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by braza 3y ago
> With all that said, I wouldn't put too much trust on the German authorities' ability to correctly assess a terrorist group's ideological positions. Yes. Technically, the left as a political representation via vote is shr
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by braza 3y ago
Small context for those who are not familiar with why Tesla setup the gigafactory in the most hostile place in Germany: Tesla had the idea to place a production plant in Germany to have access to some of the subsidies for electric cars sinc
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For whom was in tech during 90s and now in 2020s, what are the differences between Microsoft back then and Apple now in terms of why the regulators are so "soft" against an actor that is overplaying it's hand for consumers? I
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by braza 3y ago
For those who want to listen to a long-form conversation with the main author of the book that the article review in a more articulated way [1]. [1] - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5dyeoq59cAIlP1FpOcEW2F?si=4...
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by braza 3y ago
2 small pieces of anecdotes 1) I used to work in a very large IT group in Latin America, and I worked with some EngManagers who hired and managed some folks in Argentina. One interesting dynamic was due to the inflation, we used to give to
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by braza 3y ago
tbh, I have worked with AWS for at least 10 years, and recently their field support are quite prone to help avoid those scenarios (e.g. helped to save hundreds of thousands in a single-digit million account). This was one of the main sellin
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by braza 3y ago
To be honest, even the official guide [1] for BG does not have any information about how to make some info about query cost, budget, and service limits mechanisms [2]. I think the HTTP Archive team could set something in that regard. PS: Wh
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Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R(sumsar.net)
20 points by braza 3y ago|6 comments
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by braza 3y ago
I do not buy that cause in Central Europe there’s a lot of tech companies offices closing or exiting, and the whole scene of startups and scale ups are not so dynamic as USA and if you go to pitchbook/Crunchbase you will see tons of “s
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by braza 3y ago
https://archive.is/dzWM6
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> The last point I want to make is I feel like it's been forever since I had a conversation about craftsmanship on the job. It's possible I have just found myself in the wrong places time and time again. I can relate with the O
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by braza 3y ago
From an outside perspective, I see that most of them are proud of the European values and how they permeate their societies since integration with other countries 'till a more friendly aspect from the richer countries (Central Europe)
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> Sure, effective communication could also come across rude in certain situations, but for most people being rude is not an active choice they make but something they feel entitled to. On top of that, the critique that I have with the ar
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by braza 3y ago
> “When everyone has the same mindset, the team becomes an echo chamber. Balance allows the team to find more holistic solutions to problems" I can relate to that as a Latin American working in Europe; in the USA specifically this b
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by braza 3y ago
But in this case, Github had 3 major tailwinds: (1) the popularization of VCS, (2) the network effect due to the number of users and (3) it's more or less the mandatory part of modern software engineering. For the use case that you men
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by braza 3y ago
> have built up a community and ecosystem around their offerings The community it’s great and I am user for a while. My doubt is that if there’s a lot of use cases where companies and/or MLEs/DS will do some “git pull model_v0.
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by braza 3y ago
Maybe it’s a naive question, but here we go: Following HF for a while in the industry, despite all the UI/UX, what’s the business use case to use them instead a “s3” to distribute the models or some kind of torrent for a non-centralise
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by braza 3y ago
Thanks for the words. Maybe it's about the whole experience that I got in the beginning of career that several experienced folks told me "See, learn Python/Ruby 'cause it has more jobs available and pay more". It wa
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by braza 3y ago
> C can teach you useful things, like how memory is a huge array of bytes, but you can also learn that without writing C programs. People say, C teaches you about memory allocation. Yes it does, but you can learn what that means as a con
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by braza 3y ago
Outside AI and LLMs, there are some solid use cases for those Vector Search Databases? Maybe I am not seeing something, but it’s hard to see it gaining traction outside tech companies.
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Startups and the R&D Tax Credit(stratechery.com)
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I see it in another way: in the past aesthetics and the richness in the detail was beloved to connected with the divine and sublime, and in a more contemporary times is related something more experimental. However, in the modern world with
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by braza 3y ago
I used to like documentaries a lot but after Discovey/NatGeo started to do dramatisation in almost all documentaries, most of the substance was exchanged by irrelevant dialogs along the way plus factual inaccuracies are rampant.
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> Tensorflow losing to Torch for researchers was a pretty big blow imo My perception at that time (autumn 2017) was that Tensorflow had the biggest unforced fumble in the modern history in artificial intelligence, not having the vision t
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I do not have a straight answer, but one thing that I saw working is the concept of “Good fences” where folks still act as a team but has clear touch points related with problems and when things goes south everyone knows what to do.
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> Because interfacing via API is expensive. Writing APIs for others to use productively isn't easy and change management also adds a lot of overhead. I agree in principle, but there is a lot of “unseen coordination/communicatio
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by braza 3y ago
I can resonate with the author, giving the context working on Scaleups and Big companies, where the coordination and communication plays a very heavy toil on the actual work. I do not believe in this model of “big collaboration” with folks
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by braza 3y ago
I was in the RUP universe for a period of my career and I would never want to go back on it agile was a refreshing breeze back then. However, the framework needs updates in several important areas: operations, data science, end of the PO fi
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Klaviyo S-1(sec.gov)
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by braza 3y ago
BS is most of the time a slang for Bullshit.

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