iwonthecase

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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Yeah, Pandas would provide a pretty big improvement, but I wonder how much of an improvement one could get even by just replacing the c-style loop: > for qs in combinations(all_qs, K): > > ... > > corrs.append({'qs&#x2
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
> I prefer "endemic", because it is baked into the operators of the system... There was a pandemic of racism that we fought a war over, now we have to pretend it doesn't exist anymore to keep the economy going and 'li
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
So much of my potential productivity would be lost if Dyson Sphere Program or Captain of Industry ran on macs.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Without wanting to underscore the seriousness of those problems, a day or two in the woods without access to email or a constant stream of news (Discord and SMS seems fine for me in that situation) really dampens a lot of mental health issu
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Oh boy, I can't wait for insurance to start telling people that being able to smell or taste isn't medically necessary.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
I would guess that it would be interesting if: 1. It's a sign that the tech layoffs are part of a more general wave of layoffs 2. Most of the layoffs were on their eCommerce platform 3. If there was a blame towards Amazon. Just as an a
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
> people who are likely 25%+ and even sometimes 30%+ body fat that think they're in a healthy BMI range a Something I've observed is that people don't perceive weight on an absolute scale, but relative to other people. Re
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Not GP, but an ongoing concern I have with covid is that the "severity of current variants" is something that you can really only know after the fact and mild cases can still cause long term effects. I also think that, even if the
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Yes, but with traffic (or reliance on public transit, and the Bay Area's n different transit orgs), a 10 mile commute could easily be more than an hour each way.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
> who is building a product that is profitable? Just my experience from being on the job market, but a lot of places I've interviewed at have traditional ML models (network security, ecommerce, image tagging) that are now rebranding
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
AI in games (well at least NPC style AI) is also kind of unique in that it's actually good to try to trick the end users into thinking it's more intelligent than it is.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Yes, like GP said: "marketing"
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
As always, "it depends" but it's very possible if you go with the understanding that you're going to live like a poor college student for the next half decade and don't want or need your expenses to go up like your
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Same, although I appreciate the work OP's putting into this, and would find value in the aggregated statistics (especially stats about the interview funnel.) For me, I just have a big plain text file where I keep notes and stuff about
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Doom and gloom article leading to doom and gloom HN discussion, just digging a bit more into it: The Meta layoffs [1] are hitting a 600 person department. The Amazon (Twitch) layoffs [2] are "significantly smaller than the March round,
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
I went the exact opposite way as you claim, no reason to push yourself harder if you're still likely to get stuck with an arbitrarily decided layoff.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
> I also found myself working longer hours, not having solid disconnected time To the frustration of my then boss, I noticed that I (and a lot of other coworkers) used RTO as a way to reduce our hours to ~40/week and not spend our
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Well flu vaccination rates are down from pre-covid levels, I'd guess more antivax sentiment's also impacting other common vaccines.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Again?
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
> including accelerating the vesting schedule. Just curious, but how useful are stock options in a company that's 30+ years old and still private?
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
You joke, but I could see Epic one day being like "if your EGS account only has free purchases and you've never actually paid for anything, your account/games will be removed in 30 days."
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Possibly a misleading title, the paper [1] is mostly of Microsoft affiliated authors, with one member of PG. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03926.pdf edit: I'm not sure what's particularly exciting about this
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
Number of years since birth of Christ tops 2023 for the first time.
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
The time series chart shows a pretty strong decrease in the number of layoffs the last month, which is something I've noticed on the opposite side, where I'm getting a lot more interviews recently. Might just be my imagination tho
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by iwonthecase 3y ago
I don't understand why companies can be so self destructive when it comes to this kind of stuff. I had a brief stint at a place that mandated a full RTO early 2021, started time tracking people, publicly screamed at coworkers that show