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lmg643 commented on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry (2021) bti360.com/what-ive-learn... · Posted by u/colinprince
Two bits of advice I'd add, from 30 years in the industry:
* A colleague once said to me, a few years back, "become an expert in one thing", even if it's a small thing.
* "My superpower is reading the manual"
I think "reading the manual" can be be interpreted not just in the literal sense of whether there's an actual manual, but also in the metaphorical sense, to make sure we're considering easily available sources of information. Great advice.
lmg643 commented on New Text and Array Functions for Excel techcommunity.microsoft.c... · Posted by u/eDameXxX
love to see this stuff, reacting to users in the world's #1 accidental entry point to programming. I wish they did this 20 years ago when i was neck deep in Excel daily!
lmg643 commented on The Evolution of THC Vape Cartridges gentlemantoker.com/blogs/... · Posted by u/rd
I am amazed at the level of R&D & economies of scale with vaporizers.
The tech in these - high-power electronics, computer controlled heating profiles etc is quite sophisticated.
Societal evils aside, this could be a very precise drug-delivery system that can be cheaply mass-produced.
That's a great and positive way to look at vaping. Every time I hear about "medical marijuana" I think about the probable link to schizophrenia, which will likely dwarf the pot economy in both direct and indirect costs.
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Spent about 10 seconds finding these using Brave search. For folks who can't resist snarky comments, you have to admit it's strange that this is not at least acknowledged amidst a state-by-state push for legalization.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/
>> "There is now reasonable evidence from longitudinal studies that regular cannabis use predicts an increased risk of schizophrenia and of reporting psychotic symptoms. These relationships have persisted after controlling for confounding variables such as personal characteristics and other drug use. The relationships did not seem to be explained by cannabis being used to self-medicate symptoms of psychosis."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
>> "The results from these longitudinal analyses show the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use disorder has increased 3- to 4-fold during the past 2 decades, which is expected given previously described increases in the use and potency of cannabis."
i love brave, it has transformed search for me, and the results remind me of what Google felt like decades ago. I find stuff on brave that i never would find on google or duck duck go. For example, trying to buy some thuja "green giants" (a kind of tree for landscaping) uncovered dozens of mom and pop operations nationwide, plus the insights from their local websites, that are typically buried under 5 layers of SEO garbage on google.
I think it's ridiculous to force healthy college students to get a covid vaccine, and 100x to mandate a booster. Curious if this becomes a flag or 100x downvote, but at some point we have to face reality - covid just isn't that severe for young folks, and the vaccines offer temporary protection that simply doesn't make sense for low risk groups.
lmg643 commented on If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? abhinavsharma.com/blog/go... · Posted by u/abhinavsharma
Google sucks compared to Google from years ago. It's still vastly superior to the modern alternatives. It doesn't help that almost all alternatives out there are just Bing with different window dressing, so going through alternatives is just annoying as they have all the same holes in the search results.
Another big issue is that everybody just tries to copy Google. I don't need Google in less good, I want to see something that organize the Internet in a more useful way than just plain text search (e.g. what about Youtube-style recommendations for websites, old-school Yahoo-style dictionaries, AI categorization, Dejanews-style search for webforums, a button to filter out everything that requires a login or whatever).
I feel there is a lot of untapped potential that gets missed by just trying to be a Google search clone.
Brave search is fantastic, haven't noticed a difference since moving
lmg643 commented on Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed · Posted by u/boa00
stay positive! all DS skills will be transferable to normal SWE, the best SWE are all multi-language and strong SQL never goes to waste, lastly - many of the best SWE would be even stronger with some DS competencies, so keep at it and I suspect you'll wind up in a pretty awesome place.
Frankly I could see langchain is garbage software just by looking at the code.
It still helps me get shit done fast to figure out how things are supposed to work. Sort of a cookbook of AI recepies. Once I have an approach narrowed down I'll rewrite everything on top of stuff langchain is supposedly wrapping. For now it's faster than tracking down individual libraries and learning the apis. It will stay in notebooks basically.