Breza

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by Breza 9mo ago
I think language will shift over time to the point where "Thank you" comes to mean "Go away." That's how the self checkout means it.
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by Breza 9mo ago
I have had a similar experience. I think one big problem is that EA often uses a low discount rate, meaning they treat theoretical people who won't be born for a century with similar value as people who are alive today. In theory that&
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by Breza 9mo ago
I wonder how aggressively this would be enforced. Like, if this website let people place an order a year in advance for a specific price, would the regulators come knocking?
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by Breza 9mo ago
Huge fan here! I read the article when it was new and was enamored with the story. I ordered a small box. The onions were terrific. So I order a large box every year.
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by Breza 10mo ago
Any political ideology could be bolstered with the heavy handed use of surveillance technology. That's why groups like the ACLU and EFF exist. They both vehemently agree that there's no such thing as a good police state. Even if y
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by Breza 10mo ago
I really wonder if we're going to see a reversion to old school project management, with a PMBOK's worth of detailed project documents for every major initiative instead of the modern Agile/Scrum/Kanban approach that see
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by Breza 10mo ago
I agree with you. Subscription revenue has explicitly been part of Tesla's strategy for years. I'm not sure when this statement first appeared in their SEC findings, but this is from their 2021 10-K: "As our vehicles are capa
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by Breza 10mo ago
Here in Washington DC we've set up many different types of traffic cameras. One side effect is a reduction in the number of negative interactions the average person has with the police. There are communities where the cops treat people
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by Breza 10mo ago
This is a weird suggestion, but the American Girl Doll book Samantha Learns a Lesson has the most ELI5 explanation of the pitfalls of the Industrial Revolution I've ever seen. I mean that literally, my five year old loves the book and
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by Breza 10mo ago
R! If you're a data person and you've never used R, give it a shot. It's a lovely language for cleaning and analyzing data, and the core development team keeps making improvements.
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by Breza 11mo ago
Those moderate Trump voters are a big deal, regardless of their numbers. If two out of a hundred Trump voters had gone the other way, we'd have a different president right now.
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by Breza 1y ago
This sounds like the kinds of healthcare claims data that I often analyze for work. Just in case you have a team of seven doctors working on you at the same time while you're in hospice, they keep a column for just about everything.
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by Breza 1y ago
I've found it's easier just to keep things NULL in many cases. Sure, if you have a student database with the column favorite_sport, maybe it makes sense to use the value "Not a sports fan." But think about an email list
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by Breza 1y ago
I agree with you. I also find that adding DISTINCT can sometimes make it easier for my colleagues to understand code, especially when I'm using multiple CTEs and it might be easy to miss a one-to-many join.
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by Breza 1y ago
This assumption got me in trouble as a junior analyst years ago. I was asked to analyze our customer base and wrote something like the below. Management congratulated me on finding thousands more customers than we'd ever had before. SE
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by Breza 1y ago
Why not host in house? If you have an application with stable resource needs, it can often be the cheaper and more stable option. At a certain scale, you can buy the servers, hire a sysadmin, and still spend less money than relying on AWS.
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by Breza 1y ago
I totally agree with you. Where I work, we self-host almost everything. Exceptions are we use a CDN for one area where we want lower latency, and we use BigQuery when we need to parse a few billion datapoints into something usable. It'
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by Breza 1y ago
Not GP, but my company also self-hosts. We rent rackspace in a colo. We used to keep my team's research server in the back closet before we went full-remote.
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by Breza 1y ago
Whoa, did not expect to see a Sony Clie reference today. I had one in college! I loved taking notes with a folding keyboard, listening to music while playing games on the shuttle bus, and taking pictures with my friends. Oh man, memories.
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by Breza 1y ago
> One tool alone doesn't usually solve any problems. I completely agree. The world of developmental economics has had so many great "One tool to fix everything!" ideas, but at the end of the day, they generally don't
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by Breza 1y ago
So in 2025, what self-hosted options does a 15 year old have to manage his finances using Bitcoin? Assume he gets a monthly paycheck of 0.00125 BTC. How would his employer pay him? How much would be eaten up by fees? Back in 2013, I loved t
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by Breza 1y ago
Why not just use cash at that point? Crypto doesn't make it any easier to create your own social institutions. It just adds volatility, complexity, and risk.
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by Breza 1y ago
What are your thoughts on using JAX? I've used TensorFlow and Pytorch and I feel like I'm missing out by not having experience with JAX. But at the same time, I'm not sure what the advantages are.
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by Breza 1y ago
Yeah, and there are areas where it's really hard to tell if something is accurate, like astronomy.
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by Breza 1y ago
To be fair, I got into distance because I wanted to run without pushing myself to the highest heart rate zones, which you naturally do in shorter distances. But with an ultra, I can make a zone 2 run sound impressive. So even an ultra can b
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by Breza 1y ago
Motivation has to come from you, of course, but you might find it once you see your future baby and realize you have a shot at really seeing how he or she turns out as an adult. That was the impetus for me to start taking my health more ser
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by Breza 1y ago
I feel the same way. I remember thinking back in the day that every office would have a cluster of old servers to fire up once a month for a big data task. Instead, you can get massively more power for less than $100 of credits on BigQuery.
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by Breza 1y ago
The progression in difficulty is great, really hooks you then ramps up
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by Breza 1y ago
I learned to type in the nineties and I used two hyphens. I also learned to put two spaces between sentences but dropped that in the oughts.
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by Breza 1y ago
There are a few days a year where it would be a major challenge. I've long wondered if there will be a time when AVs are good enough that it doesn't make sense for humans to make a living driving but not good enough to handle edge

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