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This video has a bunch of cherry picking results and sound bites from already underpowered studies.

Given that you already rely on Polars, did you consider providing a pure Rust interface to Metaflow?

75MB/5 sec benchmark results (using internal AWS network to pull from S3!) sound dubious. You can get 4Gbps+ down from S3 within the same region in my experience, that's 30x faster…

I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confusing, and ec2instanc…

> Another mistake was that when originally released Python 3 did not offer enough shiny new things to convince people that going through the pain of upgrading was worthwhile. This …

C++ is a pretty low bar, to be honest. But yeah Delphi was awesome!

That one sounds fairly similar to manslaughter, no? My understanding is that logically there's that basic framework of required specific intent, then there are a few crimes that al…

Good point. One answer is that manslaughter is already a special case, as it doesn't require intent to kill anyway, only negligence.

> Cisco continues to dominate routers, despite China's attempt to steal from them and clone their products. Huawei revenues are already on par with Cisco, at least that one worked …

Come on, if that was true they would never be able to hire tens of thousands of engineers. They do have high false negative rate (by design) but it is far from impossible to pass. …

If you are reducing the number of shares outstanding from 32,000,000 to 400,000, it is 80:1 not 8:1 reverse split. In your example, employee would have 100 not 1000 shares post spl…

So of course I'm generalizing, not everyone is like that, not everyone's CS degree is like that, etc. etc. Also, more true for recent grads. But in my experience people with advanc…

I guess author assumes that if you don't know basic things like that, it is questionable that your degree is a proof that you "can learn a field etc." Not sure that I agree on the …

Frankly it is a bit weird way to describe it. It is not some quirks of liquidation preferences that "ruined" it. It is ruined by a simple fact that this hypothetical startup earned…

I don't think it was free, but again entire Microsoft toolchain wasn't free in 90s, so nothing special about C here.

>Things are getting better. In what sense? MS platform had a working C compiler for decades.

Google/Facebook/Apple may not be as concerned by this as you may think; strategically, they would probably be happy if slow decline of advertising income on desktop would eventuall…

You can't really use KD trees with lat/lon coordinates, at least you can't use euclidean distance there for nearest neighbor search. First, longitude wraps from -180 to +180 at ant…

As an engineer with ten years of software dev experience who interviews quite a lot of candidates for my current team, I'd say don't overthink this. BigO, data structures and havin…

While all maps like this tend to make little practical sense since they inevitably over-generalize and over-simplify things, I'd still like to point out that they got "columnar" ca…

There is no need to guess, data published by Dept of Labor (original source for this infographic) includes company names, specific position names and exact salaries. Glassdoor was …

I've seen these talks from CCC few years ago, tried that myself (on myself) and SS7 only gave MSC id, which is wayy more coarse than cell tower level -- like, 1M customers per MSC …

For STEM fields (esp. software) it was relatively easy to get H1B visa until 2013, yet very few people (think couple thousands per year) actually did that compared to 1990s if you …