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by aidos 6y ago
Absolutely. I’m just going through it with my 9yo at the moment (we’re both learning at the same time). We’re using the Blender Guru donut tutorial series. It’s pretty long, but by just doing a little each night you get through it quickly e
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by aidos 6y ago
But 2hrs to install!?! What world are we living in? Actually, I seem to recall it taking an age to install last time I dealt with it (2008).
873.
by aidos 6y ago
I was once subjected to the oracle dB for an ill fated social network project. They purchased 2 servers and oracle licences for 8 cores along with coldfusion licences and then it turned out that a special driver was required to allow them
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by aidos 6y ago
Are these benchmarks? Installation time (30m to create a dB! That can’t be right?!) doesn’t really feel like it falls under that umbrella.
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by aidos 6y ago
I’ve done worse. Using MySQL from php and not having the encoding right somewhere along the way so all my content was being mojibaked on the way in and un-mojibaked on the way out so I didn’t notice it until deep into a project when I neede
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by aidos 6y ago
Well, I guess it’s easy to argue that it’s so common that beginners would expect to open files as text. You can see how it would evolve that way. Now I’m more familiar with it I’m careful to be explicit with the decoding when using text to
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by aidos 6y ago
Correct. In Numpy the slices are views on the underlying memory. That’s why they’re so fast, there’s no copying involved. Incidentally that’s also why freeing up the original variable doesn’t release the memory (the slices are still using i
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by aidos 6y ago
I eventually settled on Hasura but I did evaluate amplify. It looked to me like it was too complicated to break away from their db so I gave up on it (it was possible, but it felt like you had all the complexity of AWS IAM permissions, but
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by aidos 6y ago
Geeks don’t dislike LinkedIn because the formatting isn’t right, they dislike it because of the dark patterns. If that’s the measure with which you’re trying to compete with LinkedIn, it’s safe to call this one a win.
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by aidos 6y ago
Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out. Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportuniti
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by aidos 6y ago
After kicking around a bunch of these solutions and discovering that none of them work quite right or you still have to spend quite a bit on the hardware, I eventually bent the knee to Sonos recently. The interface is pretty garbage, but it
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by aidos 6y ago
Initially I was confused about the permissions in data approach, as it becomes harder to declaratively audit the current set of applied permissions. I’m not a massive fan of migrations in yaml generally (I do miss alembic) but it does the j
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by aidos 6y ago
For router do you mean roo-ter for the network gear and row-ter for the woodworking tool? That is useful. Not sure how to best spell out the differences, ironically my phone tried pretty hard to change things around for me.
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by aidos 6y ago
I almost didn’t watch that’s because who cares about someone solving a sudoku puzzle, but that was brilliant. That’s one happy solver; it was worth it just for the absolute joy he gets from it. Amazingly quick solving too. Good to watch him
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by aidos 6y ago
That’s excellent info thanks. Would you mind sharing ballpark figures on how much it cost? How did you go about choosing motherboard etc? I haven’t built a pc from scratch since the late 90s, so I’m a bit lost with it these days! Back then
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by aidos 6y ago
I’ve been looking into building a pc this last week after almost 2 decades on Mac laptops. My motivation is that I’m playing around with Blender and my old MacBook is not having a fun time with it. It looked to me like a modern AMD combo is
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by aidos 6y ago
This looks to be using the new css variables (well, new to me - I was checking on the state of the art in css just recently). I was looking into how you can do components now and this stuff looks pretty interesting, though styling of nested
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by aidos 6y ago
He’s an amazing writer. I couldn’t put this book down when I first read it. At the time I sent him a message saying that it was the best technical book I’d ever read and his response was along the lines of “thanks! It’s the best (though, on
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by aidos 6y ago
Exactly, the main app could have been a hello world app, but when the updater for it is created with classic adobe lack of care, and root access, it doesn’t matter.
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by aidos 6y ago
That’s great. Most people probably haven’t spotted it (took me a few years to clock the connection) but Tom Ravenscroft (on radio 6) is his son. As you’d expect, he has a fairly encyclopaedic knowledge of music and you’ll always pick up goo
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by aidos 6y ago
Thinking back to older models though, MacBook trackpads were better than any other I tried before they had all those hardware features. It’s obviously been a long time, but I feel that a really old MacBook would still feel nicer than most m
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by aidos 7y ago
This is a fascinating look at a perfect storm of a junction. For both vehicles to be unaware of each other just seems unfathomable, especially that this occurs in a place where you’re effectively on an open plain with good visibility in all
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by aidos 7y ago
That’s been the hardest part for us the last few weeks. The older 2 you can manage and get them to sit down to learn something, it’s the 1yo running around being distracting that makes it hard. 9, 6 and 1.5 = children with very different ne
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by aidos 7y ago
Most parents are trying to juggle a full schedule of teaching and jobs at the moment. I don’t think it’s fair to compare that against an environment dedicated to learning (ish).
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by aidos 7y ago
Hooks allow for declarative behaviour that’s harder to model other ways. With hooks, something like declaring when an event listener should be in play becomes much cleaner. The alternatives with class components are messy. The above critici
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by aidos 7y ago
The The?
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by aidos 7y ago
Does anyone have a good guide to understanding the Linux audio ecosystem? I know Linux fairly well from a server standpoint, but I tried to do some audio stuff recently and couldn’t make head nor tail of it.
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by aidos 7y ago
I believe that’s what the vocoder was created for. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder
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by aidos 7y ago
Touch is one of the 5 senses.
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by aidos 7y ago
Essential Craftsman is a great channel. I found it when it was mentioned on an HN thread about This Old House - also awesome YouTube content. There’s a bunch more on that thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961723

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