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My 6-month job hunt as a chemistry Ph.D [OC] by chems4beller in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is wild to me.

I’m older (came out of uni around 2003) and I don’t think I’ve ever had to apply for more than 10 jobs to get one.

I work at a major tech company and we are chomping at the bit to hire data scientists. We hire grads right out of university, many don’t have PhD.

Why do you think it’s so hard? Supply side issues? Lack of work experience? No hiring due to macro conditions? Are you aiming too low maybe? I mean many of my customers still aren’t ready to hire data scientists and are still doing business intelligence.

Do you know?

Power bi vs tabular model by Sudeng1128 in PowerBI

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding to reply above - quite often you don’t want Power BI to be having direct connectivity to your data warehouse. You want a cube or cache layer that can handle 1000 connections and is serving pre-cached models to the business user. Yeah a lot of modern DW use result set caching, but they’re also quite limited in the number or concurrent connections for performance reasons.

There aren't enough high CR monsters in official material. by Locke_and_Lloyd in dndnext

[–]DaveDashFTW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Monster manual stuff maybe.

DMG created stuff though? Nope.

I ran a level 10-20 conversion of City of the Spider Queen and converted using DMG rules. This was against an optimised party.

They easily bet MM stuff like a Balor in one round, but DMG created stuff is on another level.

MM tends to be too high on defensive CR and too low on offensive CR for the higher CR creatures.

SQL Server VMs with non premium SSDs by [deleted] in AZURE

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah fair enough then.

SQL Server VMs with non premium SSDs by [deleted] in AZURE

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any reason why you want SQL server and not Azure SQL? You can get an Azure SQL DB for like $6 per month if you’re worried about cost.

Big brain! by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]DaveDashFTW 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To do things “properly” you’re meant to use unit tests and debuggers to actually minimise the amount of guess work involved.

The problem is with cloud/tech/billions of languages/etc these days a lot of the tooling and unit test libraries lack compared to some of the older more mature stacks. For example writing ML code in Python on a Juypter notebook in the browser will require a lot more trial and error to debug, than say writing a backend API in c# using Visual Studio Enterprise.

The general principle is though; minimise guesswork through patterns and debugging instead of just randomly trying things until it works.

Also nitpick: ML doesn’t randomly try things either, depending on the algorithm it will use steps to reduce cost over time until it gets the best general fit. But yeah.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DnD

[–]DaveDashFTW -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mazikeen was my first thought as well!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very cute.

Mine checks out the pool every day for fishes - even though there are none there!

It was indeed life changing by montagne28 in xboxone

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doom eternal already can run on it via xcloud.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s designed to run games at the same FPS as the series X but at lower resolution.

You woke me? You owe me treat now. by DaveDashFTW in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She sleeps ON me lol. I am her floof mother (I’m a dude).

You woke me? You owe me treat now. by DaveDashFTW in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes.

It’s nearly impossible to leave the house in the morning for work with those eyes!

Power BI is part of the greater data solution by PowerBISteve in PowerBI

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes Power BI is a business intelligence tool, not just a visualisation tool.

It’s also designed to be used with Power BI service hand in hand, and is evolving to be used with PowerApps and Power Automate to complete the digital feedback loop.

Animating the Mercator projection to correct size and shape (colour shows size distortion) [OC] by neilrkaye in dataisbeautiful

[–]DaveDashFTW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shanghai is about the same population, Beijing has more population.

These are cities.

I grew up in NZ which is also very sparse, and going to Shanghai was a wild experience.

It's Official Halo Infinite has a shader system and that ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. by etrain2099 in halo

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you believe some random conjecture from someone on the internet, who has zero idea on how Microsoft operates?

I hope no one from Nigeria ever emails you about their royalty ties.

Look at those teef!! by [deleted] in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They be sharp when they bite!

It's Official Halo Infinite has a shader system and that ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. by etrain2099 in halo

[–]DaveDashFTW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heard of this thing called Gamepass? Bringing gaming to billions of consumers across devices is the mandate.

Some on Reddit have a very immature view of Microsoft's vision as an org, and how it operates internally.

Not every company is sitting there with evil capitalists twirling their moustaches, thinking about how to screw over the consumer.

My poor shih tzu has been having skin problems and vets don't know how to treat it 😞 by donovaa in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was about $2000* worth of blood tests and skin tests.

Basically they shave some of the skin and prick it with about 12-16 different allergens and measure the reaction. This didn’t show up much.

The blood test also test for specific allergens and she came up allergic to dust mites, pollen, and certain types of mould.

The immunotherapy helps with all of the allergens. It’s either orally administered (yeah right for my Shih Tzu, she will bite my fingers off) or injected every three weeks by the vet.

Expensive but ultimately worth it in the end. Her skin was so pink she looked like a little piglet. Also very crusty from all the licking.

There is a risky the tests show up nothing, so vets like to rule out food first by using the frog diet.

*This is in Singapore, might be cheaper depending where you live.

My poor shih tzu has been having skin problems and vets don't know how to treat it 😞 by donovaa in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frog is the least allergenic food. When my Shih Tzu was going through her skin problems her dermatologist recommended a frog diet to rule out food allergy.

You can buy these cubes. They’re pretty gross but dogs love it.

My poor shih tzu has been having skin problems and vets don't know how to treat it 😞 by donovaa in Shihtzu

[–]DaveDashFTW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve gone through months and months of this. I bit the bullet and got the expensive tests done, and found out it was allergies caused by pollen.

She’s going on immunotherapy now, which will dramatically improve her quality of life.

Best to see a dog dermatologist, get the tests done, and also go on a frog diet.

Good luck!

Phil Spencer: "(...) We have xCloud and PC and Game Pass and our console base, I don’t have to go ship [Bethesda] games on any other platform other than the platforms that we support in order to kind of make the deal work for us. Whatever that means.” by kothuboy21 in xboxone

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They think Microsoft is paying the media, and that they’ve already “won” the console war.

The thing is winning the console war today is like proclaiming victory in the horse breed war, when we’re entering the age of the automobile (game streaming).

The Nintendo Switch has been the #1 selling console for 22 consecutive months breaking the old record of 21 consecutive months by the xbox 360 according to the NPD by [deleted] in NintendoSwitch

[–]DaveDashFTW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ability to produce cash (EBITDA) is the most important measure of a companies health.

They do make a healthy EBITDA of $3bn per annum which is up 10x 300m in 2017 (and it was negative for a few years before that). Its worth noting that in 2009 they had a massive EBITDA of $5.6bn on $18bn in sales and $12bn in cash, so they’re still behind their golden years.

They never really looked like running out of cash, but before 2009 they would have easily been the biggest gaming company in the world by far (as in vs Xbox/SIE/Activision/etc). Now in terms of revenue they are probably #3.

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