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by ska 2y ago
If it was only about this, personally I find org-mode is better than markdown. There is a big gap between a book and informal notes, docs, comments though. At least big enough to drive several tools into, or they wouldn’t exist.
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by ska 2y ago
Time is important. How much would it have cost them to keep looking?
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by ska 2y ago
Huh. Ok - that really doesn’t match my experience , but that’s path dependence for you.
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by ska 2y ago
The “and still obsessively digs crates” was important I think. DJ’ are not even close to fungible (hell, I’ve even met a couple who don’t like music much) All music recommendation engines at this time still aspire to be mediocre, they aren
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by ska 2y ago
I’m not sure what you are looking for a reference to exactly, but segmentation as a preprocessing step for tracking has been one of, if not the primary, most typical workflow for decades.
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by ska 2y ago
Computer scientists and similar have never liked it, so this isn’t surprising.
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by ska 2y ago
If you are actually that good, opportunities will tend to appear. You may not realize or pursue them, but they often do.
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by ska 2y ago
That wasn't meant as a logical and. Each of these things alone can lead to opportunities.
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by ska 2y ago
Two tried and tested methods, neither guaranteed of course. 1) Be better than the overwhelming majority of your peers, and be noticed for this. You are quite likely to find interesting opportunities come your way. I do mean overwhelming th
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by ska 2y ago
That certainly can be true (not universally) when a company that might give you an offer is saying it. If it’s coming from a peer, especially one whose been round a few more blocks than you, may just be an observation about life.
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by ska 2y ago
If it was sharp, they would be identical. The “blurriness” is doubling, where the lines are not quite aligned. Red text there show you content that is in one and not the other.
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by ska 2y ago
Overall, the productivity numbers in US have been pretty robustly growing - but there is a multi-decade tendency for this to be achieved by raising the prod/employee. In other words, it's achieved either by reducing headcount to d
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by ska 2y ago
Sharpe ratio is fairly useful in roughly apples to apples comparisons, e.g. investment opportunities, and basically useless when it’s applied to broadly to human endeavours. Mostly because people are a) not economically rational in any pur
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by ska 2y ago
That’s opening a can of worms. Fundamentally, the real number system is larger and weirder than “we” mostly think it is (and hence its extensions to higher dimensions). If you start trying to remove objects it easily becomes a game of whac
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by ska 2y ago
> and streets are dangerous. In most places I've lived, streets are objectively less dangerous than they were a few decades ago in all aspects except traffic density, which is a mixed bag. In places with poor urban design, I can se
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by ska 2y ago
What you are thinking of operates at a different level of abstraction. Energy functions are a general way of structuring a problem, used (sometimes abused) to apply an optimization algorithm to find a reasonable solution for it. FAST is an
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by ska 2y ago
Historically, we often call something AI while we don’t really understand how it works. After that it quietly gets subsumed into machine learning or another area and called X algorithm.
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by ska 2y ago
Thanks for chasing down the details! I knew about the split and vaguely remembered that one of them had bought Trader Joe's a while ago.
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by ska 2y ago
Doesn’t one of the Aldis own trader joes?
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by ska 2y ago
> Take your time with it, but do read it. And do the harder exercises. Really do them, not just read and tell yourself you understand how to do that one and move on.
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by ska 2y ago
No snark was present :)
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by ska 2y ago
That’s what HR will do. Most companies don’t constrain an individual employee from providing a recommendation. People might not want to do it, but that’s a different issue.
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by ska 2y ago
It’s used in some movies also , but the idea predates movies by millennia :)
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by ska 2y ago
This sounds crazy to me. I’ve seen products with a first year or more shipping target of far less than 100 work through a comprehensive spares strategy - at multiple companies. It’s entirely manageable.
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by ska 2y ago
The serial ports might have been easier (depending what was on the machine already and what you have on hand) but it's not obvious. The real problem was the lack of functioning floppy drive. Most of the modern "normal solutions&
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by ska 2y ago
Years ago I had a (much older) colleague who seemed to obsessively copy data onto newer media, including transcoding file formats sometimes. I'm pretty sure it was to avoid this sort of dance and avoid thinking about what they might
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by ska 2y ago
To me this is completely orthogonal to "micromanagement", which is a real problem whether or not you understand the system your team is building. You absolutely will be a better engineering leader if you a) understand deeply the s
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by ska 2y ago
Nice to meet another "ska". It's derived from my name also, and I've used it as a login and more for ages. Usually when people comment on it they assume I'm a big fan of the music style :)
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by ska 2y ago
I think the difference between “luxury” and not is a red herring here. The real wisdom is to spend enough to get really serviceable versions of the things you use everyday. That doesn’t mean “luxury”, per se. but it does mean if you e.g.
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by ska 2y ago
> Are you able to organize that on company time? Are you guys clocked in during your meetings? I've approved or started (or both) this sort of thing on company time before, at more than one place. For context, this was typically ear

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