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by extr 2y ago
Spoken like someone who has never had to teach non-programmers from complete scratch. Yes it would be ideal to spend hours setting up the conceptual framework for environment management. But now you’re teaching a “Python conceptual framewor
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by extr 2y ago
This is the exact same dilemma that you face in any other job. Working extremely hard and burning yourself out does nothing except cover up the problem that the function you are providing is under-resourced.
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by extr 2y ago
Not bad, very similar to dplyr syntax. Personally i’m too used to classic SQL though and this would be more readable as CTEs. In particular how would this syntax fair if it was much more complicated with with 4-5 tables and joins?
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by extr 2y ago
I don't know, I can see it both ways. I think it depends on programming context. On one hand you're right that it's annoying and a technically unnecessary gotcha, but for some Python use cases it simplifies the mental model t
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by extr 2y ago
What I do now is I write a comment like this in my IDE: # a regex that selects <something> regex = And then copilot/supermaven auto-completes it. If that doesn't work, I ask GPT-4o/Sonnet. If that doesn&#x2
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by extr 2y ago
Even economically mediated third places are being phased out in some respects. When I was a teen we often hung out at a local McDonalds. Super cheap food, free refills, as long as you didn't cause trouble you could stay for awhile. I w
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by extr 2y ago
Max context of claude is a lot higher than 5 files when you use projects. However, the struggle i’ve found with projects is integrating changes rapidly. You end up reuploading files constantly. Cursor.sh is a pretty good alternate but I fin
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by extr 2y ago
There is a time and place for demographic accuracy. If you are shooting some kind of historical reenactment I can see the argument it enhances immersion (or at very least, doesn't break immersion) to use actors that fit the demographic
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by extr 2y ago
Seems like they would have a lot more to lose as well. A scheme where Red Bull is helping athletes cheat is front page news. It would be catastrophic to their reputation. Much bigger deal than the athlete themselves getting caught.
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by extr 2y ago
I found myself nodding along to some parts of this (hiring practices, company types) but I found the endless complaining about bad engineering practices frustrating to read. Running a company requires making tradeoffs. Everyone always think
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by extr 2y ago
You don’t have to wait that long for this to become an issue. If your parents started having kids at 25, and you start at 25 (late by historical standards but almost early by modern), they’re at least 50, probably even pushing 60 if it’s no
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by extr 2y ago
If you are building a production app that uses python in a containerized way, you may find yourself rebuilding the containers (and reinstalling packages) multiple times per day. For us, this was often the slowest part of rebuilds. UV has dr
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by extr 2y ago
As other commenters have noted, there are different kinds of ML/AI archetypes out there: - "Real AI Scientist/Applied Scientist/Researcher" aka you do actual training/fine tuning of bleeding edge models. Very h
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by extr 2y ago
Interesting talk. I've been looking into this stack recently as a backend/ML developer who wants to start building web apps but doesn't want to dive deep into the NextJS/React ecosystem. So far it's going well, I&#x
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by extr 2y ago
I don't know. I bought into the Python hype and after a few years I've found myself missing R. If you're using the full python ecosystem more power to you...but for straight up data analysis and statistics, R is unbeatable.
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by extr 2y ago
I don’t know. The whole thing feels pretty insular. Who even pays attention to this kind of content that isn’t in the industry? The general public doesn’t care about this. An actually bad example of corporate PR is spinning oil spills or da
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by extr 2y ago
This person acts like they were disseminating propaganda for the reich. I get that doing corporate PR probably feels very cynical in general but coaching founders not to fumble the bag in an interview or writing blog posts about funding rou
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by extr 2y ago
Very cool. When GPT-4 first came out I tried some very naive approaches using JSON representations on the puzzles [0], [1]. GPT-4 did "okay", but in some cases it felt like it was falling for the classic LLM issue of saying all th
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by extr 2y ago
Good IMO. Adobe is a uniquely bad actor here, I can't think of many other services that operate in a similar way.
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by extr 2y ago
Would be interested to know which parts have better solutions as of 2024. But still feels pretty relevant.
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by extr 2y ago
Nothing, my point is that they don't need them. You can physically socialize.
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by extr 2y ago
IMO you're the one coming in with an HN mindset. Python has massive mindshare even among people who have never programmed. It is the numeric computing language du jour. In any given financial company there are definitely already python
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by extr 2y ago
IMO the problem with phones for teens it that they have nothing to use them for except socialization. Adult phone addiction is a problem but phones are also tools for adults. Answering emails, calling the doctor's office, checking your
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by extr 2y ago
Great blog post, loved the straightforward explanations and code.
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by extr 2y ago
I was recently faced with this exact offer at seed stage vs a series B with a similar salary. YMMV but what I found when I ran the numbers is the series B offer had a lottery ticket with a similar risk/reward profile to the seed stage.
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by extr 2y ago
I recently applied to a seed stage YC company that was offering me 1.5% equity for a founding eng role which they felt was generous. So basically I get to do all the work for like 1/50th of what the founder has? Get real lol. I even po
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by extr 2y ago
I do this too, it happens mostly if I went to bed extremely tired or had a drink or two the night before. What works for me is an alarm clock app that forces me to do some moderate math problems before it turns off. I set it to 5 problems o
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by extr 2y ago
It's too new, they're still working on it. But if it's promised features materialize it's hard to imagine it won't gain an audience. And in general I wouldn't bet against Chris Lattner.
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by extr 2y ago
This may just be me because I'm a heavy ChatGPT user as-is, but I've had my fill of chat capabilities. What I really want is the context awareness, which is what they seemingly delivered on without OpenAI's help!
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by extr 2y ago
Pretty sure transcription is done locally on Pixel phones and it's pretty good. Not as good as ChatGPT, but most of the way there. If current iOS is like a 50, Pixel is like a 90 and OpenAI is like 98.

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