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by kika 4y ago
I hope I'm not getting downvoted into complete white on white for asking: Is there a good resource to learn myself a little ML for greater good, if I'm a complete math idiot? Something very practical, start with {this} and build a
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by kika 4y ago
If I have to bet whether this understanding exists or not, I'd bet on exists.
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by kika 4y ago
Not just Powell, every Fed kept talking about "we don't want to repeat history". What they meant is 1970-1979, when they were beating down the economy for a decade and when they decided to let the pressure go, inflation went
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by kika 4y ago
The war on wages is being waged (? is that the same word?) by the Fed. Companies just follow.
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by kika 4y ago
I have M1 Max Macbook Pro and two monitors daisy chained. Mbook -> OWC TB4 hub -> BenQ 3220U -> TB to DP => Dell 2718Q -> are TB cables => is DP (Display Port) OWC hub is optional, scheme works without it the same. I use
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by kika 4y ago
huh. at the peak i was making $1M a year. now i’m not worse but im getting much less because have you seen the stock market? that’s the problem with government “regulations”: unintended consequences. and lack of personal responsibility: “ah
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by kika 4y ago
Many jobs have pretty shitty base salaries (see traders above) and huge performance bonuses. These people would be at a disadvantage.
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by kika 4y ago
I do have an access to an invite-only torrent site, but rarely download anything from there (mostly to keep my membership). Once in a while there's a movie that hard to come by online and I have to reach out to them (because of some st
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by kika 4y ago
> The hardest people to understand for me are native speaker with any accent that is not North American. Eleven!!!
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by kika 4y ago
It's like asking you why you risk imminent death going out of the house and driving to work every day. People die on the roads, you know. It's just the risk factor that makes you not to think about it much (and just drive carefull
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by kika 4y ago
In approximate chronological order: Python, Lisp, C++ (ATL and Qt), Erlang, JavaScript, TypeScript, PureScript, Rust.
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by kika 4y ago
joaquincabezas, don't listen to this person. It's a trap. In February I found myself in AirBnB alone with nothing to do, because my wife had to stay back home for an extra week and I waited for her to join me. AirBnB had a decent
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by kika 4y ago
My experience with Java ended circa 2000 and I never wrote a single line in Kotlin. But I read these examples without noticeable issues.
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by kika 4y ago
That "paramilitary training" mostly included training which end of the gun the bullet flies out and that's about it I believe. I've seen quite a few documentaries with/about FARC and the way they hold guns did not i
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by kika 4y ago
SEEKING WORK Contract, C2C Location: East Coast, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but can fly within the US for brief periods Technologies: AWS/Baremetal/Infrastructure as Code/DevOps/CI-CD Résumé/CV: https
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by kika 4y ago
It's older than 2 weeks, I guess https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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by kika 4y ago
I WAS raised as a Christian but "my" Christmas is not today, lol. But Merry Christmas anyway! I raised a little kid and just very recently she was running around my computer with a screwdriver trying to remove a shiny heatsink fro
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by kika 4y ago
Not "nobody" but government. "Congress shall make no law...", oh, shi.., that's different! /s
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by kika 4y ago
It's not a language, because why do you need language for that. But it's called Hasura, written in Haskell. It's a server which translates Postgres into GraphQL.
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by kika 4y ago
How does pattern matching looks like in Python? No, not 3.10 :-) The 99% of Python code that I have to read at a random company is barely 3.7
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by kika 4y ago
And the worst human to tell you that is an SRE
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by kika 4y ago
Do you even Wikipedia? Just going through the list: 1. Notable figure of the French Revolution 2. Duchess 3. Politician, member of the French Convention 4. Officer 5. Aristocrat, lawyer, public official 6. Noblewoman, court official 7. Hair
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by kika 4y ago
We went from Heroku to a self-hosted OpenShift cluster on AWS EC2 for compute and managed AWS services for state (RDS and Elasticache). 1. A few months. The actual changes to the apps were not fundamental, but we discovered a lot of things
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by kika 4y ago
Amazing piece. I always read such types of fiction with some white, but slightly darkening, sense of envy. Especially parts like "We humans are, deep down, lazy and gluttonous creatures. If left to our own devices, we will do nothing b
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by kika 8y ago
I hate you :-) Opened your app and stuck there for a good half an hour, mapping my walking routes around the neighborhood :-) I want my half an hour back!!11
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by kika 8y ago
okay. so people who are citizens of the country <country name> are coerced to pay taxes and can not escape, but people who work for <company name> are not coerced to do their jobs. how so? if you want to make an argument about c
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by kika 8y ago
You are saying that a company(!) can make a conscious(!) choice. That’s... well, a little bit too much.
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by kika 8y ago
Linkedin doesn't put children in cages, to the best of my knowledge. (I just randomly chose one company from the list). This list is random. There are companies which do business with federal government, some of them with ICE and law
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by kika 8y ago
True. This metric is as good (or bad) as any else, a percentage of the company included. You can't predict dilution or stock split (the only startup I joined early enough to have the strike price of 11 cents which went IPO, did a _reve
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by kika 8y ago
The number of shares. One can argue that early startup shares are less diluted and thus comprise a bigger piece of the company, but the risk is disproportional to dilution. When evaluating an offer, you just multiply this number to the proj

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