mrtranscendence

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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
This talk of disenfranchising areas feels bizarre to me. Areas can’t be enfranchised or disenfranchised; only people can. And right now people in more populous areas are less enfranchised than people from rural areas. That has led to minori
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
I once watched my father in law try to eat rice with chopsticks. It was an excruciating, grain by grain process. Truly terrible to behold. I wish I would’ve told him “forks work, that’s what forks are for”.
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
I work (transitively) for a very large grocery retailer that rhymes with "Broger". Live inventory data is mostly junk -- it's sorta reliable in broad strokes, but you can't rely on it for determining out of stock events.
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
He thinks (they think?) the project will need to be funded to the tune of $2M. That seems like a hefty sum to me, though maybe it's doable.
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
You're getting some pushback, but I tend to agree with you on matplotlib and pandas. Great libraries are designed so that you can get a feel for them and -- with practice -- use them intuitively. Even after years of (admittedly light)
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
I'll be honest, as someone whose non-Python programming (paltry as it is) is mostly done in statically-typed functional languages, I have a bit of a bias against Go for the whole generics thing. I'll give it a closer look at some
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
Julia might be. It's certainly higher performance from what I understand, and it offers some syntactic flexibility that I miss from R when using Python (Python could never have a fully complete dplyr). It seems from afar to be rather m
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
> Meanwhile, there are many other languages which are not only performant, but which are rapidly encroaching on Python's historically unique(ish) "easiness" What are those languages? I may have a blindspot, but the languag
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
On the other hand, I’ve been criticized for being too eager to hedge anything I say with something like “in my understanding, ... I could be wrong.”
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by mrtranscendence 6y ago
Paying a skilled therapist with a master's degree $15 an hour is robbery. And they're probably taking folks on as contractors, which means no insurance. That $30 - $50 for a session is a race to the bottom.