rubylark

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by rubylark 1y ago
I think it's a difference in expectation. For some reason, people are surprised that birds have the same intelligence level as a human toddler. However no one wants an AI assistant that's as dumb as a toddler.
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by rubylark 2y ago
As a counterpoint, Jesse Ventura was famous before he got into politics. It's much harder to win when no one knows who you are.
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by rubylark 2y ago
I'm a third generation "woman in tech" (grandma did punch cards, mom did COBOL) and I haven't had any problems that I keep being told I'm supposed to have. I suspect discrimination is location specific. The most I g
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by rubylark 3y ago
I am surprised how weirdly common it is. Something similar happened nearish me as well: https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-madison-arboretum-...
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by rubylark 3y ago
In this context, they are speaking of electrical efficiency, i.e. the amount of power lost to system impedance during transmission, not some abstract concept like effectivity. The efficiency of a transmission line is expressed as a ratio of
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by rubylark 3y ago
The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that Chatterjee's motives and subsequent termination (which is not elaborated on) was related to gender discrimination. Otherwise I can't see what relevance anyone's genders h
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by rubylark 4y ago
Also: synchronicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
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by rubylark 4y ago
I'll add an anecdote to contradict that argument: I work in embedded, and the place I work restructured to have a dedicated software group. They hired young software engineers and focused on getting people who are good programmers with
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by rubylark 4y ago
Would that not be the person running the AI? The one giving prompts and verifying that prompts are fulfilled adequately?
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by rubylark 4y ago
In the US, it depends on the waste services provider, city, and county. I've had garbage companies that offer compost and yard waste services and some not. Sometimes it's provided through the city or county for free or for a fee,
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by rubylark 4y ago
Do you have examples of wordy US signs that are only symbolic in the EU system? All of the ones I see on the article are either city names or pedestrian signs with complex instructions that I don't think could be conveyed effectively i
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by rubylark 4y ago
Why not? If the airline has a policy that allows them to fly, why wouldn't they? It's not the people with allergies asking the flight not to serve other people peanuts, it's the airline itself deciding to do that. Besides if
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by rubylark 4y ago
It's not always only ingested food that is a safety issue. Some people have allergies that are severe enough that physical contact is enough to cause anaphylaxis. For example, there was a kid with a dairy allergy who died when other ki
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by rubylark 4y ago
I find this kind of assumption that "coders can't understand feelings" as a harmful stereotype and baseless assumption just because many of the comments here disagree with your take. Emotional intelligence* has nothing to do
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by rubylark 4y ago
Not that uncommon in my experience. Depends on the kind of microcontrollers/embedded computers. Weaker ones are closer to the bare metal and need some EE during development. More complex ones with a GUI or that run Linux are mostly app
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by rubylark 4y ago
Depends on the project. Most of the teams I've been on were 4-12 SWE for 1-3 EEs. These were usually mid-range microcontrollers with GUIs. It's typically only weaker, single-purpose embedded without an RTOS (like sensors or whatno
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by rubylark 4y ago
I exclusively work on microcontroller projects, and my experience is the same. I've only worked on one project that really needed my EE experience to write some drivers. Once the drivers are there, it's all application layer for t
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by rubylark 4y ago
Depends on the embedded system. I've only worked in mid-sized companies, and most of my projects were teams of 4 to 12 SWE-type with 1 to 3 EE for the project. Typically light ARM4 or weaker microcontrollers will have smaller teams, or
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by rubylark 4y ago
Absolutely. This modchip is just a raspberry pi plus a couple parts. You'd have to try hard to get it to be expensive. The BOM for most embedded systems is going to be cheap unless you need some exotic hardware. It really does seem to
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by rubylark 4y ago
I really like this strategy. After one god awful experience at a company that led me to quitting after 3 months, I will not work for a company that doesn't show me a snippet of their own code. The whole experience at that terrible job
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by rubylark 4y ago
I find it super frustrating. There's been leaps forward in fuel efficiency, but car manufacturers compensate by making trucks and SUVs bigger and heavier. The newer trucks can fit a third adult in the front seat comfortably. I hope the
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by rubylark 4y ago
Isn't the issue with your city, then? It's not like the film crew just annexed your street without asking anybody. Your city council approved it, likely after several public hearings. At least that's how it worked in my small
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by rubylark 4y ago
Perhaps they broke out a start of concave curve and used a grinder to get it the rest of the way there*. It would probably be labor intensive and fragile but it might work.
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by rubylark 5y ago
I'm going to disagree here. I'm a woman and I had the same results as every man replying here: I recognized all the science, game, and action terms and almost none of the fashion and textile ones. Never once when I have gone cloth
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by rubylark 5y ago
This is a baffling article. It is a mix of actual facts and apparently well researched journalism mixed in with completely bizarre claims like this: > White-tailed deer and North American moose don’t normally share habitat; the deer’s sh
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by rubylark 5y ago
Definitely agree. Coding is so different depending on the language and the field. I'd also add: 4. Version Control I've onboarded some new grads, and was surprised to find they don't teach version control in college. Students
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by rubylark 5y ago
The problem with general statements with "every programmer should" is that programming has become such a diverse field that there are definitely things that not _every_ programmer will need. For example, as an embedded software de
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by rubylark 5y ago
Demanding a subject to actively participate in your study upon pain of vague and mostly incorrect legal threat is ethically wrong. Passive participation (like scraping) without consent is morally wrong, but since it doesn't cause undue
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by rubylark 5y ago
Preventing wireless communication, even in wilderness areas seems like a bad idea. I remember a Reddit post many years ago (back when the concept of a internet post from the middle of nowhere was novel) from a bush pilot in Alaska. His plan
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by rubylark 5y ago
I'm curious to see if this really pans out. Seems like its a little pie-in-the-sky for "light trucks," whatever that means (anything smaller than an 18 wheeler? Or only small like a Chevy S10?). From my very cursory research

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