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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   Great. Oh, I'm just aiming to get much better fluency and ability to understand native speakers in real-life contexts. I've had basic bad foreigner level for a while now.
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   I would love to try it on advanced if you get time to do that. I honestly think I'd use it a lot. If adding it to the UI takes time I'd be absolutely happy with a URL query parameter prettypolly.app?level=advanced if that's e
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   I love the idea, and just had a successful conversation with it for a few minutes in Portuguese. Nice work! For me in that language I need to work on understanding native speakers, so currently it speaks too slowly for what I personally nee
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   Thanks! That was interesting and helpful.
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   > I mean it's not even right. Most parallel/concurrent pedants would consider multithreaded code to be "parallel" even if it is running on a single core. Hm, I think running on a single core is the exact definition of
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   Is what you're describing only true of the "Framework" Python build on MacOS? It sounds like that's the case from a quick read of the issue you linked. I would say that people should basically never use the "Framewo
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   I'm confused. If you're doing a "bunch of IOs" then that's the situation where people use threads in Python, not processes. The argument for processes in Python is CPU-bound workloads.
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   As I understand it on Linux processes and threads are implemented in almost the same way, just that threads share memory. I've heard it said several times that the idea that processes are "heavier" is a bit of a myth. I guess
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   by da39a3ee 3y ago

   > and hard to experiment with. Just on the topic of git: git makes it extremely easy to experiment! But far too many people, including those writing tutorials and blog posts, don't understand this. Whenever you're in doubt, jus
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    I agree with what I think is your sentiment -- that people seem to be treating this as if it's some sort of profound insight that you only get if you work at a very senior level in engineering for major US cloud providers, when it&#x27
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    > But if you're a long-time caffeine consumer your baseline (no caffeine alertness) goes down, and in the long run coffee just brings you up to the same level non-consumers have for free Citation? It sounds a lot like that's so
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    I think it's just possible that some of what you refer to as "culture war" content might actually be rather important. So one rather suspects that dismissing it in this way suits your ideological inclinations, rather than you
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    That looks like a fun project! But I'm not aware of a reason why anyone wouldn't want to use swimlanes.io.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Can you give an example of a technical software question where you found it wasn't helpful? I'll see if I can get a good answer and post the permalink for you. I suspect you're not phrasing your questions well.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Can you give an example of a technical software question where you found it wasn't helpful? I'll see if I can get a good answer and post the permalink for you. I suspect you're not phrasing your questions well.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    I think maybe you haven't been using GPT4 (the one where you have to pay money). Or else you're coming at it with a very strong prior, or you're not asking it about software engineering questions, or you're not phrasing
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Certainly true for me and the people I know.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Yes, this is what I use and I can't recommend it highly enough. I'll try mermaid but I think swimlanes.io is going to win for most use cases. Here's why: (1) you just open the web app and start typing and you have the beginni
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    I highly recommend https://swimlanes.io/ personally. It has essentially zero friction between thinking of a diagram and seeing the diagram in front of your eyes. I'm sure Mermaid.js is nice and I will try it for compar
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    I see, thanks I guess you're right. I'd been thinking of languages with matrices that support matrix operations but yes I think perhaps I'd been missing the point you make that it would be confusing for those to be list-of-c
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    > In Common Lisp, the matrix <a 2x2 matrix with 1 2 in first row and 3 4 in second row> is written #2A((1 2) (3 4)). I do understand that the row view and column view are symmetrical in linear algebra. But nevertheless, unless I&#
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    The peer-reviewed paper is linked from the article but not very obviously: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10133018
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Ah right, Killdeers I'm thinking?
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Yes, those birds are basically human commensals -- thriving in urban environments. (Not sandpipers though! I wonder what you meant there?) But being serious -- are you familiar with some of the species that you only see if you go to genuine
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Yes, this article is a rare example of an article that cares about habitat loss; we have mostly thrown the baby out with the bathwater with the last decade's reframing of conservation as climate change avoidance.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Yes, this is called habitat loss. And the current obsession with climate change is to some extent reducing the extent to which humans are paying attention to habitat loss. Caring about the environment is not primarily about climate change a
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Universities are historically places you go to study pure academic disciplines. They have not been, historically, “a place you go to study whatever is useful for a job”. Personally, I vote for keeping it that way.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    Whether it’s reasonable or not depends on who’s paying for the unnecessary years of education you just did, and if that involves debt then the consequences of the debt.
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    function updateAverage(averageAsOfYesterday, todayTemp, todayDayOfYear) { yesterdayDayOfYear = todayDayOfYear - 1 sumOfAllTempsUpToAndIncludingYesterday = yesterdayDayOfYear * averageAsOfYesterday return (sumOfAllTemp
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    by da39a3ee 3y ago

    For doing such a bad job I guess. Marketing doesn't have to be written like the audience are teenagers. But yes it was a bit unpleasant to say that.