New comment by spiffy2025 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

spiffy2025 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:13:38 +0000

Travis Long had done something similar in 2022 at Mozilla.

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2022/04/13/this-week-in-glean-...

New comment by spiffy2025 in "Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?"

spiffy2025 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:38:02 +0000

Personally I don't have a PhD, but do have several advanced degrees. From experience, I'd suggest look into deeptech companies that are looking for SWEs. Deep tech companies typically need folks with the ability to pursue scientific enquiry with a SWE / Product mindset.

I work at a company that is hiring folks that have a background in (helio)physicists / quantum (I think we have about 3 nobel prize labs represented right now in a team of 9) with SWE / ML experience (EDIT: and Full Stack Developers), to build products for the aerospace industry. Not exactly earth science, but if Heliophysics / Physics is of interest, my masked email in profile.

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