VHRanger

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by VHRanger 2y ago
There's also helix now, which requires next to no setup, but requires learning new motions (subject is before the verb in helix)
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Massive attack surface. That's true as a security risk, but also as a dependency risk (eg. left-pad).
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Sure, but compared to matlab or STATA it's still great news. I mean, we dependency management in python is a complete mess. It's not something we can expect a mere Nobel winner to solve.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
That's basically why we need regulation. Hardcore libertarians say the free market would fix this, but even if you do get sick it's hard to attribute to which exact product you got sickness from. And in any case this is all after
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by VHRanger 2y ago
It's nice to see someone who shouldn't be seen as a programmer (Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning macroeconomist) teaching python as a matter of process in his classes. For a long time economics was dragging behind using matlab or spe
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Calling 3.11 vs 3.12 a major version change is incorrect in orthodox semantic versioning terms. However, for python, it makes sense. A bunch of code breaks in 3.12 vs 3.11, for instance. Also, python 2 vs python 3 are very incompatible at t
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by VHRanger 2y ago
I mean, the violations should result in some form of shutting down the facility until it's resolved. Without consequences, all those inspections do nothing
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by VHRanger 2y ago
> Sounds like it difficult to make enough to survive unless you're doing these things. If you're on an advertising model, yes, impossible even. If you're on a patronage/subscription model, totally doable nowadays.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Yeah when benchmarking by batch sizes it's common to see huge jumps associated with the memory hierarchy: - word size (64bits) - cache alingment fetch size (generally 64bytes as mentioned above) - OS page size (4-16kb) - L1 size (~80kb
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by VHRanger 2y ago
I think you're missing the fundamental mechanic here. Spence signalling[1] won the econ Nobel back in 2001. It says that the cost of signalling in a market for imperfect information ends on the one emitting the signal. For education an
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by VHRanger 2y ago
If its rooted you can put a charging controller on it. The battery is not dangerous or even particularly perishable if its always kept between 30% and 60% charge.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
I mean, its positioning them to enable rather than block. We also see devops and netsec often play the lawyer role, where they feel their job is to block others from deploying anything that's not a golden cathedral.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
For termux: install termux from fdroid and pkg install all the stuff you need. There's a couple of gotchas if you try to build stuff directly, but it mostly just works overall. For full Linux with x11 GUI: follow the guide I linked. Fo
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by VHRanger 2y ago
My favorite device is an android phone these days. With termux, I can get most of my work done right away. This is especially true since I switched from VS Code to yazi+helix in the command line as an IDE. The rest of what I need works in a
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Is this comment satire? It's really hard to tell. If it's not I encourage you to go look at the stellar success of the boring company in places like Las Vegas and reconsider your assessment of the future.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
> legal to create a dnd group with friends. Of course it's legal! You just need to fill form DN-335, wait 4-9 weeks and you can play! Obviously planescape campaigns are banned, being innapropriate for minors, and so are characters f
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by VHRanger 2y ago
All other successful self driving cars use LiDAR.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Let me repeat this again and again: Automation empowers workers to do more. It's like using a hammer vs. a nail gun. You still need someone to point the nail gun in the right place. If you point a nail gun in the wrong place, you can d
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What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images(quantamagazine.org)
242 points by VHRanger 2y ago|432 comments
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by VHRanger 2y ago
For a lot of cases, word2vec/glove still work plenty well. It also runs much faster and lighter when doing development -- the FSE library [1] does 0.5M sentences/sec on CPU, whereas the fastest sentence_transformers [2] do somethi
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by VHRanger 2y ago
> I feel like many in this thread are obsessing over the choice of OS when the actual core question is why, given the insane money we spend on healthcare, are all healthcare systems shitty and underinvested? Because it's basically i
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by VHRanger 2y ago
UBI can be mathematically equivalent to any other social welfare system. It's just a question of tax brackets and welfare brackets.
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Conditional social benefits are always a nightmare in practice. Look at the rules to qualify for that high school style test or prove that you actually achieve the milestone. Assume they will be implemented by the most incompetent of bureau
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Guy Steele – Growing a Language (1998) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by VHRanger 2y ago|0 comments
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by VHRanger 2y ago
I got tremendously sad when I watched Guy Steele's talk growing a language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 It's one of the best programming talks I've come across. For 1998, all his points on gro
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by VHRanger 2y ago
You can't have faster compile times. If you want fast compile times C++ needs to sacrifice something else (ABI compatibility, compatibility to compile code from 1979 for some dead big endian 12-bit word chip, etc. In fact the truth is
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by VHRanger 2y ago
No, it's a lawn tractor. I don't think the "small tractor" category has good electric options at the moment. Solectrac made inroads, but are now basically dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTDxMZfj6yk
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by VHRanger 2y ago
Hi, author here. I'm curious __how__ you think the tractor would become e-waste? I've seen plenty of 30 year old battery power tools. The battery (what transforms things into e-waste generally) is a separate component from the too
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Teonimenu, a Lost Island of the Pacific(abc.net.au)
1 points by VHRanger 2y ago|0 comments
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by VHRanger 2y ago
I programmed in C++ before, mostly doing high performance stuff. Like anyone who used C++ for a while, I had issues with the language. Here are why I dislike it: 1. Compile times. There's a big difference in user experience between &lt

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