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by _dain_ 5y ago
>.loc() anyone? What is wrong with .loc, in your view? Genuine question. I used to dislike it but I've been using pandas for a while and I've gotten comfortable with it, and I've forgotten the reasons I used to dislike it.
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One Year with R(github.com)
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>handing (ideally) every white-collar worker the ability to write scripts that can automate pieces of their daily-work. surely much of this could be done already with a tool like AutoHotKey? I mean it won't have some of the fancier
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>RPA replicates the work that these workers do by automating on the UI of the legacy application and replacing them. It is championed by ambitious business professionals who >1) Don't know that a more elegant solution exists in t
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>they don't care for the fingerprint reader anyway does anyone actually use those? i've always thought they were a stupid gimmick
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>What are some specific issues? the gnome filepicker has no thumbnails
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by _dain_ 5y ago
I've seen so many people say things like: "Windows is fine, all you have to do is [gigantic list of obscure settings changes, registry edits, external freeware programs] to turn off the telemetry!" It will eventually get to t
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>That’s what I think about when I’m in NYC, and sure I see the piles of trash… I just don’t really care. It’s a necessary part of having a gigantic megalopolis. there are many other giant megalopolises in the world that somehow manage no
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>I’d never deny that there are streets that smell like piss from time to time in my city we somehow contrive not to have any streets at all smell like piss, ever. in the civilized world we stopped using streets as outdoor latrines over a
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by _dain_ 5y ago
the one time i visited NYC i naively tried to use a public toilet at a subway station. entered the stall -- faecal matter coating every surface. filthy is an understatement.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
who is Dave?
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>I occasionally use it in the command line, by expanding *. You can use zsh's fzf-tab as a supercharged tab-completion. e.g. you can just do some-command <TAB> and it will put a fzf interface where the tab-completions w
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by _dain_ 5y ago
Try using it with the -e flag, it gives exact matches for each space-separated word you type, ignoring order and case. This is usually the most useful way to search in my experience. For example, if I'm searching through my filesystem
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by _dain_ 5y ago
The longer something takes, the longer it is expected to take. Delays compound on themselves, it becomes harder to plan further into the future. Costs skyrocket. More opportunities for bad actors to enrich themselves.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>Speed also incentivizes corner cutting, nepotism, and all sorts of corrupt behavior. Slowness is surely even better for nepotism and corrupt behaviour.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
No, that isn't clear at all. Bad and unpopular laws can remain on the books for a long time if there is a politically powerful minority who benefits from them. Also it might just be that most people don't even know about the probl
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by _dain_ 5y ago
> there is a strong preference in a large percentage of the population for suburban and rural style homes and light business areas. We build a ton of that and often very quickly. Because that's the only thing you can build. The zo
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>If London won't be interesting anymore for oligarchs, what will happen with prices of accomodation in center i might be able to afford a house there
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>The local rulers have de facto control over government, jurisdictional and businesses. isn't that a tautology?
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by _dain_ 5y ago
You can pipe the URLs through something like monolith[1]. https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
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by _dain_ 5y ago
I don't actually use it myself.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
You can use Archivebox. Set it to grab URLs from your browser history database and it will archive them all to disk in whatever formats you want. You can then use whatever tools you want on those local files. https://archivebox.i
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>the narrative settled on it being 'mild' that's a funny way of saying "it turned out to be mild". deaths and hospitalizations undershot all the dire predictions.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
I stopped caring about any of this over a year ago, and more people are joining me every day. Nobody is going in the opposite direction. Normal people will win through sheer attrition.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
The other day I visited a 3 years old Reddit thread. OP posted a playlist for a certain topic. There were about 100 links to songs on Youtube. About a third no longer work. For many Youtube doesn't even tell me what the titles were, so
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by _dain_ 5y ago
See also: "It Was A Long Time Ago And It Never Happened Anyway" https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300192377/it-was-long-ti...
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by _dain_ 5y ago
Python is similar[1] >The growth pattern is: 0, 4, 8, 16, 25, 35, 46, 58, 72, 88, ... https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Objects/listobjec...
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by _dain_ 5y ago
This could have been far more common but Facebook snuffed it out with their maniacal insistence that everyone use their "real" name online.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
>Why would these escape that? Because they're smaller and faster to build.
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by _dain_ 5y ago
The Russians were there at the request of the Syrian government.

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