Rainymood

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Comment · 2 years ago
As a machine learning platform engineer these sound like technology choices as opposed to infrastructure decisions. I would love to read this post but really with the infrastructure trade-offs that were made. But thanks for the post.

Side node: There is a small typo repeated twice "Kuberentes"

Comment · 2 years ago
A shower thought I had recently is that we should start referring to "Business cases" as "Survival cases" and "Business books" as "Survival books" and that makes the inherent bias so much clearer.
Comment · 2 years ago
So, effectively, there was... no rule.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have one notebook that I carry around where I list tasks just in order to cross them out. There is something so viscerally satisfying in crossing out a task that just provides so much momentum to whatever I'm doing. There's just something beautiful about making the implicit explicit and then striking it through.
Comment · 4 years ago
Very interesting post and I read it in full. The article is definitely interesting but I found it a shame that the author didn't talk more about his system that brought him from 5k to 200k as the title implies :)
Comment · 4 years ago
I asked this question 5 years ago in an AMA the CEO did once here, but they plainly ignored me and are a unicorn 5 years later. The trick here is to move so fast that the law has trouble keeping up (same with Uber/AirBNB).
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm half asian and I get the "Asian flush" [0] which for all intents and purposes induces the same effect as this drug (DSF)

>Individuals who experience the alcohol flushing reaction may be less prone to alcoholism. Disulfiram, a drug sometimes given as treatment for alcoholism, works by inhibiting acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, causing a five to tenfold increase in the concentration of acetaldehyde in the body. The resulting irritating flushing reaction tends to discourage affected individuals from drinking.[9][10]

I literally have a negative feedback loop from drinking alcohol, it makes me feel really bad, my skin flushes, I feel my heartbeat in my chest/neck/head, and I literally feel miserable.

Honestly, it kind of sucks, because when you can't drink you notice how much socialising is based around alcohol. I've found ways to cope with this and am on good terms with myself now but it really took me a long time. Especially to get around the social/peer pressure of having to drink.

On the bright side, I'll likely never become an alcoholic.

Comment · 4 years ago
Very happy that Brandon Sanderson is looking more and more healthy as time goes on :) love his writing
Comment · 4 years ago
As a Dutch person, I was never taught this, I can see it is good practice but we just don't do it. All we do is check over our shoulders before we open the door because we know there can be a cyclist. Why? Because we are all cyclists so we know it can happen...
Comment · 4 years ago
I liked the post a lot, but I am furiously sceptical about this claim:

>This is why Apple Maps has higher market share than Google Maps

Do you have any (recent) source for this or is this just a wild guess? I literally know no one that prefers Apple Maps over Google Maps.

Comment · 4 years ago
I use PyCharm JetBrains for most of my development work, the testing/debugging setup just works too good out of the box.

I just wish PyCharm 100% copied the way search/find works in VS Code. PyCharm search and find is so awkward, and VS Code's is so good.

Comment · 4 years ago
>In NL, you pay ~€110/month annually, with a max out-of-pocket cost of €385 per year. So, maximum €1600 cost annually.

My provider, CZ, charges ~€150/month with max-out-of-pocket ~€385. If you get the full ~€850 out of pocket then your monthly payment drops to ~€110/month.

Comment · 4 years ago
I love this so much. No frills, just software solving (boring) problems in a scalable way. All the best :)

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