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by sseagull 4y ago
Maybe I'm just a little skeptical today, but I'm not super enthusiastic about this. 1.) Adding another language significantly increases complexity in general. Now I see several packages (pydantic, pydantic-core, pydantic-settings)
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Family history is funny like that. I have a few (usually female) ancestors who, according to censuses, just don’t age at quite the same rate as other people :) I find it kinda charming. Gives some insight into who they are, and that fear of
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Using that metric has its own downsides though, depending on the content. If I am searching for some particular piece of information, the best site is the one that has that up front, which means I get in and leave pretty fast. Assuming that
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by sseagull 4y ago
Ahh the the Base Rate Fallacy - always something to keep in mind. A lot of people fall for that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
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It’s not even close to “reckless disregard for the truth”. Which isn’t even the right standard (reckless disregard for the truth/actual malice is the very high bar for defamation of public figures - regular folk have a lower bar). Reck
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Maybe officially. But here in the US arrests (not just convictions) are sometimes reported reported the local newspaper (“police blotter”). A search for person + town could find it. Also there are lots of scummy private companies that colle
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100% agree. And I have said before, doing genealogy will cure people of their love of cursive. Every once in a while I find a census where the census taker printed, and I weep with joy. Bad print is so much easier to read than bad cursive.
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by sseagull 4y ago
While not exactly the same, your school (college?) may have access to the Naxos library, which may allow you to stream that for free (requiring login through your school library).
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It’s been noted for a while with the other kinds of engineers: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
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No, a CEO of a 100 person company should be delegating stuff like this to people with expertise in such matters. A startup CEO isn’t going to be an expert in everything, no matter how much some people worship them.
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Or pay someone/some company to do it. You pay for AWS because you don’t feel like managing hardware, why just assume you can manage 10s of millions of dollars?
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I dunno. Lots of people contribute to the web without expectation of payment. Like you posting here. The urge to create and share is powerful. Look at all the people editing wikipedia, answering questions on SO and various forums, and even
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by sseagull 4y ago
I think that is what the parent said. Interest rates go up, unemployment goes up/employment goes down. The reverse would then be true. (Unless the parent edited their comment)
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There’s disgust for a few reasons. One is that the wealthy (including VCs) have an undue influence on society and the economy just due to being wealthy. It’s always nice to see them take a hit sometimes. Silicon Valley is “building the futu
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“Humane is using sensory data from a wearable device to perform smartphone activities like writing messages, playing music, or opening Twitter via a projection on a person’s left hand.” Sounds like the “Cicret Bracelet” - see Captain Disill
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Founded by Apple vets, startup Humane has raised $241M with no customers(finance.yahoo.com)
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There's the story from last year of a letter being delivered that only had a description of the person and where the person used to live: https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497
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by sseagull 4y ago
Looking at the list of group 2B carcinogen, I see things like caffeic acid (common in food like, uh, coffee, but other things as well). Also I see bleomycin, which is used to treat cancer. Lesson: labeling something as a potential carcino
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But developing the new stuff doesn’t make the old stuff go away; there’s a huge userbase with trillions of lines of scripts and stuff to support. It’s thinking like this that led to the fragmentation in the first place.
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Yep. This is very common and is called binning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
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by sseagull 4y ago
We’re trying that :) (minus the GPU. Think more like a database/web server). Although to a lot of reviewers a server is a server. “You have a multi-million dollar compute cluster available, what do you need another server for?”
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I am really feeling this now. We are an academic group (sort of) that is looking to stand up a server or so for some public-facing apps and databases, but it's like no one has ever heard of such a thing. They keep giving me servers tha
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by sseagull 4y ago
In some sense yes. However, everyone at any level benefits from a teacher/mentor/coach, if only to get some outside perspective. The top tennis players, golfers, etc all have coaches. It doesn’t quite map to programming, but it sh
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by sseagull 4y ago
Where are you a senior director? I just want to know where to never apply for a job. That kind of belief about communication is horrifying to me, and I am about as introverted as you can possibly be. And to maybe analyze this more, my guess
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> I echo others here - I've not seen a meaningful, revenue-driving conversation happen in these in a decade of work. If you restrict yourself to that metric, maybe. But theres more to life (and business) than that. Does everyone on
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>> Finally, everyone being remote is really bad for younger/newer employees who completely miss out on networking, mentorship, company culture, etc. > That’s total speculation. When I was first hired out of college, I had 1 co
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Is that because of the language itself, or because people who develop in Rust right now tend to really like programming, and are likely above-average developers? I don’t really hate Rust and like what it has done for safety, but it hasn’t r
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by sseagull 4y ago
> GUIs add a lot of complexity. Can your file manager do thumbnails and quick previews? Somewhat OT, but I find this really funny. It says a lot about the difficulty of using various ecosystems and where communities spend time polishing
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin were on record as saying that quality search results and ads are at odds. So at first they were generally against ads. Here's somewhat of a mention: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-a
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by sseagull 4y ago
While true, I feel the pace of evolution is too fast at the moment. I am involved in scientific programming, and it's getting kind of crazy. This is a domain where programming is purely utilitarian, and what you are programming is more

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