CactusOnFire

Duck Duck Go is great at naive searches, though having context into why I'm searching for something can be helpful too.

I couldn't make the switch over for my work while programming.

My BA degree required taking a class called 'Critical Thinking' which focused on formal logic.

I do agree with the sentiment, and that schools need a massive overhaul, but I figured that I should provide my 1 data point to the discussion.

I got one of the AWS certifications.

I know it's a scam. HR teams don't. If ponying up $400 every 3 years gets me a more senior position with slightly better compensation, it's worth the ROI.

This seems like an awfully abstract theory.

I think it's simpler to say that "Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays" has become this point of contention because Merry Christmas only applies to Christians, whereas Happy Holidays does not.

The divisive, bi-partisan nature of American politics has just turned this small distinction into a fight.

The concept of using human neural networks instead of artificial neural networks is both terrifying and intriguing.

Am I an asshole for just thinking that at this scale of complexity, it's just easier to build things using a web-app framework?

Yeah "forcing version control" seems like a feature (pertaining to data governance), not a bug.

It was inevitable.

Both Databricks and Snowflake have inflated marketing budgets, and marketing feels they have to "beat" the other one or they'll lose the market.

This is a flex.

That thesis is over-reaching. What I would say, though, is that D&D has such market penetration, it's become like kleenex: the uninitiated cannot think of the concept of a TTRPG without thinking of D&D.

While other TTRPG's are still free to exist, it is much harder to convince a new player to hop on board with anything else (or to even explain to them how there are games very similar to Dungeons and Dragons that aren't Dungeons and Dragons).

It doesn't help that things like the term "DM" are patented by WotC, too.

I don't trust developers who can't come up with a more creative, less confusing name.

Like, you can at least name it after another variant of Mango to make the name more interesting, or call it something similar but with a little more variation (like MangroveDB)

It's all just a long-play by the windows 13 people, who will have their revenge as a dish served cold.

I find it really interesting how I had never heard of OCaml before frequenting HN, but how incredibly passionate so many people here are about the language.

It honestly seems like a great lang, and I hope I get to try it out for a project sometime soon.

I always felt like they should have made MissingNo a canonical pokemon.

I became a Data Scientist because in 3rd year, I found the OKCupid data blog and realized their research had methodological soundness these "20 undergraduate lab students forced to be there" research never would.

You trade 'shot-in-the-dark lab experiments' for 'a clear and obvious agenda'. The trick is to just make sure the agenda isn't morally reprehensible.

Both the pro and con of Foundry is that it's a lot more 'development oriented' than other virtual tabletop solutions. This means it's more customizable, but has a higher barrier to entry.

Honestly, I liked Azure's web UI better than AWS's.

It felt easier to navigate from one service to another.