inadequatespace

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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Doing the lord's work
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
It doesn't on iOS. Safari does _sometimes_, when it feels like it… but even if it were consistent, who (even in the family) wants to use Safari on desktop? Back to square one
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Yeah, I think that’s even the way that they are meant to be used, at least if the guides that I’ve read are to be believed. Nothing occult at play according to the guides. So, ironically, the common culture actually misrepresents them as
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Yep. Unfortunately, the someone in question was paid in money, rather than respect, which puts food on the table for them.
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
The biggest problem I have with it for textbooks is just how slow the fucking thing is to scroll between pages. Which is a key operation for a reference material. I spent $100 on a textbook on kindle, then just pirated the PDF for this reas
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
> gotten a low interest mortgage before quitting Meaning it would have been easier to with a demonstrable income stream? Or just incidentally, due to macro stuff and time raising interest rates over that same period
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Damn, I’ve been there — at least in the situation where the manager concludes that micromanaging will somehow make the managee more effective, rather than in the very best case, hamstring it by bottlenecking on them and in the average case,
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Even that extremely minor step counts as “more work” for the clientele we’re talking about here.
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Companies aren’t purely rational. Middle managers are probably less effective or at least more obviously as such due to remote work. They lobby higher-ups, who they have closer contact with than the ICs by definition, with various propagand
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Helping others is the obvious purpose, at least for me. Easier said than done, though.
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
tldr: he stripped the binaries
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
The reason that path is an exception is that generally-speaking (in VHCOL areas at least), a developer job is as good or superior a job pay-wise to a data science job. Also, since DS is so broad skillset-wise, it's basically a catch-al
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
> many couldn't implement fizzbuzz without a library. case in point: this article teaching them how to do so to pass interviews https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-solve-the-fizzbuzz-pro...
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
> But we don't do a great job on explaining that estimates are probabilistic by nature, there are risks involved Ironically, I've recently been catching flak for "not being confident enough" when I give confidence int
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
Explains why people do stuff like Math PhDs assuming they'll continue to be rewarded by society for this sort of thing before finishing, and then face the grim reality that no one* really cares unless it makes them money. *Except in tr
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
Took me quite some time to find the paper that seemed to describe the ML algo[1]. Pretty disappointingly domain-specific and barebones ("logistic regression"). And indeed, model form was so unimportant that it was relegated to the
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by inadequatespace 5y ago
Looks like, from the CNBC article, that WFH basically worsened the performance of low-level/ middle managers, which feels about right. It also feels that some way of improving this group of people in general is sorely needed -- how doe
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Ah yes, I was just thinking that this could be useful for `aws s3 ls` and similar. (Really I just want `tree` on `s3`. There's `s3-tree` but that uses the entire bucket rather than a prefix)
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
This is the real issue. It's considered less-skilled and therefore by supply/ demand more can do it and it pays less. I think this is probably only because it's harder to assess skill in it, though. It's easy to test for
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
> All-remote work has definitely made a big (negative) impact in the velocity that ideas can be communicated. This, along with the fact that employment half-life is long relatively to COVID (2 years average tenure), convinces me that thi
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Right, STEM-types tend to lampoon religion due to being based on "mere faith" rather than "hard evidence." But anything that is not directly experienced by oneself requires some substantial faith; one cannot possibly r
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Could be a lockup still. There was for palantir.
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Er, PLTR still had a lockup for its direct listing. If this trend continues the “usually” aspect will not hold.
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Don't think it's mentioned, but actually what I hate most about it is that there are plugins that seem to do useful stuff, but they're paid -for plugins that also require the IT department to do something. It's hard
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
Hit the nail on the head with this. It's sort of like a gimmie "problem" that can be weaponized if anyone is in the mood, but mostly just ignored entirely.
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by inadequatespace 6y ago
If ever. Well to be fair, probably the engineers want to on some level, but there is a business mandate to not (and there always has been).