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by munin 7mo ago
Matrix is an unserious project and the client ecosystem is a train wreck. The server ecosystem is not much better. The Element people, who are kind of the default Matrix people because as far as I can tell are the only people getting paid,
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by munin 5y ago
> I suspect this is a staged Zoom call for marketing purposes. How do I know this? Everyone is smiling. Oh come on, everyone is smiling because there's an infant in the leftmost 2nd from top video. Or a picture of an infant. Someone
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by munin 6y ago
I appreciate this but in the context of this discussion when a PhD asks “is it better in industry” they do not mean going to work at a meat packing plant. Your larger point is true though and it would be great for there to be equity and dig
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by munin 6y ago
Oh not to worry, academia innovated on this concept too and for non-US citizens advisors can simultaneously hold both a students F-1 visa and their career future over them. Your points are valid though. > science would be healthier for h
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by munin 6y ago
It’s not as common but the incentive structures in academia are uniquely enabling to abusers. In industry it’s much easier to leave tyrant bosses. I agree with your points. Many of the positive incentives don’t exist in industry though, an
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by munin 6y ago
Teaching classes effectively is very hard and very few people can do it. It also doesn’t pay that well and is draining and often times not that rewarding. Universities try to get people that are good at it as professors by bribing them with
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by munin 7y ago
Not to worry, he also doesn't donate to his university.
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by munin 7y ago
2000 or so.
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by munin 7y ago
I dunno, 40 years of living in other places, stuff like this only happens in Texas and the South. There are definitely assholes in NY and Boston but they won't get up in my grill for "looking gay" on the street so that's
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by munin 7y ago
I lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but the situation would have to be dire for me to consider it. Definite
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by munin 7y ago
Sounds like Ravens progressive matricies.
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by munin 7y ago
How do you decide which scientists to pay? Pay them all? Then everyone becomes a “scientist” but does no work and draws a free paycheck. Pay the ones that produce good work? What is good work? Right now, that is decided by number of papers.
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by munin 7y ago
From the letter linked in the article: > In sum, your own oral and written statements to the OIE investigator, the Dean’s Office, and others clearly establish the following: > On May 8th, 2019, carrying bolt cutters and leading a grou
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by munin 7y ago
Smart people get everyone else to bog themselves down with "second-order thinking" perpetually tying themselves in mental knots wondering endlessly "what happens next" and "should I or shouldn't I." That i
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by munin 8y ago
We could tell my story instead. My uncle was an electrician, I didn't take high school that seriously, so my parents wanted me to apprentice for my uncle. I said no thanks, got a low level tech job, worked my way through undergrad and
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by munin 8y ago
Sort of, but not really. From the original report: > It was the decision to cease the processor operation which finally proved fatal. Restart is not feasible since attitude is too difficult to re-calculate after a processor shutdown; the
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by munin 8y ago
> Steering was controlled by the on-board computer, which mistakenly thought the rocket needed a course change because of numbers coming from the inertial guidance system. That device uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to track motion. T
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by munin 8y ago
> The author obviusly doesn't realize that the company making the wafers for Raytheon ISN'T ALLOWED TO USE THE CLOUD. This is probably going to change. People like you said the same thing about health data, and student data. Th
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by munin 8y ago
I was over-simplifying to communicate the repetitive and dull nature of a job I'm very happy to no longer be doing. Really the game was more about "anomaly detection" and the sensor indicators/measurements were far more
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by munin 8y ago
Two points: first, even if "solid" universities are right to run away from this (and IMO they don't run away from it, they just move the IT program into the business school where you don't see it any more) there are stil
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by munin 8y ago
This kind of change has also impacted me. It shows up when I'm trying to give students advice about starting their careers, and I realize that the first jobs I had (system administrator, SOC worker) have been replaced by robots. Especi
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by munin 8y ago
What's hard to get from this is a sense of quality. For one, professionals have a hard time nailing down what a "quality bug" is - if given a few different bugs and told to rank them, you could probably come up with some rank
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by munin 8y ago
There are cynical and practical reasons to use LaTeX. The cynical: While most conferences in CS advertise both a LaTeX and Word template for submissions, if you submit an article in Word, it seems quite likely it will be desk-rejected for b
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by munin 8y ago
It would be cool to see an evaluation of this against baseline. Software is a giant warehouse filled with soggy pinatas. Swing any kind of bat in there and you'll get some candy.
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by munin 8y ago
Cigarettes are legal and people still smuggle and sell them on the black market to avoid paying taxes. Your scheme would be mostly indistinguishable from the current prohibition and would still be dominated by cartels and SWAT teams.
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by munin 8y ago
I spent two summers of my PhD at research labs with private offices. It was awesome. At grad school, I work in an open plan lab. When reading or writing papers I find it very difficult to concentrate when people are having overlapping Skype
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by munin 8y ago
That's not really what I meant. What I meant was, you seem to act as if enforcement of this policy would require a lot of logistical work on the part of the airline to ensure that the passenger wasn't separated from their bags, or
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by munin 8y ago
If they wanted to, once detecting a battery, they could: 1. Open the luggage themselves 2. Remove the item containing the battery 3. Replace it with a note saying that the item was removed 4. Close the luggage back up 5. Put the luggage bac
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by munin 8y ago
This paper is cited by "Taming Performance Variability" but is probably worth a read if you haven't read it before and find this paper interesting: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis501/papers/producing
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by munin 8y ago
It's backed by z3, an SMT solver. There are theories in SMT for strings that can sometimes answer questions of your first flavor, but I don't know if they're in z3. Solvers can also answer questions of your second variety, bu

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