimed at old, mostly white viewers solely online and channel aimed at young, ethnically diverse viewers on to OTA TV whilst maintaining online access which by any considered approach is the opposite way you'd do it to sustain viewers for both. Likely viewers for BBC Four are Conservative voters.

BBC Four is the high-brow channel with a mostly middle class and upper class audience. I'd also wager more men and more white people generally. It's content is a strange combination of history, arts and old music performances. These kind of older people are the types of people who mostly consume TV via Freeview OTA broadcasts and balk at the idea of paying for Sky or streaming services and many won't have ever used iPlayer or perhaps even have access to it.

A few years ago, BBC Three was made online only on iPlayer and it's target audience was Teens and people in their 20's and for those people access via computers wasn't a massive hardship as many would be in their bedrooms on their laptops or tablets anyway. BBC Three has definitely shifted towards content for a more ethnically diverse audience in recent years and has garnered plaudits for this from within the media.

In the last 12 months, after struggling with internal concerns about relevance against the likes of Netflix, has brought BBC Three back to Freeview OTA.

So this news about BBC Four being moved to iPlayer is a likely nail in it's coffin. Likely viewers for BBC Four are Conservative voters.
Canada trials decriminalising cocaine, MDMA and other drugs
> even out of cold/hot seasons (heating system and air conditioner OFF) just cannot cope without electricity

30 degrees C is uncomfortable, -20 is another level. Affluent people will always have air conditioning, as can workplaces, simply based on profit. I think most people in warmer climates still see air conditioning as a kind of a luxery (at least the ones I know), even if it is a very welcome luxery.

> Yes, but how would nuclear be a better option, given its upfront costs, high LCOE...?

Nuclear would rely on going back to more reasonable prices, partly through a review of regulations, and partly by focusing on efficiency during construction and operation. We know this is all doable, if the will is there.

>> natural gas remains viable for heating purposes througout Europe for the next generation.

> Is it compatible with an IPCC scenario?

Probably not with the most optimistic one.. But better than to continue large scale coal power.

> It will be known, thus amplifying the NIMBY effect.

This would absolutely require some education/propaganda efforts by governments and other authorities, similar to the kind of education being done for climate change.

Starting with thourough documentation of the harm done by coal to lungs in media and schools would be a start. Start adding a tax on coal power (and a smaller one on natural gas), and increase it every year, until both are unprofitable. Then let the market decide how to distribute the replacement between renewables and nuclear.
This is about a scree slope near Ticino -

The scree acts like a chimney during the cold winter periods. Warm and light air is expelled out of the upper part of the scree and is replaced by cold and dense air aspirated inside the lower part of the slope. The process leads to the overcooling of the scree in winter and to the occurrence of permafrost

In summer, the chimney effect is reverse and the permanent expiration of cold air prevents the vegetation from growing normally.

https://www.arlis.org/docs/vol1/ICOP/55700698/Pdf/Chapter_03...
Elon Musk reportedly declares remote work no longer acceptable at Tesla
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
So sad to hear about an experience like this, for this reason, is very important to secure your accounts with 2FA (two-factor authentication) even if your password or email will get compromised they still won't be able to access your accounts with a specific code. In your case, they used 2FA for preventing you to access your own account, it's ironic that the 2FA system that was created in order to protect users is used to prevent them to access their accounts.
> Not because they're bad at their jobs, but because sound travels so slowly there's an appreciable delay between the different sections of the orchestra. (50 ms for a smaller hall, up to 100 ms for a giant Mahlerian monster orchestra in a large space.)

Why does the hall size matter? I would have expected the size and shape of the space within the hall that is actually occupied by the orchestra to be what matters.
MSNBC hasn’t told me anything about that. That’s the neutral projection of reality I trust.
You are using one Oxford college as an example, that is not representative at all. Most universities have very little (if not null) prestige associated to them. If you will only recruit top talent at Oxford and Cambridge, why have the rest of the universities? How do you plan on funding them?
some self-doubt is right for critical thinking
If you think FANG is market salary you understand neither what the FANG acronym represents (the very top companies in the industry) nor what market salary means (average salaries - NOT what top companies can pay in SF).
> You can’t reflect the probability to be 2A AND 1/2A if A represents the value of an envelope.

Yes, that's right. That's exactly what I said: "A is the amount in one of the envelopes, so if A=50 then either E1 is 50 or E2 is 50, and the other E is 25 or 100. But under no circumstances can E1=100 and E2=25 at the same time."
Airlines get 91% cart abandonments (UX analysis)
Reddit is a decent alternative and has a lot of these. It's not strictly better, but at least it's more open without accounts.
I signed. I have worked in computational finance for 25 years--building mathematical models and managing their implementation. I have spent the past year anti-fraud modeling. I don't know if this qualifies me as a technologist. The leadership can decide.
LOL... the irony being that for a lot of folks whether they are A-Team or B-Team or C-Team depends a lot on the company culture, impact of work they are assigned on, problem statement, team (esp. foundational team), exec alignment and a tonne of other factors that may or may not be in their control.

