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Jargon is everywhere but office jargon is its own sub genre.

For office jargon, it's maybe not a practical matter, but I could see a friend being a little put off by someone speaking in office jargon to them. Office jargon is sort of impersonal by design

Is "solves" used like that in the wild? Haven't heard that one.

This isn't meant to be taken too literally or objectively, but I view YAGNI as almost a meta principle with respect to the other popular ones. It's like an admission that you won't always get them right, so in the words of Bukowski, "don't try".

What's the background on doing a soft layoff (or w/e) and hiring at the same time? Many of us have seen one of these close-up, just wondering what the case is here.

I suppose people might be wondering what happens when this small number of big players finish their buildouts.

Funny comment about it being dark in Michigan. My feeling here in the summer is like, will the sun ever set (somewhat light out until almost 10pm depending on location)? I know what you mean, of course.

> I had two EE roommates in college, their exams were HARD, but their home-projects were easy compared to CS (less projects overall as well).

Maybe that's just a result of EE take-home projects being less practical? Hold on, let me walk on over to my wire bonding station ...

In my applied EM class in college, we had a year-end project in which we built an antenna of a specified type (e.g., helical, corner reflector, etc ... ). The final exam was essentially a do or die transmitter hunt. We had a lot of open lab time to do it. But that project was an exception, not the norm.

Can you explain the cuda-less stack a little more or provide a source?

I thought the number in the title seemed low, but this makes it seem closer

I agree.

I'm not quite so shy, but on that same side of the spectrum for sure. The deal with me these days is that I've got a couple kids; one thing that comes along with that is quite a bit of social interaction with people you're not 100 percent at ease with. So, that energy - the same type id use to do some small talking with the neighbors - is almost always on E for me.

calc 2 was the hardest for me, and anecdotally many others. hang in there!

They can hear the tinnitus, but not real sounds at that freq.

IANAD, is there any kind of "gain correction" theory for tinnitus? ie, the brain notices your ear can't hear this frequency very well, so it pumps up the volume ... maybe too much.

That would fit this data point, at least.

Weirdly, maybe not so different than when a hearing aid starts ringing.

I can do more than 5 if I'm able to maintain discipline and work at a normal pace.

Normally though, time pressure or "get shit done" pressure gets the better of me, and my brain goes into turbo mode. After about 30 minutes of that, the rest of the day is more or less standby mode

> So many engineers move to management, yet want to remain "hands on", and won't let go. It's obnoxious and frustrating, when they inevitably have their heads spinning from meeting after meeting, and no time remaining, but still insist on trying to help.

Oh god, I hate this. The thing that happens most often in my experience is they have time to do the "fun parts" of something, and then leave others with all the testing, paperwork, bug fixing, etc, to make their update into something "real".

I've definitely spent some time thinking about it, or did in college anyway.

There's a lot going on with the typical bike population on a college campus.

A fair amount of bikes get stolen on the way home from a party or whatever, and left in a shrubbery or whatever. These bikes tend to get picked up by the school and sold at the reuse store. Some bikes have probably done that loop more than once, especially because these bikes are often not so great, and the line between "stolen" and "community" blurs a bit.

Unregistered/expired bikes also end up in the reuse store, which is also pretty common.

I have an 08 corolla that seems indestructible.

I sorta want to replace it, because I don't really like driving my children around in it, but new cars seem incredibly complex. I'm just trying to drive here, man.

FWIW, there was a near miss during a blue angels flyover a couple years ago.

https://youtu.be/Wh3TIy2gtPs

Would there be any value in a GC'd language where you had the option to explicitly call do_gc_now()? Is this functionality already out there and just not popular? I haven't spent a ton of time in these languages, so forgive the naivety. Again, naively, this seems like it would be a good compromise between what GC offers but near-determinism when you want it.

I guess Rust and C++ also "pause the world", it's just predictable when it happens. It seems kind of arbitrary in some ways, like maybe I don't want the "world pause" at the end of this scope. There are ways around it obviously, but you start language-wrestling at that point.

First question is a bit subjective, but Hennessey and Patterson is a good place to start.

It's thick but reads fairly easy in my recollection

What?

The F15 doesn't get a ton of fanfare, but it's an extremely capable aircraft.

Something feels a little off in this particular case. I feel like there is an implied increase in flexibility with WFH for many of us here, but I doubt call center employees get that benefit at all.

Never considered the speedrun route, but I also had someone (a prof. in my case) tell me something that changed the way I viewed college/the curriculum.

Paraphrasing, he said, "don't get too wound up with the syllabus, treat class and deliverables as touchpoints for your own self study". I guess it may have the same net result as "read the text" or "study outside of class" for some, but that view of things really resonated with me.

It felt a lot healthier to me to work in this way. I went down whatever rabbit holes interested me. It's not very efficient in terms of grades and stuff, but I had the time back then anyway, and I never really felt like I was cramming or grinding. When exams rolled around, I usually felt like I was in decent shape, just needed to do a little adjustment based on class hints or whatever.

Since the cause was multiple birdstrikes, I don't know how specific to being a test pilot this episode was. Maybe they do more stuff with higher risk of birdstrike in general, or maybe they didn't yet know the plane's flight envelope, etc., but this would have been a bad day even if the MiG was production at this point, i would think.

edit: I guess this plane was already production at this point. maybe i'm confused about what constitutes a test pilot.

I can't really refute any of that, but I'm ok with Teams on balance.

Our team used WebEx before, which was pretty bad, IMO, but some of that was probably due to it not being as tightly integrated as Teams was (we're a MS place).

The one thing I agree is bad and irritating is the inboxing. I'll be actively conversing on my PC and suddenly my phone will regurgitate the last 20 messages.

ah yes, the PR PR

The really good parts of having children are really difficult to convey, IMO, so viewing the decision as a pros/cons list (which is a highly objective, concrete thing), is usually a losing battle. There are always plenty of reasons not to do it, that's basically undeniable.

For me I think graduating to a smartphone later than "normal" had a similar effect. Mid 30s, but I got my first smartphone at ~25 instead of ~20.

There's a lot of external pressure to be constantly on your phone. People of my age are a little perplexed when I explain to them the reason I didn't text back right away was because I was outside, but my phone was upstairs in my room.

What's heat based SAD?

I always feel like garbage during the summer, but always chalked it up to allergies, some kind of low level chronic dehydration, or poor schedule discipline (used to be, when classes ended, my bedtime became about 3 am almost immediately. I'm older and that doesn't [can't] happen anymore, but since the sun sets very late now, I still get a minor version of it).

There are a lot of external factors that I thought might contribute also. For one thing, every weekend of the summer is pretty much booked up, which becomes exhausting. Back in college, I also remember feeling kind of bluesy in the summer. I guess I didn't have the <whatever> to activate my brain by myself, so I looked forward to fall/learning time again.

I'm rambling, but interested to hear a little more about what you mentioned.

I have a Logitech g533 headset, which is wireless, and came with a dongle. It might be something other than Bluetooth? I paired it once when I got it 2 yrs ago and that's it.

I forget to charge it sometimes but that's on me.

I like pacing during meetings