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by jochem9 1y ago
This reminds me of a story I read in an Escher biography: Escher would receive letters from mathematicians, saying that his work exactly visualized this or that theory. Escher himself did not understand what they were talking about, as he w
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by jochem9 1y ago
The European court of justice just concluded that Malta's golden visa program is illegal and needs to be stopped as well.
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by jochem9 2y ago
When I started coding I did it in notepad. I thought it was hardcore and cool. I was young and stupid. Then I adopted an IDE and I became much better at writing code. To me AI is just another tool that helps me solve problems with code. An
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by jochem9 2y ago
If I quit I don't get unemployment benefits. Eventually there is some money, but I'll have to first spend my savings and eventually sell my house (it's not enough money to pay the mortgage). This in western Europe. I think in
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by jochem9 2y ago
15 years ago we didn't have so many algorithms. I think Facebook still sorted by recent back then. The pervasiveness of algorithms is a symptom of the change that has happened. It shows how companies started to compete more and more fo
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by jochem9 2y ago
I listen to radio quite a lot. There are commercial-free stations that play whatever they believe is good music. My favourites are: - Concertzender and all its theme channels. The main channel has a lot of classical during the day, but jazz
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by jochem9 2y ago
Not all interviewers are experts. If you are building out your business you will be hiring roles that don't exist yet. Of course that brings different requirements for that first hire, but judging their skill level might prove very har
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by jochem9 2y ago
Same. Python has a certain elegance when writing it, but the lack of static typing, a nightmare for dependency management (recently had to do a change in Python and spend about 80% of my time getting the dev env en dependencies right) and r
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by jochem9 2y ago
This x10. When working with high variety data there are so many things that can go wrong (esp when working with external data sources), so you want a strongly typed compiled and memory safe language. I really believe that as data engineers
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by jochem9 2y ago
Scrum only gives an estimate for the next sprint and maybe the sprint after. In many cases you're talking about 4 weeks horizon at most. I would not be happy if a contractor told me they can only estimate the work on the kitchen, but n
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by jochem9 2y ago
Proper insulation and blasting the AC during solar excess could also be a way to shift the evening demand.
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by jochem9 2y ago
Back when I went to bars with way too loud music I would always plug my ear when someone was shouting in it. Made it much easier to hear what they were saying. I don't think I have any auditory disorders, but you never know.
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by jochem9 2y ago
What is a NCO?
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by jochem9 2y ago
There is no difference. You need to handle that based on the context you're in.
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by jochem9 2y ago
Correct. With the promise it was temporary.
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by jochem9 2y ago
Biggest party in the Netherlands is radical right (PVV). In France they barely got a parliamentary majority against Le Pen, in a country that's not particularly good at coalitions, so doesn't look like it will last. Hungary has be
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by jochem9 2y ago
Fun fact: Apple originally didn't want an app store and wanted to go with web apps. It was only when third party apps installed after jailbreaking got super popular, that Apple opened their own app store (and then made it a huge commer
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by jochem9 2y ago
I know that for some (many?) people the mind-body connection is taboo. They'd rather see the body as a separate machine than recognizing that it's affected by psychological processes. A reason could be that they want to avoid deal
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by jochem9 2y ago
It also claims that SQL is hard to learn, while in my experience it is quite easily picked up by many, including less tech-savy. It is hard to master, but that goes for pretty much any skill.
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by jochem9 2y ago
You eat something that goes for 1250 per liter by the tablespoon?
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by jochem9 2y ago
We're getting way too fat and put a lot of stress on our environment. Cycling helps with both, through exercise and by lowering overall impact (way less impact making the vehicle, no emissions using it, very little parking space needed
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by jochem9 2y ago
Not who you replied to, but I can relate. I'm not great at math, but I've trained myself to do basic calculations in my head. I need to concentrate hard and it goes very slow (I'm also a fast thinker for other stuff). I do th
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by jochem9 3y ago
I have the same and I don't think we're a (small) minority, at least not in the company where I work. Almost everyone on my team comes in 2 or 3 times a week. We have some meetings, great (free) lunch, work together on some things
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by jochem9 3y ago
I recommend watching Peter Santenello's series about the Amish, where he interviews many Amish people, including people who are in the extreme traditional churches. It's on YouTube.
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by jochem9 3y ago
The difference is that raw data can come in many shapes (e.g. impossibly nested jsons) and unexpected quality (changing field names...). I cannot easily work with this in SQL and definitely not write tests to cover the ever increasing compl
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by jochem9 3y ago
Rust bindings for Python: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
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by jochem9 3y ago
MLOps is deploying, monitoring and (re)training ML models. Sits in the DevOps and data engineering space. Prompt engineering is making generative AI do what you want by crafting the right context. I would put it somewhere in the software an
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by jochem9 3y ago
Imo dbt sits in the analysts space. SQL is the language they know and dbt is the best solution to scale that. In that sense it should only be used for last mile data transformations. Not for wrangling raw data into neat tables.
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by jochem9 3y ago
The chances of having an accidental hash collision are really small. I have build data warehouses with md5 as the hashing algorithm to generate keys from natural keys. Did some back of the envelope calculations back then and found that the
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by jochem9 3y ago
Doesn't show any product on my Android Firefox setup. Even get a 404 when navigating to 'all'.

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