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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Good question! The answer depends on funding, i.e. in my own never-leaves-my-house case it is always self-host, much like SOC work. In the case of startup or research lab work (day-job, for lack of a better descriptor). It's frequently
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The whole idea here is superlative. +1 for k8s, kubernetes, cloud native, self-hosted, edge-enabled at low cost, no cost. I ran rq and minio for years on k8s, but been watching sqlite as a drop-in-replacement since most of my work has been
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
> "The author wanting to combine Weird Nerd with autistic is very incorrect IMHO... I've known a lot of weird nerds, am one myself, and there's lots of different flavors, most of them not autistic." That makes one of
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I guess it makes sense that binary design underlies rhythmic fascism. I'd prefer minimalism that is not lossy. Either that or I don't want to work hard at triplets or be forced into faking them.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Used sans metronome, I can see its appeal. That is, cool grooves in the studio may be related to low listener expectations. I mean, J Dylla grooves are cool precisely because they violate listener expectations. Funk is the art of surprise.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up. This is amazing. I've been watching cuda since it's introduction and Polars since I had an intern porting our Pandas code there a couple years ago but I had no idea Polars would go this far, this fast!
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The problem of "how doctors think" was well-documented over 15 years ago by Jerome Groopman. As a result, I think the problem is well understood, at least by those who are aware of books like Groopman's. Unfortunately, his me
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The author is not wrong, but swimming in the shallows. It's a very old problem that goes back more decades than are accounted for here. To their credit, at least when the joint venture between IBM and Microsoft happened around OS/
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Yes. I have read the book in at least two programming languages. I'm a huge fan of Downey for lowering the entry bar to solid logic and reason around computer science, particularly when introducing Python to novice learners outside tra
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The closest I've come to switching to a passion field is that I worked a landscape crew for a summer when I found myself out of work twenty years ago. This was obviously prior to the race to the bottom of landscaping by aliens and robo
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Me too! I ran into this TeX plugin trying to disembowel context on manjaro this evening. I'd say go for it! I mean, it's asymmetric warfare, right? This went around on HN a few years ago and if coffee stains are a plugin, your pix
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
This is my multidisciplinary improvisation after cursory scan. Please forgive me. I'll revisit to make sure I'm not repeating the OP or the author. Liminal is key here. I believe this arises from the fact that we frequently have t
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Funny... me and the first poster clicked reply at the same moment indistinguishable from the HN front-end. The meta point is the same.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I love this having just started reading through the C++ 20 stuff. However, a key opportunity is missed in that neither the icon nor the site links in the footer linked to a short definition of the language before modules (the lack), the imp
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Good point! Me too. My g++ emits exactly the errors and instructions you described. I haven't read the current Stroustrup version under discussion, but I did read the earlier version when C++ was all day, every day for me. I prefer Koe
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Thanks for your reply. I carry a Pixel in one pocket and an iPhone in the other while lamenting the two decades since the deprecation of my Sidekick. Much like the discussion about older users here, it's tragic that we can't learn
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I'm saddened by the responses here. It's not older users' fault. Design teams at leading tech companies have gotten a free pass for designing mcmansions in software without realizing that kids weren't the only generation
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
AI writes great code for people who memorized PIE while gaming a FAANG interview. For those of us who aspire to cognition over memorization, I hope we can find a smarter pairs programmer than AI. Fortunately, I've paired with a few, al
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
On the academic death march from deprecating the humanities to deprecating the sciences, we've arrived at the need for the art of human sciences that are holistic enough to realize that neither the extremes of poetry nor the extremes o
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
This essay resonates as it touches upon many long conversations I've had with a friend around our attempts to create a postmodern PKM system strung together with glue code, duct tape, and bailing wire while juggling chainsaws and bowli
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'm happy for those who have been helped by these devices. The FDA approval is only a revelation to the extent that the hidden truth of the extant prescription CGM market is poor data veracity combined with high catastrophic failure of
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At CMU, defense dollars total billions(publicsource.org)
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I'd use this tomorrow... If it worked in a shell script or similar old-school unix architectural style on my bespoke static site generator, which is a slow-motion train wreck of a weekend hack-fest being ported from python/staticj
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I've complained about the resemblance to the Ruby community's packaging conflict a decade ago almost two years ago now. I may have been in the minority, but was apparently not alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I didn't think there were any edges left in diet differentiation from keto to vegan to keto-vegan to vegetarian. Bringing McLuhan's hybridization to food is not innovation I saw coming, but this is as mind-blowing as my realizati
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Thanks for asking. A Japanese, inline-four that is that smooth, tuned to feel like a torque-y V-twin is unusual. I always wanted a fireblade for similar reasons though I hear Aprilia makes a 400 V-twin which is more to my lightweight expect
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I've ridden a friend's zero. Love the bike. The price is right, but comes with compromise since my weekend trips are beyond the zero's range. My friend has had problems which are all fixed at manufacturer cost under warranty;
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
I intend to buy this bike if it ever reaches my local market. I've owned Japanese and German bikes from 300cc to 1000cc. This hits a sweet spot of weight, speed, and price for me that's hard to match. Which is to say that 500 lbs.
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I won't make that mistake again. I'm guessing the spatial affordance, for lack of a better phrase, of "^^this^^" arose with ephemeral comments on irc, but is clearly dependent on the message list
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by davidthewatson 3y ago
That resonates. Me too! Here's Pew's Janna Anderson in 2015: "Algorithms are taking over much of the human work of hiring humans. And, unless they are programmed to seek out currently undervalued and difficult-to-track

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