throwaway648

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by throwaway648 8y ago
1) don’t listen to strangers in internet. 2) don’t stop working. work part time on something you enjoy; no more grinding. 3) start running and complete a marathon on every continent.
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by throwaway648 8y ago
and os companies can install key loggers on your device/machine. and chipset manufacturers can backdoor the system. and so on. no piece of hardware or software is safe from evil deeds of people building them.
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Unlike human, computer is exceptionally good at remembering stuff. No need for plant recognition when you can brute force remember where you planted each individual seed.
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by throwaway648 8y ago
For one, you accepted a junior position. Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior. Then you seemed to be surprised by the issues, again showing you lacked the experience of a senior. I feel you got good guidance but it feels it w
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by throwaway648 8y ago
> I also don't understand why the candidate with 10 years of industry experience decided to move forward with interviewing after being told it was for an SDE1 position. | given the fact that I wasn’t too efficient with Java (it was
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Actually the cable will extend well beoynd that point. 36Mm is the altitide where the elevator would be travelig at orbital speed. Jump out any lower and you will drop back to earth. Unless you jump very hard (using rockets or something).
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Betteridge's law in action.
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by throwaway648 8y ago
it would be interesting to see if NNs could learn tell how many objects are in the image, and/or where in the image the objects are. if the answer is no, then I don’t think that even feedback would help in the original problem..
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Yep, we do huge amount of assumptions to derive ”model of a world” from quite limited amount of data. And we do lots of mistakes without ever realising it. Fortunately, most of those mistakes are irrelevant, and safety margins let us correc
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Estimating distances robustly is very important for navigation. LIDAR is accurate at relevant distances and most importantly very robust against environmental effects. Without LIDAR you can use stereoscopic vision (like human with two eyes)
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Sure there are, but not all athletic people end up playing hockey. I don’t see how that invalidates the point that people without those qualities can not become programmers, no matter the tools available. edit: to add, those people already
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by throwaway648 8y ago
I’m actually saying that we have made it simpler (compare implementing full-stack web service using punch cards vs modern languages and frameworks), but at the same time it requires more education to use the new tools and methods (one machi
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by throwaway648 8y ago
True that, but those do-it-yourself people use different tools and methods compared to professional architects and builders. So maybe the original article should be read as ”why there are not more dedicated, simple tools for non-educated do
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by throwaway648 8y ago
Lemme use an analogy: Why is building a house not accessible to all? Surely house building could be more like building with legos. Building a proper house is so much more that just piling rocks mixed with mortar. You have to take into accou
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by throwaway648 8y ago
plain and simple: formal education gives a shitload of knowledge you rarely get otherwise (because students devote lot of time getting familiar with that knowledge in an environment that supports learning). a good dev with proper education