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by koliber 3y ago
That captures the essence perfectly.
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by koliber 3y ago
I have not understood the need of a purpose in life until I found myself in situations where direction evaporated. It is discomforting, surprising, and enlightening. This happened a few times, and I learned something new each time. It'
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by koliber 3y ago
In addition to the 1:1 suggestion that rco8786 wrote ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777488 ), immerse yourself in conversations. Watch recordings of standups, all-hands, sales calls, and whatever you can get your
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by koliber 3y ago
This is the best advice. Interviewing is not like riding a bike. It’s not something you master and then pass all subsequent interviews. Go and interview. Most importantly, don’t get discouraged by rejection and ghosting. One thing you can p
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by koliber 3y ago
You could use this in style, and return this image: https://www.safetysign.com/products/9050/get-off-my-lawn-sig...
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by koliber 3y ago
One idea to consider. Make it easier to implement by changing the query syntax. Instead of a query parameter, which always requires a script to process: example.com/.well-known/avatar?resource=acct:username@example.com Make the re
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by koliber 3y ago
I hated chemistry in high school. It did not make sense. It was hand-wavy and incomplete and lacked foundations. It got to the point where I consciously stopped doing work and learning, and began failing tests. Thankfully, my teacher notice
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by koliber 3y ago
Semantically, Python separates Exceptions and Errors. The mechanism for throwing and catching them is the same. Here's a quick description from somewhere on the interwebs: An error is an issue in a program that prevents the program fro
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by koliber 3y ago
Another option is Exceptions. The function either does what it's supposed to, or freaks out. You can remove the null checks and the software will raise a null pointer exception. In the first example, could raise a NotLoggedInException.
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by koliber 3y ago
On human scale, is this a real problem? Consensus gives us the ability to measure elapsed time with a high probability. It seems kind of analogous how fundamental particles are probability fields. That means that in theory a baseball could
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by koliber 3y ago
What happens to the barrel of fine alcoholic drink after it gets handed to the Constable? This article is missing the most important details.
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by koliber 3y ago
I'm in Poland. When I had fiber installed I asked the provider if they could install an ONT. They balked a bit but eventually relented. They provided their own ONT at no extra cost. Orange is the provider, in case anyone is interested.
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by koliber 3y ago
Re: repeatability, if you presented a bunch of people with bowls of soup and asked them to label them as hot, warm, or lukewarm, you would not get perfect consensus. However, there would be some consensus. The problem is that the word &quot
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by koliber 3y ago
That depends where "medium" falls on the temperature scale. If we say that lukewarm is the medial point, then what you wrote makes sense. However, if we say that lukewarm is warmer than whatever the medial point is, then it makes
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by koliber 3y ago
From the information theory angle, there is no difference. In practice, there is. There is a difference between something-you-have secrets and something-you-know secrets. A UrL is something you have. It can be taken from you if you leave it
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by koliber 3y ago
In general, caches need to be fast. However, the Solid Cache article you linked says: > On Basecamp, compared to our old Redis cache, reads are now about 40% slower. But the cache is 6 times larger, and running on storage that’s 80% chea
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by koliber 3y ago
I like the idea of "defining the edges of suitability." Just because you can use it, does not mean you should. I lean towards fewer tools. Postgres is an awesome swiss army knife. In some cases, using it as a key-value store, a ca
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by koliber 3y ago
The reason I use Redis as a cache is raw speed. I would consider using this Postgres-based solution if the speed was comparable. The article leaves benchmarking up to the reader.
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by koliber 3y ago
The market did get tougher. It's not you. That means that you have to put considerably more effort, or a different kind of effort, to land a job. Think about landing the job as a numbers game. There are a bunch of steps, connected into
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by koliber 3y ago
All of that could happen. What if airbags inflated around the lander? The external shape of the lander-with-inflated-airbags and the internal weight distribution could make it self-righting, while shielding the external fixtures and the hul
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by koliber 3y ago
How many times has a startup shown you the full cap table? Was this at the very early stage, before raising money, or even after funding rounds? The cap table contains names of individuals. Most founders I know were reluctant to share the e
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by koliber 3y ago
This is how I accomplished these things before. It involved simpler independent pieces which would not collapse whenever something went wrong. They were easy to reason about and building and fixing such tooling did not require me to hire an
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by koliber 3y ago
They are unlikely to show the full cap table. Consider asking for the most recent 409a valuation, the total shares outstanding, and the size and liquidation preference of the past rounds. That’s a smaller ask that will give you the most imp
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by koliber 3y ago
With a lunar lander you can play with the weight distribution. You can make it more dense on one side. This, together with a self-righting shape, could increase the chances of settling in the desired orientation.
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by koliber 3y ago
Coming up with a plausible but incorrect theory of how something works is not hallucination. Hallucination is seeing something that is not there. In terms of LLMs, they don’t come up with with any original theories. When they hallucinate, t
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by koliber 3y ago
I hope I did not give an indication that it costs more money doing it the pen-and-paper way. There is no cost involved to the patient. Is not know about the doctor but I presume it’s free issuing a prescription either way.
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by koliber 3y ago
A friend recently returned from a vacation in Saudi Arabia. She said that there were very few tourists for the size of facilities that are there. Her prediction is that Saudi Arabia will not be able to attract mass tourism until they allow
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by koliber 3y ago
I hope the compatibility layer will be self-hosted. Otherwise the compatibility layer could become an even bigger single point of failure.
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by koliber 3y ago
This is true re electronic prescriptions. It’s an awesome system that works like a charm. However, paper prescriptions still exist and can be used in a pinch. I had a doctor write one out for me a few months ago. He did not have access to a
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by koliber 3y ago
It might not remove the possibility of negotiation. If it reduces the likelihood of negotiation, the impact is similar.

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