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by heydenberk 5y ago
Books for babies and toddlers are pretty much all the same: cute drawings and simple sentences. On some level, they're all goofy and inane. There's no accounting for taste to be sure, but I am especially baffled why some of these
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by heydenberk 5y ago
I know you're being snide, but a warming planet is a profound concern for billions of low-income people across south and southeast Asia, Africa, Central America and low-lying Pacific territories.
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by heydenberk 5y ago
I don't think I've even seen a link to LiveLeak scroll by in 5 or 10 years, but I still had a visceral reaction to seeing the name on the HN frontpage. Saw some really traumatic things on there in the mid/late aughts.
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Lunar Starship and unnecessary operational complexity(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
1 points by heydenberk 6y ago|0 comments
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NumPy 1.20(numpy.org)
168 points by heydenberk 6y ago|60 comments
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by heydenberk 6y ago
TL;DR: Uppercase and lowercase alphabet plus numbers, which would be 62 characters, except it omits uppercase I (as in India), lowercase l (as in lima), capital O (as in Oscar) and the number 0, as they're all visually similar and some
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by heydenberk 6y ago
I had some interesting interactions with him (and former deput asst secretary of treasury DeLong) on this site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163449 He certainly got the better of that interaction and he was patien
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by heydenberk 6y ago
I'm less concerned with central business districts having the same architectural form. That's clearly function following form to some extent; people who work in those places want space and light, and as much of it as possible in a
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by heydenberk 6y ago
The author (of both the book in the demo and this software itself) is Robin Sloan. He publishes a couple email newsletters, all of which I recommend. Most recently he's been writing a development diary for a video game he's workin
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Tradeoffs for Locomotion in Air and Water(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by heydenberk 6y ago|0 comments
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Library-Ification and Analyzing Rust(smallcultfollowing.com)
1 points by heydenberk 6y ago|0 comments
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by heydenberk 7y ago
At a previous job, we had a law called "Peeler's Law", named after an engineer who was a top front-line bug-fixer: if you don't have time to add a test, that's when you need to add a test the most.
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How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 4(quantstart.com)
3 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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Metcalfe’s Law for High-Speed Rail(pedestrianobservations.com)
2 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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Black China: Africa's First Superpower Is Coming Sooner Than You Think(newsweek.com)
2 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I'm fascinated by Idris, dependent types and the promise of massively expanding compile-time guarantees. The compile times mentioned in the article raise a question that I've wondered about, and would love to hear from an expert:
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Organic Audio: Putting Carrots as Audio Couplers to Test(hackaday.com)
2 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I don't use Facebook any longer, but I believe the web app's home page is still addressed as /home.php. It's been 10 years since I worked with a LAMP stkac where the P stood for PHP but even then using .htaccess to rewri
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Experiments with Making Convincing AI-Generated Fake News(minimaxir.com)
2 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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Ching Shih(en.wikipedia.org)
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by heydenberk 7y ago
Semi-related: If you are in the market for an email provider for transactional emails, I encourage you to use Postmark. It's a developer focused company with a simple pricing model and great documentation, and their IPs tend to have gr
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I encounter this impression a lot and find it a bit confusing. I suppose this is what it looks like at a distance, because at a distance you see news and headlines, not practical realities. In point of fact, I think the VueJS boomlet is ove
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by heydenberk 7y ago
This Reply All episode https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k is how I learned about SIM swapping and I strongly recommend it for interested people.
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by heydenberk 7y ago
The post doesn't mention Django's migration system, which is a killer feature. Of course, one should change their database infrequently and deliberately, but it is nonetheless a delight to use, and a feature that is not matched by
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I think there are two related issues. First, the tenor of these articles betrays a general middle-to-upper-class bias in the media. For people who are poor, these stories are more traumatic than inspiring, which means that these are stories
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by heydenberk 7y ago
Even within the same organization, software architecture can be a radically different practice from person to person. There are some like those you mention: they're aloof, they don't engage deeply with the business requirements an
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I'd used f-string-like syntaxes in other languages before they came to Python. It was immediately obvious to me what the benefit would be. I've used assignment expressions in other languages too! Python's version doesn't
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by heydenberk 7y ago
I put your question in talktotransformer.com and got this response: I know people have been having trouble adapting these kinds of generative techniques to text. Do you know of anyone making interesting progress there? It is
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Category: Discontinued Google Services(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by heydenberk 7y ago|0 comments
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Philly Wisper(phillywisper.net)
137 points by heydenberk 7y ago|94 comments

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