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bluedemon commented on Companies need junior devs   softwaredoug.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
kelseyfrog · 2 years ago
We've found good result hiring candidates who've experienced some form of ego-death. It's a difficult signal to separate from the noise of the talent pipeline, but until people start filling their resumes with meditation buzzwords, it will suffice.
bluedemon · 2 years ago
I wonder if this why Steve Jobs preferred to hire those who had experienced LSD. I think I saw a video of him mentioning this.
bluedemon commented on Using AI to fight insurance claim denials   sfstandard.com/2024/08/23... · Posted by u/jpmattia
bluedemon · 2 years ago
I wonder if someone made one for credit card disputes.
bluedemon commented on Show HN: Interviews Chat – Never bomb another job interview with this AI copilot   interviews.chat... · Posted by u/akorna
bluedemon · 2 years ago
What's the subscription plan price after the free credits run out?
bluedemon commented on The Birth of Parquet   sympathetic.ink/2024/01/2... · Posted by u/whinvik
calderwoodra · 2 years ago
I've been struggeling with a tough parquet problem for a few months now.

I have a 15gb parquet file in a s3 bucket and I need to "unzip" and extract every row from the file to write into my database. The contents of the file are emails and I need to integrate them into our search function.

Is this possible to do without an unreasonable amount of RAM? Are there any affordable services that can help here?

Feel free to contact me (email in bio), happy to pay for a consult at the minimum.

bluedemon · 2 years ago
Perhaps look into using dlt from https://dlthub.com, using pyarrow or polars. It handles large datasets well, especially when using generators to process the data in chunks.
bluedemon commented on Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights   abcnews.go.com/Politics/a... · Posted by u/vyrotek
bluedemon · 2 years ago
Nice. I like the refund more than the vouchers. Good job Biden team: https://apnews.com/article/airlines-junk-fees-baggage-delays...
bluedemon commented on A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)   theparisreview.org/blog/2... · Posted by u/jfax
mc32 · 2 years ago
There is something odd about this persons numbers. It’s the 80s and on occasion the number zero is written with a slash through it, but most of the time not. I’m not sure there was a prevalence to distinguish 0s from Os in type back then.

Maybe it was some one else later who wrote that.

bluedemon · 2 years ago
It was not uncommon to draw a line through the zero to distinguish it from the letter ‘O’. Similarly, a slash was often added to the letter ‘Z’ to prevent confusion with the number 2.

On rare occassions, I still kind of do it.

bluedemon commented on Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse   techcrunch.com/2024/04/09... · Posted by u/croes
Kalium · 2 years ago
As a security person trying to work with marketing and data engineering teams, I've often found them very resistant to learning how to secure things. They generally want to use the tools they know, in the way they know, to do the tasks they understand, on a timeline they find convenient.

Anything that tries to get them to understand the risks they are taking or the sensitivity of the data, much less de-risk their workflows, is treated as an obstacle to be routed around. Often, the best I can hope for is a token effort at negotiation where their goal will be to avoid any and all changes on their part. After which I will have to monitor them carefully, because from experience the odds of them backsliding within a week are uncomfortably high.

Nothing about this is conducive to producing a healthy environment. When people's idea of "easy" is they can download the company's most sensitive data to their laptop to load into Jupyter, any amount of security controls will come as an imposition.

bluedemon · 2 years ago
A question for you and anyone else in security:

Given that many data engineers have a data science, data analytics, BI, or software engineering background, I'm curious if you've noticed any trends in their approach to data security?

bluedemon commented on So Google's Gemini Doesn't Like Python Programming and Sanskrit?   new.pythonforengineers.co... · Posted by u/shantnutiwari
bluedemon · 2 years ago
Gemini keeps disappointing me. It keeps making code up that is not accurate. I asked it some questions about a python library and the answers were inaccurate. I even instructed it to refer to the docs, but it still fails as Gemini made up methods that don't exist.

I also asked Gemini about git and that didn't go well either.

bluedemon commented on Marlon Brando Was a Secret Tech Geek and Photoshop Ace (2015)   yahoo.com/entertainment/m... · Posted by u/thunderbong
UberFly · 2 years ago
He was a unique talent but also apparently really lazy. Wouldn't study his lines & insisted on them being fed to him via earplug. I liked this story though, he seemed like an interesting guy.
bluedemon · 2 years ago
His "laziness" could be attributed to having ADHD.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355022506_Marlon_Br...

bluedemon commented on Act II of Arc Browser [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJF... · Posted by u/mistermatt
bluedemon · 2 years ago
I used it for a few days, and it would spin up the fans on my MacBook Pro after a few minutes. I also wasn’t pleased with the tab management. And then I forgot about it.

u/bluedemon

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