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by wenc 3y ago
I always have 3 external displays so Mac Mini is my go to. I haven’t owned a laptop in years. I travel with my iPad pro.
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by wenc 3y ago
> I've never understood this obsession in the tech industry with holding small to medium sized conferences in major cities. It's because there are advantages to major cities: (1) connectivity; (2) incumbent audience; (3) capaci
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by wenc 3y ago
Absolutely. The cost benefit analysis of changing your oil vs getting it done at your mechanic's tilts heavily toward the latter, especially if you only own one car. I get full service 5W20 oil change (with fluids top up, oil disposal
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by wenc 3y ago
I didn’t make enough to max out my 401k until I hit my 40s but always had a rainy day fund (8 month runway). I guess I lost the compounding for all those years but I still have enough. As an immigrant I’ve always lived so close to the edge
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by wenc 3y ago
Hence my main point on expectations. It’s clear yours are very different from mine.
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by wenc 3y ago
I think it’s expectations. Software engineers have a different relationship to salary than most people and it shapes expectations. People in physical engineering do make around that much and they support their families just fine. There are
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by wenc 3y ago
It’s a trade off people make for the lifestyle that they want. I decided that lifestyle wasn’t for me but it really does work for a lot of people.
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by wenc 3y ago
Many people in the town I lived in have accomplished all that you’ve listed. Also 80k is a single income — with dual income it’s low six figures. In a LCOL location it’s not bad. Now their job market may not be hot but layoffs also rarely h
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by wenc 3y ago
I was making a touch under 80k/yr as a (physical, non software) engineer in my 30s not so long ago. People around me were making 40-50k. Professors in town made 60k. It was in a LCOL city in the northeast and it was comfortable. It rea
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by wenc 3y ago
Fascinating. Probably generalizable to the Portuguese conjugation system which is the most complicated of big Latin derived languages in the number for forms still in use. (Except for maybe Romanian)
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by wenc 3y ago
For those not in the loop: Meta to launch Twitter-like Application Threads on Thursday. "Threads, Instagram's text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday and will allow users to follow the accounts they fol
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by wenc 3y ago
If you like org-mode, which is essentially an outliner, check out Logseq. Logseq is a “second brain” but its primary format is a daily journal. This threw me off at first because I like to file knowledge into different topics. But turns out
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by wenc 3y ago
If we think of LLMs as a nonlinear optimization problem, min F(x) with lots of local optima (valleys), then "prompt engineering" is the act of finding initial point x0 (prompt) such that the optimization lands you a good local opt
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by wenc 3y ago
American folks: it’s British English for “ask for a cigarette”.
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by wenc 3y ago
Absolutely. This is also my use case where I have GBs of data in S3 as Parquet and a small CSV file that I have to join them to. And DuckDB reads CSVs and Parquet and SQLite and others. I can join all these heterogeneous data types in a sin
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by wenc 3y ago
I haven’t worked out if the BNF is unambiguous (RFC 4180) but if you have a CSV in a cell you would escape any ambiguous characters. An unescaped cell within a CSV will break most CSV parsers in the world even with recursion handling. http
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by wenc 3y ago
How so?
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by wenc 3y ago
With raw string parsing approaches (awk, perl) you have to handle all kinds of corner cases because CSV is an underspecified spec. CSV is deceptive in that it looks like it parses easily, but the truth is CSV is one of the most difficult fo
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by wenc 3y ago
My understanding is that the CSV is read in chunks, and then each chunk is parsed in a different thread. This is the description in the experimental PR (parallel CSV has since merged into the main branch) https://github.com/
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by wenc 3y ago
For any kind of tabular data, I use DuckDB (parallel CSV reads, works on small to humongous CSVs). It supports full Postgres-like SQL, so you can do arbitrarily complex manipulations on columns and rows. The CSV essentially becomes a datafr
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by wenc 3y ago
That’s a useful thing to know! Eating slower does help with calorie intake if you know the satiation signal has a lag time. For me though the satiation signal has low lag but my satiation threshold is just very high.
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by wenc 3y ago
Everybody’s physiology is different of course but I found that even when I was eating 5 eggs a day, my LDL actually dropped. (HDL is more a function of exercise) I don’t think it’s that clear that dietary cholesterol is highly correlated wi
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by wenc 3y ago
This. I haven’t lost any weight from IF because going down to 2 meals just meant I ate larger meals — because I’m one of those people who can eat a lot before feeling full. But I’m the exception. Most people feel full more easily.
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by wenc 3y ago
I eat 2-3 hard boiled eggs (very high PDCAAS score) a day (intermittent fasting 16:8). I’ve done this for 7 years. My muscle mass seems to have stayed the same.
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by wenc 3y ago
I think the Brits and the Japanese rarely say an outright no too.
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by wenc 3y ago
I’ve visited Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and I found the food to be amazing. I loved the feijoada from Academia da Cachaça and the açaí bowls found in corner shop lots every where. The fish stews (moqueca de peixe) were like a wonderful cu
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by wenc 3y ago
I used to run vim and VS Code on a Core 2 Duo from 2005. Vim is a lot faster but VS Code is so much more powerful — it’s a full featured IDE. It’s not a quick and dirty text editor like Kate. It’s not meant to be that. I still use vim to ed
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by wenc 3y ago
There two approaches: 1) A moving window: you only calculate your updates from the values in the window (say the last n reviews). The downside of this method is that older values drop off precipitously. 2) A forgetting factor: there are man
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by wenc 3y ago
In Evan’s derivation, which derives the lower Wilson confidence interval on a binomial distribution, the confidence level is a parameter — you can replace it with any level desired. He just happened to use 1.96 for 95%. John’s derivation is
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by wenc 3y ago
There’s a new lot coined word “sonder” that describes being alone in the city and observing others and wondering about their inner lives. As a writer this fills me with warmth rather than loneliness. https://en.m.wiktionary.org&#

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