Yeah, some of the explanation of benefits I've received are insane. Insurance is apparently able to negotiate ~50% bill reductions for multi 10K bills.
I think pregnancy and labor is what's going to finally break the camel's back. Having children is a pretty basic part of being human. And the costs are such that even millionaires are going to feel it. When basically…
I really like it when people become concerned about cognitive complexity. I think it's one of the significantly ignored concepts in our industry and if we ever find a way to address the issue (either with some sort of…
Well, I don't know about that. For example, back when I was at university, my graphics professor mentioned that there were hundreds of algorithms for mapping a texture to a sphere going back hundreds of years because…
Not utilitarian calculus. It's closer to spider-man's Great power comes great responsibility. For example, if I figured out the secret to creating strong AI with respect to writing software such that I could replace the…
Bad things can work out for your own personal good. Or even the good of the whole of society. However, that doesn't make them not bad. I'm glad that your situation worked out for your own personal good. Nice things…
They should be free to live their life. If it turns out that the company doesn't actually have enough money to hire enough people to perform all of the duties that it needs to continue to exist, then that company should…
You are right. It isn't cool. But I assert that the not cool party is the employer who sprung an on call job requirement without any warning. Additionally, if this job duty was actually important, then the employer…
Division of labor is a thing. I'm good at transforming customer interactions into requirements and then transforming requirements into working code. I'm not good with dealing with issues with a deployed product while I…
This isn't quite what I was going to say, but it's close enough. I think parts of an OS can and should be written in something rust like, however the whole thing should probably not be written in rust. My personal…
There is a series of talks by Yuri Gurevich on Channel 9 where he talks about algorithms. While I haven't watched this particular video (yet), I did watch the other series a few times (3 videos IIRC). Anyway, in those…
We as an industry? Look friend. If I lose my job, you aren't going to do anything to augment my lack of income. You're not going to do anything to provide health insurance. And you're not going to do anything to help me…
I wonder which is worse. If they were arguing that way for no reason OR if they were arguing that way because their livelihoods were dependent on it.
Is there a prose explanation or justification for Algorithm Information Theory. I think I first heard of it when I saw your IOCCC entry, but I was never able to get my mind wrapped around what the goal of the whole…
Is this what your meant to write? I've worked on diabetes medical devices for about 8 years, did some research on diabetes to augment my ability to work on said diabetes medical devices, and personally know several…
Hear hear. When building a bridge it's obvious when they're building a test bridge or a real life bridge for people to drive over. "So you want to spend 100 million dollars on a bridge that you're only using for testing…
No, he's saying that if he raises an objection, then his boss will fire him and find someone less competent to do the job. Then after he's fired for standing up for the good of society, society will tell him to starve…
There are no more coral snake antivenom manufacturers anymore because the regulations became more stringent and the company that made the only antivenom that was grandfathered in under the old rules decided it wasn't…
Here's a thought experiment. What if corporations hired a bunch of people whose job it was to be genuinely happy that it was your birthday. Maybe they divide their user group into days such that each day one of these…
Or you could just skip the middle man and hack the target's last pass account. Anything can be exploited if the criteria for exploiting it is somehow breaking into an arbitrarily secured network/facility.
Agree. Who do you get to do the pilot program for this sort of thing? The person who really has a passion for chess and believes that everyone can learn and even excel at it OR the person who's just trying to avoid…
Where I'm at, well meaning authority figures, who tend to be greater than 10 years older than me, like to talk about the benefits of withdrawing from technology for a period of time. A technology "cleanse" if you will.…
With perl's use cases, I would be a bit surprised to see a job specifically for programming in perl. It's a tool that you use to support your other infrastructure. It's not a tool that you generally use to build up that…
I mean I guess that could work ... although I wonder how fast it takes to train a falcon to do that sort of work. I'm just thinking that if the criminal gangs start losing too many drones all it takes is arming them…
Technical: Drones are a neat way to use your technical acumen to affect the real world. Making a python script look for prime numbers is kind of neat, but making a python script cause a robot to fly around and pickup…
Yeah, some of the explanation of benefits I've received are insane. Insurance is apparently able to negotiate ~50% bill reductions for multi 10K bills.
