blaird

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by blaird 5y ago
Using your own bike with the Peloton class never appealed to me as you don't get your power numbers, so there is no competing with others in the room. I hear the Wahoo Kikr is great for cyclists: https://www.wahoofitness.com
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by blaird 6y ago
Yep, agreed. If decisions can be made by a human often they'll stick to that, often arguing there is no need for data. In my former space (credit card fraud detection and underwriting), you obviously need a data driven solution. Withou
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by blaird 6y ago
Curious if there is a correlation with companies that failed to capitalize with the ones who relied on consultants versus really reshaping their own people. I worked for a financial services co that saw massive gains from big data/ML&#
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by blaird 7y ago
I had the Rio 600 before the iPod ( https://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/rio600/ ) . It was definitely a joke, 32MB could barely fit a single CD and that was only after degrading the bitrate
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by blaird 7y ago
If you're streaming messages I guess the good comparison would be protobuf + gRPC?
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by blaird 7y ago
I think this will always be the case when looking at the base cost of infrastructure itself (price of a compute/GB of storage in the cloud vs on prem) However, the cost of cloud pays off so dramatically (in my past experience across co
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by blaird 7y ago
Maybe they should be, but they definitely aren't in most places. Maybe some hedge funds ban phones but most banks don't. And having worked in several SCIFs for TS material, phones were banned but there never were scanners.
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by blaird 7y ago
I worked at a security startup where installing Slack/email on our personal phones (BYOD policy) was possible via an MDM (but was optional, we weren't forced). I don't know every detail, but many of our engineers were natural