the realistic best you can do for a quality outsourced engineer is $80k. Good ones go for $100k, and you can easily, easily get junior devs for that price. You can even get decent U.S. engineers for $125k outside of HCOL places.
Well sure, but in Russia’s case, the average income is incredibly low and their wealth disparity is even more extreme than in the USA. I don’t know how any of that relates to the war point
OOP and Dry are compatible! I’ve actually done the thing that the above commenter suggests - create a base object with created on/by so that I never have to think about it. Whether or not you actually care about that, if you implement a descended of that object you’re going to get some stuff for free, and you’re gonna like it!
Nobody, ever, is claiming no abstractions are useful or worthwhile. The issue is DRY implies that you should always look for an abstraction to avoid repeating yourself. Trust me, that way lies madness. It should be “sometimes repeat yourself, based on enough context, consideration and experience”. But that’s not as snappy.
I think the beauty of the mid-internet era was the aggressive personalization of it: the connections I made galvanized careers and friendships, celebrities seemed closer and more human, ideas seemed worthy of debate in your small corner of the world. As these became KPIs for companies, they drifted into the realm of the inhuman - the algorithm ultimately decides who meets who, what gets brought up, who gets listened to.
I will say that I find discord to be a breath of fresh air, but I haven’t really found a true community there, more like disparate groups of people who share common interests but rarely first names. The internet today is either terrifyingly closely related to your first and last name or a hall of mirrors hidden behind myriad layers of post-irony. The veil has been shattered: either you sign up for “real” talk with people you will never know or settle for a blanched façade of communication with real-world acquaintances who refuse to really show themselves for fear of what that might mean.
> you sign up for “real” talk with people you will never know
This only works very rarely, and I don’t think that it can work today anywhere. When my favourite subreddit had 5000 subscribers in 2014-2015, it worked. There were meaningful conversations, because every active people knew everybody else, and nobody was asshole with each other. Nowadays, I can’t find such communities, and of course the same subreddit now with 400000 subscribers is a terrible place. Even smaller ones behave like these larger ones now. People who want to achieve something, or simple assholes find these places too quickly, if it’s open in any way. I’ve also met people who behaved in real life like during a stupid political argument on an anonymous forum. That slowly becomes the norm for too many. Btw, game theory indicates that this should happen when most of your communication is with strangers.
Also politics, and state of the society in my original country definitely made people in Hungary more asshole. The society, how people behaved there 20 years ago, basically collapsed there to a depressive and anxious state (“conservatives”/alt-right/“classical liberalists” hurray!). This can be applied to most of the countries, but if you are lucky, just not that extreme way. That also doesn’t help to find any kind of community where there are no toxic people.
The online-ification of conversation is so gross. Whenever I hear someone bring up a weird niche online thing (mostly incel/femcel/rightoid/tankie shit) I get so embarrassed for both of us: mostly on me for knowing what a “pickme” or the weird dogwhistles I find out about from a Very Online lifestyle. I agree that the ability to have any good convo forum online is always screwed up by people being mean or basic so fast that it’s barely worth engaging meaningfully with people. Sad state of affairs!
We’re pretty close. I’m not sure that 51% of the people I work with understand what DNS is, what a call stack is, what the difference between inheritance and polymorphism is, or what a mutex is
I’d like to believe the common line that chat GPT is “just a tool” and that it can actually be used to learn/comply just as much as a university degree can be obtained by mere compliance or demonstration of learning (or merely giving the appearance of such).
My experience with Chat GPT ranges from “it’s really good for rapidly getting a bearing with a certain topic” to “it’s a woeful substitute for independently developing a nuanced understanding of a given topic.” It tends to do an OK with programming and a very poor job with critical theory.
> a university degree can be obtained by mere compliance or demonstration of learning
Exactly. It “only” shows you can & willing to at least understand the requirements, internalize them well enough, and comply with them. It shows your capability of understanding & working together with other humans.
Which is key.
In my impression, almost always the knowledge you receive at the uni is not really pertinent to any actual job, and anyone can have PhD level understanding of a subject without having finished high school.
It is the capability of understanding and working in a system that matters.
Similarly with a chatbot. Using it to game interviews in ways described does not mean candidate is stupid, or something like that. It is, though, a negative signal of one’s willingness and intrinsic motivation to do things like internalizing job responsibilities & procedures, or just simply behave in good faith.
Mental capacity to do mundane things is often important when it comes to, say, maintaining a nuclear reactor.
> just a tool
> it’s really good for rapidly getting a bearing with a certain topic
Perhaps. Personally I prefer using Google, so that I at least know who wrote what and why rather than completely outsourcing this to an anonymous team of data engineers at ClosedAI or whatnot, but if it is efficient to get some knowledge then why not?
It’s using it to blatantly cheat and do the key part for you where it becomes questionable.
ChatGPT like all transformers (language models) depends on how well you prime the model as it can only predict the next series of tokens over a finite probability space (the dimensions it was trained on) , it is up to you as the prompt creator to prime that model so it can be used as a foundation for further reasoning.
Normally people who get bad results from it would also get similar results if they asked a domain expert. Similarly different knowledge domains use a different corpus of text for their core axioms/premises, so if you don't know the domain area or those keywords your not going to be able to prime the model to get anything meaningful from it.
Sure, but if you need that thing to run every hour for a few seconds, then seconds aren’t really the limiting factor. I don’t doubt that the resource management side of k8s would make it dicey at a certain volume of these things running, though, especially if they eat a lot of compute.
This is my take as well, just because you can get away with something doesn’t necessarily make it desirable to maintain or extend, and I honestly cannot imagine the effort in terms of labor hours that you’d have to go through to develop something like this compared to just plugging in an off-the-shelf scheduler to something slightly more sophisticated like k8s or even just a worker-and-queue system. When you’re talking about platform engineering to solve a problem that a relatively extensible Celery service could do (and have tests and such), I have no idea how the former could be “less work” or cheaper in the long haul.
The battery is external, i.e. already next to you anyway, so plugging in power is rather simple. You could also have multiple batteries with you, though I don't know the price of an additional battery.
It's $200 for an extra battery, all of the accessories have a steep early adopter tax. Besides, has anyone confirmed whether or not the AVP has an internal backup battery so you can hotswap the external battery without rebooting it?
In that case if you want to use it for many hours without access to wall power you're better off buying a generic USB power bank and plugging that into the Apple battery. Very elegant.
That'd be fitting. Maybe the charging port is inside of it right between your eyes so you have to charge it like their old mouse you had to flip over dead.
> charge it like their old mouse you had to flip over dead
That's not "their old mouse", it's the current mouse. We're still on the 2015 design with the charging port at the bottom. (I have one and I don't mind/care, I just chuckle once a month when I remember to charge it)
Oh wow I didn't know they even still sold that. If you're still on an actual 2015 that's an impressive mouse life. I've got a 2-3 year old Logitech MX3 (I own 4-5 MXs) and this one is starting to act up bad.
A couple watts of heat dissipating into your face and head the entire flight is.... Not optimal. Heat is a rather important issue for VR hardware. You can't really positively ventilate the actual part that goes over your face, or else you dry out your eyes and that's pretty unenjoyable.
The battery is not located near your face, it’s lower on your waste. I’ve never experienced heat up on my quest 2, and I’m using it for mostly sweaty things. I just can’t see Apple making something that gets hotter than a quest.
This is news to me, I've always had low amp USB-A slow chargers in economy. Those old cigarette outlets can deliver 75 watt, but no idea about the amperage.
I am sure USB-C with PD will be available at some point, but it's not a majority of economy today AFAIK
