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by amirkdv 4y ago
> forces the other players to reduce their prices or shed customers. Excpet they revert back to old prices once the competition is dead. This is textbook predatory pricing. > It's not like Bell, in this case, were offering 1Gbps
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by amirkdv 4y ago
(1) Real Mathematical Analysis, by Charles Pugh is a wonderful introduction to pure mathematics for a mathematically inclined engineer. The back cover starts like this > Was plane geometry your favourite math course in high school? Did y
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by amirkdv 4y ago
Yup. Great article overall until the bit you quoted. Sure, it has the _potential_ to transform personal genomics, but the (insanely cool) T2T project is indeed almost exclusively an academic one. Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think aca
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by amirkdv 4y ago
I've heard this a lot. I think there are two problems with this. First, you need massive adoption for the "social" part to be at all useful, hence only the few big social platforms can even try it. Second, even at maximum pos
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by amirkdv 4y ago
It's not ridiculous at all. > They stop using it if the results are poor. These are not laws of nature. There are so many reasons why most people would still use $X even if the performance of $X was underwhelming.
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by amirkdv 4y ago
The document you shared is a great example of the education system acting as a vessel for inculcating children with sterile, polite thoughts. I can imagine the room full of well-meaning adults who think they must protect children from dange
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by amirkdv 5y ago
A lot of morality is of course fashion (and "relative", if you want). But failure to articulate universal moral rules concisely, doesn't mean there's no concensus. Circumstances and relevant context can be very complicat
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. There's som
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Matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices(twitter.com)
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> Asking "Any Java experts around?" takes little effort which is precisely why this is annoying: it's asking for a social commitment without putting any effort in. It also reaches for the top shelf for no reason. Does the
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I've been a happy FastMail customer for 8 years now. Migration from Gmail was a breeze too! The only feature I've missed in all this time is schedule-send which they seem to have indefinitely put on their backlog.
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by amirkdv 5y ago
OP listen to this. And go read So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. You'll see stories of people in situations very similar to you. Source: I rebeled in my early 20s for a more meaningful life before I had enough career c
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by amirkdv 5y ago
CLRS is the text, but for a more gentle introduction see Grokking Algorithms.
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> Natural selection is what stops DNA from becoming non-functional [...] Over the extremely long run regions of the genome that have no biological function should disappear, no? If you have a sequence that's neutrally mutating wit
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> as we have more and more interdisciplinary scientists jumping in at the interdisciplinary level, we're already in an era where diletanttery (especially in trendy science mashups like biophysics) is high Once heard a bioinformati
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Except for PCR has been around for decades and its basic principles are taught in first year molecular biology courses. Whereas Theranos' newfangled secret "innovation" was ... well, a secret throughout.
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by amirkdv 5y ago
(Not grandparent commenter) I think you're usually right but I doubt it makes a difference at the scale of 2-5 objects created in a test case. The big game changers IME are in-memory dbs (SQLite) or parallel execution of tests. This id
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by amirkdv 5y ago
There's good discussion in this thread about when and why to use attrs, pydantic, or stdlib dataclasses; I have my own thoughts too. But all I can really feel is gratitude for all of us not having to do namedtuple/slot contortions
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I love this! And have been doing something like this for years. The zero-effort part is key in my IME: if it's not zero effort, it won't stick. And if it doesn't stick, you won't reap the nonlinear long term benefits. Th
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Having experimented with a bunch of different ways to organize complex django settings, I think what OP suggests is a local optimum that's hard to scale and doesn't solve a bunch of important problems (eg ok, credentials are now i
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by amirkdv 5y ago
I used to struggle with this a lot. Here are a few things that have really helped me over the past decade: 1. This is incredibly common. Some of the most productive people you know probably struggle(d) with this. And this is important to ke
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by amirkdv 5y ago
This so much. This would be on the syllabus of the missing Employment 101 course. Very few people I've seen try to evaluate the company as much as they're being evaluated. We all grow up with the false, ingrained assumption that i
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Do you really think Facebook has a soft spot for Antifa? (whatever that amorphous "organization" is) Tip: there's a toggle on the page where you can get the raw text of the document, then use ctrl+f.
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> Just wait for antivaxers to hear 'DNA' and go wild. Sure the already anti-vaccination crowd will have more reasons to be peeved and more talking points to scream about. But would it mean new people would turn against vaccines
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> it becomes a pain once you start trying to use it like a DSL or templating language. I like YAML and use it a lot. But I'd argue the fact that it even allows/encourages you to do such things with it is a design flaw that ulti
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> Lots of code metrics have been proposed ... But nothing works better than counting lines of code [with citations] Here's an anecdoate, not to dispute the empirical finding. I recently discovered McCabe (cyclomatic) complexity and
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Did this actually lead to better error handling? I'd be worried that it leads to silent idioms of "catch-and-drop" to silence the Slack blow up
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> I think YAML is even worse as a serialization format than a configuration format. This. I find YAML to be the least offensive option for configuration and one of the worst for serialization. I might be misinformed, but I find it absurd
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by amirkdv 5y ago
> But, can humans do this? I think not; > Even humans are only probably approximately correct. Fair point. But how about this: It's true that what John would do with the sentence is technically an "approximation" of wha
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by amirkdv 5y ago
Yup. They shouldn't exist. It's an outrage that they do. They don't pay the reviewers. They charge the authors (who pay the ransom typically from taxpayer funded research grants), and they charge the readers, who are either

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