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by trts 7y ago
interestingly, I found this podcast about 6 months ago and it has quickly become one of my three must-listen channels. He has some amazing guests and conversations and I find his questions thoughtful and wide-ranging, leading to some reall
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by trts 7y ago
I don't remember this time at all. But I've never found much value in the big subreddits because of the incentives to game them for karma and traffic. The most interesting communities have always seemed like the small ones since
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by trts 7y ago
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise, they will kill you." Not sure who this is attributed to but I remember it not infrequently.
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by trts 7y ago
Is this actually a new feature of pandas? I've only used other libraries like seaborn and matplotlib.
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by trts 8y ago
Amazon Music has web player and desktop (Mac/Windows)
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by trts 8y ago
Got one for work, along with an assortment of dongles. Mainly it was the keyboard that caused me to swap for a PC after three weeks. I still look at my coworker's screens with envy.
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by trts 8y ago
All of those things are "lots of money" if you are living paycheck to paycheck. They are even lots of money if you make six figures and save 25% of your income.
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by trts 8y ago
There is Soundhound but I've found it's accuracy is not quite as good. But the app is a little cooler and it writes a playlist of queries to Spotify. After Apple integrated with Siri, I discovered a nice, somewhat hidden feature
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by trts 8y ago
Yesterday my dad mentioned off-hand that he had switched to duckduckgo. While they are still less than a rounding error of all search traffic (this site says Google itself has 3.5bn daily searches https://www.internetlivestats.c
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by trts 8y ago
Sometimes I find I do need to close an app to “reboot” it. But yes. It’s actually amusing to me to watch people compulsively close their background apps. I used to try to explain why it wasn’t important but I don’t think anyone ever accepte
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by trts 8y ago
Classics are not that popular. The most downloaded book on Project Gutenberg (Pride and Prejudice) has been downloaded only 32K times. Moby Dick has 15K downloads and at least 10 of those are mine. I disagree that classics can be understo
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by trts 8y ago
Interesting that you wrote this. I find the more sleep deprived I become, the more intense are my earwigs (and also, the worse they become in terms of what I'd rather not hear). I also am stuck with keeping an 8a to 6p schedule in a c
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by trts 8y ago
My open office of about 15 people per 350 square feet, row after row after row, is silent and without interaction almost completely. It makes me crawl out of my skin to wanting to leave. I can typically spend no more than about 5 hours th
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by trts 8y ago
I seem to be in the extreme minority opinion that ggplot2 has facilitated the creation of millions of ugly charts. The default theming hurts my eyes. Much improvement can come from just adding + theme_bw() or + theme_minimal() as the last
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by trts 8y ago
What is interesting about a bot-on-bot negotiation? if the AI had any performance against a human it might be worth caring about.
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by trts 9y ago
Friends are important in a different way, but one of the qualities they don't often share with flights is that they get you somewhere where it's important you'll be at a specific time and place in pursuit of your material nee
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by trts 9y ago
Slack lowers the friction involved in communicating. Depending on the kind of communication that it is, maybe that's bad or good. In many corporate communications platforms, it is quite effortless to ask an idle question, use an emoti
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by trts 9y ago
It is better than the echo but it was smart of both Apple and Amazon to call their assistant by a human name. Google is punishing themselves by making their product a function of saying 'Hey [massive global corporation susceptible to
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by trts 9y ago
Had a bad bicycle accident about five years ago. No taxi would stop for me as it probably looked like I'd been in a drunken brawl. Uber or Lyft would have been nice, as I could have probably texted the driver not to be alarmed but th
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by trts 9y ago
It's hard to identify with the vitriol in response to this thread, yeah it was dumb and silly but, without reading Hacker News, it would have been a completely invisible event for me. I've been totally in love with FF57 since rel
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by trts 9y ago
This articulated so much I have learned about the field in the past 5 years. As someone who inherited the title 'data scientist' because that's how my department designated us when it became fashionable, felt fraudulent due
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by trts 9y ago
I can't count the number of times I've heard from people very plugged into the industry declare that the FB exodus was underway. If you read Hacker News and Reddit, it's obvious that Facebook is about to die. People are put
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by trts 9y ago
I was thinking about how cumbersome it would be to change phone platforms if I got tired of iPhone or Android, and then how much effort I wouldn't want to spend if my Amazon device controlled all the lights, TV, audio, and temperature
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by trts 9y ago
There are people who can get away with being bad drivers for decades who would have been dead a long time if they drove a bike. Especially in L.A. where it requires a good degree of both aggression and defensiveness to not become roadkill.
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by trts 9y ago
"Hedonic adjustment" is meant to control for the 'quality' of some (limited) products sampled in the CPI such as rent, computers and automobiles. 'quality-adjusted' means that they run a standard linear regres
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by trts 9y ago
I switched to Ting for a couple months. Not sure if the pricing is still the same, but I still talk with people on the phone, and paying by-the-minute felt restrictive. First month my bill was <$40 -- that was great. Next month it was
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by trts 9y ago
that's a feature for me. It felt like it was a complete product when I discovered it, and still feels the same.
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by trts 10y ago
Currently the Digg Store has a lifetime subscription for $39: https://store.digg.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscription
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by trts 10y ago
Right after Google shut down Reader for me. Twitter remains the best source of news + programming + local + academic content for me. Although on the whole I'm a little burned out on 'content' in general.
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by trts 11y ago
I got about 15 years younger on average by switching from a mouse click to the enter key.

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