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by vkk8 3y ago
Assuming the only purpose of universities is to serve the job market. I'd argue that the primary function of the university system is to transfer the collective human knowledge forward. The fact that some of it is sometimes needed in j
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by vkk8 4y ago
Anecdotally, I was (as probably many here were) ahead of the curve in digital devices usage when I started hanging out in IRC and various web forums as a teenager in early 2000s. At some point I noticed that just using computers induced som
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by vkk8 4y ago
Really? Here in Finland I see a lot of products in the supermarket that claim to be made out of "100% recycled plastic". I can't really compare volumes of plastic waste vs recycled plastic products, but it seems that at least
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by vkk8 4y ago
> As a layman non-scientist, I wonder why we see so many relatively low-value observational studies in diet/nutrition, often with results that get contradicted or fail to replicate a few years later. On my peak fitness enthusiasm I
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by vkk8 4y ago
> "People who consumed more than 20% of daily calories from processed foods had a 28% faster decline in global cognition and a 25% faster decline in executive functioning compared to people who ate less than 20%," I wish they j
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by vkk8 4y ago
Indeed. I hate the term "ultraprocessed" so much, because I have no idea what to look for if I try to avoid it. If I chop my potatoes before boiling them, is that processing? If not, which steps in cooking count as "processin
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by vkk8 4y ago
This is a bit crude way to put it, but maybe you're right. At least for me, becoming a father changed my perspective on everything so much that it's almost like I'm not even the same species anymore as I was before having the
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by vkk8 4y ago
> Maybe, but again, I don't see why that should be necessary. Tesla should not have been able to do this, period. Maybe you're right. However, much of the modern hardware business operates this way. At least Nvidia and Intel ha
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by vkk8 4y ago
> Sounds like all around bad decisions. The previous owner shouldn't have sold it as a 90 or at least disclosed that, "It's a 60 but Tesla swapped out the batter with a 90 and left it configured as a 90". To be fair,
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by vkk8 4y ago
Totally different context, but at my company, they started reusing some IDs that are supposed to be unique because they ran out of them and the old-as-fuck computer systems can't handle longer IDs.
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by vkk8 4y ago
Coming from theoretical physics background, I find the mathematics and physics side of game development quite easy. Is this considered a real advantage if I wanted to pursue a career or something in game development? Is there some way to le
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by vkk8 4y ago
I have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and I feel the same way about it. It's not an illness, it's simply a maladaptation to the kind of world we live in. Most milder mental disorders are probably like this; it doesn'
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by vkk8 5y ago
This is, I think, why simple things are so difficult to do in large corporations and everythings costs about 10-100x more money than you would expect. Often, it would be much easier to change the processes and workflows than the software.
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by vkk8 5y ago
Is this how software development in corporations really works? I'm not a software developer, but I've contributed to some large open source projects and I thought it would be similar. Maybe with the difference that the issues woul
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by vkk8 5y ago
How do you get a software engineering job as a physicist? I'm one and I tried applying for a few (mostly with titles like "machine learning engineer", etc.) and mostly received no responses. For comparison, when applying for
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by vkk8 5y ago
Data science is an oversold profession. When studying it, you learn really cool things; Bayesian models, reinforcement learning, AI, all the trendy stuff. In reality, most of the data scientists end up spending almost all of their time inte
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by vkk8 5y ago
I can find dozens of "bright lights" in a Finnish online store. Looking at the specs of one of them ( https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/714353/Innolux-Epic-... ), it promises 1500 lux when sitti
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by vkk8 5y ago
I can sort of see a lot of the fitness industry being disrupted by this. Much of what physiotherapists and personal trainers do is just showing people how to do stuff like squats and push ups safely. Depending on how accurate the pose detec
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by vkk8 5y ago
I don't think the point of prison is to change your views (the system doesn't care what your views are). It's to make you less likely to re-offend and the vast majority of people to not offend at all. I would guess that there
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by vkk8 5y ago
Do you mind if I ask how do you even manage to do 60-70 hours a week of productive technical work? I can do maybe 2-3 hours of programming a day before my concentration starts dropping. That plus whatever meetings I have gets me to maybe 4-
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by vkk8 5y ago
To be honest, I was pretty discouraged by the other comments here. I know many friends here, who are like me, and work 40 hours per week on paper, but in reality they have something to do maybe 50-75% of that time (sometimes even less). Sin
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Ask HN: Remote workers in US tech companies, how much do you work?
1 points by vkk8 5y ago|7 comments
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by vkk8 5y ago
We tend to reserve the word "tech" for new technology especially. Cars, power tools and horse wagons were also new sexy technology once upon a time, but no-one calls companies making those products "tech companies". The
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by vkk8 5y ago
ADHD isn't a discrete trait, it simply means that "you are in the lower x percentile of the population in the ability to concentrate". Even people whose concentration skills are close to the mean of the population can feel li
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by vkk8 5y ago
Every time someone tells me they have ADHD and suggest they should take some measures to accommodate it, I think of this Slate Star Codex post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
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by vkk8 5y ago
According to Scott Alexander's review ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... ), 0.3mg is the correct dosage for melatonin and higher doses might do more harm than good. I think y
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by vkk8 5y ago
By some definition, a person who does anything besides swearing when a piece of software doesn't work as expected is already a power user. I see this in many of my relatives. Googling the problem or checking the settings menu is someth
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by vkk8 5y ago
I don't know which field you studied, but I think that in physics it's not quite that bad. There might be some research published that's just wrong or fraudulent, but not that much. I think it's because in physics, outsi
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by vkk8 5y ago
Neither is being introverted/extroverted. Our mind is more complex than simple dichotomies like this assume. We all behave like "introverts" in some situations and like "extroverts" in some situations. We constantly
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by vkk8 5y ago
All the Jak games were amazing. I wonder why the genre has almost died now?

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