willahmad.com
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we started with codemonkey.com, felt a little tedious, but I am pretty sure my kid picked up some knowledge unconsciously
then we did Scratch and Python with the 'turtle' library. She liked both, but Scratch gave her the feeling of achievement faster, because typing was taking too long
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enjoy, you deserve rest until the end of the year 🎉😎
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A simple example, was the Iraq war good?
Put the boundaries of the military industrial complex and you get the answer: YES
Put the boundaries of innocent people of Iraq, the answer is definitely: NO
Both are facts, just boundaries and perspectives are different
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Boundaries of math are strict and defined by axioms and formulas.
Boundaries of journalism are loose and defined by biases and incomplete facts (which makes it difficult to draw strict lines)
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If journalism is exercised by human beings, journalists, there will always be a bias.
It's very difficult to get over the bias obtained through years of life experience. We just can't start behaving like robots with no emotions.
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no you are not, finding absolute truth is not so easy sometimes
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"Why I'm paying $200/month for ChatGPT Pro"
reality: I'm not, I just wanted another LI post to stay relevant in LI algorithm and asked GPT-4o to write a post about why I should pay 200$/month for GPT
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Coding skills are not enough to really make an impact as a software engineer.
You also need to understand the business purpose of every piece of code you write.
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Your style is amazing, especially how you communicate emotions 👏
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I do agree that "Mean" (in most contexts) can hide useful information (or meaningless), but when an event is expected to be rare, mean/avg stats can still be helpful to improve the system.
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I think this is a very similar discussion about mean time vs percentiles for latencies. And a lot of times we look at P99.
IMO, MTTR was selected for business purposes, coz when it comes to systems out of control, it should be rare, when it's rare, difficult to rely on percentiles.
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interesting 🤔, any reason why MTTR is meaningless? in which context recovery time is meaningless?
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under the rainy blue sky
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History repeats: shop.boox.com/products/mira
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As a user - it limits my UX options and gives me less room to make mistakes (e.g. page size = 100k, and waiting forever or showing items multiple times in different pages).
But offset based pagination is so appealing to use, who doesn't want to see the last page of results 😭
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obviously depends on the use case, personally I would prefer cursor based pagination.
As a developer - allows me to apply different types of optimization freely (e.g. storing IDs to skip in the cursor), creates artificial constraint to users
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... which reduces the need for peer review.
probably except for security/crypto related stuff.
In the case of crypto, the author may assume their solution is working but other experts might be able to crack it (theoretical flaw or just white hat hacking)
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I think there was a good utility for peer review in the past, especially for theoretical stuff: different perspective, critical feedback, things the author might have missed and so on.
But CS is a different beast, you can benchmark it, build it, test it at scale, online collaborations,...
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RAG on top of AWS blogs/news?
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😄👍
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it's a great device for writing and reading, but I still can't get used to color flashing when navigating to the page with colored highlights 😔