dhbradshaw

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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
Huh, I did indeed unsubscribe from a bunch of people because I didn't want those emails. Interesting to have it called out here that it's default behavior that's inconvenient for the author to change.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
Interestingly, within the US people who live on islands like Hawaii and Puerto Rico seem to have longer life spans. This is true even taking race and gender into account.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
If you can afford it, following the intrinsic motivation may be exactly what you need to do. Sometimes I'm in the position where I want or need to do something even though I'm dreading it or am not excited about. A few things have
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
We have a fairly complex app with a front end in Typescript and a back end in Rust backed by Postgres on AWS. My favorite part of the job is coding in Rust and we do a lot of cool things in that backend code. Unfortunately, most often the
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
If you punish me every time I follow a link to your site, I may learn to avoid following links to your site. Medium changed from reader-friendly to reader-hostile over time.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
Try using a test -- can stick anywhere and just run code there (push of a button with analyzer in vscode). Almost like embedding a repl into a module for experimentation.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
I think this is the right approach. There is however a pitfall that this approach seems to lead to unless you actively prevent it. Roughly the process is 1. You hire someone to take care of things manually. 2. As you grow, your devs are w
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
I think a lot of times the problem that people want low code to solve isn't IT being overworked but IT being out of their control. To put it another way, I think the demand for it is often just another manifestation of Conway's La
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
No layoff is fun. But props to the company for the 7-year option extension and removal of the one year cliff.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
This is exciting, but I think I'm most excited about learning to make self-sufficient and self-replicating colonies in space. If we focus on settling planets, then each planet is its own set of problems. But if we focus on learning to
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Why stream your events to B2(nnums.com)
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
B2 offers cheap, durable, worry free storage but it's slow and not appendable. Add a low-latency appendable adapter and you have something interesting.
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by dhbradshaw 4y ago
I think one of the reasons to get bigger and bigger is to save human time. If we get to a place where it's all AI, is there a chance that many smaller machines will become more effective than a few enormous ones?
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
In the main article Slack communication is assumed to be synchronous. I find life to be a little happier when it's assumed to be asynchronous. That means turning off some channel notifications. When I really want effective synchronous
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
Here's kind of a weird hypothesis worth at least considering: Record pricing for used cars suggests that there's a car shortage. Ironically, less cars and less driving could lead to 1. Faster driving because of clearer roads, and
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I think you have to distinguish between being socially humble and being humble about truth. Feynman was humble in that he tried to learn what was true instead of assuming that he already knew. He was always looking to improve his understan
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I'm interested -- would you be willing to develop on this a little?
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
It's easy to criticize and hard to understand. Similarly, it's hard to see the cost of criticizing and it can be hard to judge the benefit of understanding. Because of this, we'll see patterns of ignorant criticism playing ou
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I do the same -- that is what moved me from Matlab to Python and Windows to Linux about 15 years ago. I had no idea at the time what a blessing that move was going to be, but the principle of maximizing future freedom led me in the right d
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I learned this the hard way when trying to create iron nanoparticles. I found a great deal on a fair amount of iron pentacarbonyl while I was working at LANL. It was a few dollars to buy. Later I learned that it would cost thousands of dol
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
One of my favorite quotes is by Amundsen, who led the group that first reached the South pole: "Adventure is just bad planning."
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
If his status came from the trust of one person that might be true. But it comes from ability and from character and from the consequent respect of many people. One bad manager could certainly tank his group (as in https://stev
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I work with a developer who's in his 50s. He chose not only to stay in development but also to stay on the front end where he turns out beautiful and beautifully effective UIs using Angular. He enjoys his job, earns great pay and plen
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I've been playing with the iced examples, particularly the styling example. The code is beautiful and the result is clean and responsive and fast. Love this.
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
I'm not sure the reasons for the shortage matter. If you have a dependency that's causing you major problems, you try to become less dependent on it.
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
As a chip supplier, I'd be feeling a lot of pressure right now. In the short term you can squeeze and the tail can wag the dog for a bit. But longer term this opens the door wide open for new competitors in the market and / or v
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
If you refer yourself, does n=0?
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
It will be interesting to see how the numbers play out. I'm confident they'll have the resources and knowledge necessary to check for interesting effects like Simpson's paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by dhbradshaw 5y ago
It's been said a few times here, but it's important so I'm calling it out on the top level: Don't roll your own auth. But do feel free to use a battle tested auth library / or framework hosted in your own app. Then
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by dhbradshaw 6y ago
One interesting thing here is that this is working against selection bias. That is, if you have had it then you start out susceptible to it. So the cohort studied for this number may differ from that studied for vaccines studies, particular

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