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by wirthjason 4y ago
I see what you mean. I totally agree. It’s a bit like a bait an switch. I’m not aware of any consumer protection laws against something like that. The only thing I could think of is either regulated products, like buying 2% milk that isn’t
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I’m not saying it’s outright fraud but companies change things and don’t tell the consumer. Im making up this example but let’s say you buy a coffee blend that’s composed of 60% bean A, which is more expensive, and 40% bean B. Then next wee
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Excellent points. It makes me wonder… I love yuzukosho. I don’t taste the difference but I wonder if the ingredients are significantly different from between the JP and the US one.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
While not a true counterfeit I'd be curious on the brands/foods/restaurants that increasingly add fillers to their products. As inflation rises companies turn shady tricks like less product for the same price and substituting
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I don’t see much problem with this. Most Japanese people have a green tube of grated wasabi in their house. ( https://www.sbfoods.co.jp/products/detail/16343.html ) There’s definitely filler (more than 50% is real)b
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I’m more shocked that the developer of a “skill” that says the holy Mary makes $2 a month and has 10,000 users. That’s a sweet return for work that on the scale of copy-pasting the Alexa getting started tutorial.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
“Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra” This is a great history of algebra. Math comes alive for me when I know more about how things come to be, the problems people we’re working on, etc.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
As another 80’s kid we shouldn’t forget about Captain Planet!
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Curious what would happen to trendy names like “.io”. Most names are country specific, e.g. I can’t imagine people outside of Japan wanting “.jp” domain, others can transcend the country.
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by wirthjason 4y ago
For anyone who hasn’t attended PyCon I’ll offer this anecdote. This was my 10th year attending. In my first year I meticulously planned all the talks I’ve as going to attend. I later learned this was a giant mistake. As the years went on I
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with watching it to learn something new like malmare dissection. I can appreciate the rawness of it, even if some consider it "boring", because it accurately shows how it really is. E
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I’m a firm believer in many of the things mentioned. When I study with someone there’s a real life component. We take breaks together, chat, ask each other questions. Also, studying in common places can remove environmental distractions. Fo
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by wirthjason 4y ago
A comment on the CV. At quick glance it looked like you only worked at places for a year or two then changed. This is generally a red flag for me. But because I saw the salary history I knew there was a Lon time at Capital One. However this
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by wirthjason 4y ago
For some reason this article stirs a lot of internal conflict in me. A part of me wants to view it without any judgement but another part, the old man part, feels there’s something deeply wrong with this. The problem is that I cannot think
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by wirthjason 4y ago
The best part of my experience was trying to form a study group (Google Hangouts at the time). Most people dropped but I made a very good friend. We still stay in touch to this day. Slack and other conferencing tools are game changers. Peop
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I have a more mixed experience with the OMSCS. Overall it's a good program, and if the choice is between Udemy or OMSCS then it wins hands down. For me the central issue is online vs. in-person. Education is an interactive experience,
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Definitely not immune but far from perfect. I was talking to folks at PyCon about this problem. There’s definitely “framework fatigue” in data engineering. Luigi, Airflow, Argo, Prefect, Dagster, bash + cron, MLFlow. Pandas, Dask, Spark, Fu
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I generally could care less about the color of an egg yolk but there’s one exception: the egg in ramen. It’s not that it tastes particularly better, marinating anything in soy sauce for a couple days will make it taste delicious. It’s often
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by wirthjason 4y ago
For people into this kind of stuff check out “Taste: What You’re Missing” from food scientist Barb Stucky. It’s a pop science collection of stores about measuring tastes and food pleasure. I remember reading a chapter on texture and how one
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by wirthjason 4y ago
I’m curious about your ex-student being a low level gangster. What kind of activities did he do? This is one part of Japanese society I know very little about. My wife always talks about yakuza being bad but can’t provide an details other t
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by wirthjason 4y ago
Limitations and constraints matter. Technology is often the most fun when you have to be creative to solve a problem. My first programming was on TI-85 calculator in high school circa 1995 making crappy games. There wasn’t even a proper key
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by wirthjason 5y ago
I cannot find anything substantial that the author thinks is materially worse about today’s show than the one from his childhood. The animations and style are different, or the length has changed, but so what. That’s changing with the times
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by wirthjason 5y ago
I’m a huge fan of Cytoscape.js. Not sure if it would be a competitor to Gephi as it’s just a JavaScript library but it’s very useful for things one might use D3 for. Not too not does it have the ability to draw, style, and animate the netw
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by wirthjason 5y ago
I’d like to add that I think e-sports will come to overtaking physical sports in my lifetime. I really enjoy watching sports (pretty much every sport, although I’m a partial to college football) and played sports as a kid but it’s much hard
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by wirthjason 5y ago
I used to think e-sports and games were not real things compared to their counterpart but I’ve come to feel that they are just as real. The different is subtle but let me try and explain. He is playing “real guitar hero” not fake guitar her
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by wirthjason 5y ago
I know what you’re staying but a philosophical point I’d argue that there is a cost for adding that information. It implies that if the recipe deviates from the one listed it won’t be as good, as if there is some platonic ideal and the the
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by wirthjason 5y ago
This x 100! Recipe writing (and recipe following) varies a lot. For some people a recipe is a formula, very precise. For others it’s a rough guide of an idea that should be adjusted.
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by wirthjason 5y ago
This is the great thing about life, everyone is different and we care about different things and we all get along. Im the complete opposite but I totally get your point and respect everything you said. Everything you listed as a positive is
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by wirthjason 5y ago
> And so, the oversimplified description of MarketRank is “just add up all the upvotes”. Wait… the sum of fake internet points is what we’re using to measure pages? I agree that search results could be better but this doesn’t
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by wirthjason 5y ago
Sounds like they want a devops person and not a developer. I understand the line is often blurred. I think it comes down to if the role is deploying K8’s etc. or just using it. If they are administering it then I’d hope that they would be a

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