sleepycat801

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by sleepycat801 1mo ago
Companies don't care about proficiency, the only qualities which matter are ambition, presentation, flexibility, and marketability. Customers and investors buy a good story, not a functional product.
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by sleepycat801 1mo ago
"learn to code" is just learning to read and write in a software language. But the industry expected those with basic literacy to perform any specialised task related to reading and writing. Meanwhile, software engineering courses
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by sleepycat801 1mo ago
> This was already happening before AI. But now, a lot more companies that previously might have taken many years to reach an unmaintainable state can get there in just a few months. And who is going to want to fix that? Maintainers and
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by sleepycat801 3mo ago
Interesting, experimented plenty over the years but never rigorously enough to arrive at a conclusive recipe. Temperature control is always a challenge.
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by sleepycat801 3mo ago
The difference is driven by cost and shelf stability considerations, more than taste. Most candy is sugar with a hint of novelty.
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by sleepycat801 3mo ago
There is a formulation, a sugar/fat/salt ratio that the majority of people will find satisfying. Fast food tends to optimise this way. It's why, for example McDonalds burger buns are quite sweet. But I don't know whether
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by sleepycat801 3mo ago
The term as used reminds me of opium addiction in the 19th century, and how it brought down entire countries. I find, particularly when working in software, that I want to spend very little of my free time online, as though the novelty has
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by sleepycat801 3mo ago
It's more a side effect of decision fatigue. Millennials are at a stage of life where they face a very high cognitive burden. They're not thinking deeply about it. which is great for advertisers.
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by sleepycat801 4mo ago
I rely far more on bookmarks and memorised URLs now.
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by sleepycat801 4mo ago
Google search itself is becoming useless. It tends to promote social media results even when scarcely relevant, and just can't find things like part numbers that even baidu can find on English language pages. The AI then summarises soc
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
Two different screens (OLED vs LCD), two different results.
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
That is something requiring new antenna design, but was a spin off from FMCW radar already used on ships.
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
I agree with the author, certainly 5 years ago most things looked like a "solved problem". Huawei gave the telco equipment makers a run for their money with some interesting applications of SDR, but incumbents preferred trade barr
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
On the military front, the US has pressured allies to spend more GDP on weapons. Most countries have realised that as domestic industrial policy, rather than shell out foreign exchange for (cost ineffective) US made equipment.
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
You make more money, but the work is highly unstable. I find the "applying for jobs" process far more difficult than "doing the work" (especially in a small country where hiring freezes are highly correlated). If I could
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
A fundamental problem is automation and tooling make senior staff more efficient at almost all tasks than junior staff or fresh graduates. This creates an inverted pyramid of demand (i.e. companies require more senior than junior staff). Ch
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by sleepycat801 5mo ago
I could say the same, ee graduate who majored in telecom/RF but there was no work in it (or rather nobody wanted to hire a graduate). I did get hired into power electronics, but the work they needed was in software. Since then it has b