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by agent281 3y ago
Assuming that this doesn't devolve into a company town, Google deserves credit for taking on such a large housing project. The housing problems in California (and especially the Bay) require efforts from public and private actors. It&#
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by agent281 3y ago
In some languages it's two or more of the fundamental types. Obviously you haven't been using the big brained languages like Rust, Haskell, or Elixir. (Also a bad joke.)
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by agent281 3y ago
I know that's the financial/cynical case (and probably the more common one). However, I know people who genuinely prefer it because you all get to be in the same room and talk all day. They tend to be really extroverted folks.
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by agent281 3y ago
I feel like open offices are sometimes implemented by oblivious extroverts at the expense of introverts (and real productivity). I remember working with some extroverts who loved war room calls because it made them feel like they were doing
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by agent281 3y ago
Couple points: - Canada is an English and French speaking country. - Most of Canada's population lives next to the Great Lakes region so it is somewhat dense there, but most of the country is empty https://www.reddit.com&#x
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by agent281 3y ago
Definitely varies by community. Elixir had the fastest responses in my experience. Often I would get a response within a day or two. F# and Haskell were quite a bit slower, on the order of multiple weeks.
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by agent281 4y ago
We're using AWS glue (basically pyspark) right now. I used standard python before. I've implemented a function for schema based processing JSON documents for both vanilla python and pyspark that makes the process really easy. It&#
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by agent281 4y ago
Yeah, I stopped using pandas entirely for ETL for this exact reason. If you are trying to maintain the fidelity of the data while cleaning, automatic casting is awful. If the new backend prevents automatic casting, it might be worth reconsi
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by agent281 4y ago
No, I think it's off by one errors.
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by agent281 4y ago
When I say inert I mean that the image is just a bunch of bits. It's read only. It doesn't cause actions in the world like code or self driving cars do. People can have reactions to them. That's why we make them.
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by agent281 4y ago
The big difference between the two is how much damage occurs if the AI screws up. We don't have self driving fleets right now because a multi-ton truck hurtling down the freeway at 65+ mph can do a lot of damage. AI generated artwork i
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by agent281 4y ago
I think it's an open question how much better the LLMs will get. However, we should expect adoption and integration to radically transform their usage. Who knows what the Google Maps of LLMs will be.
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by agent281 4y ago
> Is there some other arrangement? I heard Sam Altman gets to be in the room when the AGI hatches so that it imprints on him. He took that in lieu of equity.
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by agent281 4y ago
I'm mostly curious how far the hockey stick will go up. Eventually most things level off.
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by agent281 4y ago
Yeah, it made me sad because he sort of apologized to the person. Ultimately, Ken doesn't owe anyone anything.
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by agent281 4y ago
Agreed! I have to say I was disappointed by the question at 59:23. They seemed to expect a retrospective on Ken’s career or some grand philosophical statement on software or open source. To be honest, I was pretty surprised by the direction
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by agent281 4y ago
I'm impressed with how well it catches the divide by zero error. I obfuscated it a bit by using subtraction, bitwise and, and using randint from python, but it still catches the error: subtraction: https://whatdoesthiscodedo
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by agent281 4y ago
Yeah, that's it! Makes cobbling together shell scripts way easier. They have some other projects based around terminal UIs too. Take a look at their site it's gorgeous: https://charm.sh/
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by agent281 4y ago
This seems really nice! Makes me want to build my own with Gum filters, TBH.
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by agent281 4y ago
Uh, can I get one of those layoffs?
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by agent281 4y ago
Looking at the DBT semantic layer documentation I think I get it. The goal seems to be describing a metric that could be aggregated at multiple levels once instead of defining all of the aggregations separately. For example, if you want to
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by agent281 4y ago
Sometimes places have high turn over because they ask people to move fast while cutting corners because have high turn over and don't know how long people will be there and so they ask people to move fast while cutting corners because
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by agent281 4y ago
Literally today I said something similar. "Who knows about this data?" "X and Y do, but they're gone. These people know a little bit about it." C'est la vie.
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by agent281 4y ago
Kind of proves my point: what percentage of practitioners are content creators in most fields? How many more people might be doing this out of sight? That said, thanks for pointing the video out. I watched the update video and it's pre
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by agent281 4y ago
At this point I feel like people must also be trying to modify their DNA in secret. I wonder if we'll hear some horror stories in the next few years.
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by agent281 4y ago
I’ve been toying with the idea of using Nix for dev environments at work. What does devenv add on top of Nix? Edit: And if you know, how does it differ from devbox?
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by agent281 4y ago
It's not quite obese people. It's women who weigh 220+ lbs and men who weigh 260+ lbs. Interesting that it's absolute weights. You could be 5'0" man who weighs 230 lbs and qualify. It also seems to exclude anyone wh
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by agent281 4y ago
Cheers! When I was thinking about this originally I thought you could build it as a social network. Rather than curate the internet for yourself, you could work with others to aggregate different curated views. By following only some people
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by agent281 4y ago
TBH, I'm wondering if we need to start using yahoo style curated content directories again. Content aggregators like reddit, hacker news and lobsters already help filter out a lot of noise, but they focus on recent articles. It would b
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by agent281 4y ago
That's awesome! Are you comfortable stating your employer? It's always neat to find out who is working differently and what industries they are in. If not that's totally cool. The internet is a weird place and I'm a tota

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