plumefar

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by plumefar 15d ago
I empathize. Deeply. I’ve experienced severe anxiety as well, and very high stress due an environment where I felt powerless. What saved me (in no particular order) 1. Sport. I felt I was “burning” my stress and anxiety by doing 1h of sport
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by plumefar 3mo ago
I had access to a repo (from a closed startup) with 800K lines of python & C code, written from the 90s to today. They had some very interesting approach to a specific chemistry problem. 20-30 years of work of several persons. But God,
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by plumefar 4mo ago
I’m not a pilot. Zero experience except remote controlled airplanes. But IIRC, it happened by night, over the ocean. If the instruments fail you, this is really hard to “perceive” your speed and orientation.
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by plumefar 2y ago
I had the same reaction. I’m half the person I used to used to be, after a painful burnout. And it’s not even close as painful as what the OP experienced. So many of my friends went through some very hard time that I stopped counting. So ye
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by plumefar 4y ago
There are times when life gives us the opportunity to be that guy; just not exactly in the same way. Pay attention, it has and it will happen.
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by plumefar 4y ago
In my +- 25 years of experience, I've encountered exactly 1 compiler bug. That cost me a full week of debug. Unfortunately, it happened during my very first year as a developer, and that triggered sub-optimal debugging practices (ie: i
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by plumefar 4y ago
There seem to be 2 points of view here. One technical (sensors and the algorithms), one organisational (people and teams working on the problem). My understanding is that by focusing on fewer things (vision only), they bet to make progress
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by plumefar 4y ago
When facing such large scale issues, communicating properly is very hard: Several teams might be investigating several possible root causes in parallel, and you might change your mind over time as to what is the most probable root cause. So
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by plumefar 5y ago
Maybe the right question is: how do you become a great boss? Getting promoted to an EM position is one thing. Getting good at it is... very hard, and requires new skills. There's very little in your day to day job as an engineer that p