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vidro3··on Think Linear Algebra (2023)
what's the deal with the loop example? am i supposed to understand what this represents before going through the material?
vidro3··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
what a weird thing to emulate. player coaching is super rare and there were very few good ones in the last 40 years.

why not, managers should be like left handed specialist relievers, they come in for a short time to handle a specific issue and otherwise let the team alone

vidro3··on The Great Unwind
who is the author?
vidro3··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
Ah interesting. Thanks
vidro3··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
How is that possible ? Doesn't h1b have to pay within a set range of wages?

Every h1b role I see posted at my bank pays more than I make so I don't get the lower paid comments

vidro3··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
LGA does it way better, but the walk is a bit longer.
vidro3··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
yeah it's pretty obnoxious.
vidro3··on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm
Democratic super majorities created them. Nixon signed them
vidro3··on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
i mean, you could call them up
vidro3··on Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel
in our app each user polls for a resource availability every 5 mins. do we really need "connection successful" 500x per minute? i dont see this as breaking up the logs into smaller sections. i see it as noise. i'd much rather have a ton of "connection failed" whenever that occurs than the "success" constantly
vidro3··on Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction [pdf]
Having just done a discrete math course the best resource has been Kimberley brehms videos on YouTube which follows very closely to a textbook though I can't recall the author at the moment
vidro3··on MCP: An in-depth introduction
whats wrong with langchain?
vidro3··on The great displacement is already well underway?
the business users asked for it, ergo it makes sense ipso facto
vidro3··on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
if you are asking candidates to complete a take home you should provide at least a partial rubric of how the project will be evaluated.

if you can't provide that then i think you haven't created one, and if you haven't created one i'm guaranteed to be wasting my time because you're just doing vibe interviewing.

vidro3··on The great displacement is already well underway?
same here, i've never had any stats or measurements about any of the features i've built.
vidro3··on Study casts doubt on gluten as cause of gut ailments among non-coeliacs
Gut-directed hypnotherapy? Gtfo
vidro3··on Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?
Is your dad Knuth? What's the book?
vidro3··on 'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
where did you get this from, i didnt see it in the article?
vidro3··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
agreed, this has bugged me for years
vidro3··on The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
what's the use case for call and apply? in 6 years i think i've written .call once
vidro3··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Longitude dava sobel
vidro3··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Longitude
vidro3··on Neolithic boats found in the Mediterranean reveal advanced nautical technology
Askhistorians on Reddit has a lot of posts on it
vidro3··on Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
They've been saying "rescession soon" for 2 years. Wasn't gdp growth like 5% last quarter? Doesn't indicate a recession to me.
vidro3··on Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
Why does an election year indicate a recession?

Rather, who precisely wants a recession now, in your opinion?

vidro3··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
any salary range?
vidro3··on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT
I always assumed the podcast was current with the show but it seems like it's about 4 weeks behind.

e.g. I have Tycho Brahe on March 2 in my podcast app, rss shows it released Feb 2.

vidro3··on Telling your inner critic to chill
the Paris Review often prints draft versions of significant stories, poems, essays, etc. with editorial notes and marginalia on them. It really helps to see how these things weren't always in their final state.
vidro3··on Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
i thought cases were already cropping up prior to that move
vidro3··on Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
these questions are basically copy pasta amongst the lab-leak crowd. that doesn't mean they aren't valid but I think it make sense to question the motivation in this instance.
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