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Richen the dataset it’s trained on enough so that the model is correct before you release it to prod.

To be fair, I check a number of different forecast sites (including Windy) and follow a lot of different weather bloggers but no one knew this storm was a thing until a few days ago. And all of the models had it as a Cat 2 until yesterday.

Moral hazard has entered the chat.

Turbine failures, lack of redundancy, 100 year old equipment with no supply chain.

I live in a part of town affected by one of the pump outages. In any other city in the country this would be shocking and whatnot. Here it’s an opportunity to lampoon the local government because that’s all we have.

I’ve found that a lot of my co workers have stated to do this. It’s turned into a disconnected, tech siesta.

I worked at GE when this was done. Because a lot of things decided what was GE/not GE based on coming from a 3.x address it caused chaos. They called it 3-dot-geddon

It’s a race condition to the bottom.

In Dr Vogel's keynote presentation he brought up Netflix and Chaos Monkey specifically as precursors to this service.

I have to use Ping ID quite a bit to log into customers' systems. I also live in south Louisiana.

The last 5 months have been extremely difficult to maintain focus because, for me at least, it's really difficult for my brain to not check tropical forecasts every time I look at my phone.

I've noticed that my productivity triples when there are no storms in the gulf due to the fact that it's much easier to maintain my attention on engineering tasks. I've thought of setting up a second phone that I have with ONLY ping on it, but I feel that it's the stress driving me to check the tropics, and if I took the time to create a 'just ping' device my mind would find another way to compulsively check.

I spent most of this afternoon tying to get cuda in docker to work on my Mac for a machine learning use case. It doesn’t. Because nvidia

Someone just found the other half of their deep fake GAN

I contacted apple support and got a new pair. Free (with credit card hold until I sent the defective pair back). So far so good. But if it happens again... yeah not sustainable.

Also Requires visual studio

I work for a company based in a major west coast city from a non-major city in the southeast. My employer has different buckets it puts cities in and then limits your base pay based on those buckets. Even with that limitation, my compensation is much higher than what I would make at a local company but not the rate I would get in a 'premium' market.

The most impactful benefit for me is I get to work on $big_city problems with $big_city talent. $Small_town problems and the $small_town talent are mind-numbing and deeply frustrating to work with

Reads like oracle needed discounted licenses in exchange for a presser about adding some infrastructure to oracles cloud

Microsoft set Skype on fire in a parking lot a few years ago in favor of Teams. Now we're just watching it burn itself out.