pksebben

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   by pksebben 4y ago

   I've committed to the process of passing it on; I did a similar thing for a friend , who's now on that last third of the journey. I've become really interested in the whole concept of an apprenticeship - I think that it could
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   Tell HN: From bartending to managing cloud infrastructure

   221 points by pksebben 4y ago|78 comments
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   Absolutely. I just did this myself (37, hired at first tech job about a year and a half ago). I was a bartender for a decade. I have a GED and went to college but didn't finish. To answer your questions: | Is there any hope for some
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   I would recommend getting in touch with that fear and facing it. Being afraid of a label is a terrible reason to avoid doing something as important as understanding your job. Richard Feynman was famous for asking dumb questions - sorry abou
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   I find myself to agree with both of you, depending on scope. When it comes to me and my personal life, I do my best to find what I could be doing differently. I try to find the blame for my problems in myself, because it's the place I
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   it's not the first time, either. Recall the "weeping native" ad campaign [1]. 1 https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   I feel like we suffer from intentionally overbroad protections in this vein. Corporations being people and what not.
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   evil mode! https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
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   by pksebben 4y ago

   I lived in a neighborhood where we could keep our garage open without fear of theft for a while, and we ended up keeping a mini fridge plugged in with water and red bulls and stuff for the delivery folks. it took a little while before they
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    not sure I understood that. what do you mean?
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    not sure this is true, at our scale. managing our society would be really really hard using paper and snail mail.
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    To speak as a proponent, it's not about the er... "relative relevance" so much as the utility. there are things about a chat model that you can't say about humans, like, it's not really ethical to keep a human stuff
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    I'm afraid I wasn't communicating effectively. I have no problem with non-humorous technical material - the parent comment asked >How does the space reserved for jellybean stains guide the reader towards the desired problem-so
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    calling the urls in a Blocklist is kinda stretching the definition of 'content' though, innit?
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    thanks for this! there's some good stuff in here. Kinda reminds me of master foo http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.ht...
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    I feel you. Fwiw what I've settled on that seems the most stable is to use pyenv as the "outer layer", as it shims the python interpreter along with any venvs so you don't get conflicts / heisen-incompatibility. Let
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    just for clarification, what is the "this"? as an aside, thanks for the work you do. we're better off for it.
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    I've always seen a sense of humor as an essential component of problem solving. Stressy, serious, businesslike modes tend to get stuck in the weeds and miss the forest etc
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    pyenv will make your life easier in this regard. that is all.
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    Ask HN: Optimal Setup for Home ML

    5 points by pksebben 4y ago|0 comments
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    what's to the right of Margaret Thatcher may yet be to the left of most of the US...
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    Perhaps, when all things are taken into consideration, renewables are actually better more often. Some things are not inherently political and actually have a correct answer, but you could make the argument that 1+1=2 is political if you
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    "this isn't a drill you can run". And yet, Netflix has chaos Kong do it with regularity. The difference between what's true, what some people will buy, and what you can get away with saying is gross, y'all.
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    Heck, forget Facebook. Just start calling up customer service! Bonus points for hiring former arise contractors to form a call center. "good magical morning! thanks for calling Disney cruises" "hi, this call is being recorded
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    we desperately need criminal penalties for evil business practices. lock up the sacklers and send these guys to the chain gang.
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    still, "more growth for company" and "more money for shareholders" can look identical from the perspective of the public or even an employee of the company, where all they see is "your interests are not important&qu
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    liberal != left. Trust that there are those of us who take just as much umbridge with Clinton/Obama/Biden as trump/bush et al. The blue/red differential isn't a right/left matter. Each party is responsible for
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    I've had exactly the opposite experience switching to Mac from Linux. used to be my cli editors worked with the clipboard, now I have to `M-x shell-command-on-region pbcopy`. I've written a wrapper script for it and bound that but
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    however, it might be that someone who would actually benefit from such remediations hasn't thought of it seriously or recently (very, very common with ADHD). Stories about such things working could be useful to these folks and aren&#x2
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    by pksebben 4y ago

    fwig this is actually known as a strategy in divorces, in some states. Not total fiction.