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Typical red LEDs used for displays have a peak emission somewhere in 600-650nm range, but it's bell curvish so yeah you can expect a small amount of 670nm light out of it. Does get…

Have a look at http://bitly.com/PBM-database - if there's one it's probably listed there

It's sign that your VPN works:) Unfortunately that's the price to pay for anonymity today. Go to another website? DDG instead of google.

GPUs are too slow for HFT trading, yes. Deep neural networks in general do work in this domain, people do use them, but the stuff that you can profitably deploy into production is …

Really depends on time horizon you're talking about. They actually work pretty well for HFT, there's plenty of data around, and most of the information is just in market data - no …

Why not both? Linear models for absolute lowest tick-to-trade latency doesn't preclude you from using fancier stuff at earlier modelling steps. Final linear models you ship to fpga…

Amazon is worst payer among them in the US as well. Facebook and Google pay decent money in London and Zurich, almost on par with US in the latter, London is maybe ~30% less. > How…

The author is spot on. You just happened to be working for the scrappiest/shittiest faang that's all. Shop around, there is decent money to be made in Europe - but of course it's n…

> The main issue is that there is just nowhere near enough housing to keep up with population increases, seemingly anywhere in the Western world. With falling fertility rates, natu…

Exactly. If you're in tech, you should be shooting first of all for $500k TC today than $500k pnl, the former is way easier (luck aspect aside). No point in thinking about active i…

Put spare money every now and then into VOO or VT or similar and forget. No knowledge needed and time investment is like a few minutes of your time a month/quarter/year. Squeezing …

wat? Google used clicks ("navboost") since approximately forever, it's one of strongest signals for all major web search engines. I guess the better question is why they don't opti…

Steadily losing 0.5-1kg/month just by cutting out carbs and sugar. Not really full keto (which requires like 70-80%+ calories from fat to maintain ketosis), just paying attention t…

Not flaky at all. 10M+ LOC monorepo with a few hundred devs here. All it takes is a fast build system. Full clean rebuild for me is a few minutes tops (distributed on a shared clus…

> meaning I would need sponsorship for an H-1b work visa There's your problem. H1B is just such a difficult and lengthy process today. Even for experienced candidates - I have a de…

> So one option is to move to one of the outsourcing companies or even better to a smaller company dealing with western clients. That's pretty much what most (if not almost all) of…

You are grossly underpaid, even for eastern europe. Guys just across the border (or two) from you make 2x+ more, while paying next to nothing in taxes (5% I've heard, as faux contr…

Money can buy you financial freedom, more holidays than you'd know what to do with, good place to live almost anywhere in the world, trust fund for your heirs and all that other st…

Still pretty useful in high noise/signal regime. Though at my last two gigs in this area they were kind of obsoleted in favor of generalized additive models which are more interpre…

Kind of, I've seen some non-public Intel SKUs in the fleet but afaik they just had tweaked core counts and clocks for better perf/watt. They were also exploring non-intel architect…

Yes, you can explicitly set up additional aliases that will bounce incoming mail (or redirect it). It's an option in "New Alias" screen - "Reject (bounce) all mail sent to this add…

What's the benefit of running own server in this case? Wildcard aliases is actually a standard fastmail feature, I use it a lot. No per-email setup needed whatsoever, I just give o…

Last time I job hunted right before covid, this was a thing back then too. All the usual suspects (faangs & hot pre-ipos) said no and could only offer me Canada/UK and a transfer o…

Discovered almond milk. I need about a liter of the stuff a day in tea/coffee and with cow milk that's a ton of extra calories and carbs. Almond milk tastes about just as good with…

> the equivalent of those $20K is a massive improvement for me $20k raise is peanuts in US tech. If you're in it to chase the greenback, suck it up, transfer to US on L1 asap, get …