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by extr 3y ago
Pretty sure it was a joke.
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by extr 3y ago
Sorry, but this did happen very recently (though context is important). A huge account, Dom Lucre, posted CSAM, ostensibly as a "check out how bad this shit is", but pretty fucked up nonetheless. He got the tweets deleted but Elon
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by extr 3y ago
Sure that's like the worst case scenario, but in practice the entire point is that as soon as it becomes difficult to reason about, that's when you start cleaning up the functions and add some obvious OO. You don't leave it a
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by extr 3y ago
Good idea to code in the debugger. Going to try that.
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by extr 3y ago
I usually use VS code and the "interactive" python functionality (not jupyter). I highlight code and execute just that code with a hotkey. Works just as well with any kind of vim-slime like functionality.
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by extr 3y ago
People are getting caught up on the loops thing. All I meant was in my line of work I often end up with many special cases of general processes. Writing a loop prematurely always bites me - I end up writing control flow for handling the one
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by extr 3y ago
As an ML-focused python dev I have never been able to break the habit of REPL-driven development, but I find it works really well for "building code that works" rather than coming up with a tower of abstractions immediately. A typ
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by extr 3y ago
Yeah, I find that the desire to rewrite often comes from the final (working) solution having poor code ergonomics. It's not necessarily that it's wrong, it's that it's awkward or clumsy to understand/use, because my
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by extr 3y ago
Well said. I am currently working my way through an unfamiliar codebase and even as a mid-career developer, I find it intimidating and inconvenient to continually ask for help over slack for "basic questions". People say the answe
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by extr 3y ago
Yeah, it's an oil cart. I've been recommended dry flower vapes before, but for me personally it's just more involved of a process than I'm looking for. The oil cart is zero setup, zero smell, zero cleanup. Hard to beat.
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by extr 3y ago
Lol you got it. Care by Design + Rove are my go-to brands for low THC content carts.
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by extr 3y ago
When I was in my early 20s I would probably say I had a dependence on cannabis. Key for me in transitioning away from that was lower THC % products. It's was as if I wanted to enjoy a single beer after work but the only thing available
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by extr 3y ago
+1 for BetterDisplay. Truly a game changer for using MacOS. Also nice is BetterMouse [1] (unrelated author). It's similar to the OP application in some ways. And it uniquely has a way to flip between spaces on MacOS that has very low d
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by extr 3y ago
Sorry! I didn't mean to imply you had done a bad job publicizing it, I know marketing this kind of stuff is a whole separate job. I'm honestly just surprised the project hasn't gotten more attention organically since it'
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by extr 3y ago
Check out the Rubberduck Extension [1] for VS Code. It's not super well publicized but I've actually found it basically hits a perfect middle ground between copilot and copy/pasting into ChatGPT. You can give it a prompt to e
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by extr 3y ago
IMO personal financial planning is somewhat of a unique task in that understanding the process to arrive at an "output" is a lot more valuable than the output itself. I've noticed that despite so many apps being available, I
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by extr 3y ago
I don't quite understand the nature of the study. I recognize the concept of "noncommitment", it's definitely how my visualization (and more generally, my "confabulatory" capability) operates. But as soon as yo
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by extr 3y ago
Nice article. I've been trying to stress to my coworkers, the bar for AI right now is not "it literally does my entire job for me with zero assistance or additional context". It's just a tool that if you learn to use cor
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by extr 3y ago
There are more interesting studies to be done with this data IMO, which the researchers could have done if they had cared enough to talk to someone in the field. As an example, we rarely saw completely normal "bell curves" with re
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by extr 3y ago
I used to work as an insurance analyst and regularly dealt with customer-reported mileage distributions. It boggles the mind that this data was used for an academic paper when any junior analyst in an insurance context could tell you it&#x2
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by extr 3y ago
I can see that. You get to flex a particular skillset which isn't rewarded elsewhere, so for you, it's a positive. You could think of the "IC track" terminating in this kind of role, which is pretty cool. I do think some
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by extr 3y ago
> Basically if you don't "hop" to management in the first 1-6 years into your career, it quickly becomes too late. Agreed with this, but only for traditional management track. Like if you want to be a CEO of a F500, you ne
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by extr 3y ago
The thing is though, most of the time you really do just need to push JSON to API. Your average non-tech company doesn't need hardcore grizzled IC veteran who can code hard problems and architect. They would rather just hire a good man
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by extr 3y ago
FAANG does pay more, perhaps should I have made the point differently. Perhaps what I meant was: TC for mid-level manager/director at FAANG = TC for high level manager/VP/C-suite in non-FAANG TC for maxx level IC in FAANG = D
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by extr 3y ago
The problem with dedicated IC career paths are that they aren't respected outside of core tech companies. At some point if you want to switch industries you could be looking at a massive pay cut. I noticed this in FAANG. Okay, you get
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by extr 3y ago
For anyone who is confused at the significance here, I looked into the whole "Seed oils = bad" thing the other day and this claim was at the heart of it (no pun intended). Basically the idea that seed oils usually contain higher l
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by extr 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed thoughts. It sounds like you had a uniquely poor experience with your math education which is too bad. Obviously you are plenty smart to handle the concepts themselves and once you had reason to apply them, you immed
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by extr 3y ago
> why Algebra is required to understand basic stats I don't understand how you can say this. Literally every statistical concept is defined via formula, and to manipulate formulas correctly (or even really understand the concept) yo
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by extr 3y ago
I don't think it's that sinister. Time based sorting is a bad day 1 feature since nobody has much of a follow graph yet. Forcing the algorithm is a good way to make sure your feed feels "full" even if you're startin
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by extr 3y ago
Please fix the phone verification system. I created two personal accounts a long time ago with the same phone number, and now I can't create a work account with the same number, even if I delete one of them. Being able to change the em

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