Patrick Lin
338 posts
Patrick Lin
@plin25
PhD @IllinoisCS → (SWE @ Google | Hobbyist mathematician in https://t.co/fKAWePeaIC ∩ https://t.co/GtV1yZlG3E) Opinions may or may not be mine; likely stolen from elsewhere. he/they
شامل ہوئے Mart 2010
114 فالونگ78 فالوورز
@AdminGreg Looks like their Novell system was... insufficiently novel (つ▀¯▀)つ
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Cryptic clue that also describes my next week: Brief period of work in Austin, Texas (5)
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@GeorgeMayer That being said, Macbook trackpads are pretty great too. Played through a number of FPSes on one of those as well.
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@GeorgeMayer Favorite aspect was the laptop I had in college only had a trackpoint, no trackpad. Stopped a lot of pranksters from messing with my stuff when I left my laptop half-unattended.
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Remember when someone thought this was a good idea for a mouse?
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@Dr_death417 @MichaelVLeVine @pauldauenhauer @gabriel_eades @hoperhenderson @DaphSci The pushback should to be against the insane policy, not against anyone's acknowledgement of the policy. We can both state that "this is how it is" AND admit that it is absolutely insanity that it is this way.
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@plin25 @MichaelVLeVine @pauldauenhauer @gabriel_eades @hoperhenderson @DaphSci This may be the better way to verbalize this. The issue I, and many hold, is that it's well understood this is how it is. That the documentation/paperwork "needs" to be this way.
Either admit that there's severe undercompensation for hours worked or change the document policy.
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@hoperhenderson @MichaelVLeVine @pauldauenhauer @Dr_death417 @gabriel_eades @DaphSci I'm actually really confused about this sentiment in the whole thread. I'm disappointed there's no active condemnation of the state of things, but none of this thread reads to me as him actually defending anything, just stating things as the way they work within the system.
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If you think thats impressive, at the Large Hadron Collider protons (10^24 times smaller than bullets) hit each other at nearly the speed of light (a million times faster than bullets) head on about 40 million times every second 😎
FTBLMEMESHUB@ftblmemeshub
These bullets collided in Gallipoli in 1916. The chances of this happening were one in a billion. Name something more unlikely to happen...
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Uber driver: I was in Champaign-Urbana last week
Us: oh?
Uber driver: yeah, my daughter is in school there
Us: cool!
Uber driver: that place is so boring, just cornfields
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Changing my name to Aaron A. Aaronson so I always get first author
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Executing a layoff at a 150,000 person company in a way that nothing gets leaked to the media, and letting the "right" people go can't really be done together.
At Google, VPs and above made the "fire list". Justin's manager and skip likely had no say.
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Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Out of all the major companies doing large layoffs, it was only Google where the news did not leak ahead of time to the press. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Salesforce: lots of employees all learned about the day cuts could happen from the media, a few days ahead.
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We'll look back at this week as an inflection point when Big Tech lost its former attractiveness. It will be stories like Justin's, and the countless ones to be told, where many realize that, during layoffs, people become numbers, and 8% of those numbers need to be "marked."
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@lucasarruda @GergelyOrosz The choice of people seem uncorrelated with performance
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@aaaronson "Myers-Briggs types are so 2004"
But the proposed replacement is from 2008
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Myers–Briggs types are so 2004. All the cool kids are using Katy–Perry types:
H/C (Hot / Cold)
Y/N (Yes / No)
I/O (In / Out)
U/D (Up / Down)
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@ZachWeiner It's pronounced zhfeg, actually: the P in JPEG stands for Photographer's so it's pronounced as an F, and the G stands for Group so it's a hard g.
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Wait there are people who say "jay-peg" not "zhpedge" for jpeg?
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@caridoesphysics Do you really want to know what reviewer 2 has to say tho
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last christmas i gave you my heart
and i’m still waiting on the referee response
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