rumdonut

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by rumdonut 2y ago
They are though. It's that people tend to forget over time. I barely remember details of the last administration. A NYTimes article recently observed the same.
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by rumdonut 2y ago
I agree as someone who was previously excited about the idea. Although to be honest, I think people overstate the changes. They did not last. Lots of salesmen in this industry like any other.
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by rumdonut 3y ago
Best of luck to JPLers. I know someone who was laid off. These are some inordinately talented people.
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by rumdonut 3y ago
I get the strong sense of the latter. It’s not actually the SEC that decides what’s illegal or not - these charges they speak of are for the judicial branch to decide on. I don’t follow crypto much, but it sounds to me like there isn’t a le
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by rumdonut 3y ago
Sleep well. Sleep is critical for structural learning (insight, generalization, etc.). Your hippocampus is theorized to randomly walk through memories to build these structural connections in your cortex during slow wave sleep.
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by rumdonut 3y ago
It wouldn’t be hard to stop. Chip fabrication is a concentrated industry with a high barrier to entry (indeed there are only a few companies in the world producing high performance silicon using technology made by probably even fewer compan
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by rumdonut 3y ago
Yeah this is bizarre. Imagine if a cop came up to you and told you to stop committing a crime. Being difficult and dismissing the assertion is going to land you in court. It’s your responsibility to know the law, and it’s certainly not the
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Wonder why this took so long. This was done by an influencer so no way it was under their radar for long?
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Yep. I find it funny - though I feel bad for the small businesses that may have been oblivious - that a VC CEO is complaining when he effortlessly could have hired a financial consultant for a day to look into the first bank he encouraged h
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by rumdonut 4y ago
> Are you suggesting tens of thousands of small business customers need to do due dilligence on the investment practices of their banks? Honestly yes. All it takes is one financial analyst's time. I do it with my retirement plan for
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by rumdonut 4y ago
I understand your observation but I respectfully don't think the conclusion is the case - at a large company I have seen an internal report that shows a substantial issue with productivity that points directly to a lack of in-person in
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by rumdonut 4y ago
I am confused by how this would avert some of the issues described in the article. It describes dustbowl conditions as evaporating water out of the ground. Does no-till drilling solve this?
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by rumdonut 4y ago
This was exactly confirmed by an internal study at the company I work for. Engineers that depend on collaboration suffered a significant drop in output artifacts. Those being largely junior or mid-level engineers. Staff engineers actually d
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by rumdonut 4y ago
40:00 is the chandelier.
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Salesforce? I read Benioff’s comments differently. He gave an example of lower productivity in sales, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t apply to engineering. It was just an eye-catching example that 50% of sales wasn’t accomplishing anything
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by rumdonut 4y ago
They are. My former employer briefly had WFH due to COVID. It ended with a small number of people getting fired and the rest coming back 5 days a week. People just weren’t working, and they had some astonishing IT stats that hinted at how b
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Since this downward trend started around 2010, when I was in middle school and it seemed people where first getting on the internet en masse, I wonder if this trend is due to higher internet exposure in kids bringing widespread awareness to
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Thanks for the insight! Encouraging.
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Somewhat unrelated but a remark of yours was interesting to me. You mentioned PhDs sometimes have previous engineering experience; did you find it common for ML PhDs to have waited a few years before entering a program? I’m exploring doing
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by rumdonut 4y ago
I figure most companies are too small for that to be budgeted. Though, it’s possibly a good selling point for cloud if it’s capable of it.
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by rumdonut 4y ago
I’m not sure what these rooms control, but it’s possible the control room is simply part of a greater facility that has a mandate for this. Which makes sense, since there’s something to control here that may be more sensitive / dangero
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by rumdonut 4y ago
It was a great experience (I was on the satellite side of development).
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by rumdonut 4y ago
Hey, I worked on this. Glad to see it getting a lot of press :).