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Sorry, I had it set to Canadian loonies and got inflated numbers. Economists assume utility of money is logarithmically proportional to the amount, so losing a certain % of one's wealth hurts the…

Have studies been run on spinach consumption and cancer?

The CI tests could take hours because of compilation time + waiting for hardware. Trivial rebases without conflicts got exempt from additional testing, because by the time the test finished, someone e…

He would've had 5 million more dollars this year if he didn't ask the board to change the terms of his contract to give him less money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opp…

A Senior SDE at Microsoft makes ~~$332k/year~~ US$241k/year. Median income per person in the USA is $42,800/year. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/microsoft/sa…

If you got "needs improvement" on your performance review and missed your target bonus, but the company's stock went up 30% meaning your total compensation still increased, what would y…

For reference, he cut his total comp for 2024 from $84.6 million to $79.1 million. That's 6.5% of his TC he gave up, and it wasn't a discretionary bonus. I wouldn't call this a symbolic…

We have no standardized tests in Ontario. You just pay for expensive sports, extracurricular competitions, or private schools that provide the two. Realistically, it's much easier for a person of…

I didn't have to use git bisect. I looked at commit history directly and guessed what caused the regression. As we all test different parts of the microprocessor and the tagging system reflected …

I was on a team where we wrote software tests for computer hardware. Regressions were frequent. The underlying hardware wasn't very reliable because it was all very early-stage and hadn't be…

Nope. This is basically what Waterloo math competitions are, though. Except only Waterloo can see the results.

The term "co-pilot" implies a company has to hire a software engineer to guide the AI. The term "agent" implies you can give the AI full access to your repos and fire the software …

I'm convinced good students don't need good universities as much as good universities need good students. I get the same internships and job opportunities as someone that went to UofT and I&…

In 2024 you are not getting into Waterloo CS with anything less than a 99% in your top6. And that's the entry level. If you really want to get in, you have to grind math competitions, clubs, etc.…

What happens when the buyer says "no, I'm not paying" and sells the phone? Instant money. Meanwhile the telecom company has to sell the debt at a massive discount to a collections agenc…

I imagine it's more complicated than "spray insecticides everywhere" otherwise it'd be easy. Here's the WHO white paper on it: https://www.who.int/publications…

Extremely disciplined students always feed papers into AI detectors before submitting and then revise their work until it passes. Dodging the detector is done regardless of whether or not one has used…

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07856-5 LLMs already discriminates against African-American English. You could argue a human grader would as well, but all tested model…

Do you have any citations? I would like to read them.

And? How does that make Elon Musk a con artist? It's possible to physically get in a Tesla and have it drive you from point A to point B. That's a self-driving car. You're saying it…

Even if it's double taxed, the salary differential would make it worth it.

Is it possible, as a Canadian with an engineering degree, to work 3 days in-office from the USA and 2 days remotely from Canada? Ideally, it'd be nice to have a US salary and live mostly in Canad…

Cringe emo girls are trendy now because the nostalgia cycle is hitting the early 2000s. Your kid would be impressed if you told them you were a goth gf. It's not hard to imagine the same will hap…

At the time, there were no people of very high ranks. I also queued office only which didn't help. It's basically impossible to keep one's rank at Supreme if you only play against Gold …

I regularly played CSGO in Europe because the North American ranking system were screwed up. I got to Supreme (2nd highest rank) with 150 ms ping. The people I queued with hit Global. It's possib…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

That takes time which is why AMD is making acquisitions and hiring like crazy.

You can't ask for money in exchange for not revealing a bug. That's blackmail which is illegal and ethically dubious. White hat hackers do not require companies to pay them in exchange for n…

it already belongs to the Wikipedia community, but it's licensed under a copyleft licence. Ditto for Wikia. Anyone can fork it if they give proper attribution.