importantbrian

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by importantbrian 3y ago
Rent prices in Florida were skyrocketing long before interest rates started rising. Our last rent increase before we moved was going to be around 25% back when interest rates were still 0. If anything rent increases -- in South Florida at l
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This is the same person who wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971851 which got a lot of discussion.
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Why Python Is Amazing(josvisser.substack.com)
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Wiki – Phoenix for Cynical Curmudgeons(wiki.alopex.li)
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You just nailed the number one reason I'm always skeptical of these claims. With our current level of technology we have not lost a major airframe in the US since 2001. Yet these beings advanced enough to fly across interstellar space
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Ah, I see what you were saying now. Yeah, I don't have direct experience with those binary formats so I can't say. I'm not an Avro fan either but there are other binary formats like parquet that are easier to work with and at
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Isn't this the point of things like protobuf and thrift? It seems like everyone beyond a certain scale sends data around in some binary format rather than JSON.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Cal State Fullerton literally offers Persian. They have 9 different course offerings for Persian. My grad school alma mater has 5 and it looks like the availability is pretty sketchy. From a quick look at it you'd actually be better of
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I had this same experience. The professor would say just read the book. We would say but we did read it and we are confused. And he would say I don’t understand the issue it’s very clearly stated in the material. In fairness I actually did
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The University of Kansas is an AAU school and has an acceptance rate of 92%. Most R1s are big state schools who admit almost everyone who applies. You do not need to go to an Ivy League schools to get top notch research instruction.
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Your experience is wildly different than mine then. The worst professors I had were the ones teaching out of their own book.
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> The more prestigious schools have more budget to hire better professors Better by what metric? It has not been my experience that instructional quality is in any way correlated with budget or prestige. > Your random college probably
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Yeah, I think part of the problem is that people don't really understand this. I have taken classes at a community college, a directional state school, an R1 and my master's degree is from a highly selective school. My n=1 experie
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I completely obliterated a chalk bucket this way once. Not the kind of mistake you make more than once.
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> but human teachers are not always right, either. It also seems to me that it's gotten a lot better about hallucinating. When I first started using it it would often be wildly wrong, but not it seems like it hallucinates about as m
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I'm not sure this is a great example. A formula 1 car is significantly larger and more complex than any go-kart is is 4-5x as fast. In fact almost any car you can purchase will significantly out perform a go-kart. I don't think ju
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This is why it grates on me when people say things like we shouldn't legislate morality. At it's core every legislative question is a moral question, but we don't actually want to debate the moral issue so we instead frame th
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I'm surprised there haven't been any Georgist responses. I think the biggest reason this happens is that in dense urban areas most of these landlords are really speculating on land value. You'd like to have tenants but most o
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by importantbrian 3y ago
WhatsApp does make money. About $900 million in 2022. It's a small part of Meta's total revenues, but the margins are really good because of how well built and efficient it is.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I also grew up as a nerdy kid long before being nerdy was cool. All the nerdy kids I knew took a lot of pride in being smarter than the cool kids. Being good at math was just an extension of that. I actually didn't know playing down ho
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> I would also have a hard time processing/registering something if I'm not able to derive it analytically from first principles. This really resonates with me. I always had a really hard time with anything where I just had to
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> There are plenty of engineers and doctors on reddit answering nuanced questions that arent talked about in any journals. There are lots of really good subreddits that have expert feedback, but I think the issue is that going through al
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I don't think it's so much about consolidating power as it is that this is the natural choice for companies that primarily monetize through ads. I've always felt that it would be better for these platform companies to instead
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When you say trades are you just talking about industrial robotics and the like? My family owns a construction business and the only tradespeople making anywhere close to $150k own their own business, and even then it's pretty rare to
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Yeah, my in-laws own one of the biggest construction businesses in our area and they don't pull nearly $300k out of the business a year. For most trades it's an extremely tough way to make $70k a year.
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Construction is very cyclical. My wife's family owns a construction business and they knew a lot of guys like this, and then 2008 happened. Most of them lost everything. Wife's family almost did the same. Had to go bankrupt, but m
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I married into a family that owns a construction business, and I don't think the impressions of how much the trades make or how easy it is to start a trade business I see around here are in any way grounded in reality. It's a very
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> the vast majority of the end-users doesn't care or doesn't even know I'm not sure. I've seen several subreddits where they've done polls about going dark and they've overwhelmingly supported going dark. Fo
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> Honestly, when I have an ICU nurse providing procedural sedation for me I essentially just defer to their expertise on the rhythms and if they're worried I activate the mobile response team. That matches with my impression about a
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My wife is a nurse, and they definitely learned how to read ECGs in nursing school, and she later worked in a cardiac ICU where she got additional training. She couldn't read a 12 lead and notice all the things that a cardiologist woul

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