AstroDogCatcher

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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Playtime's over.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
In the UK: Covid will dimish in importance enough for people to disentangle the negative consequences of Brexit, leading to widespread use of the Pikachu shocked face meme. Scottish independence will take a step forward, with a new referend
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Sad to say this sounds nowhere near as bad as the scenarios at the low end of my estimation error bars for how next year could go.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I interpreted that as Imm correctly identifying my comment as a joke. Regardless of how sincere the original post was, my comment was very obviously (to me, at least) a swipe at the morally bankrupt world we inhabit and the fact that a comp
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
There is one particular episode of the cartoon where the Groke is waiting in the field outside the Moonin house, then when they open the door she is gone... because she is now stood on the porch right beside the door. Still sends a shiver d
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
As it turns out I really don't like notebooks, but that is due to the state issues - so it sounds like I should check out Pluto. Thanks!
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Incompetent people will do anything they can to avoid admitting that they are incompetent. One of the more interesting possible outcomes of a UBI I hope to see in my lifetime is the ejection of many of the seat-warmers currently occupying I
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Is that REPL usage still relevant in a world of Jupyter notebooks? Getting started with Julia always just feels clunky to me - perhaps the other commenter was closer to the mark in blaming the documentation rather than the REPL itself. Eith
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I don't dispute that, but for people not noodling around with data who just want to make something immediately useful (ie general purpose programming use-cases), the Julia approach to dependency packaging is sub-par.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Someone else commented with more detail, but personally I can't get past the package management and the dependency on using the REPL. Rust gets tooling and packages right.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Intel are focused on data-parallel C++ for delivering high performance, rightly or wrongly. Julia is one of those "nice in theory" options which has failed to live up to the hype and at this point seems unlikely to unseat python f
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
That is certainly my impression with CDK. An even bigger heartache is the fact that I am writing a Python "program", but then have to use a JS binary to execute the deployment. Having the CDK synth/deploy functionality expose
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Out of interest, do you find yourself writing actual software with CDK stacks integrated, or is it more accurate to say the CDK is just a stand-alone bit of code purely for deploying infrastructure? I'm definitely in the latter camp, w
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
GCP is a bit weird; you are correct that they had a reputation for cancellation of products and services but I'm not sure how well deserved that was for the cloud platform itself. People who start using GCP seem very happy with it, but
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
It is a bit more dark than that, sadly. Of the big cloud providers, Azure is the least well regarded by users (significantly so), but MS have the longest pedigree of twisting the arms of corporate procurement people. Similarly, Apples abili
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Too little, too late.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
dabs and yeets away
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I think we just need to be much more discerning about the added value from a subscription. In the case of some SaaS tools I pay for (like Todoist), I don't resent the model because I've seen steady improvements and the cost is low
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
":-(" indeed.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Appears to be a collection of perfectly cromulent words; someone should propulgate them into wider use in order to embiggen the vocabulary of our youth.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I assume the hardware targets battery life rather than performance; the lack of on-device features is quite deliberate. As far as cloud offloading goes, the only thing which seems to match that framing is the handwriting recognition, which
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I'm being a bit future-looking here and considering alternatives to the gen3 reMarkable, not the current hardware. Specifically, the PineNote seems like it could fill the niche for me.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I actually think the hardware (at least in gen2) is pretty good, and the software has progressed from "OK but a bit rough" to also being pretty good. I can accept the high device price given what a niche market they have, but the
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. I use the rM extensively for meeting notes, but I have never been able to give up on having a paper notebook as well. The problem is mostly the ease of page-flicking; skipping forward and backward on an e-ink devi
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
You can do your own sync in a hacky manner - but if I were going down that route, I'd just choose one of the more open (and cheaper) alternative devices.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
This has soured me on reMarkable, and probably means that I won't buy the gen3 device when they get to it - despite me having been a big advocate for them until now. Not everything needs to be a subscription. I don't care about yo
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
That doesn't include the case though, which renders this back to the same state as my current Pi estate, ie "bundle of cables and boards too ugly to want to leave out".
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Looks great - exactly what I've always wanted to do with a Pi. Won't be buying one however, as the price is frankly outrageous; considering what you can get from a NUC or a Lenovo ThinkCentre, I would want to pay no more than £100