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I love how mac and apple is extremely unusable due to small ludacies like this and how people keep trying to make it work...

Break the cycle, stop buying Apple!

Mods, please ban me. I can't stop checking this site but it keeps disappointing me. please just ban me

this blog summarises what's wrong with the world today

The UK is a joke. You are not allowed to even defend yourself with more than your keys.

3 words: risk adjusted returns. Crypto will outperform s&p 500 in any small period of time since the volatility is higher. still funny though

Me too, and also everyone else. A healthy discussion is good and especially if you change jobs you should try to make sure you know where you want to end up money wise. Also, if you feel undercompensated for the work you do you should tell your boss and demand an increase. But the fact that we have now a whole industry consulting on how to optimize for compensation is cringe to me: if it is normal to other people, so be it, but I don't like it. I think the whole "optimization process" is a combination or people skills & politics (win hearts & minds as the article author said). Also what people seem to forget is that this whole negotiation phase is just at the start. If you have a very good job, your compensation will grow over the years with a very high rate, otherwise you are at the mercy of team politics and people relations. I think the FAANGS know this and that's why they pay relatively low(as a % of TC) base salaries and even lower cash bonuses and pay with "promises" i.e equity. So far the party (bull market) has been going on and on so that's how people get the TC growth and that's why people negotiate so hard at the start: I get it. It's just not for me. I also feel cringe about it at the personal level: I often talk to talk to people at those or similar companies and some (not all) are ultra focused on their TC, but then we chat about technical stuff and they don't even know what zero-mq is (not my litmus test for developer ability but it's illustrative: they spend their time on levels fyi more than wanting to improve their job). Long story short, if people are happy to be paid in equity that you only get 1/4 of by definition then it leaves less competition for me in my field, so I should actually be grateful and not cringe. Thanks for making me realise this.

edit: I never even touched on factors like productivity and its main explanation factors: intelligence and hard work. If I have more intelligence, and I work ultra hard, I should be paid more than you. That's why compensation is mega hetoroscedastic: that is why we have bands and why the bands are so wide and there are outliers. What made me also cringe is the people who are clearly not the "cream of cream" negotiate and get to such places: if the "process" did not exist and they were just interviewed technically for 5-6 rounds they would have flopped and the company would save itself some troubles. My 2 cents.

I have a feeling everyone at the FAANGs only cares about money and their TCs and levels and bands and... Just reading about it makes me cringe. We all want a lot of cash, me to, but being obsessed about it to this level makes me think people are forgetting to do their job... Also if you are not in a role where you are directly generating money, your compensation will always be based on politics and people relations. I dont know: just reading about it makes me sad and empty on the inside. If people were less focused on their TC and more on their work, we would live in a better world.

Has pain from using keyboard. Uses apple non-mechanical keyboard...

Try a mechanical keyboard. Gateron or Cherry brown is my choice, silent and very comfortable.

It's obvious no? For double descent: the network with a billion parameters is so large that it learns to simulate a neural network itself which first uses the test data set to train itself and then produces the final overfitted values??

Hi Mike. The fact that you discard my comment based on the measure of "karma" or how "old" my account is just as childish and "talking smack" as what you insinuate I am doing. You believe you are on the side of good moral but you are merely on the side of the self proclaimed strong.