It has been quite popular in my circles, but then I have a disproportionate concentration of British-empire immigrants and IT folks in my circles, so... Maybe?
That said, it still seems helpful to know immediately as you're getting the space what the timeframe is for leaving. If the're going to start clearing the street in an hour, I'll probably park elsewhere right off the bat and not wait for an email.
The side of the street is hardly general public-use. In most places it's explicitly for parking. And many (certainly almost all where I am, albeit not in a major city) parking lots don't enforce time limits or ensure you're there for some specific use of the space.
I too recall seeing hysterical news cycles around that time. The reactions to the anthrax scares as mentioned: tons of people at Home Depot buying plastic sheeting and duct tape, etc. And the day of 9/11, I remember multiple people living in other states messaging me about a military target near me being a likely nuke target. Maybe I'm also around anxious people, but it really seemed to me that a certain level of hysterics was pretty widespread around this.
I don't know what the math looks like here, but there is waste heat in this, right? We could lower CO2, but "unlimited cheap energy" at the scale required to make a dent in climate change surely gives off a pretty phenomenal amount of heat. I wonder what the equation looks like for the overall effect on the planet.
Capacity has been flat for the last decade and California has had a reputation for an unreliable power grid as long as I've followed US news. You're dreaming, mate.
Curious where the candidates are being sourced from - my hunch is that whatever source they're coming from is suddenly being exploited by such people for some reason. I've seen a general increase over the last 1-2 years (so, post-COVID) of candidates who exhibit similar behavior, but it hasn't been the majority of the candidates. I've just chalked it up to remote work being more normal and some people actually being able to get away with this for some time: Googling their way into a few months of employment before being found out for good.
Also from my recent experience on RCCL, it was not working all day. I would attempt to refresh a messaging app periodically during the day and have it fail half the time.
You know there's a huge difference between training the original model and transfer learning to apply it to a new use case, right? Saying people are years behind if they think there work is only worth something with 8 A100 pods is pretty ignorant of how most applications get built. Not everyone's trying to design novel model architectures, nor should they.
Isn't a key selling point of the latest, hottest model that's on the front page of Hacker News multiple times right now, the fact that it fits on consumer-grade GPUs? Surely some of the interesting ideas it's spawning right now are people doing transfer learning on GPUs that don't end in "100", don't you think?
Is there much actual whiteboarding going on in tech interviews right now? It's been years since I did anything but remote coding interviews (where you have a fairly realistic editor and REPL environment) and remote behavioral interviews. I liked doing whiteboards where someone would walk us through a former project and architectural decisions, etc. with diagrams. I kinda miss that, actually. But I haven't seen literal whiteboard coding since long before COVID even.
This is more or less what we do on my current team. We write out a doc explaining all the common solutions, and what a good candidate should consider and be able to answer, and have a rubric, and we ensure people don't judge candidates until they've shadowed enough that we should have a pretty consistent scale and have made a reasonable effort at being objective.
The downside is some people have barely scraped by in the interview and turned out to be absolute rockstars and day 1, and some people have aced the process and driven everyone else mad with incompetence. So it could be improved.
And maybe that's just on us not writing the perfect questions yet, but a bigger problem is that once we've used a question enough someone will post it online and suddenly a suspicious number of candidates are able to show up and rattle off all 3 optimal solutions in 15 minutes. Weird! I suspect a standardized test approach to software engineers would get this problem even worse.
You're basically describing HackerRank, and I've worked with some pretty terrible engineers who were very proud of their HackerRank credentials.
Write such a test. Give it to all the engineers whose work you know well, and see if it can accurately predict what they brought to your team. I would be very surprised if you could both spot good talent and dead weights reliably.
Independent of Hollywood, some American cars just might do that. Maybe not in such an impressive manner, but I've been through so many Dodge transmissions and Ford's reputation here is even worse.
It's worth noting that NIST already announced that the likely winner of the contest was CRYSTALS-Kyber and Crystals-DILITHIUM: https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_.... It sounds like it's just waiting for some i's and t's to be dotted and crossed.
Their concern that something that made it through multiple rounds turned out to be so easily broken is very valid, but as of today I wouldn't refer to SIKE as a "contender" anymore.
I've never seen Slack, Spotify, or a DE run in containers, so you must be going very much out of your way for that to be the case. And if you're going that far, why do you care about the distro in the first place?
While I get your point, is there someone better to trust? Not every cryptographer works for the NSA, and I can't think of a way for a protocol to be looked at by as many cryptographers for flaws as the one chosen by NIST to be a standard. Maybe the runner-up that WASN'T chosen by NIST is possibly NOT the one the NSA knows about a flaw in?
I believe you're just describing putting something in the public domain and waiving all copyright (CC talks about this too: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pd...). But be cautious: you're still required to comply with the requirements of any licenses for dependencies you redistribute.
Pretty sure by saying this about a set of numbers that exist and that are distinct from the Real set, you're actually making a point opposite from the one you think you are making.
I wouldn't say your coworkers should be Friends with a capital F, but a certain level of friendship is very helpful. Like it or not, your coworkers are humans and they have emotions. A little socialization helps see people as humans and give them the benefit of the doubt when there's a misunderstanding, overcome other communication hurdles, etc.
Nevertheless, that's a pretty common term when the compute portion of the application is a single tier, but that doesn't mean that the tier can't scale over many stateless compute nodes.