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> Including the will to take illegal steroids

I don't think steroids were illegal when he was winning his Mr. Olympia titles. His last win was 1980, and steroids were explicitly made illegal in the US in 1990.

Also, when he was winning Mr. Olympias everyone was using steroids. It was a level playing field. Very different from a sport like cycling where steroids or blood doping is banned.
I couldn't find SVB on this list. Thinking that Forbes may have deleted it, I tried looking at the same page on archive.is[1], and couldn't find it there either.

I don't understand the title of this post claiming it is 20th on the list.

[1] https://archive.is/vcrgq
I think when someone says systems, they mean computer systems. So the kind of things you're interested in are ultimately computer words like drivers, memory, threads, interrupts, queues. If that's your general level of abstraction you're system programming.

Higher level languages are something like an e-commerce website. You're talking about views, orders, auth, accounting, etc. Of course they connect at some level but you're generally thinking about some business level that isn't in terms of computer words.
If your performance-critical code is 25x slower than it could be, while using the same algorithm, it’s not “clean”, it’s just bad.
To be honest, the summary does feel cringy. I'm very new the whole corporate world and the language that comes with it (I'm an auto repair person by trade). I think you are right about the summary. If I were them, I wouldn't care about it either. Same with cover letters, but we need to write them anyway I guess.

(preface: I am not referring to the poster that was mentioned above. I appreciate their input as well)
I understand that having a comp sci degree, or really any degree gives you an advantage. It's just really discouraging to hear it talked about like it's an insurmountable obstacle. Especially since I've been told over and over again that "Jobs only care about what you know and what you can do". We actually had a couple of comp sci grads in my bootcamp, which I found interesting.

All of the wording suggestions you have sound really good to me and I'll take them into consideration when I'm reworking my resume this weekend. I've been trying to keep my resume from looking like a big wall of text, while not sounding completely robotic. I've also always had a math/science brain, not a literary one.

I wouldn't say I've been grinding leetcode (I spend time on Codewars for no reason other than I discovered it first), but I do jump on occasionally, more so if I have a technical interview coming up. If you couldn't tell, I spend a lot more time building projects and upskilling than I do with algorithms. Funny enough, the two technical interviews that I've made it to didn't have this whiteboard style interview. The last one I did was adding a feature to a javascript front end. It went okay, but I was seriously out of practice with Vanilla Javascript DOM manipulation as I do most frontend with React, and they didn't tell me what to expect.

Just like before, thank you for all of the suggestions.
And maybe one more thing: it can depends where you live. In EU many can buy groceries by walking 5mins to nearby store, when in us it's a 20-30 min car trip, maybe this can also be a factor
Female safety issues, because it's India.

I'm game for this policy though - we need more late night women workers to normalize it in the culture, and also as a big "fuck you" to the enterprising rapists, perverts and chauvinists.

Not a fan of the longer work hours though.
If you think his use is steroids is what got him there you are sorely mistaken.

He was taking steroids under a doctor’s supervision. True. So is everyone else in body building.

This is like saying “Bill Gates accomplished nothing because he was born rich”. Funny how the many others born rich didn’t become among the wealthiest in the world.

Lance’s career couldn’t be different. He went through great lengths to hide what he was doing at a time when they had pretty sophisticated tests going on. How many of his peers used steroids? What percentage? Compare Arnold’s reaction to Lance’s to their steroid using becoming discovered by the masses. They couldn’t be more different.
If there's a general panic in the market and absolutely everyone demands cold, hard USD - no percentage will save them.

Let's say you're the person who's speaking for Wells Fargo at that moment - you absolutely don't want to give the public any reason to test whether 28% is safe or not. 3 months later, when people are no longer panicking, and cooler heads want to start discussing what're the safety measures to put onto banks - maybe. But seriously not right now. Let's say you quote the 28% number to say your bank is maybe safer than SVB - but the moment the reporter asks whether 28% is safe enough or not, or how about another bank that have more or less, you'd probably realize you shouldn't have said too much already.

So, at this moment... if you're a spokesperson for a bank or a bank regulator - "We're safe. SVB is a special case" is pretty much the only appropriate response right now.
Unwinding the position in early 2022 would mean acknowledging and executing a huge loss back then. Not unwinding the position means taking a gamble that perhaps it all will work out or perhaps you'll go insolvent. Apparently they chose the latter, and perhaps that's related with the CRO quitting if they disagreed with that choice.
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There's no overhead introduced for the 'final' model inference, is there?
The people created the system though - indirectly thru flawed / corrupt leaders but you get what you get. I'd like to understand now why we'd get a better set of leaders if we tear it all down now. I personally don't have any observations indicating why that would be true.

