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by jopolous 23d ago
I worked at Costco while in college many years ago and I got to see how the gas price was set for my specific warehouse. Someone would drive out to a few neighboring gas stations, record prices, and set ours ~10 cents lower. That’s it. That
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by jopolous 3mo ago
I wish there were an anonymous way to get contact info for those companies!
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by jopolous 3mo ago
It’s okay, I put my thoughts out there and I appreciate the feedback from other engineers. It’s actually kind of motivating. I’d interviewed at several places over the last few months and something out of my control always came up and halte
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by jopolous 3mo ago
Where should we work instead? I’d really like to leave, but I’m kind of stuck, and I don’t have enough to retire. I have to work remote from a non-coast state for family care reasons, and the places I’ve interviewed at the last few months h
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by jopolous 3mo ago
Deliberately vague, half so I can’t be easily identified (though my team’s case is not unique), half so I don’t get in trouble for sharing specific personnel information. True number is much closer to 75% than 50%.
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by jopolous 3mo ago
I totally agree, it sounds unbelievable… Problem is, I’m on one of these core infrastructure teams, and for my team at least we lost between 50-75% of our engineers to the AI org. Most of the other infra teams I collaborate with have a simi
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by jopolous 4mo ago
My initial offer was $400k total comp (E5), so I didn’t really consider FIRE as an option in the near term considering my spouse is a full-time parent and this area is HCOL. I’m nowhere close to $5m, and I’m hoping to leave Meta in the next
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by jopolous 4mo ago
I work at Meta (for now…) I really care about VR and had the opportunity to work at Reality Labs. They paid to relocate my family to the Bay Area, where I was able to get better medical care for an autoimmune disease. I interviewed at other
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by jopolous 6mo ago
> They are the only man-made technology in history that we don’t fully understand from first principles …what? What about bicycles? Ice skates? General anesthetics? I feel like there are a ton of commonly-used man-made items we don’t ful
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by jopolous 3y ago
Can vouch, got paternity leave 4.5 months after starting EDIT: this is in California
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by jopolous 3y ago
1. These can only be flown in most class E airspace and class G, so not anywhere close to most airports 2. They are much bigger and more visible than drones 3. The ultralight pilot is inside the aircraft which means “see and avoid” is much
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by jopolous 3y ago
Yes, though any subject which trains you to think with mathematical rigor will help. I switched my major from CS to math midway through my undergrad studies. I have worked at startups and FAANG as a SWE so I have seen these skills in differ
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by jopolous 3y ago
Fly under sport pilot privileges. All you need is a drivers license. Reach out to West Desert Aviators in Utah. Several young people in tech fly there. If you can find LSA to fly, light sport isn’t as restrictive of a license as it’s made o
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by jopolous 3y ago
> Is there any tech company (or any other than Apple) that hasn't whacked a slug of people right now? I don’t think Adobe has had general layoffs yet
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by jopolous 3y ago
I’m a SWE at Meta and this does not match my experience. Basically everyone I work with is perpetually overcommitted.
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by jopolous 4y ago
Crazy, I had something that could have escalated to a wrongful arrest with Hertz less than a week ago. Hertz initially gave me a car with a mechanical problem, so they swapped it out before we had even left the rental car lot. The attendant
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by jopolous 6y ago
I think one would have to have a background in modern algebra and physics to see where the "unification" is useful. Then it becomes a lot more obvious, for example Maxwell's equations can be compressed down to one equation wi
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by jopolous 6y ago
From my math undergrad, I feel like generally there are two feelings on this kind of thing: - No practical application is needed, since studying math is an end in itself - If there is a practical application, it should be fairly obvious and
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by jopolous 6y ago
A great article from a friend of mine that brought up thoughts on responsible use of statistics and public perception of statistical models vs qualitative analysis. I've really appreciated the wording in fivethirtyeight's election
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Are Elections Random?(justinmeiners.github.io)
3 points by jopolous 6y ago|2 comments
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by jopolous 6y ago
I live in Utah, can confirm this is a huge thing here. Fortunately (I say fortunately because I hate MLMs) the leaders of the dominant religion here have been pretty vocal about being a little smarter with "shady investments", and
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by jopolous 6y ago
You're totally right, I could have worded that differently. I actually posted an infinite field extension that is algebraic elsewhere in this thread, but usually those are tricky and I haven't seen them pop up as often as finite a
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by jopolous 6y ago
Nice, that's pretty much what I had to do to fix this. I used the bluetooth explorer to force AAC, and force zoom to use the internal MacBook mic
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by jopolous 6y ago
On a simpler level, zoom on macOS sketches me out in lots of ways. My macbook's bluetooth will not connect to my earbuds, but only when zoom is running. Other audio recording/playing apps don't affect things at all. What the
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by jopolous 6y ago
Another nit, not all algebraic extensions are finite dimensional. Just adjoin an infinite number of linearly independent roots (square roots, cube roots, etc). Algebraic, but not finite
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by jopolous 6y ago
I guarantee that is not an algebraic extension. It's not even a finite extension
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by jopolous 7y ago
Actually, that's a very good point. There are some important restrictions regarding airspace but there are legal ways to get up in the air by yourself without any training Good call out there
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by jopolous 7y ago
Definitely lax in some ways, but medically it's incredible what they will latch on to and disqualify people for Things are getting better though, they're getting less rules-minded and more safety-minded. But the proposals around d
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by jopolous 7y ago
I think what some people don't understand here is how working with the FAA is fundamentally different than the DMV. The DMV has to keep as many people driving as reasonably possible, since in the US it's practically impossible to
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by jopolous 9y ago
Why are these representatives so upset about this when they just passed resolution 34?

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