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by e4e78a06 5y ago
I'm just saying in the absence of any alternatives (which I'm sure there are), it's better to have 1% of trillions of dollars going towards advancing humanity and technology than 0%. I am fully aware that 99% of that money is
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Never said TCJA or the Bush era tax cuts were used for good purposes :) but it's probably better for the country in the long run to have excess money flowing into tech VC funds rather than being spent on memecoins and shitty electronic
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Eh, quick DM to Wall Street Journal or Financial Times and if it's a decently large bank the PR fallout will quickly prevent any potential retaliation.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Well I think a big contributor to the current inflation problem was the last round of stimulus passed right as the pandemic was starting to wind down. At that point unemployment numbers had almost gotten back to normal and most revenue numb
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> Right now the labor market is good for workers It is good _nominally_. Real wages are basically flat. Meanwhile, for everyone who didn't get a raise or can't currently find a new job for whatever reason, they're losing p
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Gentrification is a classic example of supply and demand from microecon. As an area becomes nicer to live in it gains more and more demand with people with high willingness and ability to pay. Supply remains fixed, because of US zoning laws
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
The US and Europe have great safety regulations for workers. It turns out given the choice women would rather not live in the middle of nowhere in -40C weather getting soaked by crude oil and mud every day, even if it pays six figures. Why
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> teachers with X degree and Y years experience get Y0,000 ±5% That would never work in tech. And the higher paying firm you go to, the less it works. High performers in FAANG can have refresher and bonus multipliers of 2.5x the base per
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Ironic they leave out Asian men in the graph at the top. I guess those numbers wouldn't fit their "America is racist" trope. Other than that though, standardizing pay will balance the playing field towards smaller companies.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Unfortunately the party in charge right now is trumpeting the idea that inflation must be because companies are price gouging customers rather than trying to slow down domestic spending. The other party doesn't like to balance budgets
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
We have a huge trades shortage and COVID might force a lot of supply chains to come back at least in part to the US. The demand for new construction has never been higher either. A large portion of society that doesn't want to work on
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> This isn’t a flaw in a healthcare system, it’s a symptom of a broken transport system. Nobody wants to sit next to piss/weed/cig smelling people and get their shit robbed on public transit (see: BART) if they can afford a car
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> everyone in the administrative region gets covered for everything That leads to rampant abuses. For example in certain East Asian city states with "universal" healthcare people would use ambulances as taxis because they were
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Climate change is perhaps one of the many reasons both the Roman and Byzantine empires fell or lost ability to project power. The Byzantine conquest of Italy was finishing up when these plagues hit and they never recovered their original st
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Not quite true, because on-die data transfer is a lot cheaper than off-die. If you look at full system power consumption between even chiplet based and monolithic Ryzen products there is a large difference.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted but this is true - desktop Ryzen chips have terrible idle power usage due to the IO die. The APU variants have lower IPC and performance due to lower cache, but have good idle power usage. There's no way
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
As long as public transportation in the US continues to be unsafe, dirty, and slow people will continue to drive cars. It doesn't matter how much public transport you build out, if I have to sit next to a guy smelling like piss I will
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
That cache is not uniform time access. It costs over 100ns to cross the IO die to access another die's L3, almost as much as going to main memory. In practice you have to treat it as 8 separate 32 MB L3 caches. Also, not everything fit
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Many GB5 (and real world) tasks are memory bandwidth bottlenecked, which greatly favors M1 Max because it has over double a Threadripper's memory bandwidth.
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Cinebench R23 is a worst case scenario for M1 because it doesn't have high core utilization and sits in L2 cache. If you look at a broader set of benchmarks (SPEC) then M1 Max in laptop form is competitive anywhere from a 5800x to a 59
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Strongly disagree if we are talking a complex problem like coding a distributed system. It is very possible for an implementation to be 90% correct but it won't compile or it's wrong for very subtle reasons. And maybe if there was
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
Curious how this will work with more complex cases? E.g. distributed systems, concurrency safety, etc. Also, how do you deal with solutions that don't compile but are 95% of the way there conceptually? I find that's a common occur
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> If you have any serious medical issues, you carry your own insurance I've never seen this at any tech company in the SFBA. They cover 100% of the premium for yourself and it's only <$200/mo to cover a whole family of
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
> I'd rather know what is "normal" i.e. common. I think using comparative benchmarks instead of absolute benchmarks is where we differ. The absolute bar - being able to grok large codebases, work on complex systems, etc. w
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
I know many startups who are now paying _interns_ more than other companies are paying senior devs. It is conceivable to get paid $70+/h at Series A startups as an intern and $140-150k + 20-40k in options as a new grad. Speaking frankl
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
I think you would be surprised how many 100k engineers at Fortune 500 companies can't do things FAANG engineers would consider very basic. It's not that there's a 7x and a 1x engineer but that there's a 0.1x and a 1x eng
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
It feels very different when you have to pay for your own snacks. I definitely substantially moderated my consumption during remote work (and it's not like the amount they were spending on snacks gets paid to you either). It definitely
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
There are other costs that either make very wide OoO more difficult or more costly. x86 has a lot more flag-based instructions compared to Arm. That adds more dependencies that the reorder engine has to sort through. x86 variable length dec
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
You don't solve the problem in your head, you actually take the time to solve it either on Leetcode or on a piece of paper. I've found that in the long run you don't end up memorizing the problem itself but the technique to s
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by e4e78a06 5y ago
You say this now, but I've had to work on 5000 line (literally, 5k lines) classes in legacy code where there are a huge number of dependencies injected manually because the class is doing initialization for a huge number of components.

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