Similarly if you redistribute wealth - what's going to prevent it from becoming unequally distributed again? I'd imagine that a small subset of people would quickly game whatever system is devised and we're back at square one again.
Generally yes, that’s how engineers figured out where to reinforce war planes so they could survive longer in battle.

In markets the loser’s reasoning often comes down to poor timing. They see similar red flags but can’t quite catch the right time. Predicting markets is relatively straightforward, predicting when something will happen is infinitely harder :)
Married and two kids.
And I very often don’t find time.

One learning I had over the years is:
A) See where and when you actually spend time or loose time. Just listing YT, Netflix and co is too easiy. Beeing busy surfing, pondering about career changes etc is busywork and uses time/mental energy.
B) Don’t push things just to the evening and to the next morning: It won’t happen. Block time either in calendar or somewhere to get it done.

I don’t say it is easy. For me I decided to do a few learning (new language and some personal development with a coach): So I block time as I meet my coach during the week and do some reflection/exercises.

My advice and TLDR: Block time in calendar & take a coach/motivator if you can’t get started.
It's just a very junior opinion in my mind. I haven't really cared deeply about re-writing code or different ways of doing the same thing for a number of years, and I think of it more as maturing, even though some junior could probably come in and make the same amount as me because my work history and connections are weak or volatile.

Unless you're operating at a particular scale or with specific constraints, the main important thing is passably meeting acceptance criteria accurately enough to check a box and say you did it in some period of time that you probably agreed to. That's all the business cares about, therefore that's my job. I've never once met a customer/user in my course of employment, therefore they only matter as much as the company defines and empowers my success as closely tied to it. I'd love a job like that, it would be a change, but that seems to be scarce, and until then I'll just chip away on this dashboard only imagining at a distance what the impact of my work could be.
I was wondering, actually. I own rusted warfare and I never knew that assets were open source.
>Are they going to somehow swear all the devs in a department to secrecy?

Yes.

>How do they enforce this?

How they usually enforce laws. Jail.

In Australia it's up to 10 years.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/assist...

>These orders can force people to hand over their passwords, their biometric data, or knowledge of any relevant systems and devices. They don’t just target the person suspected of a crime, but can also cover their associates, owners of the devices in question, systems administrators and those who have used the devices.

>Not complying with these requests under the SD Act can lead to up to 10 years imprisonment and an A$126,000 (US$88,212) fine.

>In a similar manner, the changes to the ASIO Act enable the Director-General to petition the Attorney-General to force individuals to provide the same kind of data. Refusing to comply can lead to up to 5 years of jail, or an A$63,000 (US$44,106) penalty. One of the biggest issues with the new powers under the ASIO Act is that there is no judicial oversight – the authorities never have to go before a judge to get permission.

>It’s worth noting that these powers can be used in the investigation of any crime with a maximum penalty of three years or more. It seems heavy-handed that someone who refuses to comply could potentially end up with a sentence that exceeds the penalty for the original crime.

>I wouldn't feel any obligation to not inform the press.

Worth noting that anyone who reported on it would face jail time as well.
I can see it there.
They equate “lost” with “not moved in 5 years”. That’s a strangely short cut off — I would use 10 years instead. It’s completely possible for coins to sit around for 5 years in cold storage addresses without being touched.
Several fair points there. The unmentioned element is Environmental / Climate.

That is, even if we could instantly magic into completion, all of the affordable housing to meet all global demand, and give it free to all who require it - as in, "hey! problems solved! enjoy your new homes, everybody!" - then the simple environmental load of doing that would put us quite significantly further on the road to ruin, in and of itself.

Climate change is here and will increase, so any human strategy involving "speed up! do more stuff! build more stuff!" is also inevitably an Own Goal in some respect. Even some things that we consider to be desperately needed for this or that societal reason.
Are you done complaining about other people's rights? Why would you bring that up?
The same exact thing can happen to Wells.
You could argue that ending zirp isn't a normal policy action because zirp itself was totally abnormal and crazy. There's also the issue that svb did these things due to the massive flow of money into tech caused by the lockdowns combined with money printing that went with them, also abnormal.
Probably doesn’t help that this is very a niche bank. Lots of orgs running their payroll from this bank, but few retail account holders.

At a typical community/regional bank, payday is just a bunch of bill entries: debit the corp account and credit the employees accounts. Meanwhile a business-focussed bank will just have huge debits every Friday without corresponding credits: those are happening at other banks.

And with a small number of account holders, it doesn’t take many actors to cause an a bank run.

Payday sealed the fate here.
Doesn't happen to me using Firefox + uBlock Origin.
> The greens acted as if the nuclear industry was some juggernaut, when in effect it was tiny compared to fossil industry.

It was actually an integral part of the military industrial complex, not exactly "tiny." That might have had something to do with the political alignment.