A supposed "A-Team" Engineer at FB who was part of the early team that built out a messaging platform that is used across FB Engineering will still be seen as a "B-Teamer" at a 20 person startup if she's unable to create similar impact (again, not because she's intrinsically a different person between FB and the new company).

Heck, the easiest way to be considered a 10xEngineer/A-Teamer today is to bring 15% increments to 10 teammembers' productivity rather than be some insanely productive, busfactor=1 developer.

We really need to stop with this silly ranking of devs
I think we need more people to not have absolutest/religious type positions on diet and just eat less meat.

I view meat now like I view chocolate. I am not self banned from eating chocolate but I certainly do not need to eat chocolate every day. I am basically sometimes vegetarian, sometimes vegan until I want to have "cheat meals" and sometimes enjoy meat like I sometimes enjoy chocolate.
What professions outside of healthcare and the military are turning away unvaccinated workers in any significant numbers?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/10/employers-requiring-a-vaccin... indicates it's single-digit numbers, and I'd expect those to largely be stuff like healthcare and teachers.
Thought Experiment: Privacy Law, ITP and Consent Management
Wrong. The "if you pay enough" is related to the available resources.

There is real housing shortage when people on minimum income cannot afford a house.

There is real health care shortage when people on minimum income cannot afford health care.

There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid). Small companies might survive or die but large companies are the ones driving salary expectations the most.

Those big companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.
> Therefore if a gas turbine takes the load

Load following isn't about a plant being started or stopped, it's an automatic mechanism that is either handled without any intervention (primary reserve : the plant's turbine monitors the frequency and adapts over 30s) or with interventions from the grid operator only (secondary reserve: RTE's systems have the hand on the providers' facilities). Every plant that participates in load following does it through the same mechanism, nuclear or gas doesn't matter.

What you describe is merit order, and it's not happening at the same operating level.

> Therefore if a gas turbine takes the load, nuclear could not do so

We do have examples of nuclear being used this way. It is likely that gas plants are also used this way, since every power provider is required to participate, and some french providers don't have NPPs.

> All mechanisms used to tune power are pauses-inducing (depending upon the fuel state...), they cannot be used at will.

Not sure what you mean by that. Like gas plants, nuclear plants work by heating water. This means that this water buffers some energy, and that buffer can be used for fast but small power variations, with minimal impact on the pipe system.

As for large variations in power, such as the 100% -> 20% change you quoted, they are scheduled ahead of time, and you can find technical explanations on how operators do that.

As you noted, there are obviously bounds to variations. As you said, they can't be used at will. One thing you seem to neglect, though, is that flexibility requirements are within these bounds. That means that power variations required can be serviced while staying within the limits of the system.

This means that what you're asking for: "active industrial French nuclear reactor can always be freely modulated" would be unnecessary gold-plating.
this inadvertent details why the immigration path to citizenship is almost modern day labor exploitation. don't get me started on how the labor certification process for the green card furthers that in a timeline that is decades
The problem with decriminalization is that there's no way to legally buy the substances, so organized crime is still involved, and consumers still can't tell whether the substances they buy and use are safe.

Legalization would solve both those problems.
Money is basically just a way to motivate other people to do something for you :D

We as a civilisation obviously CAN build houses, utilities, hairdressers, space rockets, grow food, etc. - the question is simply "why" (in the literal, low-level sense: why would I do that for you? even if the economy at large would benefit from it, I just don't feel like working today, and besides, I don't know you well enough). And money (and capitalism in general) is a flawed, crude, but so far the only way the "why" gets answered for the majority of people.

Another way of making someone do something for you, obviously, is to be very, very persuasive.
That's fine in theory but honestly I have bigger fish to fry than rolling my own networked calendar. Much as I'm a big advocate for open source and open specs (even being an author and contributor to a few open source projects too), I have to use these proprietory systems for authentication and email at work anyway. So the convenience of using them for my calendar too far outweighs the cost of rolling my own solution.

This is one of those situations were worse is better.
Bob Moog - who (basically) invented the synthesizer - was a passionate organic gardener. His belief system, in many ways, saw the two as similarly allowing humans to interface with the intelligence of the universe.
Which examples? The ones who take hush money and are subject to increased violence from an increasingly powerful cartel?

The ones who are paying for these open ponzi schemes by having their electricity stolen by the state?

How about El Salvador, or Argentina, or Nigeria where the poorest lost significant chunks of their capital from btc crash to terra/luna collapse.
Cash strapped? No worries, just pick a low wage country and send them to Singapore to work for a bit. Not exactly THAT cash strapped...
That only works in the small scale — company X can’t find the staff, or person Y can’t find a home, but if they had more money they could.

In the scale of nations, adding more money without increasing supply is called “inflation”: if there was a shortage before, it’s still there even if everyone has an extra thousand currency units per month, per day, or per hour.
The minimum wage type jobs the article is talking about generally couldn't care less about vaccination.
They expected value theory is very plausible. there are a lot of r&D projects that basically produce zero output for decades. high risk high reward