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Oh, the invisible hand is definitely there. Though, it's just slipping into your back pocket and lifting your wallet.

For anyone interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Corporations that pay employees below subsistence levels are indirectly bailed out by food stamps programs. I wouldn't depend on them for moral anything.

From an organizational standpoint its better because it lets a sysadmin/security person sandbox anything and everything instead of having to become proficient with the tooling for …

I think the key to being happy as an introvert is not depending on the approval and adoration of others for your accomplishments. If you do, you're going to be bitter and toxic ove…

Perhaps it's the combination of AI being so overhyped in the general public plus media that's already inundated with CGI, that it just doesn't blow them away?

Best one I've encountered is: "Customers whose accounts are up for renewal, are the ones most at risk of churning"

They're basically following this process to build their products: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

If you need big data, the thing you are looking for is small and the effect size of what you are optimizing will also be small.

Just reading certain code is enough to taint a human programmer though. Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects because they hav…

Just need to reword it a bit, "This Disney character doesn't exist" can also be "This is not a Disney character (because it doesn't exist)". Sums up the assertion being made well t…

An interesting exercise would be recreating an entire program/tool that is GPL using copilot and releasing under a less restrictive license. Could one could argue that the effort p…

I used it a long time ago in a program that read large structured text files. What was 100s of MB of text in memory became a fraction in size after interning the tokens.

>We have evidence suggesting that cannabis use, primarily THC in cannabis, in genetically predisposed or at-risk populations, leads to earlier diagnosis of psychosis/schizophrenia.…

This is it. Even with keeping photos and music on a micro SD card, the internal storage for the OS and apps is often woefully undersized.

>Customers don't even want to download more apps, let alone pay money for them. I'm at the point where each OS update means another app gets purged from my phone.

The best datascience projects are ones that started collecting good data 3 months ago. The hardest thing I've had to do is convince engineers to involve DS people in the design pha…

All the confluence hate speaks to my soul. It's where ideas go to die. If you want to start a successful internal project and someone tells you to start documenting your ideas ther…

People have elderly parents too.

Everything turning into an edit action when I just want to click a link or copy a bit of text is super annoying! Also is thinking you're in a text field, typing out something and r…

I find it really interesting that one of the consequences is increased obesity in offspring. It's basically evolution passing on the message from one generation to the next: "Pack …

DNA methylation! I first read about it from this study in 2014: https://reporter.mcgill.ca/dna-signature-found-in-ice-storm-...