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by tibbar 5y ago
> A number 1 ranking on Hacker News gets millions of views I don’t think this is strictly true. I had a post go #1 for like ten hours. It’s more like 50k views, counting the visitors from the Reddit repost etc too. A million visitors is
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by tibbar 5y ago
> The study found that cannabis intoxication leads to small to moderate cognitive impairments in areas including > making decisions, > suppressing inappropriate responses, > learning through reading and listening, > the abili
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by tibbar 5y ago
One of the side effects of the pandemic is that there is now a global remote-first tech workforce. Working remotely is a skill that companies might not have wanted to gamble on their people learning, but now everyone has this skill. There&#
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by tibbar 5y ago
I experienced this last year as well. It was very difficult and unpleasant. What ultimately worked for me was taking significant time off, changing jobs, and moving to a new city. I also started reading some books like Atomic Habits which g
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by tibbar 5y ago
As a company it can be really hard to assess whether your problems require permanent employees or whether a contractor could just come in and give you a button to click. Sometimes you actually know about the second option, but the process i
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by tibbar 5y ago
I’ve noticed the same thing (although I’m sure to a lesser degree) after years of compulsively making puns about everything. It’s almost a self-imposed dyslexia where you start seeing words out of order in places you don’t intend. Sometimes
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Those computers in your head(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
66 points by tibbar 5y ago|26 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
Yes, undergrad is a good place to learn to code. I’m still glad I learned when I did, and I think it made college a lot easier, but no doubt four years is plenty of time, and allows ample opportunities to code for pleasure as well. I was re
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by tibbar 5y ago
It’s a little confusing and sad to me that people have to try to pressure themselves to go from zero to professional engineer in a short period of time. That sounds stressful and, frankly, almost impossible. Like a lot of people here, I tau
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by tibbar 5y ago
> "the industry has self-selected for men: first, antisocial nerds, then, decades later, self-confident and risk-taking bros" I'm sorry, this is a silly broadside at the nature of male software engineers. In my experience,
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by tibbar 5y ago
No, but it’s the kind of directionally accurate description you can use to start one of these discussions. Remember they won’t really go away understanding anything anyway. You just want to give them the emotional catharsis of following alo
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by tibbar 5y ago
Explaining complicated things to people is mostly an illusion - especially in a short period of time (professors have a window of months and many hour-long lectures, plus a textbook to offer people for background reading.) No one can explai
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BMW debuts color-changing paint at CES(cnn.com)
6 points by tibbar 5y ago|2 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
It’s reasonable to try GPT3 out with all default settings as the author seems to do and provide an assessment, but it’s not clear the author is aware of the extent to which you can configure the model and how the quality and variety of resu
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by tibbar 5y ago
But why is Google even dealing with spam? What if they (or someone else) curated top websites for a given category? For instance, when I search for a programming-related term, I already know that I want to see the answer on either Stack Ove
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by tibbar 5y ago
This seems very optimistic to me. I’m reminded of the xkcd where the cryptography enthusiasts imagine that 4096-bit security will protect their secrets, but in reality no one bothers with that. If the government requires ID for crypto purch
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by tibbar 5y ago
But in practice, what new applications does this actually unlock? When do you need to cut out the middleman to this extent? For serious transactions you typically want a reputable middleman who is licensed and insured and accountable to the
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by tibbar 5y ago
In practice crypto isn’t used much as a medium of exchange, though, and when you try to cash in your coins you will get nailed for any evasion or criminal behavior. It’s possible that buying things directly with crypto will become more wide
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by tibbar 5y ago
It’s depressing, honestly. A few years ago I read a graduate textbook about Bitcoin as well as the original white paper and some papers about ethereum, etc. My main takeaway is that Bitcoin itself (although not all blockchain proposals) is
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by tibbar 5y ago
The author’s word salad honestly doesn’t qualify as ‘remarks about the normal distribution.’ The author is wildly flinging random technical terms around. Try substituting ‘normal distribution’ with ‘exponential distribution’ or simply with
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by tibbar 5y ago
I expect you already have some books you’ve been ‘noticing’. They might get recommended a lot on Hacker News - Atomic Habits, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, A Thousand Brains, that sort of thing. Time to learn what all the fuss
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by tibbar 5y ago
Depending on what you can code you still have options! Make sure you have a small portfolio available before you try any of these. - 1. Make your own business (web dev contracting is your best bet). Go to friends and family or small busines
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by tibbar 5y ago
This is funny. Yes, some engineers (and I’m an engineer, so it’s fair game) seem only comfortable talking about engineering. You can try to go outside the zone but things only pick up when you get back to DevOps. My best friend is a studio
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by tibbar 5y ago
I think part of it is building understanding of aspects of art/science/history/literature that you find interesting. If you have, say, a deep understanding of the events and context of WWII (a very ambitious goal), it might n
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by tibbar 5y ago
That’s interesting! I have interests in history and fiction as well so the surface area probably feels much larger to me. I’m also a slow reader — sadly, though my siblings can read hundreds of pages an hour, I’m more like ‘hours per hundre
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by tibbar 5y ago
I took a ten year break from reading books. Instead I programmed, read blog posts, followed the news, and had a few good talks with friends here and there. When I started reading again my world caught on fire. A good book is vastly, unimagi
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by tibbar 5y ago
I passed one of the actuary exams (P) after college after taking <$many> applied stats classes. I'm glad I did because it gave me a very good intuition for conditional and bayesian probabilities. I'm sure I wouldn't pas
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CDC significantly lowers prior estimate of Omicron prevalence(nytimes.com)
5 points by tibbar 5y ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
> weak definition Dictionary definitions are not meant to be combined like logical predicates. Rather, they provide a spectrum of possible meanings for a term. By recognizing multiple standard meanings for a word, I’m not tightening the
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by tibbar 5y ago
I think this doesn't reflect the standard spectrum of usage for the term. For instance, if you look up "atheism" in Merriam-Webster, the second definition is: "a philosophical or religious position characterized by disbe

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