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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I live in SF and my pre Uber experience was about as nonexistent as the cabs and the people at the cab company who were supposed to answer the phone.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Oh sure, if I'm understanding you correctly. It's been a few years since I've wrenched on such code, but IIRC, you can pass any seralizable object you want to the function being executed. We used to pass around an in-memory c
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Could you give an example of state internal to the worker?
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Rather than handling the multiprocessing and message passing yourself it would be much easier to use celery + gevent and let celery do the work of spinning up processes for executing the tasks. It may feel limiting but my advice would be to
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
That is correct. Honestly I’m not sure this is a good use case for Python but it’s definitely possible. I’ve used the RabbitMQ + gevent + multiprocessing pattern in the past and it works but I find the code extremely hard to reason about. I
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Well RabbitMQ is built in Erlang so there you go :)
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Get garbage collected by what? Doesn’t Python use reference counting?
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I wonder if they could theoretically race multiple people at once like chess masters.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Yes, we spent money and engineering time setting up a "data layer" for Google Analytics, though it was mainly to ensure continuity with existing reporting on core site metrics. That said, most routine data collection in our org is
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I don't doubt the bugs. In fact, I expect them because so many of the connectors are community contributed and so I try to think of it as more like GitHub than a curated set of expertly-built connectors. That said, for the time being i
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I think this is fair and I don’t doubt that AirByte jumped on the MDS marketing bandwagon, but the fact that their pricing isn’t inscrutable sets them apart in my view.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I'm a newly minted head of analytics who transitioned from a different domain, so I never had to muck my way through the MDS but attentively watched others from the sidelines over the last few years. Best I can tell, "the modern d
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
With respect to the example I gave, no, there actually isn’t. In fact I don’t even understand what you think the work and costs involved are.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Sorry but I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Google Analytics and BigQuery are both nominally free, the service expense is $1K/year, and the implementation cost literally a few minutes of my time.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
It doesn't always make sense to "collect only the data you need." For example, someone in our org will ostensibly have a good reason for setting up an event in Google Analytics. As the head of analytics I have no use for thei
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
They certainly can under one of the permissible purposes enumerated in the DPPA.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
In CA you can use the lemon law for other stuff. I got the cost of a laptop back that way in small claims court.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
We already have “false light” laws to address this, and they’re rooted in the common law right of privacy rather than the constitutional right.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
What are people using k-means for? I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a good a priori rationale for the value of k.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
You mean like the administration of magnesium in this study?
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Perhaps someone in this thread will know…if I have a set of pg_dump files, is there any way to read them in memory without an instance of PG running somewhere? It’s an actual problem of mine atm.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I’d add Sinclair, WY to that list. I stumbled upon it while driving cross country. It’s kinda surreal.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
You mean someone chooses not to invest because your cap table is on Carta?
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
And what will the damages be? Tort claims require a showing of harm.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
B2B companies do this via LinkedIn ads on the regular.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
That doesn’t make sense. Nobody would have been having sex with cold robots.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
Retaliating against a whistleblower employee is bad news bears in the US
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I contemplated the same problem and concluded the thing to try first would be probabilistic clustering of snippets, but I haven’t actually tried it yet.
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
I would think the transformativeness defense used by appropriation artists might be applicable to establish that a photo of an out-of-copyright image is an “original work of authorship.” Cue Richard Prince to put it to the test…
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by staticautomatic 3y ago
In theory but good lord the pitch event circuit here is excruciating and the coworking spaces have way less vibe than people imagine.

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