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Similar reasons why Israel hasn't experienced any sanctions yet despite their ongoing genocide against the Palestinians

It's not a conflict, it's a genocide

Some good takes, some bad takes in the post. The analogy of cutting a tree is pretty dehumanizing and doesn't factor in the morale and culture hit laying people off does to a compa…

It depends on the definition of "relatively simple features" Mismanaged startups can have a lot of technical debt as a result of pivots, shifting priorities, weak engineering and a…

It's been mostly from personal experience, though I shouldn't generalize to the community as a whole. Anecdotally my experience with nix community has been unpleasant. They're very…

Nothing should be labeled as the ultimate devops toolkit when its documentation is as atrocious as nix People can commend it as much as they want, but the steep learning curve is l…

Would anyone happen to have an ELI5 of how the M1 chip achieves greater power efficiency?

I think the problem is the industry standards and expectations for candidates. The fact that OP links an archive of interview questions is indicative of the underlying problem. Giv…

Apologies if these are naive questions, but why does Microsoft require use of Edge to track user data? Can't they obtain data from the DNS requests any browser makes to access webs…

I just got a new Windows Update that revolved around pushing me to use the new Edge Browser. The update also removed my default setting for browser and when a new URL opens, there'…

I've been working for four years as a software engineer after graduating college with a Computer Science degree, where most of the core curriculum used Java. However for work I end…

I've tried so many options for note taking but I can never find a good solution that fits all my needs. I find writing things down helps with comprehension and retention, but using…

"It could be he has been busy doing real work in the last ten years and not researching solved problems that are generally encapsulated in well tested existing modules." Sorry, I s…

In my previous job we hired someone in a "Senior Architect" position. They had extensive experience at a larger company, but there were red flags from the beginning (including the …

"Islam was out because that’s not for white people." For someone who espouses an expertise in mathematics his perspective on religion is quite reductive if not completely wrong in …

Deletion can also be a little misleading. I deleted (not deactivated) a Facebook account that I had from high school to sophomore year of college. A year or two later I made a new …

That's disappointing to hear but thank you for the honest response. I currently work in Ruby but my favorite language is C, I feel like it helped me become a better developer and i…

Thank you! Your explanation made the most sense, a lot of the other ones went over my head. This is so clever and fascinating.

I honestly have no idea what's going on, but his writing is humorous.

Whiteboard coding isn't really a metric close to what is required in the job though. I like to write my algorithms on paper first before writing code, but doing it on a whiteboard …

What I think about when I use Facebook: don't use Facebook.

I very much agree with this, but just as an aside I'd like to mention that I worked on a full stack web application as a side project and I believe that helped me land my current j…

Thank you for the comprehensive response! I have a lot to learn but it's exciting.

What would you recommend instead for a beginner trying to get into ML?