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Did you ever get asked why you came back to the academic world in the interviews? I'm curious how PhDs who've been in the industry are viewed from academia.

Yep. He wasn't the only one though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Almond

She did not, but I would not be surprised if she picked it up for my granddad (he was in the UDU - precursor to the now ROK UDT/Flotilla).

You need as much FPS as possible for certain games for competitive play like Counter Strike.

I went from 80 FPS (highest settings) to 365 FPS (capped to my alienware 360hz monitor) when I upgraded from my old rig (i7-8700K and 1070GTX) to a new one ( 7800X3D and 3090 RTX)

I have a funny anecdote.

I don't know if it's a Korean thing or my mom-specific thing but she had very strong opinion about being early. For her 15 minutes early == on time. To reinforce this notion, she would set the house clocks later by some random undetermined minutes. The clocks in her home would all differ slightly so you could never tell what time it actually was unless you looked at your phone but you'd know you're little bit early to things for sure. Good times.

You do not but I feel like many places have the element of getting "pushed up or pushed out".

I'm in a similar boat but I haven't seen any place keep up with inflation without some kind of promotion or bonuses.

Yep. You got it.

I do. Credentials-wise I have BS in one of the STEM and currently enrolled in MS CS with intent to pursue PhD in Maths/CS. I have around 8 YoE and worked from Series B startups to IBs.

I want to give everyone a fair shake (including reading cover letters) and for me, resume fatigue sets in if I read more than 50.

Platform Engineers are operationally focused software engineers who focus on enablement of other software engineering groups through building self-service tooling and create unified platform for app deployment.

The cultural focus is placed on enablement of teams through self service, whereas DevOps is more about reducing silos and SRE is more about doing infra through the software engineering lens with metrics (SLO/SLA/SLI).

This.

I also limit myself on how many applications I see in a day (no more than 20 on a busy day, 50 on a not so busy day) so that I give every resume a fair read. A team can only do so much in a day. It's disheartening when you see a blatant AI use (and it goes into the trash bin right away).

I am a Platform Engineer and it feels like your experience mirrors mine. Like you, our challenge is filtering out large volume but also filtering out LLM abusers. We're not opposed to people using LLMs, when appropriate. I find that candidates inappropriately use it to circumvent the process and that is a big deal for me (and our team). We try to do the right thing(TM) by the candidates by creating minimal interview workloads, asking highly relevant questions that aren't "gotchas", and updating their candidacy as soon as possible. It doesn't feel like many candidates are interested in returning the same courtesy. This kind of behavior means we have to lean harder into tapping our existing networks for sourcing "trust-worthy" candidates. That puts us at risk for creating additional blinders and also unfairly filters out "un-networked" candidates. For whatever it's worth, we are remote-first org so all of our interviews are done remotely.

One of the things I'm thinking about doing in the future is sharing the screen with diagrams and adding irrelevant annotations to it (while clearly indicating to the candidates that those are irrelevant) as a primitive adversarial AI technique. Perhaps on-site interviews is part of the solution.

Agree.

It also feels like it's optimizing for the wrong thing (getting past the screening for as many job as possible, regardless of fit). I personally felt like the most successful experience I had with job search (and retention) is if I knew someone at the company and just bypassed the initial resume screening altogether and hand-crafted a nuanced resume and cover letter with a strong backing from people that knew me.

I realize not everyone has that luxury but I made diligent effort to network in and out of work and it has mostly helped me filter out bad jobs/fit and save time for both parties.

It's also missing the point. The verbiage around H1B is "to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities", not artificially inflate competition for jobs. This issue was contentious even during the good times and I'm not surprised that it's flaring up during the bad times.

There are plenty of smart and excellent workers who come mainland China and India for sure but there are plenty of people who don't or come through the abuse of the program.

Fair question.

In general, custom configuration on both mice (DPI, refresh rate, etc) and keyboards (tactile response settings [See https://wooting.io/], hot binds, etc).

