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   by divan 4y ago

   I tried to use Helix and really liked it, but had to stick with Neovim because of Copilot.
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   by divan 4y ago

   > Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cult. How is this a "cargo-cult"?
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   by divan 4y ago

   Impressive. After some chats with Elon, I made a character for an inanimate object (inspired by the fantastic Everything is Alive podcast). Rental car told me that some customers were very kind to her and invited her to dinner :)
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   by divan 4y ago

   While agreeing with post, I wish SD software was more affordable. Major players (Stella, for example), charge 4K$ for a single license. With that entry barrier, it's no surprise that SD is still a niche thing for nerds that tend to fal
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   by divan 4y ago

   Someone may enjoy this article on advice in "Overthinking Everything" blog as well: https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-give-good-advice
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   by divan 4y ago

   What's the purpose of animation here? It seems to have no information about actual train position, or am I missing something?
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   by divan 4y ago

   Beautifully told in https://algorithmstoliveby.com
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   by divan 4y ago

   That's the reason why I avoid using Python as much as possible (while I really like the language). Another reason is massive stacktraces everywhere instead of a meaninful user-facing error messages, but that's a smaller cultural t
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   by divan 4y ago

   Obligatory mention of http://collapseos.org
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    by divan 4y ago

    There is a great book explaning the philosophy, story and problem of using averages in many fields - "The End of Average" by Todd Rose. [1] I originally found it from the fascinating article on how using averages in the design of
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    by divan 4y ago

    Right, that's Lex's secret plan to make more smart people do more cardio.
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    by divan 4y ago

    Also https://legiblenews.com
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    by divan 4y ago

    Shameless plug of my post on the one-year experience with EdgeDB: https://divan.dev/posts/edgedb/
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    by divan 4y ago

    As this thread is mostly about alternatives and reflecting why they work or not, my 2 cents and 2 apps: - Drafts - super fast native MacOS app that just lets you start writing text and care about "where to put it" later. I relaize
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    One Year with EdgeDB(divan.dev)

    6 points by divan 4y ago|0 comments
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    by divan 4y ago

    Thanks for elaborated answer. Most of my use cases have to deal with 10-100 PDF small documents, some – 1000-2000, but I don't want the solution to choke on 10GB of huge PDFs (I was just uploading those to Google Pinpoint). So Go or Ru
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    by divan 4y ago

    Interesting, thanks! I'll take a look (datasette is amazing).
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    by divan 4y ago

    PDF history is pretty amazing, actually. The fact that PDF survived over so many decades is something worth reflecting upon :)
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    by divan 4y ago

    Ha, I'm from that generation of developers who have the mental model of what is actually happening on the hardware level when you run the program. Doesn't necesarilly mean I overoptimize or think about struct fields offsets or cac
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    by divan 4y ago

    Can anyone recommend how to build the following solution? - Full-text search on modern era PDFs (i.e no need for OCR) - Exact word search would suffice (fuzzy/contextual search actually is less desirable) - Cross-platform frontend part
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    by divan 4y ago

    May I ask how did you come to this conclusion?
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    by divan 4y ago

    > This just screams negligence to me. This is very much a default mode for ex-USSR countries, especially russia. While russian bureocracy is extremely procedural, it has nothing to do with efficiency or safety (most of the regulations an
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    by divan 4y ago

    I remember Ravelin shared their story of using it in card fraud detection code. Basically they managed to replace a full-fledged graph database with small piece of code using union-find in Go. Was a great talk. https://skillsmatt
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    by divan 4y ago

    International sport federations are non-profits and follow own statutes. While many sports federations banned russian and belorussian athletes and officials, they had to do it within the legal boundaries and their statutes. For example, the
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    by divan 4y ago

    Thank you for such an elaborate answer!
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    by divan 4y ago

    Great dev environments in companies are rare. If you currently can't afford switching to work on your own thing, focus on finding those outliers. It can take some time and luck, but it's not impossible.
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    by divan 4y ago

    Hey! How did you choose Kumu? I'm currently exploring a landscape of SD tools, and Kumu seems both cool and unusual, but it's not clear if it can be used a replacements for Stella Architect, which is prohibitevely expensive. Does
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    by divan 4y ago

    That's what I'm talking about – explanations like yours are abundant (no offence). Following your advice, let's say I set SMART goal for myself - "Increase number of books I read per month to 10 by the end of the year&qu
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    by divan 4y ago

    > The problem is that there are disincentives to thinking strategically. To me the problem was that nobody around could even explain what does it mean. It's such a vague word nowadays, and even when you really want to craft a strate
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    by divan 4y ago

    If you're picturing a teenager and/or workaholic unaware of life behind the monitor, it's not the case. But thank you for the concern :)