lars512

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by lars512 5y ago
Sitting in the data science seat, downstream from the application development and trying to gain insights on production data, I completely second this approach. It just gives you more to go on and more ways to validate whether something une
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by lars512 5y ago
I'll bite. Probability comes into play. The vast majority of babies do not in future orchestrate a genocide, but instead live lives worth living, and in turn contribute in some way to shared human progress and wellbeing. So the expecte
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by lars512 6y ago
Less people in dense Manhattan offices will reduce the value of the real estate. Presumably if it's a long term trend then more of it will convert to be residential. This would bring less people by day than full offices, but probably m
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by lars512 6y ago
Here's a full example I wrote in Prolog for doing small scale sysadmin: https://github.com/larsyencken/marelle It mixes logic programming as imperative programming, with more logicky features like facts and rules.
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by lars512 6y ago
Prolog feels like imperative programming, but with a special kind of depth first search through options built-in to the language. Mercury feels like a functional language, but with the same depth-first search built-in. I like some of the se
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by lars512 6y ago
Of course, for any prolog program of significant size, you want nearly all of it to be moded and deterministic anyway, and not leave choice points all over the shop.
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by lars512 6y ago
That’s unfortunately not my experience from observing other engineers. Many get stuck at a “good enough” level with their tools and never seem to learn the shortcuts which would allow them to code and edit faster.
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by lars512 6y ago
I’m all for dual citizenships, but a downside nobody’s talking about is that you have to spend 5-10 years of your life in your new country to get it, not factoring in multi-year waiting times that may exist for processing citizenship. Essen
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by lars512 6y ago
I find their poor recommendations the most obvious issue here. They have so, so much reading data on me, even a massive list of books I'm interested in, but they are still so off.
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by lars512 6y ago
Sometimes it’s hard to be the kind of person we want to be for people we really care about. One way of showing you care is making the effort to remember important things. Another is staying in contact. I’ve used Anki to remember friends kid
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Learning to Code with the ImagiCharm(quietlyamused.org)
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by lars512 6y ago
The cost for a taxi is way less reliable, and harder to dispute. It's a common but unpleasant way to arrive to a new city to realise you've been shafted on the taxi fare.
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by lars512 7y ago
I have to agree wholeheartedly. Learning vim is quite painful, but it keeps paying off for years, even if you choose to use modern editors with vim bindings. The speed of these bindings for navigating and editing code is really unrivalled.
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by lars512 7y ago
I can acknowledge that some settings exist where you might want a strict audit log, where you have pre-agreed the rules and legal requirements, and must stick to them. I don't believe most software development work requires such a stri
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by lars512 7y ago
The moralising about it doesn't make much sense. In other professions, it's not "lying" or "dishonorable" to present your work in the most clear and understandable way to others, it's a basic condition for
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by lars512 7y ago
The 48 Laws of Power also gave me a strange feeling, it was hard for me to express it at the time. It seemed like a manual for operating in a world where you and everyone around you is motivated by increasing their power, a zero-sum world o
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by lars512 7y ago
What a lovely piece of writing, thank you for posting it.
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by lars512 7y ago
It sounds a lot like Carol Dweck's book Mindset, or one of the many articles about having a growth rather than fixed mindset.
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by lars512 7y ago
If there's big negative externalities to advertising, wouldn't you ideally tax it and use the funds for initiatives to improve subjective well-being?
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by lars512 8y ago
The sh module is really excellent, and it lets you take the best parts of bash (the external commands, pipes) and ditch the bad parts (string handling, general programming). I think it’s what you’re looking for. https://amoffat.g
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by lars512 8y ago
I've been enjoying Chartify quite a lot. It works well with data frames and generates gorgeous plots by default.
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by lars512 8y ago
The magic here is that some foods which we would expect to spike blood glucose don't for some people, whereas others that we would expect to keep blood glucose stable in fact spike it. It's making the case that people's blood
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by lars512 8y ago
No, this side of it is definitely better in other countries. My late wife passed away of cancer a few years ago, we lived in Australia. She went through rounds of intensive treatment. We had private health insurance which kicked in, limitin
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by lars512 8y ago
This is really nice. I'm working on a similar project right now, trying to hook together a few console UI pieces like this into a coherent annotation tool: https://github.com/larsyencken/questioner/ It's
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by lars512 8y ago
Today 70% of the adult US population is classified as overweight. Globally the rate is 30% and rising, at some 2.3 billion people now. The top three global causes of death are "lifestyle-related" illnesses. Perhaps dwelling a litt
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by lars512 8y ago
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson It inspired me to think about the role technology can play in improving someone's life, enhancing their development, helping them thrive.
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by lars512 8y ago
I did something like this in a quantified self phase, it's fun to see the location patterns. I was gridding locations into buckets and scoring the entropy over time, to see how diverse the set of locations I was going to was. Long stor
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by lars512 8y ago
By outsourcing this, they can focus on the more enjoyable parts of parenting :)
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by lars512 8y ago
Lifesum | Stockholm | Multiple roles | Onsite | https://lifesum.com/ Lifesum's a Stockholm-based tech startup with a vision to make it simple for people everywhere to form habits that build towards healthier, happier l
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by lars512 8y ago
Hi there! We're only offering on-site roles right now. It wouldn't be fair to the worker or the team to hire someone remote unless we were really set up in a way that would let them succeed.

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