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Communication skills, team participation, and 10000+ hours of practice with real-world problems. You wish that were true... ;)

People often choose careers for the wrong reasons, compete to be at the bottom, and end up miserable. If you are over 30, the burn-and-churn cycle you thought would be exciting... turns out to be really destabilizing and lame. Consider being a plumber, you will make more money, and not have a student loan for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQlCOmXuHM

To be a good Programmer, you need to fantasize about being a Plumber everyday. As even knee deep in sewer water, people would have held you in higher regard given they could actually understand what you did professionally.
> Science is not an organization, business, political party, or group of any kind.

> The def "Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe"

> Talking about it like the article does is completely wrong

I don't think it's that clear cut. Science, according to your definition, is almost exclusively pursued in the context of scientific organizations. I think it's fair to also refer to those organizations, collectively, as "science."
Mercury just settles down inside cells (the parts that are not eliminated), where it’s hard to detect without using a chelator. Serum levels are not a good indicator in the long term.
Yes it's aspirational, and of course you have to do batching when the rate of commits gets too high. Many companies don't actually end up at the end of the spectrum with full continuous delivery; most of the value is captured by building what's needed _to be able to_ if you chose to, and doing say daily or hourly automated deploys.

If you're not familiar with the general arguments for why CD might be desirable, a good place to start would be the books Continuous Delivery [https://smile.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Auto...] or Accelerate [https://smile.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Tech...]. The TLDR would be that most deploy problems in practice turn out to be because the process is manual, infrequently-used, and/or unreliable, and by practicing "if it hurts, do it more often" you are forced to iron out those kinks. For example you can't deploy automatically without a good acceptance/smoke test suite, and without solid DB migration testing/linting/practices, to name just two of many. You could just build all these things without trying to do CD, but in practice it seems that it's quite hard for organizations to prioritize this work in isolation, and the goal of CD seems to provide a fairly clear map to a much higher-quality deploy process. The practice of deploying more frequently to flush out issues, is also quite unintuitive as you note.

Here's a (probably out-of-date) article on how FB did deploys in 2017: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/09/facebook-release-scale/ -- batched commits and staged canary rollouts automatically cut and released every few hours.
What sort of religion should I believe in to unlock this extra intelligence?
But they're not the same things at all; I don't think age-ratings are "censorship".
> Yes, the United States government has kept them prisoner for 20 years, at great inconvenience and expense, because they just want to be meanies.

Well, no, they took them prisoner and held them there initially for a variety of bad reasons, and then they were kept there subsequently largely because of intrabranch squabbles, radicalization because of long unjust confinement, and foreign reluctance to help resolve the problem (in large part due to the preceding point) making it difficult to find a resolution to the problem created by the initial bad decisions.

(Anthropomorphizing the US government as if it were an individual with general consistence of interest is... not consistent with political reality, often, or on this point in particular.)
> Because why else would such an aversion arise?

> I don't think there are any sensible "defaults" for human cultures.

But, you seem to think a lack of aversion to talking about sex to be a default? To your question, I've known many people whom are not practicing any religion and yet have an aversion to sexual discussion, within a population that has a lack thereof. There are many such topics that some feel are not keeping with decorum to be discussed openly and widely - and without religion being involved. Let's say in China there is a general aversion to sexual discussion. What will be your explanation given lack of puritanical religion?

> But I wouldn't expect aversion to talking any sex to arise spontaneously among a population

I don't see spontaneity to be relevant here.
Yep, and that is generally also why IT is the way it currently is. Most projects aren't all that complex (in business logic terms), it's mostly CRUD interfaces and a fancy viewer for the end users anyway. But industries that are still on mainframes are almost completely the opposite where every single element is tagged, catalogued, tested, described and traceable at any point in time. With a price, rigidity and lead time to match, of course.

On one hand we don't all want to buy mainframes, on the other hand, doing it as cheap and unmeasured as possible makes everything flakey, demanding on individuals to keep it running, insecure, and opaque to everyone involved. Too bad there isn't really any middle ground, it's almost like it's either "pretend to be a mainframe" or "do it as cheap as possible".

Regarding the aviation analogy: it definitely doesn't become cheaper due to regulation (it did become cheaper due to subsidies), but I'd rather have a system that's regulated (or forced) into safety than having it be optional and left to a sociopath (i.e. a for-profit publicly traded company - all the benefits of pretending to be a person but none of the responsibilities or limits to govern it - except the law and regulation).
130 MB pandoc GUI for macOS, Windows and Linux
Ahh yes cause there is only one way to do Deep Learning and it is ofc stacking models large enough to not be useful outside pods of GPUs and this is for sure way to go if you want to make money (from VC ofc cause you wont have much users that are ever willing to pay so much that you'll ever make even, as was OpenAI and other big model providers, maybe you can get some money/sponsoring from state or uni).

