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I currently have the 11th gen DIY edition. I'm running linux on it and I'm loving it.

When do you plan on making the 12th gen intel main boards + top cover available for purchase?

Will the main board upgrade bring the 11th gen machine to the same exact spec? Or does the new 12th gen have other improvements?

Nukemap 4 years ago

There's a well known paradox in nuclear strategy where counter-force targeting is actually more "humane", but it requires the nation to keep more nukes in service.

On the other hand, a small stockpile will deter your enemy only if you are willing to use your stockpile on your enemy's population centers.

If Israel was an ally

"Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China" [1]

"a 2013 National Intelligence Estimate on cyber threats “ranked Israel the third most aggressive intelligence service against the US” behind only China and Russia" [2]

"Israel among the U.S.’s most threatening cyber-adversaries and as a “hostile” foreign intelligence service." [3]

"Israel’s snooping upset White House because information was used to lobby Congress to try to sink a deal" [4]

[1] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israe...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-nsa-document-highlights-is...

[3] https://theintercept.com/2015/03/25/netanyahus-spying-denial...

[4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-spied-on-iran-talks-1427...

They got $1 billion for the iron dome [1]

Regarding the Israel lobby, it is strong, but it's losing its grip:

25% of American Jews consider Israel to be an apartheid state [2]

Young evangelicals are increasingly turning away from Israel [3]

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-senate-approves...

[2] https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/a-quarter-of-u-s-jews-agree-...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...

The “do smol thing together so we can talk about it” interview penalizes people with performance anxiety.

Does this apply to the Leetcode style interviews?

a collaborative opportunity to see how the interviewee thinks.

In principle, this sounds great. In reality, if the interviewee fails to come up with the correct/optimal solution for the duration of the interview, they are going to be rejected.

OSS projects with hundreds of stars on GitHub

I'm in the same boat, yet most companies don't seem to care about OSS contributions, despite their rhetoric.

They want us to solve a few leetcode medium/hard questions within the span of an interview.

The experience helped me realize that a non-trivial amount of work done in these labs is worthless and probably even harmful. They don't seem to care as much about the science as they care about publications (on the part of the PI) and being published (the PhD students).

Moreover, the lab pushed me out and decided to use my work anyway. Specifically, they requested that anybody that used the software I wrote give them authorship on their papers.

I'm happily employed as a software engineer now.