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by parpfish 1y ago
but sometimes large case statements cant be turned into a simple dimension table/lookup table because it's not a simple key-value transformation. if your case statement is just a series of straighahead "WHEN x=this THEN that&
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by parpfish 1y ago
isn't "spreading the profits around equally" just universal income that's indexed to some sort of return?
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by parpfish 1y ago
now that i think about it... i think it'd be interesting if the news did a little blurb on 'demographics' along with their reports of other numbers like weather and stock prices. "this week, the county had X births and Y
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by parpfish 1y ago
> We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. i'd interpret that as meaning "everybody is welcome to be our customer, but we're still control all of it"
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by parpfish 1y ago
any time i ask chatgpt a question and get a useful answer, i stop and remind myself that we had that exact same functionality 15 years ago. it was called "google without ads and seo spam".
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by parpfish 1y ago
for years, i've been secretly wishing that doctests would take off because it seems to really solve two problems at once: - it puts a simple usage example into the documentation - you get an easy-to-write, quick-to-run little assertion
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by parpfish 1y ago
“We’re gonna bump up up to 1.0.0 from 0.2.972 one of these days”
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by parpfish 1y ago
i've always wondered why I eagerly jump in to some big tasks whereas others fill me with anxiety and trigger procrastination, and recently I've come up with a working theory: if the task requires requires leaving a stable equilibr
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by parpfish 1y ago
This piece of advice: > Remember you can still add in that complication tomorrow is directly undermiend later with: > When should you create stuff just in case? > ... > 1. There is a reasonable chance it will be useful later &gt
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by parpfish 1y ago
i've been beating the drum for a long time that we teach OO programming wrong. we always start with inheritance (Car is subtype of Vehicle; Cat is subtype of Animal). we need to teach encapsulation as the primary use for OO. ime, the m
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by parpfish 1y ago
"park facing downhill"
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by parpfish 1y ago
I was just thinking about heart transplants and how they’re treated as commonplace now, but they are nuts when you think about them. You can hook up the nerve wires and blood pipes from one body into the heart from another body and it works
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by parpfish 1y ago
If you’re still waiting: you should stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk
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by parpfish 1y ago
I have a pet theory that the reason that smell-based memory is so strong has something to do with the fact it’s the only sense that bypasses the thalamus. Smell is wired up to the brain… differently
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by parpfish 1y ago
in theory switch to a user-pays model should align the incentives of the company with user satisfaction rather than the ads-pay model where the incentives is aligned to maximize engagement. i'm not optimistic that'll happen.
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by parpfish 1y ago
i only have a burner FB account that i can use to check some local businesses and follow a local lost-pets group. i have no friends and have never posted or liked anything, so my feed is almost exclusively algorithmically-pushed content. an
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by parpfish 1y ago
It’s hard to compete on price when your customers don’t know any of the prices up front.
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by parpfish 1y ago
is the change in death rate because the health services got worse or because the type of patients going to that hospital have shifted? if they slash staffing and make it hard to schedule in a reasonable amount of time, patients with low-ris
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by parpfish 1y ago
i don't know how people can build something and leave behind a coherent series of commits that tell a nice story of progressively building a thing. my commits include lots of false-starts that get abandoned and "i need to commit t
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by parpfish 1y ago
same here. i use it as a kind of mental bookmark as i move down the page because I know that its very, very likely i'll get distracted by somethingand have to temporarily leave the article. however, this is probably a habit for a minor
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by parpfish 1y ago
i always hated when my toys were made to look "kid like". if you give me a toy tool box, there better be a toy hammer that looks like a real hammer that adults use. it better not be multicolored with a big smiley face on them. i&#
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by parpfish 1y ago
i'd like to see more methods, because that Midlands region looks similar to the types of artifacts I used to get doing various unsupervised learning projects. that shape screams "there are a couple of clear clusters nearby, and th
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by parpfish 1y ago
Reading through bad setup docs is 10x more stressful when they are part of new employee onboarding. I’ve always advocated for new employees first contributions to be fixing problems they had in these setup materials. They are coming in with
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by parpfish 1y ago
There’s a vast gulf between “reading about a job online” and “doing a job”. Of course college bound kids know that jobs exist, but they don’t know what it’s like to do them for any extended amount of time. And I’m guessing that one of the m
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by parpfish 1y ago
Rote memorization often gets a bad wrap. It shouldn’t be the sole purpose of a class, but sometimes you have to drill people to memorize a bunch of stuff so they’re able to deal with the higher level material. Imagine doing math if you neve
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by parpfish 1y ago
i don't think they slapped seattle on it because of tech connotations. i think they slapped seattle on it because of the Seattle Supersonics, their old NBA team that still has a cult following
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by parpfish 1y ago
okay, so lets adjust the numbers in my quick example. i'll pay $20k a year to get 10 hours back a week (i.e., you an engineer that goes from making (120/yr to 100/yr). that's still a valuable trade that i think a lot of
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Ask HN: Why don't Americans hire human assistants for everyday tasks?
11 points by parpfish 1y ago|27 comments
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by parpfish 1y ago
whenever i see stories about people sending out that many resumes, i'm confused how they've found so many jobs to apply to. i'm pretty sure it's only possible if you completely ignore the job description and requirements
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by parpfish 1y ago
Footnotes are very tempting in a methods section where there’s no end to additional details to add in. However, it’s probably better to put all of that into an appendix/supplemental material section (if the journal allows it). Having a

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