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If the company does any kind of work with the US Government it's far easier to just say no to Chinese-origin models rather than deal with all the overhead on the government contrac…

I apologize if this is a stupid question but why wouldn't everyone be investing in India with these returns being standard? In the US we would assume a conservative rate of 7%

I don't follow. Aren't employee salaries a deductible expense? The above makes me think more along the lines of no longer being able to deduct GPU costs incurred from deep learning…

I would suggest coming up with a set plan for meals and eat the same thing every day for two out of three meals. For me, during the work week, I have a bowl of oatmeal (steel cut o…

This has been my experience as well. The first time I tried it I thought I was going to be miserable all day and have no energy. It ended being totally fine. I have this dull empti…

Zettlekasten is more about making connections between ideas and keeping your ideas organized. The primary use is for generating ideas and writing, not for information retrieval. Th…

AWS going down means I've lost it or temporarily lost access to it? Those are two very different scenarios. Of course S3 could lose data - a quick Google search shows it has happen…

I suppose the caveat is you have to have customers to lose them :) We don't know what the data is or the size of the company.

Sure you can. As the experienced engineer in that setting it is a great opportunity to teach the less experienced engineers. For example, "I have seen data loss on S3 at my last jo…

Yes - the point of that line was to be ridiculous. Age has nothing to do with it. Anyone at any age can have good ideas and bad ideas. There are some really incredibly _older_ and …

I'm not sure how you got "backups are for old people" from my post. My point is that there are two sides to this. Perhaps the data being stored on S3 data _was_ backup data and thi…

Maybe they are getting tired of arrogant older programmers assuming they cannot possibly be wrong. God forbid a 25 year old might actually have a good idea (and I am far removed fr…

Many people (myself included) that get PhDs simply love learning. Solving problems is important but for some there is this inner drive to need to learn and master everything. It do…

In my experience, people that cheat in games like this typically do it to get an edge over everyone else in the lobby. It's not the cheating itself they enjoy but the winning. If e…

Or they changed their mind (which they are entitled to do).

I disagree. Studying algorithms and data structures is not at all like memorizing integral solution formulas. People who are good at these types of problems generally do the same s…

I always thought "serverless" referred to AWS Lambda style services. Recently I saw it used to refer to cloud computing. Is this a common interpretation? It really took me by surpr…

I teach at the university level and this is what I have done with my exams. Everything is open book and in my experience there is no difference in the average exam score between op…

It wasn't clear to me that the other comments were starting from "know how to code," which is why I made my comment. If OP spends time honing their coding abilities then by all mea…

Hmm - that is surprising since I specifically mention I work in industry (and have for quite some time). It sounds from your post like you may do front-end work. I work primarily o…

I'm sure many will come down hard on my comment and disagree. But speaking as someone who teaches at a university and also works in industry and is involved in hiring, I don't thin…

Integrating rg and fzf into vim changed my programming life. I find that combo pretty incredible and something I haven't found in IntelliJ. I usually find myself switching back to …

I am not a "TLA+ promoter" but think it is a very valuable tool for anyone building distributed systems. The value of TLA+ is that it forces you to carefully consider your algorith…

Doesn't blaze build remotely via citc? I thought files were loaded locally for editing but built remotely.

I don't disagree, but this goes both ways (and I typically only see one side of this argument put forward). They also allow the person who designed the types to make the types so c…