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jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I see the value in a lot of these, but I also have to say one common thread across almost all tooling is bad interfaces clearly designed by backend/generalist engineers doing their own ad-hoc form of design. Having worked with an org that transitioned from bitbucket -> gitlab I also found the development/issues at Amazon to have some big headscratchers on missing features like crux diffs following some unintuitive ruleset, and countless smaller inconveniences.
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
eh, you can buy a great hardtails for 800-1.2k, even less if buying second hand. the main thing to point out is that at $700 including all the electronic add ons the components will be worse and trail rideability/durability will suffer significantly compared to even a low end mtb at the same price range. I've let friends use my nice bike while I ride my crap "general purpose" bike and it works on easier trails... (probably) safe enough on those trails, but still wouldn't recommend it.
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
adding on some recs that aren't necessarily 'good for the mind' but great from a gaming as art perspective and not designed for addiction - co op: terraria, Deep Rock Galactic, and Magicka various interesting games: Subnautica, Transistor, noita, hyperlight drifter, control
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
The New Yorker has always had high quality investigative journalism (albeit with varying levels of left leaning bias depending on the writer) in my opinion, and seems to be quite doing quite well.
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Why do you associate learning and diving deeply into topics exclusively with research? A phd program will only require you to dive deeply into your topic of research. You can get very far in many fields by reading through relevant texts and sci-hub papers.

In addition, even though their is a dearth of theoretical experience in industry, at FAANGs and similar you will find opportunities to learn a lot in areas such as systems design, networking, and machine learning from senior/principal engineers who are as savvy as professors, albeit with a practical lean.

Even the hands on aspect of a phd can be done on your own time with a little know how and income, see applied science[0] on youtube. Full time engineer who often tinkers and replicates scientific publications in his garage in his free time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience/videos
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
As someone who listens to numerous genres but is also selective with what I listen to, I am confident that spotify simply doesn't cater to my demographic. They are really about scaling to the masses, as is evident by their move into podcasts and constants frontpage ads on new releases, as well as aggressive song caching. From a business perspective, I believe its simply not worth the compute/development effort from their side to have a recommendation engine on par with say Pandora.
jeffe
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
AWS uses an in house tcp-like protocol optimized for distributed computing. Said protocol is implemented on a hardware nic. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=916...
jeffe
·vor 6 Jahren·discuss
Mohammed bin Salman is certainly sad as well.