justsocrateasin

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by justsocrateasin 3mo ago
haven't thought about this book for a while. Dang, it was a fun read. I generally love books that take a simple premise and then explore where it would actually go
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by justsocrateasin 11mo ago
Over the last five years I've been in and out of therapy and 2/3 of my therapists have "graduated me" at some point in time, stating that their practice didn't see permanent therapy as a good solution. I don't
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by justsocrateasin 1y ago
But it's not fully self driving. SF Waymo can't bring you to the airport. You missed OPs point, which was that the last few percentage points are the hardest.
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by justsocrateasin 1y ago
Okay how about this situation that one of my junior devs hit recently: Coding in an obj oriented language in an enormous code base (big tech). Junior dev is making a new class and they start it off with LLM generation. LLM adds in three sep
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by justsocrateasin 1y ago
did you even read the article? He talks about how he has/will continue to invest significant resources into alzheimers research.
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by justsocrateasin 1y ago
Private industries are not incentivized to pursue the same kind of research as the public sector. An excellent example of this is antibiotics (or antifungal drugs). Pharma companies do not put forth a large budget for research like this, be
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Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager?
69 points by justsocrateasin 2y ago|107 comments
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I also had relatives that didn't make it out of Auschwitz. I could not care less.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
Second this, I know several close friends who have done the Recurse center and they say it's a phenomenal experience, one of the best things they've ever done. Generally speaking the job placement afterwards is also not all that b
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
This article feels a little bit pointless to me. ryandvm said it perfectly - a staff engineer is just what happens when you have a senior engineer who deserves a promotion, but wants to be a technical leader not a people leader. How that ac
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
An engineer that makes less impact than a staff engineer but more impact than a junior engineer.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I don't think any dem is saying that. I think they're saying that inflation is the result of a global pandemic, not Dems printing another 1.5T. I think by all accounts the economic landing after a global pandemic was really go
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
Yeah I agree, could be confusing to non native speakers though. It's a weird idiom.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
People going to flat earth and believing in flat earth are two separate things. As OP said - > People lose the ability to separate fact from fiction, lack the ability for critical thinking. Distrusting governments is not the cause of peo
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I'm just learning about this tool now and had a brief question if you have the time: The paper mentions support for zero-copy intranode object sharing which links to serialization in the Ray docs - https://docs.ray.io/e
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
Why so much distrust for our civil servants? Have you met any of these people? I grew up in the DC area and both liberal and conservative civil servants are dedicated to truth, science, and the well being of the American people. Sure, there
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
In theory, I entirely agree - regulation should not be decided by agencies, but by lawmakers. In practice, this is so painfully far from reality. Do you really think congress has the ability to pass meaningful legislation on complex issues?
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
"My kind didn't really slither out of a tidal pool, did we? God, I need to believe you created me: we are so small down here." Lillie Emery What a beautiful image
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I thought for a long time that I was trash at leetcode. I would regularly fail the coding portions of interviews. Then a recruiter reached out with a tempting JD and I became good at leetcode, it just took a lot of hard work of tricking my
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I got a 20% increase the other year. But only because I threatened to quit aggressively and got promoted in the same year and was valuable to my small team of ~4 engineers.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I believe it's just stock portfolios as net worth, but I could be wrong
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
Not true anymore. I went to a shitty state school with no FAANg on my resume, and had a Jane Street recruiter slide into my DMs last year.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I believe that most of the time patients are enrolled in these trials, they've already exhausted all other options. It isn't quite "life-or-death" but rather "death-or-death-or-maybe-another-chance-at-life"
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I think OP's statement was cutting corners. Protein and fat both help you stay full for longer. Carbs/sugar do not. Even this statement cuts corners, but overall science supports the general sentiment.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I'm definitely interested in hearing more! I've submitted an application for Research Engineer.
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
This is incorrect. The article explicitly mentions PFAS as a potential cause. > So-called forever chemicals like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, have been linked to other cancers and could also be driving some
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by justsocrateasin 2y ago
I think he answers the second point of "not every company can be a Google" though. He says this will get you to the point where your company could be a Google, but makes no promises that it will be one. I agree with the firs
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by justsocrateasin 3y ago
I think there is a very strong argument that the effects on the local ecosystems and habitat from putting down solar energy is significantly less than the effects that will occur from climate change. This is a straw man argument and I'
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by justsocrateasin 3y ago
Hey Nicolas! best of luck on the product, you gave me a demo a while back and it's excellent - excited to see what comes of it.
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by justsocrateasin 3y ago
I do believe that 1.5GB is tarred and gzipped though, so it is a fair bit bigger. That's also supposedly half a million emails, so 45gb is quite a bit.

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