It's a nice to have (almost to the point of necessity) especially when you go to LANs and need a consistent way to load your settings on a computer that's not yours.

Yep. Obviously YMMV, but I found AWS TAM to be much better than Google Cloud's (but that's not surprising).

Could you explain how this is plagiarism? Is there another original content that this article is ripping off from?

Yep! I vaguely remember my professor mentioning about this in my Immunology class when we were on the topic of recognizing self vs non-self. Something about MHC1 vs CD47 on RBCs. It's been a while. Fascinating stuff!

Unfortunate nomenclature aside, this issue highlights the difference between models and reality in science and how students can take these models too literally and thus easily conflate the two in pedagogy. Here's an embarrassing story for me: I didn't realize (or at least didn't internalize) that not all cells in the human body conform to to the canonical image of the cell that we see in Biology textbooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)#/media/File:Cel...) until I finished oncology and embryology class in my senior year back in 2015. For example, erythrocytes (RBCs) don't have nucleus and mitochondria. Some hepatocytes even have more than 1 nucleus (polyploidy).

I still don't know how I went through my cell biology class in sophomore year without understanding this. Maybe I missed the forest for the trees (curse you clathrin mediated endocytosis!)

I wouldn't say meaningless... just incomplete.

Ignore him.

He's got a tinfoil hat on and won't be persuaded..

> Because I'm not relying on what one person or one company told me, my facts have been diligently and discretely cross-checked.

"Discretely cross-checked" already tells me he chooses to live in his own reality.

I presume that's what deletes the cache... but I see this from the article:

> Microsoft is preparing a patch to solve the problem, which should be rolled out as part of an upcoming update. Until then, you should leave the Windows Update cache untouched. It really isn’t worth the hassle of reinstalling Windows just to clear those files.

No deeper point other than the person who funded it thought these fields should be awarded and encouraged (econ is the exception).

I was scratching my head but then it seems like the precedence for awarding Nobel prize for Physics for something that isn't "exclusively" physics has been set before.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/

Peter Shor also got an award (albeit non Nobel) for something that overlaps Physics with Math + CS.

https://news.mit.edu/2022/shor-spielman-breakthrough-prize-0...

To me, I'd rather see a Nobel Prize in Math/CS/IS but if I had to choose where these type of work would be shoehorned into existing Nobel prize category physics would be it.

For me it wasn't so much about libertarian claims but about Cato's style of writing. Their written discourse is so lazy and highly disingenuous to the point it becomes offensive.

There are parts where I think libertarianism makes sense but financial control isn't one of them.

> in 2024 there is basically agreement that government needs to fix things and government should have more control.

Agreed. I think there needs to be a better control of who controls the government though.

> While most countries have strong protections against insider trading, historical evidence suggests that efficient economies do not need such regulations

What historical evidence are they looking at?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecora_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_H._Wiggin

On a tangent, I really loath Cato's hand-wavy libertarian claims pieced together with weak arguments in their writing pieces.

> I fear it's going to fall far short of the mark because I think it's a combination of ingredients, supply chain, and employee processes and practices

Same here as well.

Part of the charm of konbinis (and Japan to an extent) is the friendly atmosphere. Foods are fresh (delivered daily and inventory churn is consumer friendly) and people working at these places (despite being not high-paying) have higher level of care of how customers are treated. 7-11 here by comparison are... definitely not that.

I hope so!

I worked at Pivotal (2017-2018) and I'll say pairing culture is not for everyone but it was a great experience for me. Much of the experience is dependent on finding someone that is at your "wavelength". It provided good work structure and reduced knowledge silo'ing.

I had good experience with it, fwiw.

Ditto. AMD also reliably delivered on CPUs for the past 2 iterations of both Xbox and PS. AMD feels like the only choice for consoles at this point.

Hah! That jibes with my experience. I've applied for few startups in Seattle back in 2018 and every interview was prefaced with - "our engineering team is made up for ex M$ and/or AMZN".