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by parpfish 2y ago
it'd be great if they set up their CLI tools such that if there's an error/timeout, they'll do a check of their status page so you don't get the standard 'error' but rather a 'dont worry, youre not do
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by parpfish 2y ago
damn, why couldnt it happen during east coast business hours?
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by parpfish 2y ago
over the years i've had to translate a lot of code from academics/researchers into prod systems, and variable/function naming is one of their worst habits. just because the function you're implementing used single-charac
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by parpfish 2y ago
Man, users are the worst. Sometimes I think that they only exist to stress out my precious beautiful servers.
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by parpfish 2y ago
what? that one egg was twenty eggs?
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by parpfish 2y ago
The other way that being a numbers guy lets managers be lazy is that they will tell their data scientists to “do an analysis” so they can say that their product decisions are empirical and data driven rather than relying on any obvious desi
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by parpfish 2y ago
The most important managers are the ones that serve as an actual translation layer bridging the gap between corporate business speak and developers. I’m reminded of a recent HN article talking about how bad abstractions are actually just in
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by parpfish 2y ago
sometimes when a dev pushes for a refactor they'll say that the reason is about building maintainability/best-practices/code-philosophy/whatever but the TRUE reason that they may not even be willing to admit to themselve
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'm early 40s and my goal is to work in tech for a couple more years to build up enough retirement nest egg that i can spend the next couple decades pursuing lower-paid non-tech work where i can doing things i find more personally mean
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by parpfish 2y ago
interesting that in the US age 40 is precisely when protections for age discrimination kick in
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by parpfish 2y ago
i have a burner fb account that i use to follow a local lost-pets group and check hours for restaurants that refuse to have normal webpages. this account has no friends and just the one group membership so my feed if 100% platform-promoted
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by parpfish 2y ago
what's the point in seeing photos of a kids sports game if you are so uninterested in maintaining a relationship that you'd never consider chatting with the person? at that point, it may as well be a parasocial relationship with a
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by parpfish 2y ago
if i'm giving a presentation, i always practice it several times and i always find flaws to fix up(there's no segue from this slide to this one, i need to reorder these so i can introduce X before talking about Y, etc). but you ha
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by parpfish 2y ago
People got used to a passive “push” model for staying in touch that they forget the norm used to be “pull”. Now you just passively absorb updates from people to stay factually informed but don’t directly engage with one another. With email&
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by parpfish 2y ago
The limiting factor isn’t journal space, but attention among the audience. (In theory) the journals publishing restrictions help to filter and condense information so the audience is maximally informed given that they will only read a fixed
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by parpfish 2y ago
Well, AGI would make the brainy information worker part of the economy obsolete. Well still need the jobs that interact with the physical world for quite a while. So… all us HN types should get ready to work the mines or pick vegetables
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by parpfish 2y ago
Wouldnt it be even more effective to take a job there and provide them half assed labor?
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by parpfish 2y ago
I see a lot of internet commenters (here and Reddit) that act like they’ve outgrown all their friends from childhood/highschool and it always rubs me the wrong way. I’m sure there are folks with actual trauma they are running from, but
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by parpfish 2y ago
Part of it has to be that finding and defining abstractions is fun like a puzzle so programmers like doing it and finding ways to justify it after the fact
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by parpfish 2y ago
I could see an argument for your example that putting the non profit in control of a social media company could help the long term financial success of the platform because you’re not chasing short term revenue that annoys users (more intru
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by parpfish 2y ago
Fazoli’s is still around? I don’t think I’ve seen one in 20 years
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by parpfish 2y ago
A while back I tracked down the video clip from the show Gomer Pyle that was used for the “But there's somebody else that needs taking care of in Washington” background audio. Seeing that in its original context was jarring
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by parpfish 2y ago
I agree that there isn’t as much raw experimentation and just observing/documenting psychological phenomena that there should be. I’ve ranted about that here in the past. I guess my peeve is that nobody really collaborates on theories.
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by parpfish 2y ago
There’s also the issue that in psych, everything is measured through indirect proxies and most of the predictions will be directional. That gives experimenters a LOT of wiggle room. In physical science you can often directly measure a pheno
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by parpfish 2y ago
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting a particular outcome. It wasn’t wrong that people were excited about the prospect of a room temp superconductor a few months back because people knew that if it were true good things were po
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by parpfish 2y ago
one of my stances has been that psychology comes up with wacky unreplicable findings because there's no central organizing theories for how 'the mind' works and everything is just very black-box. there are so many studies sho
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by parpfish 2y ago
early in my psych career, i was actively encouraged to do things that would be considered p-hacking or abusing degrees of freedom. it was seen as a way to not let any data go to waste and potentially 'show off' your cleverness&#
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by parpfish 2y ago
but why is the prescription for speakers to converge on a single homogenous blob of usage rather than encouraging listeners to acknowledge and understand the diversity of uses?
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by parpfish 2y ago
re: aging into using y'all: when you're young, you have a stronger need to impress people at work or personal life or wherever. and often that means shedding regionalisms or any little quirks that might give anybody an opportunity
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by parpfish 2y ago
So If you meet a couple and don’t know if they’re married or dating, you just decide to call them fiance/fiancee? That’s like thinking “I can just replace null with 0 or empty string. Means the same thing”

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