PacifyFish

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by PacifyFish 6y ago
I've found Anastasia Marchenkova's blog posts easy to read and thorough https://www.amarchenkova.com/category/quantum-computing/ I like her because she writes code for a living AND has worked at quantum
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
I made the switch over to “customer facing tech savvy person.” Think Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager. Pays slightly less (until you get 5+ years experience, then tends to catch up if you’re good) but my lord i
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
The Wikipedia article states that it’s a cover for a hat, not meant to be worn.
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
Psychological safety is 10% job security and 90% how comfortable you feel with the people you work with. Simple to understand, hard to make happen - you need to hire well.
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
How do you manage dev vs prod instances with sequelize? Specifically, do you use migrations for your local dB or just force sync it?
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
Keep in mind the lockdown is meant to slow spread so the healthcare system doesn't get overloaded, not to stop it. It is successful in this respect, and IMO a healthy balance of economic slowdown and death toll. We'll probably sta
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by PacifyFish 6y ago
I consulted for a company named FlowCrypt last year. Best email encryption UX of any I've seen. Open source and free-for-most business model. Highly recommend for personal use.
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
I'd like the power grid staffers to keep doing their jobs thanks very much
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
At the volume and frequency they need to process, it probably makes sense to do something more complicated than MySQL...
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
Bitcoin
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
Here’s one data point: I would not buy a book with thousands of business one-liners such as “know your customer”
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
What did the author use to make the charts?
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
Maybe I've missed the boat, but what's the big deal about collecting telemetry? You already trust Gitlab with everything you store in Gitlab, like source code, which is presumably much more sensitive than the number of times you l
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
Why not do a slow rollout, starting at maybe 5% of product. Then you can catch and fix deficiencies without compromising your entire production line, and ratchet up to 10, 15, ... 100% as you gain confidence in the model?
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
Link? I'm interested in using something like this at work.
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by PacifyFish 7y ago
What kinds of things do you need to check for that aren’t automated? Maybe I’m spoiled by our CI pipeline. I’d love to take a look at your list
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I’ll offer some speculation with no data to back it up: quality of life is good enough that after a certain threshold of wealth people aren’t willing to work extra hours any more. See: Europe & bigco tech jobs.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Love this site! Did you use a front end framework/template to design it? It’s so slick.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Sure thing. I’ll typically make a few cards at first trying to test different aspects of the MM (general concept, example applications, given definition identify the MM, quiz any internal associations I have with it like if I learned it in
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I love Michael Nielsen. He's so earnest and thoughtful. His recent forays into spaced repetition have been an interesting glimpse into his thought process. I am a bit of a spaced rep fanatic, but use it to internalize more general &quo
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Curious how you implemented this. I bought a Phillips “sunrise alarm clock” about a year ago, but the light was weak and I didn’t feel a difference at all. Did you hack together something yourself?
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Could not agree more with this, especially for creative ideas or knowledge that is most useful when instantly accessible (ie mental models and facts/concepts that help with making decisions when you can’t do a bunch of research beforeh
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Because that's what people with money want to invest in, because there is a potential market for space travel/tourism/mining, and because money isn't always allocated such that the benefit to humanity is maximized. Note
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
React/node is what I use for side projects. React is pretty annoying to set up yourself since it needs to be compiled, so use https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app to spin up quickly or just host vanilla ht
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Comments on the thread ( https://twitter.com/ali01/status/1078647601371799554 ) are generally useful.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
This is so refreshing. Kudos to Dan Abramov for putting countless cases of imposter syndrome to rest, at least temporarily.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Hm, I'll probably develop mobile before Firefox so FF would be long way out, but not out of the question! You can follow @ForgetMeNotBot on Twitter for (very infrequent) updates.
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I recently built a Chrome extension that encourages you to add anything you don't want to forget (say, insights from a podcast), then quizzes you in your new browser tabs on those chunks of knowledge using spaced repetition. Check it o
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
I had a similar experience with the cards I had made as an undergrad. I recently made a Chrome extension that shows cards in new tabs so that I actually review them. Check it out if you're interested, I'd love your feedback https
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by PacifyFish 8y ago
Spaced repetition is so effective. I'm surprised it's not more ubiquitous. I recently published a Chrome extension to review knowledge in a new browser tabs after trying and failing to use Anki post-graduation. https://

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