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400 μg per dose is still probably overestimating by quite a bit.
same. i also did this with twitter when elon took over. i haven’t been tempted at all to log in to either despite spending probably the majority of my time online between the two for years. and it’s weirdly fine.
Re:CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library on Thursday June 29, 2023 @11:07PM (#36530070)
this one use case justified copilot as an expense for me.
so, 2 related questions for people with product experience on something with this sort of scale and potential downsides.

- would this not be one of the best examples of when to use small, incremental canary releases with the emergency feature enabled?

- if you did do a canary release, i would think that one of your first contacts be EMS in the area that you were planning on rolling out the feature to, so that you’d get good feedback directly rather than through news reports. do apple and google just not do this?

there’s a logitech bluetooth silent mouse i really like and would carry it on my laptop at work from meeting room to meeting room. i had 3 in 2 years, dropped each once, they were all broken on the first fall.

kinda wish they were able to withstand falls onto hard surfaces but it’s also a) my fault, and b) not an expectation i have of a mouse in general.

but it’s also a good reason to not just take any consumer device onto a sub, because functioning after a drop would absolutely be a requirement.

who leases a lambo
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to communicate data analysis? on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:49AM (#33572539)
entirely depends on the requirements. however having said that, if your customer requests a quick one-off report you can guarantee they’ll ping you in a month asking for an update by 930am when they need to present updated results. if your customer requests a real time dashboard that requires bespoke data integrations there’s about a 50% chance they’ll look at it a couple times per month and then after a couple quarters just stop using it entirely.
Re:Best books recommended by 80 profitable founders on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:35AM (#33572456)
if everyone read more books, took career development seriously, etc i do agree that some qualities or skills would lose a bit of market value, but the overall take that no one would be better off seems like way too much if a zero sum perspective.

i think a higher standard of professional competency in general would benefit everyone, and i can’t imagine some sort of equilibrium of skillsets in the labour market where there would be no opportunity to set yourself apart in your field.

Re:4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:01PM (#33569830)
it’s really just an observation about what the market conditions are for a specialised technical position compared to a general project/program manager. i have nothing against my manager specifically or managers in general.
Re:4% will quit if revealed co-workers earn more money on Friday November 11, 2022 @07:54AM (#33560216)
if i found out i made less than my manager i’d rage quit.
> On a DEX you can't even know if the person on the other end is a real person or not without going outside the chain.

why does it matter if the counterparty is a human?

Re:Hello on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:01AM (#33490944)
installed a zip hydro tap a couple years ago and i’ve never once regretted it
good, i hate how many devices and applications make me turn off capitalisation.
his mention of the disintegration loops is the first time i’ve thought about them in like 15 years probably but i used to listen to them a lot before bed. can’t wait to listen again and see what memories come up.
> After the 3rd attempt, last being a nexus 5, I gave up.

coincidentally i think the nexus 5 was also my 3rd and final android. i actually really liked that phone. then i took an international flight and after landing it was suddenly bricked. wouldn’t turn on at all. so strange.

Re:Using machine learning to predict the leads that close on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:24PM (#33111175)
“Working with the medium group gave the biggest uplift.”

Anecdotally, I’ve seen the same thing in a B2C context. The uplift in the highest probability group was so bad that we would leave those leads alone completely, even though the marginal cost of an email or sms is basically 0 as a % of revenue from a successful conversion.

Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:51AM (#32940660)
“ AWS vs. GCP on-demand provisioning of GPU resources performance is wildly different”

yeah i guess it does make sense that one didn’t win the a/b test

open rates are inaccurate but still somewhat useful because they’re generally consistently inaccurate month to month unless there’s been a change that would affect a lot of subscribers (eg iOS recently).

click rates are probably a better proxy for this.

even if you are employed and can’t make your work public, just a few small projects will improve your chances. i’ve spent the last 6 or so months interviewing applicants for senior programmer/analyst roles and the number of otherwise qualified candidates who have _literally zero_ public repos or projects or code samples is astounding.
I’ve been this developer in a lot of interviews. We don’t typically do in-interview coding questions so it would be a little weird if someone just threw one at me — although I guess it would depend on the context of the question.

My style of interviewing is to have a as casual a conversation as possible with someone about their experience, ask them to do a deep dive into a solution they’ve delivered, what they could have optimised better, what they learned in the process (technical or otherwise), what were the pain points, etc etc.

I find the best applicants get me talking quite a bit about related projects we’ve worked on. It fits the flow of the interview, which is important. Asking me to whiteboard a random algorithm would be bizarrely out of place, but i’ve 100% whiteboarded hypothetical architectures while responding to questions from applicants. If we’re to that step then it’s usually a pretty good sign.

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:51PM (#31926141)
depending on the tone, “mate” can be way more aggressive than “cunt”.
Re:Ask HN: How to level up your technical writing? on Saturday June 25, 2022 @10:53AM (#31875777)
https://imgur.com/a/rWEmPI9

clearly mark twain took the orwell advice to heart.

Re:Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it? on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:25PM (#31787033)
the FT has probably the best info:word count ratio of any daily publication i’ve ever read
in a similar position (actually exactly the same position by title) and would really love to find some solid resources that combined the ops and governance aspects of enterprise analytics a succinct way.
“Most people are supremely mediocre and there are just and many horrible devs as their are great ones.”

if this is true (not arguing either way), then he is almost surely undervaluing himself since most of those mediocre or horrible devs don’t work 80 hour weeks or are regularly on call.