galoisscobi

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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Business leadership being technical cannot be overstated. At my current workplace, we’re not allowed to say the word refactor to management as that freaks them out. My current place also has the most spaghetti code that I’ve ever seen in my
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Hard to take productivity KPI posts seriously when there’s no discussion of Goodhart’s law.
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Interesting, everyone I knew in Santa Cruz pronounced it app-tose when I lived there for a couple of years.
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Not been my experience when I’ve bought apple watches. Product walk through were always optional that store employees were happy to offer, I always skipped them, brought the watch and was on my way.
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   I wish our management understand that. Even getting basic cables and adapters can be a kafkaesque battle that requires endless justification. I never thought that this is what it would be like working at a FAANG. Fwiw, I worked at different
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   That has been Meta’s play for a long time. It’s why I don’t use meta products and encourage others to do the same.
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   I don’t think this is a dark pattern per se. You don’t expect to walk into any restaurant and get free food. With meta products, you pay for content by being tracked. If you refuse to sign in, they refuse to show you content. It’s simple.
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Ah sweet. I’ll check those out. Thanks!
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   by galoisscobi 3y ago

   Is it just me or do most python GUI options have ugly UI and seem to lack polish?
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Don’t be evil, unless I guess it starts hurting the ad money.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Flock safety might be the most ethically questionable Y Combinator start up.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    I actually find neovim to work better than VSCode when dealing with large codebases. Telescope [1] based fuzzy searching makes it easy to find stuff in a codebase and harpoon [2] can then be used to short list some important files and quick
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Nerd writer made an eloquent video that discusses this theme. It’s called “The Real Danger of ChatGPT”: https://youtu.be/AAwbvGywdOc
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    This has been a revelation to me. I have always wanted to test in prod but best practices stopped me. Now is my time.
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    Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (2021)(theverge.com)

    38 points by galoisscobi 3y ago|5 comments
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    > Mark has been an excellent CEO by all measures. So would you agree that Mark has done excellent at building products that are good for society’s mental health and well-being?
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Wondering how long it’ll take for other tech companies to copy this move and pretend that they independently arrived at these conclusions after their meticulous macroeconomic analysis.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    If you enjoyed reading this, I recommend checking out The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. Reading that book has changed my approach towards work and it has become more relaxed and I have learned to tap deeper into my intuition when engineering.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    That’s a good point. I hadn’t considered that before.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    I fully agree with you.
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    I really appreciate that EFF has a convenient way to reach out to reps. If you’re a US citizen and reading this thread, I highly recommend using EFF’s tool to write to your reps. They have a pre written message and it takes 30 seconds to se
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Then what’s stopping very very busy scientists from submitting to open access and “less prestigious” journals? Those journals exist today. I’m not saying the onus is on scientists to fix the entire issue but the progress has to start by com
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    by galoisscobi 3y ago

    Academia is addicted to pedigree and prestige. People in academia could very well create their own publishing and peer review platforms that they all use, cutting out the middle men but there's an obsession with top journals/confe
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    I personally live in the same zip code as my company’s water coolers. That’s where elders (C suite) say best collaboration and creativity (TM) happen and they won’t let me go remote. All my friends are disbursed all over the country located
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    I also came from a TWM (i3) to macOS. It took a while to get to a good solution but I have it down now with yabai and skhd for window management. For launching apps, I wrote something around the launchAppOrFocus API in hammerspoon, assignin
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    Maybe Sam thinks about this at some level. From his New Yorker profile[0]: > "The other most popular scenarios would be A.I. that attacks us and nations fighting with nukes over scarce resources.” The Shypmates looked grave. “I try
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    Yet another reason to not buy car insurance that tracks you. FTFY
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    I was excited to start using Ruff however it has quite a few ruff edges for me to use professionally. Back to pylint for now, but looking forward to adopting it once it's ready. The difference in speed was night and day. Another featur
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    I’m very grateful for the Asahi project, Hector’s leadership and everyone who has contributed to or supported the project. This care for the nitty gritty details, in my view, makes a big difference and is a true service to the world. It is
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    by galoisscobi 4y ago

    I love the idea of notion but could never get myself to use it due to their privacy policy.