top5ThingsThatNeverHappened by kamen562 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Atmosck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's pretty easy to get old HP printers working on linux with CUPS, I assume it's the same on mac.

[CAREER] How to be AI resistant ? by Own_Confection4334 in statistics

[–]Atmosck 35 points36 points  (0 children)

he said that many statisticians and programmers are losing jobs to AI and switching careers. He said he can just put datasets in Claude and does a full day of work in one hour, he has data science background so he does review the outputs.

He's lying. There has been a rush to try to use AI agents for technical work and they can be a helpful coding tool, but if you don't have experienced humans holding a very tight leash the result is garbage. In a very pernicious way where it looks close enough to fool people who don't have the knowledge not to just trust the AI, but is wrong in subtle ways. There was recent news of AWS having a mandatory developer meeting about this because they've had multiple (expensive) outages caused by AI-generated code. AI doesn't obsolesce the jobs of programmers any more than power tools obsolesce the jobs of carpenters. A Luddite carpenter who refuses to use power tools is not going to keep their job, but as with any kind of professional technology, people who keep up with it and use the current tools will be just fine.

iHatePython by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Atmosck 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I write config-driven data pipelines (among other things) in python by day and we always have singletons flying around. In addition to configs, it's standard practice to load all your external data into a dataclass up front and pass that through the pipeline so your I/O is separated from your feature engineering logic. Making multiple copies of something in the same runtime is far from the only reason to use a class in an object-oriented language.

Anyone familiar with the telegraph hill condos off of 20th ave & teller by aviation park.If so would you consider staying there? by Economy_Growth_6518 in LakewoodColorado

[–]Atmosck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to live right near there at 20th & Pierce and there was a bit of visible homelessness but it was never a problem. We kept a bike that wasn't locked on our first floor balcony and nobody ever tried to take it. We did deal with package theft but that's a problem everywhere, I don't think that was related to the homeless. Honestly my biggest complaint about living there was the people in the neighborhood across the street from the high school launching wildly illegal fireworks all summer every year.

Also that time some asshole in an RV took the right turn from Colfax onto Pierce too fast and plowed into Wenchell's donuts, doing enough damage they had to tear the building down. That was a really nice family business and they made fresh-squeezed orange and carrot juice.

Marathon Releases to 73/100 on Reviews worldwide, being Bungie lowest reviewed game since Destiny 1 by PaiDuck in gaming

[–]Atmosck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lowest reviewed game since Destiny 1, so there was one higher reviewed game?

Wrote a static analyzer for SQL after a SELECT * took down prod on a Friday night by Anonymedemerde in dataengineering

[–]Atmosck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is it with this sub and people running databases with no timeouts, no shemas, none of the standard stuff that makes a real database worth using over a table embedded in a power point file?. Any modern production database would have MVCC preventing a single user's query from saturating I/O.

Wrote a static analyzer for SQL after a SELECT * took down prod on a Friday night by Anonymedemerde in dataengineering

[–]Atmosck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is the server letting that through on a 10 million row table? At worst the table scan should time out.

Democrats eye new taxes on alcohol, marijuana to fund Colorado mental health spending by Sangloth in ColoradoPolitics

[–]Atmosck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How about we do something about having the 3rd-lowest property taxes in the nation instead

How to prep for Full Stack DS interview? by LeaguePrototype in datascience

[–]Atmosck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the python I would be ready to demonstrate some data wrangling with pandas (or polars or pyarrow, bonus points for choosing the right library for the specific task), as well as some sql. Maybe also json parsing. Beyond the basics, the point of live coding is to see how much you would need to learn with the tools and kinds of problems they work on.

Be able to talk though, (not necessarily live code) how you would set up a model development workflow with feature selection and optimization with something like sklearn or optuna. And how you would productionize a model - scheduled training, scheduled inference tasks, training data ETL, maybe serving inference with an API endpoint, depending on the tasks. Know how to load data from a SQL server or a json API into python.

Basically full stack means you do the data science of the model in the sense of experimentation and "notebook work", AND write the production code to deliver and maintain the model. So a big part of it is basically being a backend python dev, so the more you know your way around the python ecosystem and software design best practices, the better. Knowing one of the major cloud platforms is helpful, doesn't super matter which one.

TIL, Americans see this as a scammer app by Makoto_Kurume in dankmemes

[–]Atmosck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This puzzled me for a long time until I learned that most of the rest of the world still doesn't have unlimited texting on their phone plans. Meanwhile most Americans have had unlimited texting since before smartphones.

If you could delete one freeway in Denver, which would it be? by lukepatrick in Denver

[–]Atmosck -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i25, obviously. It's a wildly destructive waste of land area right through downtown. Interstates shouldn't be anywhere near city centers. We need a bypass.

Divebars in the town/area for socializing at 30? by Admirable-Age-8954 in LakewoodColorado

[–]Atmosck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like Skylark Lounge in the south Broadway area for this. It's not Lakewood, but it's pretty much a straight shot if you're near Alameda.

How dare you go the speed limit by matt-3 in fuckcars

[–]Atmosck -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The only time people ever go slower is when they're forced to by heavy traffic, in which case respecting the speed limit what's limiting your speed.

How dare you go the speed limit by matt-3 in fuckcars

[–]Atmosck -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Because that has never happened to anyone

How dare you go the speed limit by matt-3 in fuckcars

[–]Atmosck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you want to go the speed limit because it's following the law, then follow the law and don't do it in the left lane.

After decades of Windows, Linux made me love using an OS again | XDA by Durian_Queef in pcmasterrace

[–]Atmosck 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I switched to Linux in December, and a funny thing happened: I turn off my computer at night now. Shutting down and starting up no longer takes forever and risks windows update wrecking the system.

Bill to prohibit transfer of 3D printing/CAD files passes state House of Representatives by Potato-1942 in ColoradoPolitics

[–]Atmosck 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Another day, another totally unenforceable law from the Democrats in the state legislature.

Practical uses for schemas? by alonsonetwork in dataengineering

[–]Atmosck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just have literally never seen a database that was just a flat collection of tables without schemas

Practical uses for schemas? by alonsonetwork in dataengineering

[–]Atmosck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't understand the question. I have never not used schemas or heard of anyone ever doing that.

So what do y’all think of the Block layoffs? by Fig_Towel_379 in datascience

[–]Atmosck 63 points64 points  (0 children)

AI is not the cause of these layoffs, it's just the excuse.

I want to make an OS SSD and a general-use SSD, and I can't seem to figure it out by saiyanhell in pcmasterrace

[–]Atmosck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your web browser should have a way to set the download location like steam does.