grandiego

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by grandiego 1mo ago
> the difference is still huge Same experience here. But I think the key argument for local is about being able to leverage "non castrated" models. But maybe this is not relevant at all for standard coding tasks.
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by grandiego 5mo ago
Really great effort!!! A uber-nerdy anecdote to be appreciated by knowledgeable people. I'm feeling pretty envious :)
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by grandiego 10mo ago
Yes, strings appear like an afterthought, and sadly the Octave version has slight incompatibilities which may be a PITA for any non trivial script which aims to be compatible.
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by grandiego 10mo ago
For my thesis I did something similar: bash scripts to extract raw data from a Subversion repository, to be preprocessed with PHP scripts (now I would prefer Python but had more experience with PHP) for text extraction and csv output, and f
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by grandiego 10mo ago
In my experience, it is from technical management in medium/big companies you'll listen some good things about Oracle as a database product (regardless of its actual merits), like stability, scalability, compliance checks, and oth
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by grandiego 10mo ago
Of course almost all startups expect a long live, but strategically it may be better (for the founders) to close when the fundamental assumptions are no longer valid, in order to do a future clean restart in a brand new endeavor (usually af
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by grandiego 1y ago
Same here. I've read the author's braintrust.dev as "brain - Rust - Dev", so I was expecting a discussion on Rust Async development.
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by grandiego 1y ago
Hope some day Muslims (in all Arab countries) just accept the right of Israel to exist. Else, this attack/retaliation dynamic will continue for ever, with people taking sides from a blob of propaganda channels disguised in news platfor
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by grandiego 1y ago
I believe even today there's no way to control/isolate memory leaks on a per-war basis.
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by grandiego 1y ago
At least on TV I occasionally catch randomly interesting ads... sometimes. On YT, I'm stuck with the same obnoxious commercial from a company whose service I strongly dislike, playing on loop ever since they associated me to some relat
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by grandiego 1y ago
Applets died because of many reasons, like absurd startup time for the JRE (often just for silly animations), absurd memory requirements (for the time) and associated crashes, weird compatibility issues in the initial releases of the Java p
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by grandiego 1y ago
> What's I find more interesting, is methods that have worked for someone for years. From 2020 I use a three column worksheet (Libreoffice in Debian): one row per day. One thin column for the date, the second for pending tasks, the
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by grandiego 1y ago
Right, epiphenols. And despite some BPA-free options there are many alerts about the risks of the replacements. Maybe is time for a cool old style matrix receipt printer using regular paper?
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by grandiego 1y ago
Hibernate... a real PITA every time the application needed something beyond basic single-table CRUD queries; sadly for me it happened 99% of the times. After some months of torture, plain JDBC with their stupid checked exceptions was refres
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by grandiego 2y ago
Writing from a country with dysfunctional judiciary, I think this is a logical way to overcome crime, at least temporarily. There isn't a "hygienic" alternative when judges are continuously bribed or blackmailed by gang membe
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by grandiego 2y ago
The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)
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by grandiego 2y ago
> to distribute applications in the form of what are essentially tarballs of entire Linux systems. No so bad when Linux ran from a floppy with 2Mb of RAM. Sadly every library just got bigger and bigger without any practical way to genera
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by grandiego 2y ago
> Most utilities do not have to face the network True, but code from those utilities may eventually be used in the network (for example, through copied functionality and shared libraries). Also, a creative pipeline may actually involve t
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by grandiego 2y ago
Beginner here. A takeaway I got from the Andrew Ng's Coursera course (specifically for neural networks) is that adding more neurons and layers than the "minimum needed" is usually okay (that is, no risk of overfitting when co
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by grandiego 2y ago
Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.
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by grandiego 2y ago
> the response from leadership was "yes, something like that would be better in the long run, but we want to ship this now." Sounds like the Rust's async story.
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by grandiego 2y ago
> it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty This is something every related country already knows, think of Pakistan and North Korea. Are you expecting China and India to drop their nukes bec
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by grandiego 2y ago
Great for you! Could you give the name of such drug in order to ask some feedback from my doctor? Some years ago she prescribed one which got me sleeping but I woke up awfully tired (left after a week.)
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by grandiego 2y ago
I agree with your sentiment. I was kind of "forced" to use (and eventually fully migrate to) git because the IDE integration to SVN became more quirky every year. Instead, git is already integrated in IDEs these days.
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by grandiego 3y ago
Some months ago I was trying to learn a bit on this subject (using Debian); from my notes I made a sort of beginner's "self-tutorial"[1]. [1]: https://americati.com/dat/assembler.html
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by grandiego 3y ago
> I'm no expert but I have to believe it would be far cheaper and easier to solve Earth's problems. Nor I, but maybe the Earth's problems can't be solved at all, so -at least some people think- the next best thing wou
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by grandiego 3y ago
A friend of my mother in Peru had those books. I'm fond of my memories about Milú (the dog, not sure about the spelling), the captain, the scientific, the silly detectives, and Tintin. Specially the book about the travel to the moon (i
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by grandiego 3y ago
Hey man, I was yesterday until 3am w/your game and one hour today morning (had to stop to resume my life:) So addictive!
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by grandiego 4y ago
"There is No Reason for Any Individual To Have a Computer in Their Home"
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by grandiego 4y ago
> Be your own advocate and research the things your doctor tells you I share your concern but I think there is no definitive advise about how to prevent these horrible outcomes (besides the usual "do regular exercise", "lo

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