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1) don’t listen to strangers in internet. 2) don’t stop working. work part time on something you enjoy; no more grinding. 3) start running and complete a marathon on every continen…

and os companies can install key loggers on your device/machine. and chipset manufacturers can backdoor the system. and so on. no piece of hardware or software is safe from evil de…

Unlike human, computer is exceptionally good at remembering stuff. No need for plant recognition when you can brute force remember where you planted each individual seed.

For one, you accepted a junior position. Then you seemed to expect to be treated as a senior. Then you seemed to be surprised by the issues, again showing you lacked the experience…

> I also don't understand why the candidate with 10 years of industry experience decided to move forward with interviewing after being told it was for an SDE1 position. | given the…

Actually the cable will extend well beoynd that point. 36Mm is the altitide where the elevator would be travelig at orbital speed. Jump out any lower and you will drop back to eart…

Betteridge's law in action.

it would be interesting to see if NNs could learn tell how many objects are in the image, and/or where in the image the objects are. if the answer is no, then I don’t think that ev…

Yep, we do huge amount of assumptions to derive ”model of a world” from quite limited amount of data. And we do lots of mistakes without ever realising it. Fortunately, most of tho…

Estimating distances robustly is very important for navigation. LIDAR is accurate at relevant distances and most importantly very robust against environmental effects. Without LIDA…

Sure there are, but not all athletic people end up playing hockey. I don’t see how that invalidates the point that people without those qualities can not become programmers, no mat…

I’m actually saying that we have made it simpler (compare implementing full-stack web service using punch cards vs modern languages and frameworks), but at the same time it require…

True that, but those do-it-yourself people use different tools and methods compared to professional architects and builders. So maybe the original article should be read as ”why th…

Lemme use an analogy: Why is building a house not accessible to all? Surely house building could be more like building with legos. Building a proper house is so much more that just…

plain and simple: formal education gives a shitload of knowledge you rarely get otherwise (because students devote lot of time getting familiar with that knowledge in an environmen…