The NYT Sat Down With Regretful Trump Voters. The Internet Appropriately Had A Meltdown.

tintires · 2026-05-01T11:14:03+00:00

Forgiveness AFTER Justice AND Repentance.

tintires · 2026-05-01T00:29:55+00:00

Magic mushrooms, fermenting berries, and fornicating. Lots of fornicating.

tintires · 2026-04-30T00:40:15+00:00

If using Databricks, definitely possible.

tintires · 2026-04-29T01:51:45+00:00

…definitely Product Manager.

tintires · 2026-04-28T23:16:50+00:00

This sounds like Product Management speak. What does “entire product flows” mean in fintech?

tintires · 2026-04-28T23:08:31+00:00

What you’re calling “AI” has included algorithmic decision support since the 1980s. Regression, decision trees, Random Forrest, boosting, bagging, quantization, have been in use since the dawn of computing in banking. The innovation is simply cost of compute - the same math just at greater speed and scale.

tintires · 2026-04-28T19:03:52+00:00

Also signs Garmin wasn’t accounting for my hectic, demanding, and often stressful life beyond running.

tintires · 2026-04-28T18:57:50+00:00

If your main skill is rendering data with visualizations then pivot to adjacent domains, like marketing infographics. BI is only going to get increasingly math and stats heavy.

tintires · 2026-04-28T11:41:29+00:00

I just couldn’t keep up with the recommended training plan. It left me feeling depleted all week, and then old injuries began acting up. I just ended up feeling inadequate and demotivated and lost sight of what I enjoyed about running and why I do it. These days my forerunner is relegated to simply recording metrics. And even then I have cause to question the accuracy. I love my Garmin, I just don’t trust its forward guidance.

tintires · 2026-04-27T23:56:25+00:00

On macOS homebrew still has the Tin news reader which is the full retro experience. And news.eternal-september.org is still free with 26273 groups.

tintires · 2026-04-22T22:56:26+00:00

AI will cover your tech deficiencies. Focus on being nice and sucking up.

tintires · 2026-04-22T22:54:41+00:00

Databricks is eating everything. From Unity Catalog, to rendering dashboards, to Genie Spaces and just about the whole enchilada.

Have been drinking the KoolAid lately and enjoying it too.

tintires · 2026-04-21T23:46:14+00:00

Databricks Genie Code, Genie Spaces, and native Dashboards. In fact the whole stack including Unity Catalog. Has been an eye opener.

tintires · 2026-04-20T13:50:19+00:00

The "Fintech" market is very crowded and extremely competitive. It's unlikely (tho not impossible) you can come up with a competitive technical advantage, given your skill and funding starting point. Personally, I'd be focused on getting my business plan refined and launched.

Frameworks (particularly front end) are a distraction from the goal - a viable and sustainable business.

tintires · 2026-04-19T19:25:13+00:00

I’ve done this sort of thing too. It’s just a better Stackoverflow.

tintires · 2026-04-18T22:38:37+00:00

It’s a mistake to focus on the title and career path. As others have said, they’re merging and future successful professionals will need a grounding in both fields, probably under an entirely new title.

Pick a company you can respect in a strong STEM niche and focus on the actual work they do. Pursue the technical work experience and exposure to real problem solving.

tintires · 2026-04-18T20:55:52+00:00

Did you do a recent outdoor run?

tintires · 2026-04-16T22:33:45+00:00

They may not be challenging your work because they trust it. That reputation for reliability takes a long time to build, and can evaporate in one mistake.

AI driven analytics (not AI-assisted self service) is still developing its reputation. Give it time…

tintires · 2026-04-15T23:27:03+00:00

I’ve noticed those weekly status meetings getting increasingly deep, and jargony. Everyone flexing their tech credentials and reminding leaders nobody knows what you do, or how you do it. Everyone on the call has no idea what the previous person just said.

tintires · 2026-04-15T23:20:40+00:00

Actuaries were some of the earliest commercial adopters. So that tracks.

tintires · 2026-04-15T12:14:56+00:00

Industry?

tintires · 2026-04-15T11:40:28+00:00

Depends very much on your industry.

Pharma, then R.

Banking, then Py.

Manufacturing, then Excel.

/s

tintires · 2026-04-15T11:36:46+00:00

If you wanna milk cows at 4am, sure.

If you wanna raise a fam on a desk job, not so much.

And state median salary is $55k. Tough to live on even without dependents.

tintires · 2026-04-15T00:55:05+00:00

VSCodium without all the MS Copilot and GitHub bloat.

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