Market for local small and efficient models running on device is pretty big maybe even biggest that exist right now [ios, android and macos are pretty easy to monetize with low cost models that are useful].
I can assure you of that and you can do it on even 4x RTX 3090 [ it wont be fast but you'll get there :) ]
Got any real legitimate sources?

How can one "steal" something as complicated as 7nm? Did SMIC find a full manual on literally hundreds of thousands of small little decisions that go into making something as complicated as advanced chip manufacturing?

Perhaps they hired people from TSMC? Maybe paid them more? Seems like capitalism then.

Also, this is what happens when the US deny China tech. Yes, they'll fall behind shortly but they have the manpower, will, and intelligence to fill the gap sooner or later.

If the US wants to maintain tech advantage, open up immigration and make it super easy for intelligent people to immigrate and live here. And welcome them instead of being racists to them so they stay.
>Because why else would such an aversion arise?

Because it promotes social stability ? As much as I dislike defending religion - those values produced the most stable societies through history
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I guess the three-letter agencies would be severely disappointed if that happened, at a minimum.
> I want them completely abolished.

hmm... you do know this is the reason companies like Google + Meta make lots of money, right?

I know you don't like ads but... a lot of people obviously are ok with them (otherwise businesses wouldn't find it worth it to advertise on those platforms, in hopes of capturing customers/increasing sales)
The upper limit, with the assumption they don't lose money on the contract.
I'm not comfortable with this first refering to a natural human tendency and then a western harmony, which is pretty much accquired, as if it were a natural consequence.

A simpler way to go about this is using the chromatic scale, drawing multiples of C0 upto C8 so that C7 to C8 spans an octave, and then fixing F according to a table of equal temperament.
Fake edit to add: there's a startup devoted to solving this problem with a novel OS intended to be a good platform for server-side apps, and since they appear unlikely to get traction I would be very happy to hear that Amazon is forking or duplicating it, just because I so badly want to be a user of such a product.
Came here to say that - I just checked, my preferred breakfast tea (Brooke Bond Red Label) has 60 vs. coffee 95 so definitely in the ball park. I always thought it was like a quarter of coffee.
I guess it depends on your school of Buddhism and I think your statement is more in line with Theravada. In Vajrayana formulations, though, the goal is Buddhahood in a single lifetime and there are countless Buddhas that are used in practice. For example, in Aityoga [1] you'll often do visualization practice as, say, Tara [2] or Medicine Buddha [3]. Of course, all of it is ultimately considered illusion, as Niguma articulated so well in her dohas [4], but it's all useful for practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaisajyaguru

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niguma
So there's literally no government involvement in what content can be shown in broadcast material in the US? Even for FTA TV? In Australia the ratings system is administered by the commonwealth government, so I incorrectly assumed the same was true in the US.
Prepare for a world of ad-free paid subscriptions to everything Google Maps and Youtube. Everything free becomes Netflix, if every advertiser signs up.
Unfortunately it's still the Big Bang Theory.
If it's not the default state, it must have arisen spontaneously among the founders of puritanical religions.
This is what OpenAI wants to do to AI. Censored, neutered, prudish, anti-human. It's not "safety", it's sick authoritarian control.
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Switching wholesale is often detrimental itself. Often the best thing is to leverage new tools for new development, and as certain older parts of your stack are retired move those from the legacy technology to something more modern. If something's getting so old that you're getting short on people who understand it, that part becomes more urgent to move to the newer technology. It doesn't kill a business to have two or even three generations of tech spread across teams so long as it's manageable.

An older tech stack doesn't mean never updating the system. either. Perl still gets updates. Linux distros still get updates. In fact, often a newer piece of software will introduce bugs including security bugs that were fixed in older software long ago. All things being equal, though, using a language with better string handling and memory safety can be a boon if your old stuff is in something like C.
Hmm, I can't find any posts you've made with the word 'courtesy' in them.
See also relatively isolated populations and how they look distinct. There are population bottlenecks, sexual selection, natural selection, etc...
It's possible, some might even say easy, to be both an academic and a kook, particularly so when you dive into areas that aren't your speciality and are 'political' like evolution, or climate change.

I'm sure he knows lots about mining, but he has a Fox News level of understanding about renewables.
I particularly enjoyed the reply of "those ads feed a lot of families, including mine". Man, I don't want to get all Godwin here, but that can be said about a lot of things I wouldn't want my name attached to. Please find a better rationalization than "I'm in it for the money".
found the microsoft guy
> which are not likely to happen in the future.