I think pregnancy and labor is what's going to finally break the camel's back. Having children is a pretty basic part of being human. And the costs are such that even millionaires are going to feel it. When basically…
I really like it when people become concerned about cognitive complexity. I think it's one of the significantly ignored concepts in our industry and if we ever find a way to address the issue (either with some sort of…
Well, I don't know about that. For example, back when I was at university, my graphics professor mentioned that there were hundreds of algorithms for mapping a texture to a sphere going back hundreds of years because…
Not utilitarian calculus. It's closer to spider-man's Great power comes great responsibility. For example, if I figured out the secret to creating strong AI with respect to writing software such that I could replace the…
Bad things can work out for your own personal good. Or even the good of the whole of society. However, that doesn't make them not bad. I'm glad that your situation worked out for your own personal good. Nice things…
They should be free to live their life. If it turns out that the company doesn't actually have enough money to hire enough people to perform all of the duties that it needs to continue to exist, then that company should…
You are right. It isn't cool. But I assert that the not cool party is the employer who sprung an on call job requirement without any warning. Additionally, if this job duty was actually important, then the employer…
Division of labor is a thing. I'm good at transforming customer interactions into requirements and then transforming requirements into working code. I'm not good with dealing with issues with a deployed product while I…
This isn't quite what I was going to say, but it's close enough. I think parts of an OS can and should be written in something rust like, however the whole thing should probably not be written in rust. My personal…
There is a series of talks by Yuri Gurevich on Channel 9 where he talks about algorithms. While I haven't watched this particular video (yet), I did watch the other series a few times (3 videos IIRC). Anyway, in those…
We as an industry? Look friend. If I lose my job, you aren't going to do anything to augment my lack of income. You're not going to do anything to provide health insurance. And you're not going to do anything to help me…
I wonder which is worse. If they were arguing that way for no reason OR if they were arguing that way because their livelihoods were dependent on it.
Is there a prose explanation or justification for Algorithm Information Theory. I think I first heard of it when I saw your IOCCC entry, but I was never able to get my mind wrapped around what the goal of the whole…
Is this what your meant to write? I've worked on diabetes medical devices for about 8 years, did some research on diabetes to augment my ability to work on said diabetes medical devices, and personally know several…
Hear hear. When building a bridge it's obvious when they're building a test bridge or a real life bridge for people to drive over. "So you want to spend 100 million dollars on a bridge that you're only using for testing…
No, he's saying that if he raises an objection, then his boss will fire him and find someone less competent to do the job. Then after he's fired for standing up for the good of society, society will tell him to starve…
There are no more coral snake antivenom manufacturers anymore because the regulations became more stringent and the company that made the only antivenom that was grandfathered in under the old rules decided it wasn't…
Here's a thought experiment. What if corporations hired a bunch of people whose job it was to be genuinely happy that it was your birthday. Maybe they divide their user group into days such that each day one of these…
Or you could just skip the middle man and hack the target's last pass account. Anything can be exploited if the criteria for exploiting it is somehow breaking into an arbitrarily secured network/facility.
Agree. Who do you get to do the pilot program for this sort of thing? The person who really has a passion for chess and believes that everyone can learn and even excel at it OR the person who's just trying to avoid…
Where I'm at, well meaning authority figures, who tend to be greater than 10 years older than me, like to talk about the benefits of withdrawing from technology for a period of time. A technology "cleanse" if you will.…
With perl's use cases, I would be a bit surprised to see a job specifically for programming in perl. It's a tool that you use to support your other infrastructure. It's not a tool that you generally use to build up that…
I mean I guess that could work ... although I wonder how fast it takes to train a falcon to do that sort of work. I'm just thinking that if the criminal gangs start losing too many drones all it takes is arming them…
Technical: Drones are a neat way to use your technical acumen to affect the real world. Making a python script look for prime numbers is kind of neat, but making a python script cause a robot to fly around and pickup…