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by dagw 2y ago
Technically, you probably severed me a Coke :)
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by dagw 2y ago
I worked at Cyberia's second location in Kingston in 1995 Wow, now there is a blast from the past! I hung out there quite a bit in 1995-1996. That was also the first place I used the actual internet (as opposed to BBS's or Compu
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by dagw 2y ago
Never seen drinks sold in screw-on-cap aluminium bottles. In what country or what type of drinks use them?
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by dagw 2y ago
Aluminum is actually recycled, and should replace PET for all drinks packaging To the best of my knowledge, no one has made a resealable aluminium can. Until that is solved aluminium is inferior to PET for many use cases. In fact this is
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by dagw 2y ago
Calling a musician a "cool cat" has been a slang term of high praise for jazz musicians since at least the 50s.
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by dagw 2y ago
You can apparently lease a Cybertruck starting at $1000/month. That is definitely within range for someone on a 90k income, even if it is isn't the most financially smart thing you can do.
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by dagw 2y ago
Allows people who are not versed in SQL to interact with and edit sqlite files as if it was a spreadsheet (for better or worse)
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by dagw 2y ago
'Academics' probably have less trust and authority among the general public today than they've ever had. They're as a far away from the priest class of old as you could get. Truth was replaced with authority This is pr
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by dagw 2y ago
and just kind of scratched my head Can you at least conceive that some people might find it deeply creepy that someone can follow their every step, and equally creepy to be able to 'spy' on another person 24/7?
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by dagw 2y ago
what does the AI coding setup of the HN community look like GitHub copilot and copilot chat in Jetbrains IDE. Cut and paste to Claude for anything else.
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by dagw 2y ago
That works for your project, but then nobody can include you as a library without conflicts. I think this is the core to much misunderstandings and arguments around this question. Some people are writing code that only they will run, on a
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by dagw 2y ago
They couldn't be in the standard library. Why not? Python does make breaking changes to the standard library when going from 3.X to 3.X+1 quite regularly.
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by dagw 2y ago
Looks like they haven't actually published the source code, despite both GitHub and PyPI claiming the project is apache licensed. If you install the package all you get in the wheel is precompiled cython libraries and the absolute mini
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by dagw 2y ago
Depends which parameter you choose to hold fixed. You could shrink your text and keep the layout and page count or keep your text size fixed and increase the page count. If people were doing layout for a fixed A5 or A6 size they will probab
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by dagw 2y ago
Or you just say that my code is only fast on hardware that supports nativ AVX512 (or whatever). In many cases where speed really matters that is a reasonable tradeoff to make.
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by dagw 2y ago
Where do you have your information's from?? I was apparently reading off the latest UnixWare marketing material.
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by dagw 2y ago
My understanding is that, if you judge by traffic, The New York Times is actually a cooking blog and online gaming platform that dabbles a bit in journalism on the side.
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by dagw 2y ago
SCO still sells OpenServer5/6 and Unixware7 SCO is gone. A company called Xinous bought OpenServer and UnixWare at the bankruptcy sale and are the ones now selling it. Although looking it their website it is clear that nothing in the
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by dagw 2y ago
I clearly remember McBride being the 'face' of the lawsuits and his name being used interchangeably with SCO when discussing the lawsuit. Maybe not in the press, but definitely in blogs like Groklaw and various 'tech' fo
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by dagw 2y ago
Yes, but then you have to write (and debug and maintain) each part 3 times. There are also various libraries that create cross platform abstractions of the underlying SIMD libraries. Highway, from Google, and xSIMD are two popular such libr
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by dagw 2y ago
The problem is that people are asking for more and more out of these tools. The tools we had last year are great at solving all the problems we had 20 years ago. But as long as we keep coming up with new problems, we're going to keep n
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by dagw 2y ago
Most programming languages ought not to be optimized for a non-programmer to read Python 'won' mostly because non-programmers could look at it, more or less understand what was going on, and feel that this was something they pro
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by dagw 2y ago
Go with rasterio and don't look back Excellent advice. Add fiona and shapely for manipulating vector data, and pyproj for projections and coordinate systems. Yes there are corner cases where installing 'real' GDAL is still
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by dagw 2y ago
Nothing per se. But there are a few different workflows and project types they either don't support or make very difficult. If pyenv and poetry solve all your problems then it's a perfectly fine setup.
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by dagw 2y ago
The general rule of thumb is well-known to interior/kitchen designers And yet, every new apartment I look at has an open plan kitchen seemingly designed by someone who has never cooked a meal in their life.
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by dagw 2y ago
Do you get used to the input delay? The input delays are very dependent on where the server is and what it is doing. If the server is idle and close by (ping wise) delay is virtually indistinguishable from local VSCode. If I'm connec
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by dagw 2y ago
Either Nvidia has to open up CUDA to third party providers, or someone (OpenCL?) has to finally manage to create a high level cross hardware abstraction that has all the features of CUDA, can match CUDAs performance on Nvidia hardware and i
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by dagw 2y ago
The Swedish state did a similar study in the 40s where observers took very detailed measurements of everything women did in the kitchen during the day and then optimised every part of the kitchen design to save both time and effort. Most ap
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by dagw 2y ago
Zed is a GUI code editor. Also the difference is where the UI runs. Running the UI locally gives much better response and lower latency than running the UI remote.
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by dagw 2y ago
The only reason I'd want to upgrade my M1 Pro MBP is because I kind of need more RAM and storage. The fact that I'm even considering a new laptop just for things that before could have been a trivial upgrade is quite illuminating.

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