arghnoname

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by arghnoname 3mo ago
I'm torn on this. Often I feel like the parent, but I recognize maybe I'm being stubborn. You say libraries purpose is to help the community. If that's true, what you're saying makes sense. On the other hand, if their pu
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by arghnoname 3mo ago
I don't go to libraries very often anymore because so often they're effectively homeless shelters. Should I not mind this? I don't know, 'should' is doing a lot here, but the truth is I used to love going to librari
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by arghnoname 1y ago
If you want to hire people who share your values and your values include moral responsibility for the megacorp one works for, you’re right not to hire from companies you feel are immoral. I personally don’t ascribe corporate amorality (as o
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by arghnoname 1y ago
Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.
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by arghnoname 2y ago
You'd want to keep your network alive. Publish, be on program committees doing reviews, etc. If the number of jobs is fairly static and you're doing this and your area doesn't collapse, (e.g., the AI winter), your network can
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by arghnoname 2y ago
On H1B, its abuses, and big tech capture in general, it's a shame we can't generally admit that the democrats are terrible on this without others perceiving this as an endorsement of everything the other side wants to do. Both maj
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I have a CS PhD from a good (but not top 5) program and have published in top venues. I perceived my chances of getting a job at Microsoft Research (MSR) to be low (on par with getting a faculty position at a top place) and didn't feel
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by arghnoname 2y ago
There are multiple axes upon which something like this can be evaluated. I'm not against us as a society collectively deciding we should enforce rules that may be counter to business logic (e.g., child labor laws to pick something unco
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by arghnoname 2y ago
From a business perspective, did it work? Was the team more, less, or equally effective than one where you didn't expend the time and expense of hiring a more homogenous group? Was turnover better or worse? I know you can't absolu
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by arghnoname 2y ago
sure, but absent infinite energy supplies with which much is possible, it falls under the general rubric of "no free lunch," which often in the physical world may fall under the conservation of energy (e.g., perpetual motion machi
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Probably something like requiring an advanced license, like heavy truck drivers require, to operate vehicles that cross certain mass and speed thresholds would be reasonable. I like a fast car and I've done a little track time, etc. It
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by arghnoname 2y ago
The truck isn't to my taste, but absent any indication that this was due to something unique to this automobile I don't see why it's news anymore than people tragically dying in a Camry running into a tree at 3:00 am after a
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I work at one of the big companies and some people do that even here. People just talk about their experience or other systems that they know. It always feels conservative to me, as often it's said to suggest emulating what some other
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Of course it's objectively easier, particularly if you hold some variables constant (distance or pace) relative to weight. The wrinkle is that most runners run to a pain point. Over time, I went from neverrunning to running decent mile
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I'm on the heavy side for a distance runner, but compared to the general population, I've never been very heavy or very light (BMI currently around 26). I mostly run longer distances (a half marathon most weeks, lots of six mile r
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Wow what a nightmare. I try to time it so I'm lucid before landing, but that's a horror I hadn't even considered!
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Benzos are my flight go-to. I got them for some flight anxiety, since my stupid brain started getting scared of flying, but boy do they just make the time go by and I manage to doze. It's not good quality, but it beats the total lack o
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Emacs pauses are almost always due to some operation blocking in the main thread. It's pretty annoying and is mostly a consequence to a lot of things effectively being single-threaded. Stock emacs doesn't do this very often, but t
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I'll try to use the more common Windows/MacOS terms for it, but in emacs I often have the same file opened in two different panes within one window or two separate windows. I do this when I want to be looking at one part of a file
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by arghnoname 2y ago
That's wild, when I saw 16 weeks I assumed it was a typo and you meant 'days.' I should try to jump ship from FAANG-land
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I road one three days a week for my commute for about six months, but it was only about two miles. I went out of my way to be on roads with an ample bike lane. More than drivers being aggressive towards me (helps I wasn't slowing them
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by arghnoname 2y ago
My daily driver is a 2300 pound miata with a stock exhaust. It's small and low to the ground and only has 181 HP. I think this is the lightest production car you can get--certainly close. I see people in Cybertrucks and some other elec
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Ventilation is good even with electric, just to deal with pollutants being put off by the food being cooked. As I understand it, these are often worse than the combustion byproducts, but I'm not well informed on the composition of each
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by arghnoname 2y ago
that's pretty slick!
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by arghnoname 2y ago
While this is just a label, municipalities in California have been banning use of gas appliances in homes for new construction and significant renovations. It was recently overturned by a court decision, so the proponents do want this to be
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by arghnoname 2y ago
My apologies and I stand corrected. My memory is not a reliable witness, but the general point about it being a fairly normal human foible to over-react when you think you or your wife are being publicly besmirched I think is left unharmed.
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by arghnoname 2y ago
I've never been a Will Smith fan, but of all the bad behavior in the world, two guys getting into a minor physical altercation over jokes about the sexual relationships involving the other's wife does not do much for my outrage me
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by arghnoname 2y ago
While these images are stylized and would never be interpreted as real, we are just rapidly entering a world where photos should not be trusted. Or at least they shouldn't be trusted anymore than a sketch. It's not the end of the
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by arghnoname 2y ago
This is true, but just to quantify it a bit, a lot of people can run at their lactate threshold for about an hour. This isn't 'long' but may be longer than most people think. That said, I remember doing similar 'runs to
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by arghnoname 2y ago
Auto company profit margins provide further evidence supporting your hypothesis (modern car requirements are just inherently more expensive). The auto companies whose profit margins I checked are in the single-digits, sometimes negative. If

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