But as usual, looking at this situation while wearing standard issue left/right political blinders is less than helpful.
Wells Fargo is a criminal organization. This is just par for the course for them.
The domain <companyname>.careers will have 'whois' information, private contact will be a red flag. Also email headers have the mail server IP address as another clue.
Carnegie was iirc denied access to libraries which led him to promote public libraries that enable learning. From my perspective it’s fair that not every town opts to keep a physical archive of every book. However it would be great if every book that is decommissioned is scanned if not already digitally preserved and each new book should probably submitted for archival purposes in digital form by the publisher to the national library directly nowadays. Just as the laws typically require a physical copy of the book to submitted to the national libraries (here in Germany it’s the „state“ library that received books, in order to reduce the risk of book destruction in case of fascist take over and Gleichschaltung.

This would be a concern for a centralized archive.org I would hope there is a great backup strategy in place that can prevent deletions from the archive
The percentages don't matter. Banks set aside a certain amount of capital for the only purpose of absorbing losses. A bank that is well-run will have allocated the right amount of capital in proportion to the risks that it has taken.
Jamaica, like Canada, is not a republic.
FYI, all major banks switched off of fractional reserve banking more than a
decade ago and have moved to another system that uses a multitude of different variables.
What could the Federal Reserve learn?

The structure of risk is similar for both Tether and Circle, AFAICT.
While USD risk is heavily distributed across many regulated banks and there are measures in place to mitigate bankruptcy, USDC/T is fairly centralized and the fall of a single bank can put the entire currency at risk, cause sudden and extreme inflation (as is the case now), and potentially stop being accepted by even more merchants.

USD risk exists, but seems lower than USDC/T risk, and the same is true for its volatility. All in all, I am not surprised that there are more merchants that accept USD than USDC/T, and the change in methodology that would make the latter competitive would likely require taking a page from the Federal Reserve, not vice-versa.
Given how popular this bank was with startups/tech orgs, it suggests that they were otherwise unbankable by the usual players.

I’m unsure what special services a startup needs from their bank that any other bank serving businesses couldn’t offer.
What makes you think they didn't already take that into account? There are really an awful lot of parking places.

Also, the panels will give electricity at the same times we are going to want airco due to global warming, so at least it helps to cover that need.
Almost certainly not.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm/26-bit_architectures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-bit_computing

Flags, processor mode, and the PC (24-bit) were kept in the same 32-bit word. That made it cheaper to store/restore on interrupt and, boy, did they want interrupt handling to be fast!

Combined with the requirement for naturally aligned instructions, this gives the original ARM a 26-bit address space for code. They chose to make that the address space for everything -- so the address space was 64MB.

The ARM926 came much later.
The code is not always about the code but mindset, culture and attitude.

Usually what happens is the attitude carries throughout.

E.g. when developers start saying that optimisations don't matter they get into the habit of never doing it until it breaks. At that point it's too costly to fix and spirals out of control.

Why not just get into the good habit of writing good code that might cost a bit more upfront but will settle down and be a positive impact going forward?

Is good code just for the outcome?

Your statement neglects that developers are humans. If you have a new hire and they look at the code and have to spend forever understanding it - is that not a cost? Or perhaps they'd look for the next job just based on how much it annoys them.

It's the same as not cleaning your house or office. The desk is just a tool so you can get your outcome. Let's leave it right? Let's also not mind if rats watch you do your work!

Being a perfectionist is bad and for that I agree but that's not code specific. I don't get the concern. Surely people also spend too much time on things like presentations that might not impact the outcome. It's all just human nature and not developer specific.
So, is anyone doing open source work on finetuning this model? Can finetuning be done with the 4bit weights?
WF is the single worst bank I've dealt with in several countries. Dishonest to the core. I can't detail it here, but I spent years fighting them over stupidities and unsuccessfully trying to close an account while living outside the US.
> I find people applying it religiously often create over-complex designs like FizzBuzz Enterprise.

To be fair, this can be said about any technique. Lots of bad code results from people taking a reasonable principle and applying it religiously rather than judiciously.
Just for demonstration purposes: imagine we get rid of voting alltogether.

Instead, a random representative sample of 1000 people is chosen from the population, for some congress, for a year. They rule during that time. Some rules cannot be overruled, like the 1 year limit, no way to game that. Additionally, all communication of the chosen ones must be recorded and public, without exceptions.

This basically eliminates corruption or the rise of a „ruling class“, and lobbyism has a much harder task.

