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by JZL003 3y ago
Hah I was thinking the same thing
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by JZL003 3y ago
I've been using nix for my personal server and it's a lot of fun. And I don't mind reading 'code as docs' in general but it's pretty much required here. Mostly the option names are pretty understandable, and it
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by JZL003 3y ago
I know it's probably in rough shape but I'd like to use this myself, even if it takes a lot of code to modify. I guess I'd need an android app too tho
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by JZL003 3y ago
Copy on write is really nice, especially when I often face a very very large read-only matrix (200+GB) and want to do some embarrassingly parallel processes on subsets of it. I haven't found a language which makes it as easy, not pytho
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by JZL003 3y ago
This reminds me of a thing cory doctorow talks about how tech companies control the narrative to focus on fun sexy problems while they have fundamental problems which expose the lie. For example uber/self driving cars always talking ab
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by JZL003 3y ago
Sort of related but I've really enjoyed setting up a urlwatch - https://urlwatch.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - setup. Especially once you get past the boilerplate of pupetteer and can boot up a chrome instance
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by JZL003 3y ago
Yeah I'm too far commmitted. I hope they'll let us buy the number off them But my theory is that too many google execs use it so it'll hurt them too if it gets canned. They did update the app semi recently
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by JZL003 3y ago
This is not the same, and might not get house-mate approval, but I like writing little notes in-situ where I need them. For laundry, little checklists of things I forget to wash (bathroom rugs smh), how long each cycle takes. Houseplants ca
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by JZL003 3y ago
I agree it's so good. Either the audiobook or run through text to speech and it's still ongoing
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by JZL003 3y ago
I know it depends on the analysis, but I often am doing somewhat embarassingly parallel things. So just knowing GNU parallel for mid-scale things (and R/python basically parallelism, although shared memory is a bear), and how to tempor
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by JZL003 3y ago
It's not that i think anything is wrong, but isn't it strange there's no jump I see in WFH comments during the pandemic when everyone was doing it
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by JZL003 3y ago
Yeah me too, I've scraped libby pretty easily but didn't know there was an API. A niche thing which can affect stuff is some libraries only show their full catalog if you're logged in (and potentially which partner library yo
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by JZL003 3y ago
Also 1M one time does go very fast compared to GCP's 1M per month
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by JZL003 3y ago
If you did give a pay as you go, price per character I'd be very interested. I know small-medium scale personal use isn't necessarily your target but I turn a lot of audiobooks into audio. Even on big months it's only 1-1.5 m
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by JZL003 3y ago
https://iiif.io/get-started/talks/ Cool, although each museum hosting individually and encoraging direct linking means people won't have backups so if one of these small museums goes down, all the links go do
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by JZL003 3y ago
No! I use it constantly because in normal gmail I can only have like 5 versions open ( I have a lot of tabs) before my mac pro explodes. But for HTML gmail I can leave emails open for reference without exploding. I use it so often, it loads
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by JZL003 3y ago
I use more scientific computing and I've found it amazingly, surprisingly good. Academic programming has some quirks where they might use a single character variable name, passed along to multiple functions. So if I'm 3 functions
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by JZL003 3y ago
It's worth looking at julia's JuMP, I find it very ergonomic, fast, and easy to try differnet LP solvers Also https://neos-server.org/neos/solvers/index.html is an amazing resource I don't see used
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by JZL003 3y ago
Me too! It's fun, when an impactful event happens in the story and it's fixed
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by JZL003 3y ago
A serial fiction book I read has only text but I still want an audio book. It takes a little bit to get used to but with text to speech, your mind figures it out and starts to put emotion in the monotone voice. It's not as good as a re
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by JZL003 3y ago
Yes! Me too, there's a whole world out there and it's codified in bullet-proof programs like CPLEX or gurobi. Sadly they are expensive and it's not obvious if a given problem's size and complexity will tailor itself to s
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by JZL003 3y ago
You can have nice foreign function interface between R->Julia and Julia ->R. If you're already happy pulling out slow functions into RCpp, then maybe there's no speed benefit. But there are some very nice, very fast librarie
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by JZL003 3y ago
You can use the email alerts from banks/credit cards to automatically fill out purchase information across all credit cards. Google pub sub let's you get notified when it happens within milliseconds and then you just have to parse
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by JZL003 4y ago
I don't even mind (although it bothers me that python doesn't have pipes ala R, or any sort of nice lambda syntax) but I wonder how much work has been put to take python-like dialect and hammer it over and over into being fast Num
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by JZL003 4y ago
yeah I've wondered too. Although I think for me I just feel better when it's colder I did debate writing how 'headache'y I felt periodically with timestamps (e.g. make a telegram bot -> google sheet) and then add in s
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by JZL003 4y ago
Also meteograms are a nice consise way of getting a sense of the weather https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/meteogramweb/t... When I look at science data I don't look at lists of numbers,
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by JZL003 4y ago
For any other person who wants more advanced weather, I like meteo-blue's multimodel graphs https://www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/forecast/multimodel/tex... Much more information dense, if less prett
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by JZL003 4y ago
did you find a weather API you found to be particularly accurate?
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by JZL003 4y ago
Also like O(N^2) is surprisingly doable even for very big N. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, but another problem was N^2 for a pretty big N (100k) with a dynamic programming. I was worried it would never finish But making a 100k
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by JZL003 4y ago
I totally agree with this, both the part about having to be clever with the model implementation and how fast and usable it is. For my own research, it ended up that it was a type of set cover problem. To me it felt large, ended up with alm

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