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DimitriPetrova

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DimitriPetrova··on Ask HN: Why are resume gaps frowned upon?
Even a gap of a few months?
DimitriPetrova··on Vintti: Accounting Outsourcing Talent from South America
Is this a tech company or just a website transferring wealth from one country to another benefiting shareholders?
DimitriPetrova··on What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong
Can someone post a link to the actual paper?
DimitriPetrova··on Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?
It also helps when you're working as patent clerk and don't have doctorate advisor
DimitriPetrova··on The FBI Loses the Public
Rick Perry in a presidential primary debate wanted to eliminate three government agencies but couldn't remember all three on live television. He later become head of the Department of Energy, the same agency which he wanted to eliminate but forgot during the debate years earlier.
DimitriPetrova··on US shipyards can't build destroyers fast enough
It's a capacity issue. The companies need to build the infrastructure to support the higher orders.
DimitriPetrova··on F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots successful: U.S. makes course “much shorter”
There are SAM's in the area and now you need to drop out of autopilot fly low through a mountain ravine and deploy countermeasures.

Once you pull up through the ravine two SU-35 are approaching from the northeast.

You have to ready for anything. A drone could do the mission you described.

DimitriPetrova··on Marie Kondo Gives Up
I feel as though her self-evaluation of "messy" is probably more organized and cleaner than 99% of people
DimitriPetrova··on Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
I think they still have loss carryforwards, they didn't make money for several years initially
DimitriPetrova··on Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
I don't understand why you point out that you "were the only white kid in the program."

Why is this significant and what was the race of the other students?

DimitriPetrova··on If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
Past performance does not make every action an individual does correct.
DimitriPetrova··on If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
The entire payroll team resigned yesterday so that's probably correct for the moment.
DimitriPetrova··on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
Twitter was fined $765 million in 2021. Not sure by what organization.
DimitriPetrova··on Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset
Probably because the food isn't good and they're paying for it?
DimitriPetrova··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
Apparently the Multidimensional Poverty Measure is defined as;

An index that captures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions of well-being – monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to provide a more complete picture of poverty.

There's also the Multidimensional Poverty Index which has an alternate definition

DimitriPetrova··on Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable
Many college football programs pay for themselves and fund other sports, though probably only the best ones.
DimitriPetrova··on Doing what you love when the money won’t follow
Tom Brady doesn't live a miserable life. He enjoys football and training/practicing. He's obsessed with it.
DimitriPetrova··on Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura
Carlsen was also immediately worse out of the opening and the game went directly from the opening to an endgame where Carlsen(white pieces) was slightly worse.
DimitriPetrova··on Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace
You should take a look at SAP's source code
DimitriPetrova··on TikTok has an open computational chemistry position
Well if you have a mathematics undergraduate degree you would have taken classes "that went well beyond the freshman/sophomore level that everyone has."

I don't see why it's necessary to have a potentially unrelated PHD to do basic linear algebra.