Tommah

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by Tommah 5y ago
> And what's the alternative? Using a small number of libraries, where each library provides a large amount of functionality. When I install Django, for instance, four packages are installed, and each package does a substantial amo
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by Tommah 5y ago
There was a company named Covidien that made medical equipment, including ventilators. They were purchased in 2015, so the name is not used anymore. But imagine the jokes.
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by Tommah 5y ago
The next would be 20% over.
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by Tommah 5y ago
also Haskell and Pascal
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by Tommah 5y ago
Years ago, I read a tongue-in-cheek list of tips on how to win at chess. One of them said, "Never resign. There's always a chance that your opponent will drop dead before he can checkmate you."
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by Tommah 5y ago
Funny story: A week ago, I received an email from a website monitoring service saying that my site was up. I wondered for a second why I didn't get an email saying that my site had been down first. Eventually I realized that I proba
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by Tommah 5y ago
When I bought a new laptop a few years ago, the first thing I did on it was install Firefox and browse Reddit. After about 20 minutes, an ad (I'm guessing) tried to serve me a drive-by download. So yes, ad blockers are essential. If
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by Tommah 5y ago
> I don’t know why Both words come from the Latin tenere, to hold. A tenant is someone who holds a lease. A tenet is a belief that is held.
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by Tommah 5y ago
the year of the Linux terminal
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by Tommah 5y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-wadsworth-constant > The Wadsworth Constant is an axiom which states that the first 30% of any video can be skipped because it contains no worthwhile or interesting information.
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by Tommah 6y ago
You may be interested in this blog post: https://daedtech.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-overrated-people... N.B. The author warns at the end that it is a very bad idea to enact these ideas.
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by Tommah 6y ago
Checkmate Champ, a chess tactics trainer. https://www.checkmatechamp.net/
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It's trying to throw us off it.
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> the supposed attraction of "just like a startup, but in a big company!" I think the advantage is supposed to be that you won't come in one day and hear your boss say "Guess what? We're broke."
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by Tommah 6y ago
This idea is known as Gall's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
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by Tommah 6y ago
(I meant "only", not "old")
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by Tommah 6y ago
The old real Mavis I have ever heard of is Mavis Leno, the wife of comedian Jay Leno. He used to mention her on his show sometimes.
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by Tommah 6y ago
If you like these kinds of exercises, try out my checkmate trainer at https://www.checkmatechamp.net/ .
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by Tommah 6y ago
There is a library called py.ml [0] that lets you call Python code from OCaml. That should let you use Google Cloud's Python SDK from OCaml, although things could get unwieldy if you have to call back and forth constantly. I think it
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by Tommah 6y ago
PHP 8 adds support for quantum superpositions. (Well, it does and it doesn't.)
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by Tommah 6y ago
There is also the ML family of programming languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
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by Tommah 7y ago
There is a similar trick that you can use without the walrus operator. I wrote the code many years ago and I am reproducing this from memory, so the code below may be a little off. Define this class: class Any: def __eq__(se
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by Tommah 7y ago
Enron
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That does not compute!
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by Tommah 7y ago
My most recent project is a chess training tool: https://www.checkmatechamp.net/
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by Tommah 8y ago
I have been working on this over the past year and a half. There are some other tools like it, but I am trying to make one that works more smoothly. There are around 750 problems in the problem set so far. I hope to keep adding problems
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Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics(checkmatechamp.net)
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If you have any web projects, you may be able to find a place for js_of_ocaml in one of them. I use it in a web app of mine. I started out writing the client-side scripting in plain JS (as opposed to React/Vue/etc.), but I am us
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by Tommah 8y ago
I think so. See https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/is-camlp4-being-deprecated-in-fa... I recently came back to OCaml (and js_of_ocaml) after being away for a few years. In the time I was gone, js_of_ocaml moved from camlp4
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by Tommah 8y ago
What was the process like before you streamlined it?

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