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by 1attice 2y ago
How does Vega compare to Observable Plot? I'm going to be needing a JS/TS rendering option shortly at my job, and I'm comparing tins.
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by 1attice 2y ago
> And of course we should blame the technology: the sole purpose of a standard is to be used by people. If people struggle with it the standard is unfit for its purpose. 'People' is equivocal here. While complex, and (as you po
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by 1attice 2y ago
There's a trick to it. Kind of like one of those 'magic eye' stereograms that were popular in the nineties. You sort of unfocus and boom, there it is. It also reminds me of that Douglas Adams line about flying: it's the
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by 1attice 2y ago
...and we're back
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by 1attice 2y ago
OP cited youtube as 'delve'ers, which skews young, so I'm guessing it's that your cognitive 'ear' is tuned to the technosphere
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by 1attice 2y ago
As a former academic in tech I'm tickled that you think 'a deep dive' is normative while 'to delve' strikes your ear as strange. No judgment! I'm delighted, however, that language is so supple ("leverages
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by 1attice 2y ago
> If they knew enough about it to write about it correctly they would pursuit other work then journalism. *pursue. *than. Honestly, given the sentiment expressed, just too funny.
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by 1attice 2y ago
Just so. Code written in Python has always had the virtue of being _incredibly boring_, which is a virtue that, at the time of its inception, was criminally undervalued; this was, after all, the heyday of C++, and if you weren't bringi
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by 1attice 2y ago
Not particularly (point taken), but I _do_ note that describing a napkin-sketch as an 'elaborate theory' is perhaps more flattering than you mean it to be ;)
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by 1attice 2y ago
As I said, JavaScript was an example, picked because I work it it every day. There are most certainly better examples, that I am less equipped to present; Rust springs to mind. Yet whatever example is chosen, the claim remains unchanged: Py
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by 1attice 2y ago
Expanding on this point (because it's important): A lot of folks (including me) find Python limiting for non-trivial use cases. The One Python Way was a great selling point in 2004, but the thing is, it's still basically the same
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by 1attice 2y ago
A lot of folks (including me) find Python limiting for non-trivial use cases. The One Python Way was a great selling point in 2004, but the thing is, it's still basically the same Way in 2024. So, I hope you like nerfed lambdas and i
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by 1attice 2y ago
possibly, and this is just a thought, because it is an industry, and not a country? 90s-10s Japan seems a better comparand, and it does not support your thesis
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by 1attice 2y ago
1. Backend and devops are disciplines rooted in _mechanical sympathy_. Basically, the better you can understand the needs of the stack (hardware on up,) the better you can meet requirements, which, generally, are stipulated in clear-cut tec
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by 1attice 2y ago
You're most welcome. And speaking of welcomes: welcome back. <3
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by 1attice 2y ago
I have returned to tech at least twice -- one time, in the mid '10s, I'd been away so long I'd forgotten some of the git subcommands! -- and the bad news is that it's hard. When you're fresh back, you won't be
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by 1attice 2y ago
Puckishly: it need go nowhere at all. As a matter of fact, we _do_ have something that is more 'visual' or 'symbolic' than written speech, and it has a critical role in certain abstract forms of writing. It's mathem
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by 1attice 2y ago
this breach is of course appalling. But nearly as appalling is the experience of _explaining why this matters_ to non-technical friends who stare at you with blank, distracted eyes, but only for a second; for their phone (yes, the very phon
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by 1attice 2y ago
Somehow, no matter how bad things get in North America, Europe manages to give worse
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by 1attice 2y ago
[OP] yeah I'm using nixos-unstable too. I should have mentioned that
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by 1attice 2y ago
Weird, I just added `zed-editor` to my environment and it's fine. NixOS is listed here: https://zed.dev/docs/linux For me, works as expected.
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by 1attice 2y ago
Could you explain futher? By 'environment' do you mean platform?
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by 1attice 2y ago
Ironic that this just went by as well https://dublog.net/blog/so-many-python-package-managers/
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by 1attice 2y ago
[context: honest question from occasional Python user] What's wrong with poetry?
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by 1attice 2y ago
Again, semaglutide solves this pretty well with a credit card; not even that if you have The Good Coverage. Reorient yourself, the frame has shifted.
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by 1attice 2y ago
This is easily the funniest serious-face headline I've read all month.
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by 1attice 2y ago
Cool, but consider monolith for this instead ( https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith ) - Outputs a single .html file, consumable with any web browser on any platform - Rust, so, you know, +1 HN (;D)
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by 1attice 2y ago
This is just the oddest take. What weird Canada-hating echo chamber did you just step out of? I've spent many years in the USA. It's got its merits, but generally, I prefer it up here. Things I like about it here: - We have a func
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by 1attice 2y ago
One of the things that I can't help but notice as I read the comments here on HN is the extent to which we _want_ AI to be, if not a deity, than at least a grand new chapter for humanity; we want this even more than we want the new cha
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by 1attice 2y ago
philosophy MA here. The point about derrida was actually pretty good -- I've myself reflected that Derrida, Deleuze and a couple of other French poststructuralists got weirdly close to the same basic ideas that power LLMs (high-dimensi

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