CapmCrackaWaka

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by CapmCrackaWaka 3y ago
I have been using Kagi with good results too, but some things it completely shits the bed with. I wanted to find the AWS portal, so I searched for "AWS". First result, American Welding Society. Fine. Second is a medium article abo
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Exactly. However, I think a bigger advantage of this business model is that it simply sells more stuff. It’s way easier to look at your monthly take home income and justify $100 per month for 12 months than a 1 time purchase of $1200. Howev
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
It does, since he managed to “evade” authorities for so long. One could imagine that’s much easier to do when corruption is abound.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Not OP but I’ve had a very good experience just buying thick foam toppers for super cheap. Can’t link but you can buy 12’ foam pads straight from the factory in mattress size for a few hundred dollars. It’s essentially like buying a foam ma
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Small sample size but the only time a host complained about how clean I left a place was in Tignes, France. Their complaint? There were crumbs on the floor, _under_ the overhang of the dishwasher. I've probably booked 15 airbnbs in the
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
There are at least a few real posts I recognize from the last several days.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
How long have you been using it? I just started about 4 days ago. I received a MacBook Pro for work and decided to use Orion because I use Kagi, and I haven’t noticed any defects. I’ve primarily been using YouTube, gmail and stack overflow
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
This was a really fun list to read through. I agree with the author that knowing as much as possible about how things work, not just what things do, is extremely useful. However, "Just know stuff" I think is a secondary requiremen
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I think you have this backwards - Apparently, Americans are considered more brutally honest and direct in negotiations than other cultures: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-negotiate-around-the-...
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I can't pretend to know what the original test writers had in mind. However, I actually think this question serves a different purpose than to determine if you had actually considered stealing from an employer. These types of questions
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I don't understand this article. It says at the beginning: ``` In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water w
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
What did you settle on?
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
> Sooner or later that truth will trickle upwards and we will all be back to a commute and cubicles. This very might well be the case for your company. However, globally, there are advantages for the employer, and disadvantages for the e
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
> It's funny that techies, of all people, don't realize online digital content doesn't last forever. We undoubtedly do realize this, but underestimated the degree to which companies would use this to siphon as much money o
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
In my mind, I stay away from subscriptions if there are any physical assets or up-front costs involved. Kagi is a good example of a reasonable subscription model. Up-front costs are where companies can really screw you and take advantage of
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Ugh I tried to get off of Gmail and went to Kolab. That did not work for me at all. The formatting abilities were severely lacking. Maybe I'll try again since I've spent so much energy on this rant at this point.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
You know, for a while this seemed like a non-issue for me. I was naive. I just told myself "a company wouldn't do something like that, that's not how this stuff works". Boy was I wrong. 15 years ago I had nothing but glo
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
This list is incredibly stupid. However, I don’t think this “Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (CIOC) and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group” (using the word
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
> I can absolutely imagine There's the problem, right there. A lot of these affronts are imagined, without actually getting input from people. A perfect example is the use of Latinx, which many Hispanic people have spoken out again
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
This depends entirely on _how_ the code is wrong. I asked chatGPT to write me code in python that would calculate SHAP values when given a sklearn model the other day. It returned code that ran, and even _looked_ like it did the right thing
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Technically your point is true, but I find these types of gotchas in bad faith. A more fair comparison to this statement would be ">90% of injured car passengers were not wearing seat belts". The author was trying to stress the
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Yup, I've started to really appreciate the pay-to-not-be-the-product business model in general. Kagi is great, the easy domain blocking feature alone is worth the $10 per month. The results in general are also good. They do suffer some
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I think that some companies have already caught on. I've seen suspicious recommendation patterns on Reddit before, where one product will be relentlessly mentioned, to the point where a naive searcher would think it's the "cl
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Yes we definitely fall into more traditional "predictive modeling" data science than deep learning / recommendation algo roles.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
> Are your customers not sophisticated? Are they unable (or unwilling) to follow up on defects and outright lies? You would probably be depressed if you knew who our customers were, and how technologically unsophisticated they are.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I've seen this a LOT in my professional group. Many people (who often have PhDs!!) I interview for data science positions seem to know absolutely nothing about the algorithms they use professionally, or how to optimize them, or why the
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Why do so many tech companies seem to be releasing “secret sauce” for free lately? I see a lot of posts lately detailing how inner production systems work at large companies, and while I’m grateful, I’m curious why the higher ups think it’s
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
I like to write personal open source projects to learn a language / learn a statistical concept to its core. To learn Python, I build a missing-value imputation package. This one hit it (to my standards) pretty big. 500k downloads so f
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
If you don't mind me asking - how do you witness these low level memory allocations? Specific program, plugin to vs code?
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by CapmCrackaWaka 4y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this. Where do the women go? Also, link?

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