sanderjd

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by sanderjd 7mo ago
Have you published anything about your health time series model? Sounds interesting!
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by sanderjd 7mo ago
I think the reason that English speakers swap ie/ei is that the pronunciations of these is not really consistent in English (at least in the American accent I speak), and I can't think of any words where both orderings exist but h
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by sanderjd 8mo ago
So, yes, for the past couple weeks it has felt that way to me. But it seems to come in fits and starts. Maybe that will stop being the case, but that's how it's felt to me for awhile.
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Yes thank you for that. I always feel like these up front cost analyses miss (or underrate) the ongoing operational cost to monitor and be on call to fix infrastructure when problems occur. But I do find it plausible that the cost savings a
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
It's not the learning, it's the ongoing commitment of time and energy into something that is not a differentiator for the business (unless it is actually a database hosting business). I can see how the cost savings could justify t
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
But is there a significant cost difference? I'm skeptical.
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I feel like you and I have similar experiences, but have drawn entirely opposite conclusions from them :)
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Absolutely yes. But you have to do this either way. So it's just purely additive work to run the infrastructure as well. I think if it were true that the tuning is easier if you run the infrastructure yourself, then this would be a goo
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I kind of thought the "15 years" was just one of those things where people kind of forget what year it is. Wow, 2010 was already over 15 years ago?? That kind of mistake. I think this person was thinking pre-2005. I graduated co
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
No not at all, I have the same opinion as you! But I'm curious to understand the opposite view.
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
For what it's worth, I have also managed my own databases, but that's exactly why I don't think it's a good use of my time. Because it does take time! And managed database options are abundant, inexpensive, and perform w
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
This makes total sense to me. I'm thinking through the flow that would lead me to be a customer of yours. In my current job, I think we're honestly a bit past the phase where I would want to take on a migration to a service like y
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
This sounds medium to high complexity to me. You need to do all those things, and also have multiple people who know how to do them, and also make sure that you don't lose all the people who know how to do them, and have one of those p
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Yep! The biggest win for me when AWS came out was that I could self-serve what I needed and put it on a credit card, rather than filing a ticket and waiting some number of days / weeks / months to get a new VM approved and deploye
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
This space of #2 like Lithus is not something I'm very familiar with, so thank you for the comment that piqued my interest! If you're willing to share, I'm curious who else you would describe as being in this space. My last d
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Is it though? This is a genuine question. My intuition is that the investment of time / stress / risk to become good at this is unlikely to have high ROI to either the person putting in that time or to the business paying them to
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
A tricky thing on this site is that there are lots of different people with very different kinds of experience, which often results in people talking past each other. A lot of people here have experience as zero-to-one early startup enginee
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I relate to this. But also, isn't it just that every human endeavor goes through an evolution from craft to commodity, which is sad for the craftsmen but good for everyone else, and that we happen to be the ones living through that for
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
This is true of the Michael Scott character in the first season (which follows the same plot points as the British version). And even in the next few seasons, the core run of the show, he's only a bit more lovable. He's still pr
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I don't think "patriotism" and "slavish obedience and loyalty" are the same thing.
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Right, the show's position is that he took the "easier and more fun" way, because of his selfish pride, and ended up hurting everyone he cared about, which is why he's the villain. It's very clear about this!
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I mean, in my career (coming up on 20 years), I've never had an employer that gave me a hard time for taking time off. YMMV I guess!
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
True, after the first season. But I kind of question whether there is really a difference between "better executed" and the cultural difference we're discussing here. It's rare to have a show change tone from one season
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Fair! But I also think it's correct that the US version is much softer-edged and that it would not have been so wildly popular were that not so. I mean, there are harder edged comedies in the US, but they certainly aren't as popul
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
Hate at the end, yes. Tragic, also yes. There's no contradiction here!
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is one of those noisy minority things. But who knows, I'm not gonna do a scientific survey to figure it out :)
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
It's not about masculinity at all, it's just "pride comes before the fall". That is not gendered. Both men and women are entirely capable of being destructively prideful. The reason Walter is a villain is that his pridef
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
It's just not gonna generate a lot of discussion to say "the intended interpretation of the character is correct". The reason Skylar gets a lot of discussion is that there's a lot of disagreement on the interpretation of
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
There's a pretty big generational divide on this point, I think. I don't think many people under the age of 45 or so still see the "never took a sick day" thing as a laudatory statement. (Also probably a regional divide
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by sanderjd 9mo ago
I was looking for I Think You Should Leave, which I think is great. But it might be the exception that proves the rule, at least for newish shows in the US. Key and Peele and Chappelle's Show were also this kind of show, but are pretty

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