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by cosmie 8y ago
If you're doing anything with text, ftfy[1][2] is an oasis of sanity in a world filled with torment. No data source is safe from the fate of having its encoding butchered as it passes through the cruel fate of dozens of getting tossed
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by cosmie 8y ago
> then delivers silly things like this definition of a "generalist": > No, it's because the thing you're talking about is a "genius" not a "generalist." I think you may be misunderstanding that
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by cosmie 8y ago
> Great to see it indeed - but I don't get why now and not earlier You're seeing results now, but that doesn't mean the actions haven't been going on for a while. When I was at Unilever ~7 years ago, I sat across from
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by cosmie 8y ago
DNSCrypt-Proxy[1] already supports the randomized DNS resolver need[2]. It also supports DNS-over-HTTPS, providing assurance that even your ISP won't be able to snoop on all of your DNS queries. While it doesn't support live compa
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by cosmie 8y ago
Health insurance companies in the US are legally obligated to[1]: 1. Spend 80-85% of premiums on medical spending (with a loophole that "quality improvement" initiatives count). That leaves 15-20% for overhead and profit. 2. Rebat
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by cosmie 8y ago
The TV industry has pretty rich data about you as well. If you have cable and use a cable box, there's a considerable chance that not only are your viewing habits being data mined, advertisers are able to dynamically target specific co
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by cosmie 8y ago
My daughter grew up with Netflix (no commercials) and Hulu (no commercials specifically on kids programming, at least as of a year ago). She went to a sleepover when she was 6 and got incredibly confused when they were watching cable and th
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by cosmie 8y ago
It's not that no fees go to the USPS, but the fees that go to the USPS are pre-negotiated by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which is a multi-national organization within the UN that the USPS is a member of. China is considered a Gro
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by cosmie 8y ago
Chinese shippers in many cases do get cheaper rates than local shippers. The Universal Postal Union sets rates between postal services for different countries, which are called terminal dues. I'm not sure what the terminal dues are for
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by cosmie 8y ago
Application Performance Management/Monitoring. New Relic, AppDynamics, and DynaTrace are a few vendors in this area.
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by cosmie 8y ago
That's a really important thing to note. Consumer protection laws don't generally stretch to business contexts. And that's true in a lot of areas - from banking regulations to federal do not call laws. Many B2B marketing comp
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by cosmie 8y ago
Pretty much. At my last company, I managed a data and analytics team. The vast majority of applicants were over-credentialed individuals trying to break into data science (even though we didn't brand the positions as such). While I app
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by cosmie 8y ago
You're exactly right, and I would put those in the the latter group, not the former. Those individuals know precisely why they're getting their MBA, and don't have the "???" step in their progression. Rather, they i
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by cosmie 8y ago
The reasons are mixed. In some cases, it's a shift in entry requirements. One institution's admissions standards is another institution's market opportunity. Which is partially a regional thing, due to the sickening willingne
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by cosmie 8y ago
During my undergraduate program, I was a Teaching Assistant for a statistics department housed within a business school. The department was going through a re-branding from statistics and operations to "business analytics", and I
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by cosmie 8y ago
Funny enough, a lot of marketing spiels break out AI as "augmented intelligence". And take the position that it's not their fault if people misinterpret their use of AI as artificial intelligence.
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by cosmie 8y ago
Sheets isn't consistently the better option, but it does shine for specific use cases. The three main reasons I'll reach for Sheets is: - Heavy text munging. The builtin regex functions have no equivalent in Excel without dropping
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by cosmie 8y ago
The Sheets Database functions (DGET, DSUM, DAVG, etc) are also really nice, especially after you get familiar with the format for inlining an array of conditions.
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by cosmie 8y ago
One downside to using Redshift's Python UDFs is that they don't parallelize; instead, they process on a single node. So while technically possible, it's only really feasible to use them for purposes like JSON flattening as pa
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by cosmie 8y ago
IPv6 drives me nuts. Not because it's inherently bad, but just because it's unpredictably and inconsistently implemented and supported. I'm on a networking guy by any stretch, but I have enough experience to be competent at m
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by cosmie 8y ago
This study doesn't show a $300B opportunity, it shows a $300B optics issue. What it highlights is that there's roughly a $300B gap between the recognized costs of technical projects and the fully burdened cost of technical project
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by cosmie 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Nashville, TN or Remote I specialize in supporting the technical and operational needs of business teams. Those tasks that tend to stretch beyond the existing team skills but aren't well supported by your tech team. I&#x
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by cosmie 8y ago
I'm struggling with how to market myself. I'd like to take what I do as a full time employee and pivot into doing it as an independent consultant. Yet have been struggling to find enough side income to support making that jump ful
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by cosmie 8y ago
Which session was that? The Kinesis/Lambda one?
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by cosmie 8y ago
One thing to keep in mind when paying individually is that many insurance providers won't count the payments toward your deductible or maximum out of pocket expenses, since it wasn't processed through your insurance. If you'r
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by cosmie 8y ago
Oh that is a fun read! I hadn't seen that before.
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by cosmie 8y ago
Thanks for catching that! Although it was more a typo than a math error (as the 99.9% figure was correct). I'll chalk it up to posting when I should be sleeping (4:30am local time).
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by cosmie 8y ago
Ditto! For anyone who isn't familiar with SQLite's testing procedures, read this[1] fascinating page. The SQLite project has a mind boggling 711 times more test code than SQLite itself has. Put another way, only 0.1% of the projec
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by cosmie 8y ago
I worked there when they went through all that around 2010. It was fascinating watching it play out. They put a hard deadline of when stores needed to upgrade from the decades-old DOS system, and in the case of my store at least, forcibly t
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by cosmie 8y ago
> What PII is usually in them? It really depends. There are a lot of dynamics at play, and depending on the source of the transaction data it may or may not have identity data tied to it, or be in a format that would easily be identifiab

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