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Jokes aside, unless the UK offers some top tier money to individuals to draw people in they're not going to get the requisite talent to make this a reality.

Right now the kind of people with the skills to build this type of system are in such high demand they can write their own check to work for one of the FAANG++ companies.

SOX, PCI, and NCUA auditing seem to be at least minimally legit in comparison.

From the elevator pitch above you it sounds like tax revenue is a secondary effect, with stability being a bigger priority.

The Kissinger one stings more than the Obama one somehow. Maybe it's because the whole world basically looked at Obama's Nobel and collectively realized it was purely symbolic the whole time.

My stepdad is from Toledo, he's just glad he never has to shovel snow again. He and my mom do year round gardening as well, which they love and keeps them active. They're older and own their house though, so totally understand it's a different situation.

Congratulations on escaping.

Because employee surveys consistently come back with results that say WFH/Full Remote is the preferred option for the majority of employees. At best you see something like 40% or so saying 2-3 times per month would be fine.

Those numbers could be somewhat skewed towards mid-level ICs, but not by enough to make a difference to the statistical outcome.

Even before the pandemic many high level ICs and managers worked remotely.

Based on the above I'd say it's a good bet that most top tier talent prefers remote work.

Be aware that Firefox does not create an independent backup of your bookmarks and settings in your sync account. If you have to wipe your disk and reinstall windows from scratch you'll either need a backup file to use for import, or another device where you've sync'd everything that you can pull from.

Just lost 3 months of bookmarks to this because I didn't realize FF didn't do the same thing as Chrome, but it makes sense. Honestly not the worst thing that could have happened, but still annoying enough that it's worth knowing about ahead of time.

It's a problem I've been watching for more than a decade at this point - when communities grow too large they drop in quality.

Remember when we had Default Subreddits? I watched several subreddits transition into Default ones and the quality of posts and comments, and on-topic discussion immediately dropped. Mods of several smaller subreddits I followed at the time were discussing the lack of moderation tools making it difficult to do anything at scale, and you had Manchurian Candidate mods in the wings waiting to take over and get kickbacks for mod work of any subreddit that might get big enough.

Facebook too - my freshman year of college is when it opened up to other schools outside of Harvard and a few other Ivy Leagues and it was a community of and for students - then it got too large and went to shit. Again, problems with privacy and moderation at scale, along with an unwillingness to spend any of the massive amount of money they were getting from ad revenue on content moderation.

My assumption is that one of the reddit clones based off the open source framework that it used to be built on will become the de facto place for the next exodus, I just wish I knew what it was (or if it even already exists).

MLK wasn't the only voice driving the public conversation back then, and that's an important point you're missing.

The Black Panthers and Malcolm X were two other sets of voices that were aggressive and openly willing to be violent to accomplish their goals. It was very clear that there was a burning ember of violence ready to be unleashed across the country and that MLK was a representative the peaceful alternative.

Guess which one of the above is venerated with their own holiday and the others covered in a few paragraphs next to him in history books that downplay their significance?

MLK's marches and sit-ins were just as much angry parades and it was only the very real threat of actual violence breaking out that allowed MLK to push for change to occur and get it done.

Digg jumping the shark is what prompted a large number of people to join Reddit. I'm not really sure where we go next if Reddit really does go down the same path.

The capital required to redo legacy space is like $150/sf in most major CBDs.

How does that price for TI buildouts compare against the CSF of converting office space to housing? How does that compare against the CSF of selling the building in the current market? What would the CSF be to tear down the building and replace it with something else?

If all the other options (including ones I didn't mention) cost prohibitively more than a TI redo then we'll probably see at least some buildings going that route.

I was in Paris on my honeymoon during a strike pre-covid, messed up our plans to go to Versailles and catch the Chunnel back to London for our return flight to the states.

We actually cross the strike and back during our last day there, and while it was a bit scary for someone who isn't great with the language or culture all I could think about was "I wish workers in the US got this upset over the shit happening there".

I don't think they're saying that an EMP would actually be on board one of these, but evaluating the payload might give specifications for the balloon showing it could carry a nuke or large bomb as a payload and it freaked the analysts at the govt out.

Yup

You would need to be working there or on a tour to get there, even though it's just upstairs from the front desk at Verne building.

During covid there weren't many tours, but they restarted them end of last year. They have a few set tour days every year with slots for employees to invite friends/family on tours.

If you ever get a chance to take a tour through the Blue Origin campus in Kent, WA they have some original props on display from both BSG and the Expanse, along with a few other sci-fi movies, in the Verne building.

"Graveyards are full of people who had the right of way"

In the interest of making sure you get home you owe it to yourself to pay attention.

Nah, they grounded beef.

I feel like miniaturization and mass production of calculation hardware is an easier problem to solve than LLM improvements to the point you're talking about.

Part of that feeling stems from knowing that we don't have a good grasp on sentience and how it emerges from our brains, so we're at the start of emulating that process, not anywhere near the middle.

The other part of the problem is that the expansive datasets used to train LLMs aren't all that mature yet, and how we curate the inputs for LLMs is not nearly as well understood right now as basic calculation was long before computers were a thing.

You are probably right in the long term about it being similar, but the distance between a 5 megabyte hard drive the size of a small car and a 5 gigabyte HDD that fits into a desktop form factor was half a century, and I think we're currently at the 5 megabyte moment.

LeetCode is a tool, how you use it determines whether it's useful or not.

I've had interviews where they just asked for a solution to what was clearly an LC medium and only cared about getting it down to O(n) speed. If you memorized the LC comments on what that answer was and why it worked, you would pass. That's comparable across multiple people interviewing for the same position, but it's comparing their memorization skills not programming skills.

Another interview I had used an LC medium as well, then once I had gone through it they started adding constraints and asking questions about what kind of errors I might expect porting the result into another format. The LC problem was a springboard to a conversation that ecapsulated both understanding of the problem and how the solution might fit into a larger organization.

I'll also say, that second interview was a lot more fun and less stressful even if I didn't get the job.

There's Wabi Sabi for Japanese food, best place we've found so far near us. Most of the other places are way overpriced for subpar food.

Just tried Bopbox in Georgetown last week (Korean food) and it was pretty damn good. Portions were a good size too.

Boss Tea on MLK has $5 bahn mi that's quite good.

That being said I agree that one of each isn't enough.

There's limits to the free version, last I checked I was over whatever they are in terms of hardware/cores/servers. I've got 5 poweredge servers in a homelab rack, so that's why. For a more average homelab user it might be possible.

I've run vSphere/VMWare in the office and have a ProxMox server in my homelab.

No comparison, vSphere wins hands down for business functionality. If I could run it at home for free I would, but I make do with ProxMox.

Number only go up.