georgeburdell

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by georgeburdell 6d ago
Do you support the status quo of millions of H1Bs? Those people I doubt can or will take such a principled stance, making collective action by tech workers impossible.
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by georgeburdell 7d ago
Apple has most likely stress tested its engineers to stress test this phone
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by georgeburdell 9d ago
No we are not hiring AI experts, just people we think can be trained to think AI-natively. It’s a different mindset that presumes whatever work you’re doing now is ultimately going to be used to train AI to do it later.
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by georgeburdell 9d ago
I can’t read the article but in my group, which is not terribly AI exposed due to its hands-on nature, we are in fact hiring extra people into next year to handle additional AI initiatives that I am confident will succeed. In subsequent ye
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by georgeburdell 11d ago
I unironically paraphrase this at work all the time when talking about ops concerns. That and “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
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by georgeburdell 15d ago
Guess it’s that time in my lifecycle, but when I was a kid it was possible, nay probable, to accidentally stumble on some really horrific things on the internet, particularly on p2p sharing, and I’m fine (married, 3 children, no medications
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by georgeburdell 16d ago
AlexNet was 2012 and they explicitly called out the use of NVidia GPUs
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by georgeburdell 19d ago
As an aside, this seems related to the Holographic Principle? It states that the content of a volume is encoded in its surface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by georgeburdell 21d ago
Some of the non native English speakers on my team have started to use “blast radius” and “shape of” in the course of casual conversation. It’s unnerving.
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by georgeburdell 21d ago
When they're on visa managers know you can work them harder, especially during the PERM process
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by georgeburdell 21d ago
Props to your coworker. In my office, they usually just work normal India hours and we have a 12+ hour delay for all communications.
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by georgeburdell 22d ago
Pauli Exclusion is just another “force” that can be overridden. Nature isn’t a list of rules
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by georgeburdell 22d ago
We can’t find seniors like that yet, even though our pay is nearly top tier, because hiring is so broken right now. Most hires come from referrals so it’s recycling the same people between different companies, and those people don’t have g
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by georgeburdell 22d ago
I didn’t say “most productive”, there was a qualifier attached. A person productive with AI is capable in a different way than the existing folks who are struggling to keep up with their jobs and retool to AI
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by georgeburdell 22d ago
I don’t understand this logic. If I’m being honest, the most productive people with AI on my team are the two youngest. They don’t have product wisdom, yes, but the gap is so noticeable that I pushed my manager to forego the full-time wor
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by georgeburdell 24d ago
My semi educated guess is because different kinds of people sit on the two different standards boards, so you get siloed specs with the cross sharing of some good ideas. You could ask a similar question about HDMI vs thunderbolt.
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
It gets complicated by the preponderance of French loan words, although they tend to be for newer concepts such as car, elevator, etc. There do also seem to be some genuine coincidences, such as sock it/saket, both being a somewhat for
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
China
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
You’re too kind. That’s how you end up with civil unrest. See: early Covid
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
No it isn’t. Malaysians commute across the river daily and then return at night, having provided their services in exchange for compensation. Singapore gets the work without many of the associated problems with housing those people long t
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
Just as an anecdote, I’m an older Millennial (1982) and since my late 30s I’ve been spending my HDHP cap in health services that my parents wouldn’t have bothered with, such as allergy shots and niche diagnostic blood tests based on the lat
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
Singapore is the beneficiary of a neighboring impoverished itinerant workforce to supplement its own collapsing demographics with artificially cheap services. It’s hardly replicable most places.
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by georgeburdell 1mo ago
And here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192693
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
I have two elementary school aged children and I never would have imagined they’d be into the same things as I was at almost the same age, namely the subject of this article. My childhood had nothing in common with my own parents’. My Dad
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
Yes, it’s a bit frightening to know what a hidden dependency NIST is on many things. In my industry, all calibrations ultimately derive from physical NIST standards for resistance, frequency, etc.
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
Facebook IPOd in 2012, after it was already used by hundreds of millions of people, and after it bought Instagram
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
That says little. Those providers could also be losing money trying to gain marketshare. There is a high amount of speculation in the space and it won’t be apparent for awhile who has a lasting business.
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
With the serious lapses in governance being made by founders with these special shares, such as Musk and Zuckerberg, I wonder if the shares without these special rights will be substantially discounted. What rights do these other sharehold
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
There is no way Deepseek is making money even on inference
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by georgeburdell 2mo ago
No, it’s consistent with what China is doing in other markets, which is dumping product to drive others out of business. I had a shower thought on how to counteract this, specifically related to the AI dumping. If China is losing substanti

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