I would also argue that this will result in much better overall decisions - they might lack some initial knowledge but that is more than offset by missing corruption and cronyism
Yes this is a good question. Why did they focus on a specific model rather than a generic solution that makes ANY python based model work on Apple silicon?
Yes he was unusually prescient on other issues, too.
no, it's not. very few places, much less startups, are paying $260k/year in cash after deductions to a "neither a particularly well compensated nor particularly senior engineer." Take a look at levels.fyi. They'd have to be making something like $400k base, this is pure hyperbole.
> Making sure that politicians are incentivized to benefit society is most important

And this should probably also include some form of legal punishment if they don’t, not only incentives if they do.
Isn't there a similar problem with Spotify? That's not been solved via political means. The artists are getting shafted. Hard to think the same won't be true for the unpaid feeders of ChatGPT.
Thanks for the report back; that's interesting. Perhaps I misunderstood your example. Feel free to write an issue if you like, and I can investigate further.
Disclaimer: I'm very bad at taking notes and generally at writing (both aspects of it - physical and intelectual).

But having said that... I do love expensive notebooks - at this moment I'm going through moleskine hard cover pocket with dotted pages.

Add decent or even luxury automatic pencil and this elevates it to the whole new level (rotring 800 with retractable end has the ideal length to attache it to moleskine pocket sized notebook with pen loop, this way you can always carry them both and this model of rotring is quite nice to use as writing tool)

I have tried both cheap and quite expensive ones (both pencils and notebooks) and I have found that the quality of my notes goes up with the price and quality. Especially with notebooks its like I subconsciously pay lot more attention to details and general legibility when I know I do not want to spoil this work of art product with my scribbles.
Your sample size of X also doesn't delegitimize my personal experience.
syncplay – sync media players so faraway friends can watch videos together
When code needs to be heavily optimized, the fact that some variable is a pointer to a 64bit unsigned floating point number may well be more relevant for understanding the code than the fact that it points to the first item in some list.
I'm very restless normally.

Enough weed and I'm not keeping myself awake.

But I only eat a cookie before bed
At this day - yes, not in a year.
One may argue the markets were irrational during the ultra low interest rate period and this disaster here is the result of hoping they would return to irrational before liquidity ran out.
The performance degradations is a clear harm and pervasive.

The dev productivity improvements are questionable.

So let's go do some harm!

(and that example of slow typing in a "big" paragraph is a big red cherry on top of a brown pile!)
The Dangers of the Chatbot Takeover
Having the entire reserve as cash wouldn't exactly help here - imagine if 30% of USDC's total reserves was in Silicon Valley Bank, rather than just 30% of their cash. (I think I've pointed out before in discussions of Tether etc that stablecoins can't safely just hold their rexerves as cash in a bank account because banks can and do fail and FDIC protection basically does nothing at this scale, but I wasn't expecting it to be demonstrated quite so spectacularly.)
I would say more diverse because the weather allows it
System-wide Innovation is a lot easier when one’s country has a handful of banks. USA has ~4500 banks, 12x the #2 country, Russia.

https://www.helgilibrary.com/charts/what-country-has-the-mos...
In that context, yes, I agree, you can't rely on human decency, you (often) need mechanisms in place to restrict use.

Apologies for misunderstanding your post. I read it in the context of "companies should offed to pay more because they can afford it." Which is not what you said.

Of course this isn't a company thing. (companies are often very pro-active about licensing.) Humans on the other hand are very good at ignoring the rules - just read pretty much any thread on Netflix.
Yes, but there are parts of the CPU instruction set which a compiler won't ever emit. If you are using those features, as certain low-level systems must, then you use assembly (typically shortish snippets called from a compiled program).
But Bob was right that the problem was algorithmic. Checking whether a string ends with a prefix of an emoji abbreviation is a task that could easily be done in a microsecond. It’s apparently taking 100 milliseconds, which is 100,000 times slower. Even factoring in the overhead of JavaScript, you could easily add a 10x or 100x “clean code” penalty and still be nowhere near the level where it’s a performance problem – if the algorithm is correct.

By “algorithm” I’m referring to more than just asymptotic complexity. Even so, as for “O(n^2)”… well, I didn’t analyze the code myself, but judging by Casey’s analysis (or even just by the symptoms), it seems quite likely that the time taken to input a character is at least O(n) in the number of characters entered so far (if not worse). That makes the total operation of entering n characters take O(n^2) time. Bob does seem to be referring to the total being O(n^2) rather than each character being O(n^2), since the reallocation strategy he mentioned as an example would similarly take O(n) per character. In that context, O(n^2) is less of a guess, more of a reasonable assumption given the observed performance characteristics. And it’s a reasonable aspect to point a finger at, because lowering the asymptotic complexity would be an essential part of fixing the performance problem. Not sufficient by itself, but pretty much necessary.
The open secret is that everyone in the IFBB is on steroids. But if you were to just start taking steroids, it’s not going to send you to the top of the IFBB since, you know, everyone else is also taking steroids.
??? I wasn't talking about citations at all?
If you are Sophie, I'd just like to say thanks.