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by oxff 4y ago
> Zero hits for "hardware". Are there algorithm courses that take into account how hardware affects algorithms? For example with databases, you have implement theoretically inefficient algorithms which are faster in practice (m
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by oxff 4y ago
> 0 mentions for Zotero Question for anyone that consumes a lot of PDFs as I do: what do you use instead? Manual data insertion is an absolute no. So that leaves the Zotero alternatives, but quick search shows 0 mentions for any of them
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by oxff 4y ago
Does anyone even use Youtube Music / Youtube Gaming? I just interact with the main Youtube site whenever I use it. Structured Content sounds great, but we already have that: add a number to your video title.
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by oxff 4y ago
> Android seems to be growing inferior to iOS in almost every way Crazy statement. I have iPhone for work and it is horrible to use. I haven't met a single thing from UX point of view in iOS that is better than whatever is in Androi
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by oxff 4y ago
You don't get hired for, say, a role that requires Svelte / React expertise by pointing out "I did it in vanilla JS!" - so you are correct, industry sets the rules and your CV if you want a job from them, needs to reflec
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by oxff 4y ago
I'd say 80% marketing and "monkey see, monkey do" effect.
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by oxff 4y ago
flyio since Heroku had the little accident, works for me
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by oxff 4y ago
It is like reading articles made by language model.
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by oxff 4y ago
U relax the Malthusian selection, u get side effects, simple as.
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by oxff 4y ago
This thread is a real horror story.
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by oxff 4y ago
Best: Github, MDN, Rust standard lib docs, Stripe. Worst: anything MS (excl. Github obv).
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by oxff 4y ago
Someone over at Twitter called it the most successful robloxing in a while for this exact reason.
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by oxff 4y ago
The articles I've read are recorded by the fact that they contain a note in the Zotero catalog. Articles I want to read are implicitly recorded by the fact that they're in the catalog without a note attached to them. In Zotero whe
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by oxff 4y ago
Zotero simplified a lot of my note taking / "information retaining" from stuff I bookmark / read. Much better than Obsidian etc. > Add thing to Zotero, 99% of the time the metadata comes with it and is searchable alre
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by oxff 4y ago
I wouldn't start with Economist nor theorycel material in general. The fastest I got to understand Fed was to read about their operations, observe market reactions to them and read their own research. Easy strike against starting with
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by oxff 4y ago
Why is this a red flag / canary? Given the chance, I'd take every single non-monetary benefit (such as "health benefit", or "exercise benefit") as direct monetary compensation added to my pay, by virtue of the
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by oxff 4y ago
For some reason, IME, SQLite feels the hardest to use of the popular databases. I did start my own database journey with Postgre and MSSQL so I feel kind of lost with SQLite whenever I use it.
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by oxff 4y ago
They have the only podcast worth a shit too.
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by oxff 4y ago
There is more money to be earned in exploiting the supply chain.
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by oxff 4y ago
How they treat office work (first or second class)
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by oxff 4y ago
From anonymous cranks in Twitter and 4chan, they seem to have a very high batting average compared to credentialed people these days.
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by oxff 4y ago
I mean guys, it supposedly started next to a lab that studies the virus and they've yet to find the original bat population spreading it. If I made a Contagion 2 film that asked you to suspend your disbelief wrt. these two facts you wo
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by oxff 4y ago
How is this even a question, besides denormalization cases, FKs are essential for data integrity and management if you have even slightly relational data (data that is composed of joining tables), it guarantees you a source of truth..
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by oxff 4y ago
pay in EU is absolute vomit comapred to US, we are v. poor compared to yanks
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by oxff 4y ago
Blood Meridian.
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by oxff 4y ago
PRIMARY SOURCES are important because computer science, programming and software engineering are not abstractions that exist outside of history, outside of their practitioners. There is a lot of PATH DEPENDENCY and TECH DEBT that simply exi
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CMU 15-799: Self-Driving Database Management Systems(15799.courses.cs.cmu.edu)
3 points by oxff 4y ago|1 comments
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by oxff 4y ago
Very interesting and instructive course from Pavlo / CMU on self-driving (ML optimized) database systems. A motivational essay attached to lecture 1: "On Machine Learning Agents for Autonomous Database Management Systems" -
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Avoid Posting Marketing Articles
4 points by oxff 4y ago|1 comments
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by oxff 4y ago
On a technical level it is easy to make a product that is better than Twitter: replicate it exactly but fix the complaints. The reason it is not getting actually replaced by another product is very simple: they can't move the community

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