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There's an undercurrent of victim blaming here. A lot of companies hire data scientists simply because it's "the thing to do" and they want to appear modern in the marketplace. But…

Did you actually listen to the presentation? They explicitly addressed each of these points (except the bit about the confounding variables, admittedly).

The good examples are _always_ cherry picked.

I'd be interested in seeing other "setting up an electronics workshop" articles by other engineers. Luke Gorrie, for example, has an article here: https://github.com/lukego/solderi…

I'm really curious as to how these were done, or might plausibly have been done. Is this indicated anywhere? After working on audio signal processing for quite a few years, I'm inv…

This makes no sense!

The whole point of the article is to discuss Make.

It kind of makes the whole article irrelevant. Like a house of cards that is build on a foundation of Make, but when you get to the bottom there are no actual Makefiles there.

I've never seen so much disagreement about "what is Buddhism" as I have in online Buddhist communities. Everywhere I turn there is conflict, misunderstanding, and people proclaimin…

The article has the following near the end: "To see more real-world examples of makefiles, see my [World Atlas]( https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas ) and [U.S. Atlas]( https:/…

> I'm currently working with the AWS SDK Python documentation and it's a hot pile of garbage from all points of view (UX, info architecture, technical detail, etc.). I agree that p…

> It makes me sad that many people will use this as an opportunity to write off Buddhist practices. This would be a huge misunderstanding of the article. I read the whole article, …

Homebrew is an awful system, it's the exact opposite of what should be held up as an example of a well engineered "packaging system". It's not even a proper package management syst…

I never knew about MiroTalk before, so I'm happy to see this post. How does it compare with Jitsi, for example?

> wasting time looking up the manuals God forbid!

Ooh, I've never heard of FizzBuzzBang before, but this seems like such a natural (and surprisingly interesting) extension. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm going to check it out.

Interesting to see so many folks here running Exim. It's my favorite MTA primarily because I find it understandable, it has excellent documentation, and I'm used to it as it used t…

> a) I Co-run the Data Science Weekly newsletter. Is the newsletter still running? I looked at the archive on the website and I didn't see anything more recent than April 2022.

Thanks for the information!! I just checked my copy, and it is indeed the Buss translation. I was reading it for several week a few months ago, and I ended up putting it down, just…

How does the Penguin translation stack up? It's the only one I can easily find.

> For software, a programmer literally owns the means of production, so all programmers are bourgeoise? No, they are not. Marxist analysis doesn't really map to information technol…