Fiahil

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by Fiahil 4y ago
Note of high importance : "Faiss" reads and sounds exactly like "Fesse" (butt), in French. I see some French names in the author list. The joke was intended, well done ! :)
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by Fiahil 4y ago
I'm closing on my 50th interview since the start of the year, and 3/4 of them were junior SWE or internship positions. I encountered the same lack of foundational computer science knowledge, but -here 's the twist- mostly fro
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Yes ! However, Conifers are not part of that group, and therefore "less" affected.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Considering the pile of untested and mostly garbage devices and software produced by some companies, this is amazing ! For those who will not bother reading the article : > I think having a CRA is long overdue, but I hope we can get to s
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Docker and kubernetes are here for that
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Let's try that with goats :)
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by Fiahil 4y ago
For once, I'd love to have a nice UI around this so I don't need to search docs and write code for simple stuff like "await ctx.waitFor({ hours: 3 });". That would improve discoverability as well !
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Say you need to fertilize the trees. When is the right time? What is the right amount? How many people do you need to fertilize 8000 trees in time? You experiment. It takes a lot of time, yes, but it’s not that difficult. I find your a
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by Fiahil 4y ago
A few years of training with experienced people is enough to get you in situations where you would be killed by mistake on your own. A decade should be good enough to keep you alive most of the time.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Side-by-side coding with a backend engineer (web or other), is great ! Anything else involving practice is going to work as well :)
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Yes, that’s expected of every scientist I am working with. The reason is quite simple and have little to do with Engineering work being more expensive than Scientific one (it’s actually the opposite): get a nice problem to solve or a great
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Note that BCG also have BCG X (recent fusion of Gamma, Digital Venture and Platinion), a Data Science and Software arm that could be compared with Palantir in size and breath and depth, but are not working with the CIA. So, they also do som
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Ah ! I live within 20km of their factory. I would not have expected this on HN. Their butter is, indeed, very good. I always get one of the first spring butter, when the cows get the fresh grass. Creamy and absolutely delicious !
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by Fiahil 4y ago
that study comes out a lot, but, AFAIK was poorly challenged. It would be nice to get a second opinion on this topic before jumping to conclusions.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Don't forget tests and documentation, which is something copilot is really good at and can really improve a codebase.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
My laser Brother printer let me print until there is no more ink.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
From a French perspective, American cuisine is bland and unimpressive. Clamping down on meat is not enough, you need to also get around cooking everything in oil, and added sugar (basically, everything about your cuisine).
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> JVM is one of the most brilliant pieces of engineering in history. Yet, such a pain in the ass…
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by Fiahil 4y ago
kubernetes
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by Fiahil 4y ago
I'm French and I live in France. Here, most of our truffles are real truffle. We do get some Tuber aestivum as well, but that's alright because they're displayed as "truffe d'été". No harm done. As the article
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> You can get out of the USB-C requirement by having only inductive charging That's a nice loophole there :) Anyway, it's not like USB-C isn't good enough and that they can't change the rules if/when a new connec
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Inductive charging, don't be silly.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
So sad that it's missing so many niche varieties and their translation... Am I to assume it's always the case with American authors?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> I think MLFlow is a good idea (very) badly executed. Oh yes, I'm glad to see other with similar opinion.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Yet, EL makes most of its revenue from North America. Europe-middle-east-africa is close behind : NA : 9,87 B EMEA : 7,95 B AP : 2,54 B LA : 1,13 B
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> grind through tutorials until 3am I'm not sure this is a valuable use of your time. It's not an option a young person will miss as they get older.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
I think the US don't deserve high speed trains. This can be revisited in a few decades when the population becomes less hostile towards rails. (Cf this : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33502387 ) Building a nerwor
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> This is open source, not a company with billions to spend on UX: they do what they can. This is not an excuse, all it takes to have a decent -or even a good UX- is one person asking the right questions and following up by interviewing
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by Fiahil 4y ago
This is it ? This is the GAT release ? Should we celebrate now or wait a bit more ?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Don't forget "keeping the train data from leaking into the test data" and "having a way to reproduce the exact same model I trained last week". Those two are too often forgotten.

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