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by programmertote 10mo ago
I'd really love to see the breakdown between how much we spend on physicians/doctors vs. caretakers (nurses, therapists, etc.) vs. how much on hospital admin and other stuff. At least in UK's chart, "GP & Primary Car
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by programmertote 10mo ago
I postponed all of my CPG and miscellaneous purchases (think AA batteries, socks, winter pants, skin lotion, body wash, etc.) until Black Friday "sales". I also stocked up on stuff like Ramen. I did NOT buy anything special for my
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by programmertote 10mo ago
Disclaimer: I have nothing against R or Python and I'm not partial to either. Python, the language itself, might not be a great language for data science. BUT the author can use Pandas or Polars or another data-science-related library&
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by programmertote 10mo ago
I know it's impossible in some software stack and ecosystem. But I live mostly in the data world, so I usually could get away from such issues by aggressively keeping my upstream dependency list lean. P.S. When I was working at Amazon,
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by programmertote 10mo ago
> All of these can be accessed through bloodwork and urinalysis and can be done at a local Quest Labs (I’d venture to bet there’s one within a 10-mile radius of your home), prescribed by your doctor, and will likely cost anywhere between
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by programmertote 11mo ago
Wish I could give your comment 10 more upvotes for visibility. This is Myanmar military trying to do field work for China. China is the one who allowed these militias to thrive in the border areas and they have been arming them for decades.
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by programmertote 11mo ago
Glad to see innovation in bicycle space. That said, when I was living in NYC, I was always afraid that someone on an e-bike would hit me when I'm trying to cross the road (esp. in the evenings or when the weather doesn't permit a
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by programmertote 11mo ago
What's the benefit for trump and co. helping out Argentina (other than helping a kindred spirit, the current Argentinian president)? I really can't see any benefit for the US in this move. Hopefully, someone more versed in economi
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by programmertote 11mo ago
A tangential note - U.S. Federal Housing agency (FHFA) is currently led by William J. Pulte, who is the grandson of the founder of PulteGroup, one of the largest residential home construction company [ https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by programmertote 1y ago
A tangential note -- these days when I'm casually reading through job postings, a lot of companies mention in their job requirements something along the lines of "Must be familiar/knowledgeable about GenAI technologies (RAG&#
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by programmertote 1y ago
>DOGE did great work, and continues to do great work. Ok, prove it. Your claim warrants that. From what I've seen, DOGE's claims of savings are mostly made-up or erroneous. Not saying the federal government doesn't need ef
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by programmertote 1y ago
I'm approaching mid-forties. As a former Buddhist (up to like the age of 13) turned atheist, I find all the points the author shared in this PDF agreeable. Being self-reliant (being able to find happiness even when alone); being self-a
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by programmertote 1y ago
I generally agree with the thesis of the blog post. I'd like to add that I feel frustrated when try out a screen at a museum and it not working (malfunctioning). I have been to NASA's Kennedy's Space Center (KSC) many times (
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by programmertote 1y ago
Same....I was like does this phone have a stand in the back? Stared at that picture for like 1 minute and gave up. :D
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by programmertote 1y ago
I left Amazon due to RTO. They hired me as a fully remote employee (I was told that the VP of Prime US was one of those who signed off on my remote arrangement). Anyway, a year later, they asked me to move to Seattle or Virginia (wherever t
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by programmertote 1y ago
Thank you for sharing the insights. I always wonder how multi-party system would work and seems like it's not all rose-y like I thought they are... Side note, the individual-level vote buying also happens in the US system unfortunately
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by programmertote 1y ago
Short-sighted actions. Sad to see that the US is taking all these backward approaches while China is charging heads down toward renewal future....
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by programmertote 1y ago
The look of the phone reminds me of Bender from Futurama.
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by programmertote 1y ago
I can't say for others, but this is what I do since Google integrated AI to the search results. For 80% of the time, I'd just type a question and read the AI summary and stop going further. For the other 20% or so when I believe d
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by programmertote 1y ago
It's okay to lose touch with former friends (that is, to not feel guilty). This is part of life and I'm always convinced that my friends, whom I lost contact with, will understand as well. Plus, although we were friends at one poi
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by programmertote 1y ago
Looks good and a step in the right direction (speaking as someone who thinks the modern day trucks are getting too big for the danger of those driving alongside them on the roads). I wonder though if the interior trim can be ordered without
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by programmertote 1y ago
Spouse of an oncology trainee here. This is an accurate statement. But whenever you mention similar thing on public forums like HN or Reddit, you get downvoted. I have a feeling that a lot of pre-meds, current medical residents and doctors
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by programmertote 1y ago
Just one data point to add -- the small firm (~150 ppl) I'm currently working at recently laid off 25 people. The reasoning was there are dark clouds in the horizon in the housing market (the company is related to real estate btw).
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by programmertote 1y ago
Not from my experience. I've worked with all three of them. If one can stick with the web UI to provision permissions and the permissions required are simple/straightforward, Google Cloud (again, this is my personal opinion, so pl
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by programmertote 1y ago
I've been using Windows since 95, and I dislike the fact that Windows nowadays hide a lot of options in context menu. That means I almost always have to click on 'Show more options' to do what I need. Also, Windows Explorer i
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by programmertote 1y ago
I generally agree with your thoughts. I am also concerned about couple of important things: human skill erosion (a lot of new devs who use AI might not bother to learn the basics that can make a difference in production/performance, se
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by programmertote 1y ago
> Fabric feels like a rebrand of existing Azure services, plus a few new beta services that Microsoft is aggressively selling to their customers as fully baked Couldn't agree more. To me, Synapse and Data Factory (ADF) are somewhat
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by programmertote 1y ago
I looked at Fabric a year ago and you're right about it being expensive. That's part of the reason (another being that most of it was just in experimental state at that time) I decided to not use it for production. I'll revie
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by programmertote 1y ago
I have no doubt that a lot of garden-variety diagnoses and treatments can be done by an AI system that is fine-tuned and vetted to accomplish the task. I recently had to pay $93 to have a virtual session with a physician to get prescription
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by programmertote 1y ago
I had an interview with a senior data engineering candidate and we were talking about how expensive Databricks can get. :D I set up specific budget alerts in Azure just for Databricks resources in DEV and PROD environments.

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