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by scary-size 3y ago
What was it about the internet being five big sites filled with screenshots from the other four…? Let’s turn that up to 11.
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by scary-size 3y ago
Really good write up! Concise and very clear. The optimisation isn’t overly complex, but you still brought the pitfalls to the reader’s attention. There’s a lot of those low hanging fruits around if only somebody cared to look.
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by scary-size 3y ago
Same here. When the Apollo app was discontinued a few months ago, I completely quit Reddit. Put the Kindle app in the spot on my Homescreen. Muscle memory got me a reading streak that still lasts.
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by scary-size 3y ago
> If a book sucks, stop reading it. The best readers actually quit a lot of books. Life is too short to read books you don’t enjoy reading. This great advice, works for blog posts too.
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by scary-size 3y ago
I’m not going to regularly read your blog if it doesn’t have RSS. Discovery happens here or on Reddit, after that it’s RSS or bust. On the plus side, I can’t remember the last blog that didn’t have a feed. For my main blog [1], I manually u
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by scary-size 3y ago
I found Conrad Bastable‘s essay [1] on the subject fascinating. [1] https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/the-germany-shock-the-...
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by scary-size 3y ago
This hits home. I communicate a lot more with up and downstream stakeholders as a data engineer. Be it for designing future changes and how those affect others. Or, as you said, triaging outages/delays, figuring out where the missing d
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by scary-size 3y ago
It helped me to make it really easy to get stuff out their: I just type a paragraph into Notion and it’s published automatically. Also, don’t think you need to publish long, polished pieces. Short texts to help build a habit. That one also
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by scary-size 3y ago
Love the minimal design
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by scary-size 3y ago
https://franz.hamburg Micro blog: https://atoms.franz.hamburg
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by scary-size 3y ago
Nice! I dabbled with deep learning and CRF for the sequence tagging. I ran in the same issues you mentioned. Current approach is hand rolled. The „holy grail“ would be linking ingredients mentioned in the directions. So, I could just tap on
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by scary-size 3y ago
I can attest to that. I’m using Google for work and Kagi for private stuff. There’s quite an overlap in search categories (e.g. tech stuff). With Google, I learnt to scroll past the first three-ish links. On Kagi I had to relearn that the f
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by scary-size 3y ago
Interesting, does the server fetch the html itself? Or does the client POST it? The letter would be useful for paywalled sites like Cook‘s Illustrated. I spent quite some time on ingredient labelling (what’s a unit, quantity etc.). Feel fre
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by scary-size 3y ago
Looks promising! I’ll give it a thorough test. Been working on my own recipe clean up tool [1]. Does your app all the scraping and parsing on the client side? [1] https://pretty-recip.es/
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by scary-size 3y ago
Awesome feature! Really like the simplicity of it. No super fancy animation, just enough data to keep you scrolling until the end. Your next coffee is on me ;)
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by scary-size 3y ago
Though taking care of a sick kid is an unpaid leave. But your health insurance compensates that to a certain degree. Usually up to €110 per day.
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by scary-size 3y ago
I feel the same. That‘s a subscription that really pays off. Also one of the few newslettery messages I let in my inbox.
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by scary-size 3y ago
Oh, I missed that. Made the read definitely more exciting.
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by scary-size 3y ago
What a ride! Great read, entertaining whether it’s true or not.
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by scary-size 3y ago
- Desktop app for creating a static blogs. Electron and React: https://www.project-daily.com - Instagram-like, private photo feed, where my partner and me can share pictures of our kids with relatives and friends. Posting works
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by scary-size 4y ago
That's true. Most of our production data is in the "petabyte" category. But often we start out with a small amount of data, for example for a new feature or product. That's when a lot of the exploration and query buildin
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by scary-size 4y ago
It's a blessing. I loath the slow feedback cycles your get in the BigQuery Web UI. Even for "small" tables, that would fit on your machine. When I expect a longer data exploration or debugging phase, I dump the BQ tables to S
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by scary-size 4y ago
I settled on a regex based approach with lots of data clean-up and normalisation up front. Example of my site [4] Some other approaches I spent a lot of time on: * Extracting Structured Data From Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields [1]
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by scary-size 4y ago
Have fun going down the rabbit whole of parsing structured data from ingredient phrases. Had a fun few weeks with that!
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by scary-size 4y ago
> LLMs can generate code, making it easier for developers to create complex software programs. Sweet sweet complex software programs.
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by scary-size 4y ago
Wrong documentation is even worse than no documentation. Without it your at least force to look at the code and validate your assumptions. Get a feel for the code base. Wrong docs pointing you to tech that’s not even used is going to be a m
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by scary-size 4y ago
> They chose to cut salaries rather than cut the office rent and catered lunch/snack expenses Real-estate is surprisingly hard to get rid of. Depending on the size they might be stuck with a multi-year lease. Cutting snacks and lun
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by scary-size 4y ago
Thanks for the additional context. In your initial post it came across like you sat and watched the project burn.
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by scary-size 4y ago
What prevented you from helping him? edit: This comes off as a rhetorical question. I'm really just interested what happened here. The project was assigned to both of you. I imagine that implies some responsibility for the whole of the
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by scary-size 4y ago
I went for that solution. Got a main blog were I post more polished stuff and a microblog. On the latter I can just post spur-of-the-moment content. Also significantly lowered the barrier of posting to the microblog by just typing in a Noti

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