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by Vaslo 1y ago
For the mediocre coder like myself, it’s a game changer. Instead of finicking around with reading a weird dictionary schema in Python, I simply give a sample and boom I have code. Not to mention it shows me new ways of doing things that I
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by Vaslo 1y ago
If you can do it better and use a very permissive open license, no one is stopping you.
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by Vaslo 1y ago
WSL is amazing if you work for a non tech company that is a windows house but want to do development in Linux. It’s seamless (at least to my middle ability) for VS Code.
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by Vaslo 1y ago
I struggle in two places - algorithms and understanding all the possible inputs to make a graph in something like MatPlotLib. I find most of my time is wasted trying to get something like those to work and I can do it easily in cursor with
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by Vaslo 1y ago
When I read about this topic, I’m always reminded of David Lynch’s Lost Highway: Ed: Do you own a video camera? Renee Madison: No. Fred hates them. Fred Madison: I like to remember things my own way. Ed: What do you mean by that? Fred Madis
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by Vaslo 1y ago
I feel like a lot of schools had this kind of number to ask questions, including my undergrad. Though I don’t think they go back 70 years. A popular question was “how many severed heads can fit into our stadium” and a couple of kids reason
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by Vaslo 1y ago
I thought that was actually in The Distinguished Gentleman and had to confirm but you are right. Don’t know why I misremember that.
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by Vaslo 1y ago
Not reductionist at all. A country so steeped in corruption that even all its natural advantages (lots of English speakers, big population, low wages) can’t compete with China. They (their government specifically) needs to get their act t
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by Vaslo 1y ago
I moved from pandas and SQLite to polars and DuckDB. Such an improvement in these new tools.
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by Vaslo 2y ago
This article is more Musk bashing, but I’d like to add that this is very common in companies private or public, large or small. CEOs and/or senior leaders get ideas stuck in their head and it becomes apparent that no amount of analysis
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by Vaslo 2y ago
I’ve been enjoying a podcast called Our Prehistory. If you are interested in this kind of stuff, the first few episodes get really into this, and it’s definitely sunk some misconceptions I had about evolution (that other species groups liv
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Thank you for creating a textbook strawman argument to share
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Agree - it gets stuck sometimes and it just gets time to start over
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by Vaslo 2y ago
This is the best of HN comments. Engaging article engages a bunch of folks to share their own ideas and improve the lives of other readers. And no politics, yay!
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by Vaslo 2y ago
This is a great point. It’s talked about in a book called Indistractabke. The author talks about trying to get rid of his phone during the day and even moving to a flip phone. But other nonsense just takes its place. It’s essentially lik
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by Vaslo 2y ago
People like you say this until the other party is in power, and bans stuff you don’t like, then you will cry about free speech too. I won’t die on the hill of saving billboards anymore than id die on the hill of not taxing billionaires but
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by Vaslo 2y ago
I have one of these that was a tablet and touchscreen from my mba program in 2008. I still have it and put some version of Linux command line only (peppermint maybe) and it still works. Haven’t touched it in a few years. Honestly was neve
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by Vaslo 2y ago
I will assist in reporting brigading leftist commenters. There are many of us that want to see politics out of commentary when unnecessary.
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Real Genius and Wargames made me want to do science for a living.
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Wasn’t this Pandoras original claim to fame - that they used 30 or 40 different aspects of music to categorize music and help you find what you liked?
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by Vaslo 2y ago
You are right, though I think some of it is our addiction to phones and such. BUT as a very mediocre coder llms have really accelerated my ability to code. I think I am the sweet spot for them. Much more experienced than a beginner becau
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Why go with Ibis over Narwhals? Just curious. I really tried to work Ibis into my projects when I thought the native Ibis functions could be used until I went back to another tool like DuckDb or Polars, but I was finding Ibis couldn’t do so
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by Vaslo 2y ago
This question should be at the top. I know HN tries to stay agnostic in their report of news but they definitely fall on the wrong side of feature vs benefit (as do most open sources authors ) and plenty of folks will just pass up this art
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by Vaslo 2y ago
So easy to get data in and out of an application, opens seamlessly in Excel or your favor DB for further inspection. The only issue is the comma rather than a less used separator like | that occasionally causes issues.
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Source?
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Great recommendations
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Only solved by the ever efficient clear outputs, restart, then run all the code all over again…
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Switch to who?
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Ignore the AI comments, this app is so much more flexible with it, and the pictures will only get better. Great idea for an app!
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by Vaslo 2y ago
Duckdb and polars have changed my Python development completely. Great packages that can work together, excited to see this.

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