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I used to clean bathrooms in a Manhattan shopping mall. I now have a tiny human. Cleaning the bathrooms was much, much more disgusting. It has been nearly 15 years and I still think about the horrible things I witnessed at that job. Changing my daughter’s diaper doesn’t even register to me as a gross thing to deal with.

Any particularly uh, pungent anecdotes to share?

It was mostly things that you would expect, given the job and location. People doing their business where they shouldn’t, mostly, but also sex, drug use, bleeding, shaving, vomit, flushing syringes and condoms down toilets and clogging them, etc. The most disgusting one I personally had to deal with involved finger painting with feces and menstrual blood. This isn’t really gross but my supervisor discovered an OD death in one of the bathrooms one morning and I’m grateful I never had to see that because I’d probably be afraid to discover another each morning if I had. That job offered me a lot of perspective and I’m happy I worked it but it was also frequently disgusting!

I’ve been a homeowner for a mere two years and I’ve discovered many things wrong with my house. YouTube has a video outlining what I need to fix and how to fix it 90% of the time. Tradespeople get called for the remaining 10%. It’s possible a class with a curriculum and structure would help but YouTube has what you need for ad hoc homeowner issues.


> no git blame annotations

Thanks for mentioning this. I was going to give this a try this weekend but that's a dealbreaker for me.


Here's their ticket for that feature: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CWM-2913

Sounds like they _are_ making fast progress at least.


Me too! It's crazy to me that I've never met you or the parent poster but we were living very similar lives the last week of the year due to the same Java DateTime design decision!


Previous discussions:

Favorite Non-Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743465

Favorite Fiction Books of 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18746559


These were extremely fascinating for me, and were written for a layman which I appreciated [0][1]. They're about the singularity.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol... [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...


I took a class on computer vision and we used the OpenCV library extensively [0]. I remember that we had a project relating to detecting certain traffic signs, and obtaining the dominant color of images was a big part of my solution. Also, this tutorial seems like it would be helpful [1].

[0] https://opencv.org/ [1] https://code.likeagirl.io/finding-dominant-colour-on-an-imag...


People have been interested in this in the past so I'll post it again: Peter Norvig's satisfying Jupyter notebook solutions from AoC 2016[0].

[0]http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20...


He also did one for 2017[0]. I imagine if he does this one it will end up in the same repo.

[0] https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/Advent%2...


I have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. Hope that helps!


Dead language tallying the dead?


I began my career 30 years ago writing actuarial valuations in Fortran77. Glad to see the industry hasn't changed (much).


Here are some others that are also commonly recommended on HN:

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Courses: https://www.deeplearning.ai/

David Silver's Reinforcement Learning Youtube Series: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

Fast.ai Courses on ML and Deep Learning: https://www.fast.ai/


Thanks for sharing!


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