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by dagw 2y ago
Not really, given that it doesn't increase the amount of RAM compared to the old 4080 Super. If you want to do 'modern' AI on a (relative) budget you should be looking at a 4090 or 5090. This seems to be the card targeted mos
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by dagw 2y ago
Actually typing out the code to do that is in no way a bottleneck for me For me it often is. Understanding and solving the problem in the abstract is often the easy part. I might realise that one way to solve this problem is by represent
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by dagw 2y ago
You have to do all those steps no matter if you write it yourself of if an AI helps you generate the code. Just typing the first thing that comes into your head and not bothering to test it will rarely create good code in all but the most t
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by dagw 2y ago
how do you know the output from AI is correct and covers all details? Same way as any other code. You look at it, ask the 'author' to explain any parts you don't understand, reason through what it's doing and then test
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by dagw 2y ago
Autocomplete works by analyzing the official API and interface, it's completely different than AI You can (and should) give the AI access to your existing codebase and any relevant documentation to use as context if you want good res
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by dagw 2y ago
it would be faster for me to just write it directly in my normal IDE Then you are a much better developer than me (which you may very well be). I'd like to think I'm pretty good, and I've many times spent hours trying to th
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by dagw 2y ago
AI isn't great at creating software, but it is great at writing functions. I often ask AI to "write a function that takes A, looks up B in a SQL database, and returns C, or write a function that implements the FooBar algorithm in
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by dagw 2y ago
Personally the thing that annoys me isn't so much the open vs closed source of (parts of) these extensions, but the blocking of using these extensions on VSCode forks.
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by dagw 2y ago
They added some closed source features to the C# developer extension in VSCode. So anybody using a non-Microsoft fork of VSCode can't use those features.
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by dagw 2y ago
I know several people who own the Ultra, and while they are all 'outdoorsy' sort of people, none of them are even close to 'extreme'. The market more likely is people that see themselves as "extreme adventurers, mou
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by dagw 2y ago
Don't we already have books written by professionals with hopefully years of experience? And these are given out to the students... Do you remember your school textbooks? At best you could say they were optimised for some sort of med
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by dagw 2y ago
You can hardly use the writing in an essay While it's not necessarily great for writing an essay from scratch, it is a pretty good editor of an essay. My daughter uses it to 'grade' all her essays before handing them in (Wi
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by dagw 2y ago
you’ve got kids and can’t enjoy the nightlife and culture anyway Having kids while living in the centre of a large city is great, as there is so much culture that is aimed at parents and children. When my kid was small we went to museums
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by dagw 2y ago
Yea, no one believes me when I tell them that the Lumia with Windows Phone 8.1 or 10 was one of my favourite phones ever. WP 8.1+ was such an underrated OS. Unfortunately it had virtually no support from anybody, even Microsoft quickly sto
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by dagw 2y ago
It was $500 with an expensive mandatory 2-year contract. With an expensive 2-year contract you can get most budget phones for 'free'.
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by dagw 2y ago
Why? I had N800 as my only mobile Sure you're not thinking of the N900? The N800 didn't have any cellular connectivity, only wifi and bluetooth.
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by dagw 2y ago
Nordic countries haven’t had much experience with immigration That's not really true, at least not with regards to Sweden. In the 50s-70s there was a massive immigration wave from Finland. During the Pinochet years, Sweden took in a
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by dagw 2y ago
Lots of smaller cafes or people running various stall style businesses only accept Swish, especially out the in more rural areas. I've been to a couple of smaller festivals where the only way to pay for a ticket at the 'door'
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by dagw 2y ago
Thanks! Will do.
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by dagw 2y ago
You really only have to do part 1. The actual subsidies on electric cars in Norway were quite minimal and have largely been rolled back. The most important 'subside' was always just that you didn't have to pay the same taxes
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by dagw 2y ago
Most of Norway (or at least the parts where most people live) doesn't actually get that cold, thanks to the Gulf Stream. Certainly not as cold as the colder parts of the northern US or Canada can get.
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by dagw 2y ago
I used WindowMaker for years and while it was pretty good, it was never as good as NextStep. GNUStep I could never really get to work consistently, it always felt more like an interesting proof of concept than a stable desktop environment.
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by dagw 2y ago
The TSA screening at airports would be vastly better if TSA maintained a "red team" that regularly tried smuggling guns They actually do have this. TSA seem to still suck at their job: https://www.forbes.com/site
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by dagw 2y ago
I genuinely never understood why nobody else implemented a version of the shelf from NextStep. It was such a fantastic UI innovation. In many ways NextStep was the pinnacle of desktop UI/UX design.
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by dagw 2y ago
Uv doesn't include a "build system", but encourages you to use some other one. Personally I consider this one of uv's greatest strengths. The inflexibility and brittleness of Poetry's build system is what made me
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by dagw 2y ago
I assume these breaking changes are in the stdlib Well yes, but sometimes the features provided by stdlib can feel pretty 'core'. I remember that how dataclasses work for example changed and broke a lot of our code when we upgra
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by dagw 2y ago
My university had a proof based, let's construct the natural numbers from axioms and prove that a+b == b+a type course as the first class for aspiring math majors. It was a "weed out" course, not in the sense that it was part
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by dagw 2y ago
As someone in a similar situation, my number one piece of advice is to meticulously keep up your software engineering best practices even when doing your day to day data analysis job. All that bread-and-butter stuff like tests and easy depl
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by dagw 2y ago
interestingly enough though, it doesn't seem to be possible to write a custom hash function that returns -1 >>> class Foo: def __hash__(self): return -1 >>> f = Foo() >>> print
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by dagw 2y ago
If you're writing a custom hash function in python for a custom python class, then this won't affect you since it's only treated as an error in the underlying C code. If you're adding a new type to the core python langua

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