Yes, Apple seems to be the only company that actually cares about the quality of their laptop in my experience. And I say that as someone who used to run Linux on my laptops in 2010~18..
> Also I care too deeply about the quality of the software being developed and am very much perfectionist, which usually translates into lots of frustration for both me and the team.
This is at odds with business needs, very usually. So it doesn't surprise me that you feel people don't listen. Very few business are making money trying to pursue perfect software or quality software - if any.
Like security, trying to be perfectionist won't move any business need/project forward as we all have the real world to deal with, constraints on time / budget / scope are part of decision making
Focusing on software engineering IME isn't that great, there's only so many variations of frameworks/programming languages that can keep me interested.
I'm usually more interested in solving business problems, then I work on industries or companies that are doing interesting things. I've worked in the hardware industry, cloud start ups, visual effects, and now AI.
I feel very satisfied pushing those industries forward with technology, basically the technology being a means to an end.
I usually join the company as some senior dev (more recently already joined as snr mgr) and end up in leadership roles - which seems to be at odds w. what you want.
How's that different then "should I let my kid use a calculator" ? I think you should teach them the trade offs. Now.. 10y old might be too young for the internet in general and some concepts that come with it. I don't think I got to a scientific calculator until I was 15
In 2014 I landed on either Heathrow or another London airport I don’t remember coming from Spain after a vacation
I read on a sign “travellers from Europe this way” and I thought ok my flight came from Spain I’m going that way … when I saw I was out of the airport with no immigration whatsoever
In hindsight it obviously meant if you’re European (which I’m not), I was in shock how easy someone could get in the UK !
What you’re describing sounds like it was the customs check. Pre-brexit, if you were arriving from the EU, then there was no customs check since we were all part of the same customs union.
From a customs perspective, flying from one EU country to another EU is treated like a domestic flight.
If I (a British citizen) flew from London to New York, then on to Chicago; I'd expect to go through customs when I arrived at New York, but not when I arrived at Chicago.
I don't know about UK, but my experience is the signs for EU and non-EU point different directions, but either way you just go through a door that leads to the exact same place. I've been told that when they are looking for "something" they will put extra checks at the non-EU door, but if you have a US passport (I presume other countries like Canada) in hand they will send you through the EU door.
No, you were good. You were already inside the Schengen Area so you actually took the correct path, though I can see how the sign seems vague now I read it from your perspective.
I am sorry to hear that. A friend of mine who moved from US to Canada moved after his mother had cancer on her 60s. She was retired by then after having a very successful career (C level on some manufacture company).
It's probably unsaid that she died with a good credit rating as well.
You don't necessarily need to pay back those loans, and most of the time the hospital has to negotiate a feasible repayment plan.
Medical bills have to lowest life-improvement rating of them all. That is to say paying off someones medical bills will have one of the lowest impacts to their lives compared to another financial intervention.
We had felt invulnerable until we weren’t. I’m sorry about your friend’s mom it’s vile and even more infuriating that there’s no clear “villain”. But you reach a point where you focus on what you have. Good doctors, admirable and compassionate nurses , loving and supportive family. The money is toilet paper really – we conceded that a long time ago. Make the most of it while you can but you can’t hold onto too tightly.
Definitely a better high level metric than nvidia-smi, and probably fine if you just want to get a very coarse idea of whether or not your are using the GPUs reasonably at all.
But when you get to the point where you care about a few percentage points of utilisation it's just not reliable enough as many things can impact energy consumption both ways. E.g. had a case were the GPU cluster we were using wasn't being cooled well enough, so you would gradually see power draw getting lower and lower as the GPUs were throttling themselves to not overheat.
You can also find cases were energy consumption is high but MFU/HFU isn't, like memory intensive workloads
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