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llamataboot
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About llamataboot
social researcher and social worker turned coder -- interested in systems science, social justice, heterodox economics, non-hierarchical decision making, game theory, poker, soccer, theories of consciousness, and magic
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Comment #47760833
A persistent bias in prediction markets is pricing very non likely events as slightly more likely than they are. ie; a 1% event priced at 4%, etc, because people like to bet long s…
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Comment #44772122
Location: US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Possibly FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, but prefer contracts (PT/FT flexible, C2H) Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Python, Op…
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Comment #44511066
right it was the python string transition i was talking about
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Comment #44511056
I hope this is corect - i do agree it has been a long and slow migration path and migrating is fairly easy - migrating python 2 to 3 code was fairly easy as well anyone could do it…
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Comment #44508707
just dont ask about unicode
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Comment #44508700
We learned nothing from Python 2->3 An obviously good change, actually massive performance improvements not hard to implement but its still gonna be such a headache and dependency …
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Comment #44439227
Location: US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No FT?: Open to FTE, but prefer contracts (PT/FT flexible, C2H) Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, Ops (Heroku/AWS/Docker), CI…
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Comment #44287644
Location: US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, very open to contracts, especially if they can fluctuate between PT/FT, or are contra…
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Comment #43670227
eh that's rails 8 by default these days! i actually had a PR to remove that at one point should circle back
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Comment #42903390
Full on musk junta coup huh? Didnt have that on my bingo card exactly. Guess we'll really get to see if theres any rule of law in the US anymore or if its all completely as hollow …
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Comment #42897532
I wish they picked different descriptors than various ox with turbo mini preview etc and some of them shockingly different (o1 preview versus o1 regular for example) just give us t…
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Comment #41434001
Location: US Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, very open to contracts, especially if they can fluctuate between PT/FT, or are contra…
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Comment #41376257
Disappointed they didn't even mention intentional data poisoning - we simply have no idea what trapdoors are being laid in training data yet to be ingested...
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Comment #40950572
The strangest and worst job market I’ve ever seen. Negotiated going to contract only instead of full layoff but literally having trouble even getting interviews. Know three good de…
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Comment #40847687
Location: US/Europe Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No FT?: Open to FTE for right opportunity, very open to contracts, especially if they can fluctuate between PT/FT, or are…
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Comment #40340040
I don't know why this was downvoted - i would agree that by and large people are falling in line and daring to speak up less than I've ever seen in 10+ years...
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Comment #39974092
Senior (10+ years) full stack leaning backend eng - project management, architecture, implementation lead, rails specialist Location: Midwest US Remote: Preferred Willing to reloca…