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by parpfish 2y ago
I think it also depends on what kind of connections you want. As somebody that really values comedy and a sense of humor, it becomes very obvious that humor is particularly dependent on having shared cultural references. For me, if a new re
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'd love to fight my insurance, but it's so unnecessarily confusing. instead of describing the process in plain language, everything is wrapped in so many layers of legalese that even the 'happy path' becomes impentrable
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by parpfish 2y ago
They make it sound like it’s a lucky coincidence that “these guys just so happened to apply to a company run by ex-CIA North Korea experts!” I’d guess that there’s a chance that they specifically targeted this company
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by parpfish 2y ago
or the product is still being built out and they don’t know how to price something in beta
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by parpfish 2y ago
I feel like most companies would have a discussion about “what’s the new user experience? How do we make a cold start enticing so people want to give us more time and data?” The Facebook experience when you have no connections is so horrid
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by parpfish 2y ago
A full day off might be necessary depending on how busy polling places are. I had to stand in line for 5 hours to vote in ‘08
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by parpfish 2y ago
I worry that making voting a holiday or putting it on the weekend would lead to LESS turnout. If you give vacation-starved Americans an extra day off, many of them will just take a day off instead of using it for its intended purpose. Also:
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by parpfish 2y ago
I have a FB account with no friends and a pseudonym that I just use for being able to check the pages of local businesses (it’s usually the only way to see hours because nobody has normal websites anymore) The garbage that they serve up on
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by parpfish 2y ago
I’m curious how frequently people actually encounter foreign key constraints in production. I’m 10 years in and have only ever seen it once
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by parpfish 2y ago
If you’re allowed to query the data you could use the column name/data type to come up with lots of good candidates, and then if then verify by checking whether the actual values correspond (assuming that it’s something like a uuid or
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by parpfish 2y ago
I think that engineers and analysts each have very different relationships with SQL. When I was doing data science, all the other DS folks would be perfectly content to read and write queries that were hundreds of lines long. There were ple
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by parpfish 2y ago
I also hate having SELECT before FROM because I want to think of the query as a transformation that can be read from top to bottom to understand the flow. But I assume that that’s part of why they didn’t set it up that way — it’s just a lit
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by parpfish 2y ago
agreed. this isn't a "side project", this is a "side business".
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by parpfish 2y ago
i've gone back and forth on this over the last few months. I started out thinking that we've all been conditioned by bad customer support chatbots whose only purpose is to look up facts from the FAQ and then tell you to call the r
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by parpfish 2y ago
most recs now are based on "users also listened to.." and (very rarely) audio embeddings/features. however much of my personal discovery is based on trying to understand the history of groups that i piece together from wikipe
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by parpfish 2y ago
any time there's a music recommender thread, there will be comments lamenting old algos like Rdio or play.fm it's interesting how this continues a trend in across music/audio tech, such as hipsters insisting "i liked the
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by parpfish 2y ago
Im really hoping that when this hype cycle ends and the next AI winter starts that all the generative stuff gets culled but we still see good work and tech using all the other advances (that would be described as “mere” deep learning). Docu
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by parpfish 2y ago
John Malone at TCI? (I learned about it from HN here a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41263855 )
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by parpfish 2y ago
Yeah, for some of these open ended questions that you’ve never thought about its unlikely to reveal anything useful or accurate with an improvised response. Any answer to “What kind of people succeed here?” Is more likely to reveal how well
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by parpfish 2y ago
Id love to see ML take on Codex Seraphinianus. Even if the answers are just hallucinations, they'd fit thematically. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
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by parpfish 2y ago
Don’t blame a company if they geofence for legal reasons. Blame whoever made tje “legal reasons”
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by parpfish 2y ago
i've always wanted to try to start a company and really strike out on my own, but it's a terrifying prospect. if i'm honest, the real reason isn't that i want to be my own boss or control my schedule -- it's that I
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'm asking because i grew up under what would now be called 'helicopter parents' that were very restrictive and controlling when it came to the real-world play opportunities. however, the early internet at the time gave me a
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by parpfish 2y ago
i wonder how much of kids technology use today could count as 'play'? there's a lot of undirected activity that wouldn't count because they're just passive consumers, but surely some of it could count as a way of ex
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by parpfish 2y ago
agreed. i think they were doing the math equivalent of code-golf to cram this proof onto a single page.
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by parpfish 2y ago
How much more black could it be? None. None more black.
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by parpfish 2y ago
the problem with insensitive people isn't that they don't intuit the logic of this theory. it's that they insist that they are in a different ring that would justify their behavior.
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by parpfish 2y ago
fitness is a good analogy, but it goes both ways. introverts need a little push to work the muscles that let you socialize and interact. extroverts need a little push to work the muscles that let you sit quietly and contemplate. hopefully s
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by parpfish 2y ago
I wasn’t talking about any of the new FIRE movements. Just normal ol’ retirement, but early. If you make a lot of money in your career and are smart about saving, it’s not difficult to imagine that you could shift your retirement age from 6
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by parpfish 2y ago
You don’t need to FIRE to still get rich enough to retire before the traditional retirement age when your a tech guy making multiples of the median household income. Then add in a few people winning the equity lottery

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