milesjag

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by milesjag 1y ago
The legal basis is there to protect wildlife from man-made disruption and provides a kind of ecological basis to limit the kind of boundless growth that politicians appeal to. Unfortunately, for those laws to be effective, they have to be s
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by milesjag 1y ago
As the position is for a lead engineer, it wouldn't be unusual for applicants to have ideas or a view on more recent developments in this technology area and/or it's application to this particular problem space...that's
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Lego is hiring a lead engineer to work on their recommendation engine(lego.com)
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by milesjag 1y ago
LEGO | London (Farringdon) | Hybrid (3 days a week in the office) * Lead engineer on the personalisation / recommendation engine * Python, Node JS / TS, Databricks, Aurora RDS, AWS, API Gateway * Experience required in both data e
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by milesjag 1y ago
LEGO | London (Farringdon) | Hybrid (3 days a week in the office) * Lead engineer on the personalisation / recommendation engine * Python, Node JS / TS, Databricks, Aurora RDS, AWS, API Gateway * Experience required in both data e
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by milesjag 2y ago
Wow - thank you for such a generous response! Yeah, I'm agreed on most of the AI stuff - becoming a more architect-shaped engineer is now more important than ever. I've been flicking through a copy of https://www.amazon
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by milesjag 2y ago
bandcamp is a bit more of a level playing field - the artists can decide whether they want to use the platform to stream or sell their music, while being given some control over the number of streams per listener before a song will be unava
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by milesjag 2y ago
Wow - that sunroof thing is cool, I bet that was a fun area to work on. There’s a lot to be said for data engineering when done at scale - systems design, devops, cloud engineering etc. I’m not sure that’s going yet… Building the individual
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by milesjag 2y ago
Hello from the other side :) 1 - I feel like more bespoke interfaces could be amazingly useful in the data world. 2 - Data engineering doesn’t really get me building creatively. 3 - Getting 3 languages to play ball (and that’s front-end onl
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by milesjag 2y ago
Longtime data engineer - web apps in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS with Node - and some fun with ncurses in C++. Copilot is helping me out a bit but I’m having fun!
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by milesjag 2y ago
Alan Moore’s Watchmen - it’s hardly under the radar but it’s a breath of fresh air for novel die-hards
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by milesjag 4y ago
The practical advantages of tiny dumb phones outweigh the technical disadvantages. There are 2 kinds of trip: A - I travel across the city to visit friends/family/work or go somewhere far but familiar. B - I travel across the coun
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by milesjag 4y ago
Some of the tools which have helped me rediscover my focus and discipline: * Use the CLI for everything - reduce the amount of time you have a browser open * An egg timer - use this every time a tedious task needs completing * A dumb phone
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by milesjag 4y ago
That's scarily intuitive - the sum of smaller efficiencies create more significant deficiencies in unintended places
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by milesjag 4y ago
Identify elements of good/bad communication patterns: https://consilienceproject.org/endgames-of-bad-communication... Non-violent communication is a very structured approach to guiding people through perceived difficul
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by milesjag 4y ago
Interesting to consider that * a bird might be mimicking the rainfall to drive the worms out * the worms might be triggered to excavate during rainfall if they believe that predators are approaching Seems kinda circular
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by milesjag 4y ago
I had read rom a fairly antiquated source that the acidity of our rainwater as it runs across the ground and into the worm burrows is quite high (or low?) for earthworms. Supposedly, this drives a slightly delirious behaviour and results in