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That's not how this works. It really depends on how close you are to a position, where people might want to bribe you. Low provincial officials with direct ties to local land devel…

They should have used Figher Jet codenames instead. The MiG-15 one has a nice ring to it.

They forgot how to do pretraining.

I used it as a daily driver back in 2014/15 and it worked ok from what I remember.

Clinical research is in a weird spot, where you need both clinical experience and research experience. Getting the former already requires long hours and you are swamped with work.…

Isn't lisp getting advertisement every couple months here or so. After so many decades I don't believe the reason lisp doesn't have traction is just marketing.

You can still get your Radium Spa treatment in the Czech Republic: https://www.axxoshotels.com/radium-palace-spa

Employer cost is not 2x, more like 1.2x, employer overhead is mostly insurance related stuff. We had salaray to employer cost tables at my previous job. What true though is that af…

I fear people will just get used to it. Nobody gets tailored clothing anyhmore and people don't question that we have standardized sizes that don't really fit anyone properly. Peop…

Obligatory Simpsons reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqb-VzkfRrY

Maybe controversial, but I believe a lot of OOP/Clean Code patterns are the software equivalent of corporate BS.

Frankly the most critical question is if they can really take shortcuts on DV etc, which are the main reasons nobody else tapes out new chips for every model. Note that their curre…

Didn't know the L in Samuel L Jackson was for LeCun.

Given most tech companies don't hire locally and people have to move into often quite HCOL areas for them, why don't large tech companies provide company housing? It could be a qui…

Fair enough. I feel like designing AI-proof take-homes is getting ever more futile. Given the questions need to be sufficiently low context to be human-doable in a short time and t…

No the 2 hours is their time limit for candidates. The thing is that you are allowed to use any non-human help for their take homes (open book), so if AI can solve it in below 2 ho…

Source for the 10B amount: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/cerebras-scores-openai-deal-...

Having worked in rare disease diagnostics in a non-US country with good public healthcare, most patients had to fight their way to the correct speciality to get their diagnosis. Wi…

I think there might be a culture divide here. That person is very likely from Germany/Berlin based on their attitudes and descriptions and I feel like the hacker/tech scene is very…

I feel like the hacker response would be to roll your own models and move away from commercial offerings. Stuff like eleuther.ai is pretty inspirational, but that movements seems t…

Tbf there are a lot of dishwashers, where I have had to essentially prewash all the dishes to make sure the dishes actually come out clean.

Why? Its 4.1m AUD. Given the salary of devs and the scope of such a website, the original budget seemed pretty optimistic.

There is a german idiom "Totgesagte leben länger" (the ones assumed dead, live longer). Just because a business might be unsound, doesn't necessarily mean it will imminently collap…

A lot of people have fundamental beliefs different enough from yourself, that your torment nexus is just a normal good job for them. You can take almost any tech job, and there is …