Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Readit NewsCapeTheory commented on Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the question) blog.plover.com/misc/just... · Posted by u/camtarn
I attended an Intel "AI day" in London back in about 2018, before they bought Habana and had all of their focus on Nervana (mentioned in the article) and Saffron - which I've basically never heard mention of again since that day. seems a shame; while the AI accelerators have obvious utility, it was Saffron which sounded like it might be a game-changer.
A competing research team in France almost cracked the same problem - but their funding agency said Un Oeuf is Un Oeuf.
The uppity, highly paid technical employee has recreated our SaaS offering on his laptop and it is now effectively free for self-hosting.
VP of Sales has left nine voicemails, would you like to play them now?
"Buncha fuckin' nerds, don't they know I got an MBA from Hahvad?"
I think the underlying problem here is that despite what the stock market would have you believe, sales are down, moral is down, and many industries are experiencing light to moderate headwinds.
RTO is an (desperate) attempt to resuscitate businesses experiencing economic woes.
From the inside, RTO feels more like a way to reclaim leverage from highly paid technical employees who have become too uppity. Summoning us back to the office is about putting us in our place - but in the social hierarchy, not physically.
CapeTheory commented on List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week future4days.com/list-of-2... · Posted by u/timermore
Do these companies close on a week day, like they just don’t open on a Monday. Or do the staff just do 4 out of the 5 days, but the company operates all week and the team need coordinating so they have coverage all week? I’d love to do this at my place, but would want to close the whole business and I don’t think our clients would be happy.
Most of my consulting clients do barely any work on Fridays anyway and so wouldn't mind me reducing to 4 days at all.
CapeTheory commented on "We're building a new static type checker for Python" twitter.com/charliermarsh... · Posted by u/shlomo_z
When it comes time to write Python 4, please just let these guys handle it.
CapeTheory commented on Why Northern England is poor tomforth.co.uk/whynorthen... · Posted by u/paulpauper
In my comparisons with the Netherlands I explore this in detail. The centre of the Netherlands' main urban region is a six metre below sea level swamp that the Dutch never have and never will build on and which is just as much of an obstacle to agglomeration as the Pennines. So I really don't think this matters.
As for the weather, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Denmark are hardly renowned for their fantastic weather and they're all doing much better than North England. Meanwhile Southern Spain, Southern Italy, and Greece are lovely places but not doing well economically. I don't think the weather is a good excuse for Northern underperformance.
The bad weather places you mention have largely uniform bad weather, which is not true of England - the south east is noticeably warmer and drier than the north west.
Weather is of course only a contributing factor, just like the historical influences.
CapeTheory commented on Why Northern England is poor tomforth.co.uk/whynorthen... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Any article which seeks to explore the problems of northern England and doesn't mention the weather is fundamentally incomplete.
I've lived in every part of England, but being in the north west for the last decade has highlighted how much our mental health can be damaged by constant grey skies and rain. A population predisposed to feeling hopeless naturally leads to a less vibrant economy.
CapeTheory commented on Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech spectrum.ieee.org/calm-te... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
With the usual trade-offs between pen and notebook: namely durability and storage, for me. Some can account for all their notebooks going back years. I cannot, which makes me sad to have lost a lot of writing.
I have observed a strange/alarming behaviour when I carry a notebook - because friends and family don't typically have one, they find it intriguing and so will sometimes absentmindedly snoop through what I've written if I leave it unattended. The same thing just doesn't happen with a ReMarkable (and even if it did, you can set a PIN code).