Making that determination is something you really only get good at with the experience of making the wrong determination too many times.
Can you elaborate? I'm seeing a lot of positive things said about him here so contrarian viewpoints make me genuinely curious.
In the charming 1988 Best Foreign Film "Cinema Paradiso," set in a small pre-war Italian town, the projectionist has to preview every imported American film for the local priest, who sits and rings a bell at each scene containing a kiss so they can be spliced out before the paying audience arrives. Spoiler: In the heartwarming ending, the young boy who had befriended him comes back to town after the death of the projectionist, to find a gift has been left for him: A reel of film, which he projects for himself, and finds it's all the years of removed Hollywood kisses, spliced together one right after the other.
You confusing art with images. Art is more deep than just digital generated image.

Do you thing that AI generated images will be bough by collectors or published in art galleries?
It actually kinda was, Yahoo just kinda got destroyed by going public and endlessly acquiring random tech companies chasing quarterly earnings. But it's core product was actually solid.
What an incredibly chauvinistic and Euro-centric take.
> Most scenes are in the sex category, where characters mentioned sexual descriptions, body parts, and other relevant languages.

Meanwhile, they're looking forward to a nice population decline. Idiots.
Nice to know that incest is now deserving of a civil rights movement.
Correction: I don’t support the hunting of people even if they are hunters.
Apple AR Glasses: A Next Big Thing Candidate
I've been using this on my M1 Max and it works pretty well, 1.65 iterations per second (full precision, whereas my PC's 3080 can only do half-precision due to limited memory)... a 50-iteration image in about 40 seconds or so.
That actually depends.

Reserved instances have one form with zero operation benefits: Regional Reserved Instances. These are 100% purely billing constructs.

They have zonal Reserved Instances which do reserve capacity.

Finally they have pure capacity reservations. These cost full price. Esentially you are paying for an instance even if it is not running, but it does guarentee it will be there if you need it. but it also has no comittments.

However combining the capacity reservation with a savings plan allows you to basically recreate the net effect of a zonal Reserved Instance but with additional flexibility.

Regional Reserved Instance's discount will also apply to reserved capacity if there were not enough actual instances to cover the Reserved Instances.
It doesn't matter because it doesn't account for the relative abundance of the inputs. Read the article.

An EROI of 19 to 1 just means 5% of the total energy will be spent on extracting the energy, it doesn't tell you how much total energy there is and how fast you can extract it.
Not really, but then again traditional Chinese culture isn't really that alive in China either. Communism in the Eastern bloc imported plenty of Western attitudes, including puritanism albeit under a secular/atheist branding. Also Christianity itself directly has a fairly significant history in the country. The Taiping rebellion was started by a Christian cult after all, and the Protestant House Church movement nowadays still counts tens of millions of members.
> ...writing code for the network team of a different company...

Something like is the kind of job that i think i want to do next. It need not be for a network team...but i'm headed more for back-end work and these days i rather engage with internal teams.

Separately, to your comment on sharp divide...The sharp divide that i have seen is a lack of cohesion for the following 4 IT groups: first-level support which gets sent to off-shore; the folks who (honestly have the most face time with internal clients who) roam around the office fixing desktops and building network/wiring, and setting up/fixing A/V equipment in conference rooms; sys admins; and developers. Furthermore, in the last 2 companies that i worked for, there has been a push to "centralize" certain functions like IT and HR to "shared services"...but at the end, none of these groups seem centralized! They all now work more separated than ever before...and most of the interaction between each of these groups - and even between the 4 subgroups i noted above in IT alone - mostly communicate via tickets, or some other thick-layered mechanism. Sure, they've been centralized in that these people were pulled from some respective business unit, and brought under a more single umbrella...but in the end, these workers hate it, the effecicny drops, more bureacracy is created (which creates no value)...and some executive gets to lead the shared services...and of course some management consultant company gets their payday. Oh, and yeah, IT at these orgs definitely does not use any of the good parts of devops, agilescrum whatever. Some orgs try and adopt some cookiecutter approach only to have it create yet more bureacracy...but "hey, we're agile!" /sigh
Exactly the same here. I'd heard the rule, but since I was the only person in the family that ever touched the Vic, it basically became mine, and I did whatever I wanted around it. And that included eating popcorn or whatever. And I always had a glass of water or soda when I was using it -- which was pretty much any time available... I was addicted to that thing.

