hobs

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541.
by hobs 2y ago
When you actually look at what people do instead of what they say, it often shows that that's really the only choice people want.
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by hobs 2y ago
Which would be great, except for that I found the top google result to be more than 70% relevant to my searches in the past, its a clear downgrade of relevancy.
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by hobs 2y ago
And the argument you present in opposition is basically ad hom + appeal to ... folk wisdom?
544.
by hobs 2y ago
Then you're just dating yourself at likely less than <35 years old (or never worked in an office during those years.) Also if you don't know what a Xerox is, then you might not know about PARC and The Mother of All Demos - htt
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by hobs 2y ago
Wow, you reminded me of two experiences at once. I wasn't good at getting educated, but I ended up at a community college to "get my generals" - my first class of the day was computer something or other, and the class was led
546.
by hobs 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 there's a lot of conflicting stories, but mass hallucinations and insanity are not an abnormal thing in history (unfortunately)
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by hobs 2y ago
They are not the only ones, I interview remote engineers all the time for jobs that they are way overqualified for because they are happy and most of the time, they were remote BEFORE the pandemic, its only this ridiculous meme of RTO that
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by hobs 2y ago
My favorite find in the last few months is the youtube channel "esoterica" - here's his video on the origins of yaweh as a storm god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U He recommends books and primary
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by hobs 2y ago
Yeah I was processing a bunch of iceberg catalog data, it was pretty trivial to get to this point on both PUTs and GETs with our data volume, I was doing 400,000 requests/m and of course my testing was writing to one prefix :)
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by hobs 2y ago
I have many friends telling me their job is actively pushing for them to use AI, asking them to be creative about the use of AI, and in some cases pivoting the business to AI products which have no profit margin for the business. I have wor
551.
by hobs 2y ago
Click/traffic data for a top 100 website. We weren't doing a ton, but basic recommendation processing, search improvement, pattern matching in user behavior, etc We normally still would only need to process say, the last 10 days o
552.
by hobs 2y ago
Yes, and the fact that you cannot even conceive of it tells you that you might be a victim of propaganda.
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by hobs 2y ago
It's really the only reason to use Spark in the first place, because you're doing non-local level processing - when I was throwing 100TB at the problem it made more sense than most of the data science tasks I see it used for.
554.
by hobs 2y ago
Anyone defending Alex Jones in this case is either ignorant, a fool, or an absolute garbage human being. I am going to pick ignorant in this case. > “Folks, we got to get private investigators up to Sandy Hook right now. Because I’m tell
555.
by hobs 2y ago
GDP is a pointless metric, if we all get cancer GDP is going to go way up.
556.
by hobs 2y ago
The player in this context has an outsized influence on the game, the people managing the game are using their work, and contributing more to it is effectively influencing the game in a big way. I don't really hate or care about anyone
557.
by hobs 2y ago
It's about as simple as it can get, plain questions - "Do you own a boat or did you buy one this year?" At some point there is irreducible complexity, but most tax questions are of this nature for all normal people - a huge p
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by hobs 2y ago
There's definitely been fixes in the last half decade to make SQL Server a little more boring, but there's plenty of defaults that were simple foot guns. Full recovery mode defaults combined with log growth settings, query paralle
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by hobs 2y ago
In the last decade there's the rise of all the online tax prep software (that isn't run by Intuit) which just ... asks you questions. That's it, that's the hack that solves the problem of all the weird deductions - reduc
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by hobs 2y ago
The most interesting page is always quotas and limits: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aurora-dsql/latest/userguide/CHA... Seeing the No to configurable for some of the settings is the most telling hard limits th
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by hobs 2y ago
Calling someone who has no interest in the problem but helps anyway is definitely a way to make a friend for life. I remember it happening to me once, I bought a house and I called a guy (turned out to be in maine) about a sauna since it ha
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by hobs 2y ago
A lot of these folks are saying positive things about the company, but truthfully having no seniors and having you make technical decisions with 6 months of experience is a red flag, not a nice situation. It's probably not polite to as
563.
by hobs 2y ago
Managing the canonical representation of your name in my system is one of the few things you are responsible for. The number of times I have had people ask me to customize name rendering, capitalize things, trying to build phonetic maps, al
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by hobs 2y ago
There's no such thing as a data structure that fits "all practical purposes" that is correct. There's no wrong thing - this is the best representation we can make given the system of record for the person's name. Th
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by hobs 2y ago
As soon as the market actually incentivizes it, which it almost never does, it will get better. Most of the big companies just throw endless interviews, high pressure firings, and a lot of money at the problem and make the people below them
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by hobs 2y ago
When I was caring more about hardware configuration on databases in big virtual machine hosts not configuring NUMA was an absolute performance killer, more than 50% performance on almost any hardware because as soon as you left the socket t
567.
by hobs 2y ago
No, it allows an exact representation of your name, it doesn't do anything to your life. If you dont like your name, either change it or go complain to your parents. They might tell you that you cultural reference point is more importa
568.
by hobs 2y ago
Absolutely not. There's no way to understand what a source user's reading capability is. There's no way to understand how a person will pronounce their name by simply reading it, this only works for common names.
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by hobs 2y ago
Absolutely not - do not build anything based on "would your CSR be able to pronounce" something - that's an awful bar - most CSRs cant pronounce my name - would I be excluded from your database? Seriously, what are you going
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by hobs 2y ago
Last time it was useful I re-implemented XIRR( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/xirr-function-de1... ) using Excel's approach in pure SQL so it would be able to make the finance bros happy, it was som

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