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I've been watching this firm slowly die via a thousand self inflicted wounds since 2016. I wish someone had the courage to just close up shop instead of barely limping along.

This is one of my largest pet peeves with Pandas. There's like (or was) three APIs. Half the stuff on Stack Overflow or blogs is from 2013-2015 and deprecated. I feel like I have relearn Pandas every four years since Wes launched it almost a decade ago.

So where does this place Polars? My perhaps incorrect understanding was this (Arrow integration) was a key differentiator of Polars vs Pandas.

So the idea with the bee home is the bees come to me? As opposed to me buying honeybees and a hive? I'm asking out of genuine ignorance not trolling, as I'd love to have bees by my planter box, but I don't have the time to be a bee keeper and and don't want to kill the little guys.

This resonates. I've moved from data engineering into sales engineering. The variety of problems is fun, albeit the context switching with Account Execs that don't respect my calendar is... something.

A lot of my previous data work was someone saying "show me what's interesting"... "no, not that- something else"... "huh, this doesn't jive with my gut, start over".

Bringing _value_ out of data sciene / engineering is incredibly hard. You have to have the engineering skills as baseline, but I firmly believe everyone undervalues the amount of work to "sell" your analysis to less technical folks in a way that's inline with the needs of the org. It's incredibly difficult.

I've dealt with colon cancer in 2016 and again now in the present. I don't what the hell is driving it, but the gut biome is fascinating. It's definitely made me look at my diet and food variety much more seriously. I've started taking probiotics, drinking kombucha from time to time and adopting a more whole food / plant based diet. Does it have an affect? who the heck knows.

Same. Fun sight, but pretty annoying on FF.

Not surprising, shit like this was happening pre-covid as well if you look for it.

So I guess it would be fair to say you compete with Timescale and Clickhouse as a timeseries database?

I hate to shill apps, but Sam Harris’s Waking Up app has really transformed me. It has a steeper learning curve then Calm/Headspace, but that’s because there’s a deeper focus on theory and practice- not just a five minute breathing exercise.

I’m much more content, calmer, and the day to day bs of life just doesn’t get to me as much anymore.

Physically- getting serious about weight training. I much prefer cardio, but lifting heavy has keep me injury free and honestly I like what I see in the mirror now.

In each aspect I try to do something every day. Even if it isn’t perfect, it builds “muscle memory” and I’m less dependent on motivation. Now it compounds even more time after time. Be well :)

I haven't really looked at clojure since 2015? maybe. Nice to see that it's still around. I've never worked with a LISP in a professional setting, but like Haskell it's fun to play around with once and a while.

I did some consulting work for them in the Canary Wharf office back in maybe 2016?-ish. Even then it was clear the firm was in free fall- I've never seen anything like it and that's all I'll say.

Seems like a cool place to work, but I'm always a little weary of venture backed open source companies. When the board wants a liquidity event they'll win over users every time- put more features behind a paywall or force everyone onto a SaaS platform.

Anyhoo, all pure speculation. While I've never used it, my friends have great things to say about DBT.

lol right. I want to rollover my Mcmillen score just like a 401k

WOW. Ray / DCRainmaker is a huge voice in the endurance sports world, you don’t want this kind of publicity from him.

I’ve had a Strava since, forever? Over a decade at this point. It’s the de facto app for cycling and running and is one social media app I get real value from.

I will say- as someone who pays for Strava Premium their product strategy has been a mess for ages. Feature requests go unacknowledged for years and they keep adding silly features no one wants.

I’ll keep using it because my friends are all on it, but it does feel like they are slowly dying of self inflicted wounds.

Athletic Greens, however I can't speak to specific scientific backing.

Sooo many folks here geeking out on their > $1k espresso machines and I'm just sitting here with a burr grinder and a pour over setup for coffee. What am I missing by not drinking espresso?

Off of Cape Cod by Stellwagen Bank you can see dozens any given day in the summer. Bubblenets are incredible to see up close. Another poster stated it perfectly- the intelligence and behavior of these creatures is incredible.

There's a lot of selection bias wrt who submits posts to HN and the types of content they submit. It creates a sort of perception that tech/libraries/languages are moving near the speed of light and anyone who isn't treading along the bleeding edge is obsolete.

As someone who doesn't write Ruby, even I can grok RoR in a few hours. And even though it's boring and not trendy, it gets the job done for a lot of use cases.

I don't have anything of substance to provide wrt clojure macros- it's been almost five years since i've fired up a repl.

I will just say I really miss the Jepsen blog posts. They were always fun to read and I learned a ton.

Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem.

I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get a good overview of “best practices in 2022”?

I wouldn’t mind dusting off my init.el and updating it. I haven’t had a good yak shave in five years or so :)

So if I have a fairly unremarkable setup with LSP to give me completions, what do I get by fooling around with tree-sitter. It seems like this is more geared toward building an AST, so I'm not sure how it would present itself to the end user currently?

I've been very happy so far with the selection here https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-beard-trimme... :)

ahhh, I read too fast. Thank you for this.

It's very exciting, but my first thought was that I'd look like jelly after that thing gets t-boned by a F-150 or some other monster truck. I'm very curious if it even has airbags, the console looks so minimal.

I know that these taxis will be in slowing moving city traffic, but nonetheless it's an automobile and should have (IMO) all of the safety of a modern day sedan.

For context see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33625584#33647770

One thing that this article touches on, but I think needs to be emphasized even more is that the stark reality is that the only advocate for the patient is the patient themselves, or perhaps a caretaker.

The burden is on me to ask questions about fertility and sperm banking because my oncologist is well... an oncologist not a fertility expert. I have to ensure that every department is communicating with every other department.

Hospitals and physicians are fantastic at solving discrete issues, but the bigger picture is often lost in the chaos. I can do it as a technically adept 34 year old, it's horrifying to think about how someone closer to 80 goes about it.

This 100% I used to work adjacent to teams in GTech (Google's customer support org) and asking for a HAR file was standard practice back then, whoever the support agent is just doesn't realize that given the context it may contain sensitive information.

I'm really sorry for your loss. This is a "friendly" debate I've had with my brother and sister-in-law about the FIRE movement. I have all kinds of retirement funds and investments, but even before this cancer bs I've become increasingly YOLO. The past and future don't exist. Which is not to say that people shouldn't plan and make contingencies, but I agree that I think delaying all of your hopes and dreams to some future date is perilous.

Thank you! Millions of folks are going through the same thing, I have to remind myself that I'm so so fortunate to live close to world class hospitals and have a job that provides health insurance.

Thanks I'll check this out!!