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New comment by stoops in "Level 3 Global Outage"

stoops — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:24:59 +0000

The first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.

New comment by stoops in "Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities"

stoops — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:49:02 +0000

It's your class. You can decide what a grade is worth.

I had many teachers who would give better grades to better people.

Who do you think is "better" or more deserving?

New comment by stoops in "Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)"

stoops — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:56:26 +0000

As an individual, it's not really possible to treat everyone equally.

Do you treat people unequally if you know they are smarter? What if someone else told you they were smart? If they have a high IQ, would that matter to you? Based on which college they graduated from? If they work 16 hours a week? What about 16 hours a day?

Attractiveness is an indicator just like any other [1]. It's just a reality.

[1] https://personal.lse.ac.uk/Kanazawa/pdfs/I2011.pdf

New comment by stoops in "The Art of Not Thinking"

stoops — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:05:25 +0000

TL;DR: Discipline beats motivation

New comment by stoops in "Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies"

stoops — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:41:50 +0000

This hits hard and true.

New comment by stoops in "Trex: A package manager for Deno"

stoops — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:34:00 +0000

Don't make me type shift on the command line. It makes my pinky finger hurt after a long day.

New comment by stoops in "GitHub Codespaces"

stoops — Thu, 07 May 2020 04:47:41 +0000

a one minute change isn't ran or tested, almost by definition.

New comment by stoops in "Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus"

stoops — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:00:46 +0000

Who cares what one person out of 500,000 did one time in 2018?

New comment by stoops in "No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback"

stoops — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:50:53 +0000

I only get an hour together or a bit more if I'm lucky.

In terms of people I've hired, if they can solve and code things in real time on a white board, then they can definitely do even better with more time and research.

Everyone does better with research, trial, and error. That's not unique. What's unique is problem solving on your feet in a foreign environment. I want those people.

New comment by stoops in "Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco"

stoops — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:52:49 +0000

Just curious, have you ever used AWS?

New comment by stoops in "Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]"

stoops — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:43:06 +0000

If you're not doing your own chip design and fab, there's really no one else in town to buy from. AMD, Intel have fallen well short in GPUs. TPUs from Google/Amazon are a more likely threat long-term.

New comment by stoops in "Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming"

stoops — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:44:59 +0000

Not that large

New comment by stoops in "Ending Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins"

stoops — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:59:41 +0000

Why not do it based on their favorite color?

New comment by stoops in "Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet"

stoops — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:58:56 +0000

They gave it to him. They put it on his car.

New comment by stoops in "Why I use R"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:21:58 +0000

How do I apply a function to every element of a data frame where that function takes as input the i,j indices of the element along with its value?

This is a problem I struggled on for weeks in college. Eventually having to hack something together that relied on modifying the underlying data frame.

I've not return to R since as python has always had better libraries and easier to deploy.

New comment by stoops in "Why I use R"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:15:20 +0000

In python, your MRI analysis library could be trivially hooked up with other cloud data pipelines. Companies would require fewer training courses on average.

python is the most popular programming language in the world and getting better.

New comment by stoops in "Why I use R"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:11:16 +0000

They really don't. I've been at such an org as described by OP. I've owned a system of production R/Excel and it was migrated to cloud + python + ETL over 4 years.

The places where Excel are used are fairly appropriate. Way downstream, for simple tasks.

New comment by stoops in "Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:11:07 +0000

Agreed

New comment by stoops in "Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:08:45 +0000

Will 6GHz perform in buildings than 5GHz?

New comment by stoops in "Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz"

stoops — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:06:22 +0000

If you don't mind me asking, how big is your house? What are the interior walls made from?

I live in an apartment and can't get 5Ghz signal in my bathroom which is 20 feet from the router.