Fiahil

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by Fiahil 4y ago
A Software Engineer. I'm just specialised a bit in DevOps, Data Engineering, and (beware buzzword) MLOps
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by Fiahil 4y ago
XGboost, LGBM, pmdarima, stanpy (for bayesian modelling). Plus a few others. Don't ask me what they do with all of these, I'm just the guy who make sure the forecast keeps being reproducible.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
The cost for evaluating solutions is quite high in energy and time. Plus, we will end up pushing this vendor to all our clients, so it has to be absolutely stainless and work with everyone, and everywhere. Airbyte, looks "okay by the c
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Hi and congrats ! > bidirectional data connectors which aim to solve automated ETL (eg moving data from an API to Snowflake), reverse ETL (we pipe the data straight to your CRM) I need exactly this at work. However, my requirements are :
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by Fiahil 4y ago
>this change must be a direct reflections of clients correctly voting with their wallets. This sentence irks me on so many levels... "Voting with a wallet" doesn't work, doesn't exist and is never taken into account a
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by Fiahil 4y ago
No, making the data available is only the tip of the iceberg. Next in line is how to version your data so you can create consistent "snapshots" at given point in time with no leakages.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Stories like that undermine pushes for government funded healthcare. Maybe in the US, but nobody is going to question it in the UK, France, Germany, and the rest of most European countries.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
No. And to be clear, it depends where the pdf is : if it's inside another app, like adobe scan, you can't unless you share it from the other app and retype your mail. If it's already in "Files", then you are lucky a
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by Fiahil 4y ago
FYI, https://silence.im/ An open-source Signal fork dedicated to SMS encryption
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> so you expect to get things done by throwing files between various different tools all day — then iPadOS is never going to work for you. GP was right, iPadOS is never going to work for anyone having to send a pdf to someone else.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> As a user, as long as each user-story you have has been perfectly addressed by some particular siloed iPadOS app, then iPadOS should work for you. And then I tried sending a pdf by email. Oh well. Can I share it on the corporate FTP ?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
yes, but that's not a JVM-like slowdown. It's fairly well amortised and _clearly_ not a matter of consideration when writing an app or a library. If your issue is "atomics are slowing down my app", then I assume you alre
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> dynamic lifetimes What do you mean ? If you refer to heap allocations, then you can use Box, Arc, Rc. They are not a "garbage collector" nor do they incur performance hits other than a regular heap allocation.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Chinese truffles (Tuber indicum), that is, a close relative of the French black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) [...] even ripe Chinese truffles are not wonderful [...] Although it doesn’t have the same powerful aroma or strong flavor, it
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by Fiahil 4y ago
It is. And, as a matter of fact, the inoculation of oak trees and truffles is a carefully guarded secret of the INRA ( https://www.inrae.fr ). There is no natural occurrences of truffles outside the south of France, Italy and Spai
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by Fiahil 4y ago
In that case, it matters, because these two things are _completely_ different and does not taste the same _at all_.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Beware, it may not be real truffles, but the synthetic counterpart : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dithiapentane
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Spoiler: because we allowed inoculated trees to be exported outside of Spain, Italy and France. Truffles, like any other mushrooms, are pretty much a gift of nature. They are very sensitive to climate change, pesticides and other forms of p
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Americans love good public transportation […] Most US cities have lots of buses So… Apparently not… The USA is probably the worst place in the world for 1) high speed trains 2) buses. And the only place I know where the train _waits_ f
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> In Europe where firing is almost impossible, hiring is a very tedious process. Europe is not a single country, anyway, here's what happen in France: Firing is tedious, but not impossible. Hiring people is easy, but you enter into
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Vote with your wallet. Just so you know (and stop using that phrase), there is no way scientifically or otherwise, to attribute the effect of non-sales to a feature, a service or anything else. Your opinion on the matter just never sho
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by Fiahil 4y ago
This is just completely delusional
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Yes. Finding out how to attribute a sale to specific features or marketing is definitively possible and common usage. Finding out why customers churn and what levers could prevent that is also a very common practice. But finding out why som
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by Fiahil 4y ago
So what ?
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> by voting with money "voting with money" or "voting with your wallet" is a complete non-sense. There is no -absolutely no- way for anyone in the industry to attribute a lost sale to a "missing" feature. I
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by Fiahil 4y ago
He's referring to the pencil v1, which had to be charged via lightning.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Fast-Forward to Autumn 2023 or Spring 2024 : Tim Cook: (40:20) Now let’s talk about iPhone. iPhone has forever changed the world. Every single day people rely on iPhone, from their most demanding tasks to capturing the moments of their live
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by Fiahil 4y ago
It works for me
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> it works for >99% of the world's websites From what I can see, it works with 100% of the world's websites.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Yes, OAuth-proxy, Nginx external auth, ...

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