electricslpnsld

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by electricslpnsld 5y ago
> The bathrooms At my first job they were so crunched for space my desk in the open office was about ten feet from the entrance to the men’s bathroom. I got to quickly know everyone’s schedule, and knew I just had to leave my desk at cer
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
The old lady who runs our neighborhood Polish grocery store would smack me upside the head if I tried to order Pączkis!
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
And this is at a company that supposedly prioritizes constant feedback, we even have multiple mandatory training sessions per year on providing fast feedback. Go figure...
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
I wish I had that kind of insight into my ‘performance’ pre-review! I’m at a FAANG right now and given my interactions with my manager alone, I figured I was bombing performance-wise (constant complaints about my work, refuses to acknowledg
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
Because I liked the people in my department doing research in my niche! Unfortunately federal funding in the US disappeared almost overnight for my slice of CS, so I'm currently operating and publishing in a cross-disciplinary fashion
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
> But I wonder why? Publicity for Space Jam 2?
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
Our apartment building in Manhattan had one of these, it was super fun to fill! We also had a garbage chute... guess which one was more likely to get clogged when it was 98 degrees and 90% humidity mid August
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
Possibly Native Americans/First Peoples, Pacific Islanders, or individuals who self-identify by ethnicity rather than race on these types of reports.
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by electricslpnsld 6y ago
> Claiming residence in SF or NYC during the hiring process, then starting working somewhere else... It would be a bit of a cat and mouse game. Companies can trace where you are working from VPN logins. I suppose you could VPN through Sa
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I'm as much Stop Building Ugly Condos as the next resident in my reviv(ing) corner of the rust belt... but honestly, with the exception of maybe one photo, none of these are horribly objectionable or out of step with the existing archi
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Depends on the state and the public/private designation of the university. There is also the (mostly unanswered in the courts) question of whether private university graduate students are primarily employees or students. Read up on the
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I used to be in the "Triangle Linux Users Group" in the early 2000s -- it seems they are still active! https://trilug.org Back when running Linux on the desktop was a full time job, it was really cool to have an in per
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Shell’s new US-based plant [1] is expected to pump half a million cars worth of CO2 exhaust into the air a year. I haven’t seen any data suggesting that plastics production reduces the net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. [1] https:/&
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> The cost of landfill is really low, so it wouldn’t make any difference if it were added to the cost of plastic. The cost isn’t just disposal, it’s also production. Plastic production (‘ethylene cracking’ specifically) is really environ
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> There were exactly zero write-ups of this in the local papers. A few miles across the border it’s been all over the Pittsburgh news —- the mayor here has even been tweeting about it!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Compensation from stock grants is significantly more volatile than base salary or bonus targets, but otherwise I don’t see a major difference.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Facebook also has a FAIR office in addition to Oculus in Pittsburgh.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> Where do all the young urban types come from? Not from downtown. Queens or the Upper West Side!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Pixar in a Box was so cool! It's a shame Disney pulled funding for the program :(
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
This might have been true a few years ago, but even in my middle of the road rust belt city you can get a huge variety of beers now. There are entire breweries dedicated to sours alone! Even within the IPA genre the crazy hopped to death we
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> If you mean the metropolitan metro area, than SF is a nightmare without a car. Really depends where in the bay you are -- there are definitely areas outside of San Francisco you can do without a car. I lived in Berkeley and later Oakla
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Did the MPM simulator get used in practice for Frozen? I talked to a few sim TDs (or whatever the equivalent Disney title is) and they said it was too slow at the start for practical use!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
So in my last job my desk was positioned about 6 feet from the men’s restroom, which didn’t have a door but instead one of those twisty airport paths to block line of sight. Needless to say the sounds were not pleasant, especially when the
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Ugh in my current open office the team next to me has entered a machismo fueled arms race for who can find the loudest clacky keyboard possible... even with the biggest and baddest noise cancelling cans I could find twelve hours of my day a
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
The countryside can have some bad environmental problems too (expansion of fracking in the rural Midwest of America, etc).
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> Rotation matrices are hermitian Is that the case? Consider |a -b| |b a| with Eigenvalues lambda = a +/- i b a = cos theta and b = sin theta gives a rotation, so the Eigenvalues are complex.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> The identity applies to “Hermitian” matrices, which transform eigenvectors by real amounts (as opposed to those that involve imaginary numbers), and which thus apply in real-world situations. This is a weird characterization of Hermiti
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Is there any hope of Apple including an Nvidia card in a future laptop or has that ship completely sailed?
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> Apart from the US, British spelling differences are mostly followed by other countries where English is the main language too. Canadian English is a funny case here — it adheres to British (Zed) and American (tire with an i) customs by
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I thought this was going to be about differential inclusions and deep learning which sounds pretty rad! Is anyone out there working in this direction ?

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