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by jeffe 5y ago
I see the value in a lot of these, but I also have to say one common thread across almost all tooling is bad interfaces clearly designed by backend/generalist engineers doing their own ad-hoc form of design. Having worked with an org t
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by jeffe 5y ago
eh, you can buy a great hardtails for 800-1.2k, even less if buying second hand. the main thing to point out is that at $700 including all the electronic add ons the components will be worse and trail rideability/durability will suff
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by jeffe 5y ago
adding on some recs that aren't necessarily 'good for the mind' but great from a gaming as art perspective and not designed for addiction - co op: terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, and Magicka various interesting games: Subnauti
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by jeffe 5y ago
The New Yorker has always had high quality investigative journalism (albeit with varying levels of left leaning bias depending on the writer) in my opinion, and seems to be quite doing quite well.
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by jeffe 5y ago
Why do you associate learning and diving deeply into topics exclusively with research? A phd program will only require you to dive deeply into your topic of research. You can get very far in many fields by reading through relevant texts and
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by jeffe 5y ago
As someone who listens to numerous genres but is also selective with what I listen to, I am confident that spotify simply doesn't cater to my demographic. They are really about scaling to the masses, as is evident by their move into po
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by jeffe 5y ago
Most trading firms such as susquehanna, citadel, and two sigma have London branches.
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by jeffe 5y ago
At the risk of being trite, the response to FAANG employees being underpaid is also more or less 'you're underpaid, brah, go get another job!'. The bar for hiring and compensation is much higher, but management still wants to
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by jeffe 5y ago
I think it's more simple human nature. When you have billions, it's so easy to delegate work that tax avoidance becomes as simple as flipping a switch that says 'pay less taxes'. And if your highly distanced from the eff
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by jeffe 5y ago
work on linux, daily driver is windows. how exactly to these commercial parasites 'spoil the original experience'? Sure theres preinstalled bloatware and telemetry, but you still have root access and I have had no problem tinkerin
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by jeffe 5y ago
Okay, so if we're using energy consumption per unit 'utility' as a metric, how much energy should bitcoin consume to be in line with its utility?
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by jeffe 5y ago
Let's not commit the fallacy of comparing unrelated big numbers. How does the energy and time per usd transferred compare between btc and the traditional banking system?
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by jeffe 5y ago
Even assuming this is true, this is just the 'if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about' argument, which has been shown to have numerous flaws and counterarguments.
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by jeffe 5y ago
as a windows user as my daily non-development driver unless that percentage hits 98%+ AND can maintain that I don't think many people are going to convert
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by jeffe 5y ago
Thanks for sharing, props to you for getting out of your situation. I fully respect doing what has to be done to get by, but I think its still worth pointing out that achieving what you had done would have been considerably more difficult i
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by jeffe 5y ago
Do you know down to the penny, how much credit you have remaining on your credit cards? Have you ever lived in a state of fear, wondering which thing you've been putting off – the toothache, the weird noises coming from your car, the s
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by jeffe 5y ago
AWS uses an in house tcp-like protocol optimized for distributed computing. Said protocol is implemented on a hardware nic. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=916...
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Ask HN: What kinds of engineers handle global cloud shortages?
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by jeffe 6y ago
the recent emergence of many quality games from china might start reversing that trend thouugh...
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by jeffe 6y ago
eh, the 'truly rounded education' can generally be attained through the internet, and I've found those who aren't interested in them in the first place tend not to gain much from the classes anyways. Friendships are the
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by jeffe 6y ago
To be fair, python has many robust features beyond gc. For example, dicts, which are bread and butter for python abstract away 1000s of lines of C, which leads to very confused students when they first see errors like 'unhashable type:
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by jeffe 6y ago
A more statistically rigorous assessment of the odds of a lab based origin places the likelihood at 6%-55% [1]. However it understandably does not account for circumstantially suspicious behavior from China, which I would argue provides a
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by jeffe 6y ago
For approximations based on multiplying numerical estimates, the overall standard deviation (or error) of the final result is proportional to the square root of the number of estimates. So yes more adjustments will increase the error, but p
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by jeffe 6y ago
doesn't Greenwich have a good amount of quant shops?
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by jeffe 6y ago
I think it would be most accurate to say its a backtracking algorithm, since you presumably would be exploring a certain path continually until it becomes unsatisfactory.
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by jeffe 6y ago
IPFS?
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by jeffe 6y ago
The many spurious/misleading claims in this paper at least have some plausible deniability through vague language and complexity. Omitting a clear cut falsification of their methodology that they themselves put forward as a challenge i
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by jeffe 6y ago
Mohammed bin Salman is certainly sad as well.
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by jeffe 6y ago
At the extreme end of the spectrum with quant hedge funds this actually becomes somewhat true. They expect strong academic understanding of math and make a killing by hiring those who do.
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by jeffe 6y ago
A few caveats to be aware of: more scrutinizing employers will recognize that undergraduate research at the same university you attend is usually a gimme. And at my large state school was often used for cheap labor that grad students didn&#

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