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> I see people report learning stuff, working on side projects, etc etc on HN. How? 1. people on the internet are full of shit 2. Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) takes a 3 hour break fro…

> It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable, -1 for strawman disagreeing with someone and raking high on Disagreeableness BigFive trait are two different things

data is just that, not an argument in itself. how you use it to disprove something is up to you.

I don't trust numbers on Blind. But I do look at averages for a specific role at a specific company on Levels

People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same. Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded…

a side, but a sincere question: what do Data Scientists do and what can I expect one to produce as productive output? I've worked as an SDE on data engineering projects myself (Spa…

> To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees From what era / decade? World isn't static. MS is CS earned in 80s means a diff…

#2 links to atomic-energy.ru So it's probably nuclear plant control console and I'm guessing nuclear fuel rods are represented by a dot inside the "sun" and rods themselves are sus…

Is it illegal you use fake name and fake age on the internet? asking for a friend :)

Actually, the relationship with 6-month treasury is even stronger: https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=%24UST6M&p=W&b=1&g=0&id=p1...

Just something to think about: Fed Funds rate follows the 2-year treasury with a lag. What BlackRock calls "deliberately causing recession", I would call "following the signal from…

I've been using ChatGPT to summarize text and as a replacement for a search engine to look up concepts. Examples: - "what is the difference between Semigroup and Monoid" - "summari…

I'm heavily involved in interviewing at my current org and have been pondering same questions. Some ideas: 1. use ChatGPT (or similar) to test your questions. I read that GPT-like …

Since said person doesn't want to listen you and you don't have the direct authority over that person, I think it's reasonable to ask the team manager to deal with it. Say somethin…

I asked ChatGPT the opposite quesiton (why becoming cheaper) :D Streaming services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max are becoming cheaper for a few reasons. First, the stre…

> “The price of streaming services is reflective of the economic realities and costs that it takes to produce and distribute the content,” Schmitt says. Lies. Things are priced to …

Consider this angle: what if it's your intuition telling you that whatever you are doing isn't important and you should be focusing your efforts on something else?

> The belief is that the climate is not static It's a justified belief. Climate isn't static. For example, Sahara desert used to be an oasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_…

My Slack notifications are on only for DMs and mentions, and only during office hours. If there is a crisis afterhours, my teammates/manager have my phone number.

> Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? no. layoff from the bottom first. then push out more people as needed. bottom performers have f…

well then, I'm going to not subscribe even harder

> The interviewers expressed a wish to see me go more in depth on technologies, but I simply don't have much experience in any of them I conduct system design interview sessions fo…

I've been using Return Youtube Dislike addon for Firefox. Idk how accurate it is, but you can gauge the sentiment (mostly positive, mixed, mostly negative)

I switch between Scala and Python all the time. My trick is to use different editors with different color schemes. IntelliJ for Scala, VSCode for Python. My brain switches immediat…