Unsurprisingly, the Vic did not get ruined by moisture or crumbs. I used to take a screwdriver to it occasionally, and solder, so there is that, too. That was probably way more risky.
I understand she is frustrated with the amount of new tech to learn, but why did she have to shit on teachers? That analogy was a mess of false equivalency and defective induction. Did it even prove any point (whatever the point was... "looking back on things," I suppose... oh, brother)?
As mentioned in the comment, ML training workloads tend to be super chunky (at least in my experience). Some days we want to train 50 models, some weeks we are evaluating and don’t need any compute.

I’d rather be able to spin up 200 gpus in parallel when needed (yes, at a premium), but ramp to 0 when not. Data scientists waiting around are more expensive than GPUs. Replacing/maintaining servers is more work/money than you expect. And for us the training data was cloud native, so transfer/privacy/security is easier; nothing on prem, data scientists can design models without having access to raw data, etc.
Can listen

Can communicate

Can maintain the global picture in mind

Can understand that code is about communicating with other people

The rest just comes...
The first things that pop into my vision is the giant icons. They are unusually huge, but they are just generic clip arts and stock images, not really relevant to the content. I think removing them, or making them much, much smaller would improve the first impression.

The last section has a smaller font size compared with the previous ones.

Instead of saying "built a platform[link]/made apps[link]/taking projects[link]", you need to name the products that you've built. Right now, the only way to know what you've done is clicking a bunch of hyperlinks, which is 1) inconvenient, 2) not always possible, and 3) counter-productive for the purpose of a resume, which is to best represent your skills in a single document. Right now, this is more like a personal homepage than a resume.

Just my first impressions.
Random links about a game studio, incidently one famous for using Lisp based scripting languages before being acquired by Sony.... yeah right.

You still don't get GC enabled system programming languages, and apparently I am not the one that is going to make it clear, so whatever.
My static site generate is enough python to invoke mustache on every file in a directory. Maybe 70 lines

That's it.

Works fine.

Not everything is improved by creeping featuritis.
It may be referring to the Rust ecosystem's propensity to pull code from crates.io (and for the Rust toolchain to update itself via rustup) rather than relying on distro-level package managers.

Distros do still package Rust, and some are even relatively up to date, but finding third-party libraries that work with [insert arbitrary old version of Rust] can be a challenge, because libraries often start using new APIs quite soon after they hit stable (and obviously old versions of Rust don't know what to do with that; this is the difference between backward compatibility and forward compatibility).
In Australia they are: https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/wha...
A lot of this advices are actually useful for some Western European people, at least France and Germany (and possibly Italy as well).
France to subsidize EV leasing for $100/mo
Seems like a good way to get people to switch to EVs until prices come down enough to where they can buy one.
5 and 6 are super hard decisions. You never really know what your code will be used for in the future, especially not if you make libraries.

I try really hard to do this and over the years I've found myself more than once caught out by something that I wished I had foreseen but did not and, conversely, I have spent a lot of time preparing code for changes which seemed to be likely to happen but that never did.
Not sure if imgur is allowed so adding an image as a separate comment: https://imgur.com/8ordbZp

I plotted the growth of the above mentioned data, and I compared each value with its value exactly 4 years back. So I compared Jan 1, 2022 with Jan 1, 2018. The idea is to see if there are trends based on presidential terms or crises. Since the data is still plotted monthly, you can pick and choose an arbitrary start date - some people say it takes time for presidencies to show results, so whatever yardstick you use, use it for all. Rest: see for yourself as long as these links are allowed :(
That’s their problem, not mine. Ads are a security risk to my devices.
5. The ocean has warmed, and it would take time to cool down again. That will continue to affect Greenland for a century or more.
In other words, 1.5^12 = 129.746… ≈ 2^7.
What is Fuction-Based?
>massive government bailouts were required to prevent full on collapse

*allegedly. We have no data on what would have happened if we'd let the banks fail, put their C-suites in jail and used bailout money as a safety net.
> I think that's the essence of what this pseudo-scientific nonsense is trying to assert, which is false.

I agree, but it's important to fight pseudoscience with actual facts.
You sound bitter and resentful. Also, student loan debt is not a requirement for becoming a programmer. I have student loan debt, but that's because I decided to go to law school before switching to software development :)
Sounds like a bad problem-solver.

Maybe a good problem-solver is "scientific." Dunno. I have never had "scientific" training, but I have had plenty of "problem-solving" training.
Very nice summary here and I agree 100%.
I think your issue isn't rapid release cycle, but lack of proper testing.
I disagree. I believe that art is eternal, but we still fail to grasp what it means. I don't think art is limited to pretty pictures and poetic prose. For example, if a human laboriously produces a work that they could have simply asked an AI to produce, isn't that starkly superfluous? To me, a performance art.