beckingz

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by beckingz 4y ago
Gotta appreciate the cars behind that just keep running into the mess.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The thing about common sense is that sense isn't common. Also, more accurately, the environmental information used for our common sense naming changes out from under us.
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by beckingz 4y ago
"People & Culture" is the new hot term.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Gets into fun tradeoff questions of "Would you live an extra 20 years but have diarrhea every day"
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by beckingz 4y ago
These are unfortunately limited to a tiny subset of SQL.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I want to learn how to speak conversational Spanish!
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by beckingz 4y ago
What are your plans for 2030? Seems like you've been thinking about this for several years now!
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by beckingz 4y ago
just make a function at that point??
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by beckingz 4y ago
your hypothetical model of reality. But that's a lot of work so businesses don't want to pay for it.
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by beckingz 4y ago
With some effort they're close to ChatGPT in terms of quality. More of one off input output as opposed to a conversation though.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Most people don't read open source and instead trust that the experts will catch any issues....
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by beckingz 4y ago
This was true when written, and then reality inverted itself in 2015/2016 when internet culture became mainstream culture.
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by beckingz 4y ago
That's pretty good advice. Get stuff done and be likable is good.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Correct. The idea is to have a role that sits right between data engineering and data analysis, ideally with a breadth that overlaps both.
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by beckingz 4y ago
What type of Data Engineer do you want to be? We're starting to see an unbundling of data engineering into analytics Engineering (BI developer on steroids), ML engineering (AutoML is good enough that if you can do good feature engineer
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by beckingz 4y ago
The amount of people management and organizational change needed to do data warehousing in an organization is amazing. Good luck when you get to the point where time is better spent on process change.
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by beckingz 4y ago
I've disabled iOS autocorrect/autocomplete because it's gotten so bad.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Cool research and an interesting article! I didn't see how the hn title fits though, as your article is on how to identify debris in re-entry phenomenon (super super cool that our doppler radar networks are catching debris re-entry eve
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by beckingz 4y ago
Based on the public posts I've seen about enterprise prices, for many teams this will mean a 600%+ per seat increase if they have more than 8 developers. Which makes sense because dbtLabs has a bunch of venture funding and is trying to
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by beckingz 4y ago
How is Loom better than Quicktime? They seem fairly comparable in my experience using both.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The classic billionaire tax move. Donate money to your own foundation to work on things you want while getting a big tax break.
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by beckingz 4y ago
+1 for Soft Skills Engineering. The hosts are both knowledgable and humorous.
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by beckingz 4y ago
3 times per day: look at work inbox, read any emails that look important, create followup items in your todo list, mark all as read once none of the subject lines spark joy.
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by beckingz 4y ago
So the classic sports model? Step 1. Be good at a sport and become famous Step 2. Convert Fame into money by endorsing products.
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by beckingz 4y ago
It's the same price as taxis nowadays.
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by beckingz 4y ago
The police have ways (lead pipes and detention) of making you unlock your phone.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Some people are already capable of rapidly gaining domain knowledge from openly available sources. Reading the top 10 books in a field, watching a 100 hours of recorded conference talks from expert practitioners, and reading about a thousan
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by beckingz 4y ago
The issue is that they create more boring work. Some of the newly created work is valuable for the goals of the administration, in most cases the boring work provides marginal benefit to anyone.
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by beckingz 4y ago
Community Solar is becoming fairly common!
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by beckingz 4y ago
This is the fun part of physics where you go so far into the math that you lose connection with reality. (or rarely find something interesting that actually matters, but the odds are bad by cosmological standards).

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