intrepidhero

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by intrepidhero 4y ago
For what it's worth, I have a python background and Sonic Pi was my introduction to Ruby too. It does feel a bit weird but the built in tutorials are really quite good. You can get pretty far just copying and pasting samples. Play arou
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
How does a dequeue improve the situation with cache locality versus a linked list?
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
If I'm interactively composing something I do very much like pipes and shell commands, but if it's a thing I'm going to be running repeatedly then the improved maintainability of a python script, even if it does a lot of subp
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Properly managed hydro should help prevent flooding, which I imagine is incredibly valuable in an area with annual monsoon season. It's not like overflowing reservoirs are adding water to the watershed, it just means they don't ye
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
This is the bit that should be at the very top of the official docs. It's tripped me up every time I go to write async code and until you learn it, the error message is very confusing. > In particular, calling it will immediately re
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Went to restaurant yesterday without paper menus. Just a QR code on the table that redirects to the website.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Whoops, actually the python version only works if you move total AND add a nonlocal keyword. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html?highli...
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
EDIT: re-reading your comment I think I see now you were agreeing with me. :-) Leaving this here as elucidation. That python code throws UnboundLocalError, which seems like what it should do to me. If you move total = 0 to before def inc
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
To be clear, I'd like all tables to throw an error on unresolved key names. And I can't think of any cases where the current behavior is necessary for any of the features I like. I think the design decision to have unresolved name
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I use Lua a fair bit in my day job. The comment about it being a minimalist toolkit that allows you add scripting on top of domain specific tools is spot on. That is exactly the use case that Lua shines in. My favorite feature is the way th
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I like the concept of using mypyc to leverage type hints to compile python. But I was pretty frustrated recently when I got bit by a bug in mypyc[1] while trying to use black. Especially since I wasn't using mypyc myself and so didn&#x
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
That's an unusual and interesting take. Can you give an example of how you'd make the system more equitable?
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Humans are social creatures. Perhaps the stereotype of the energetic and motivated individual is an anomaly of human behavior. Some degree of "loafing", to use the OP's word is natural and healthy for individuals and the grou
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
There are cell phone sized thingies that can send text messages to iridium's constellation, which is (as I understand it) way further away than starlink. I use one while backpacking. I'd be super excited to get the same capability
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
It could just as easily be 1 ≤ i ≤ N and then I wouldn't have to remember that the lower bound is inclusive and the upper exclusive.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
And random responses. 1. I don't know if the coal used to make steal can be replaced with synthetic sources but petrol (and diesel and oil) can absolutely be replaced with synthetic fuel powered by renewable energy and carbon capture.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
They spent $47 million[1] on 600m of cable that can do 574MVA. It's underground and cooled with liquid nitrogen. TIL. On the one hand, I'm impressed. I didn't think we were close to this sort of thing being feasible at all. O
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
> Superconductors ferry electricity between Long Island and Manhattan... WHAT!? Did I sleep for 50 years or is somebody stretching the definition of superconductor?
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
On the other hand, visible flakes of plastic in my food are kind of a bummer.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll check them out. I have an old backpack in need of a new DWR treatment, but with recent news about PFCs I was uncertain what to look for. It would sure be nice if the fabrics with integrated DWR were more upfron
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
The fabrics section is super interesting. https://learnmyog.com/fabrics.html The DWR coatings are something I'd like to be more informed about. Does anyone have good links to discussions of options with pros and cons,
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
If I could make one change I would require more thorough scrutiny for any product that we know is going to persist in the environment for a long time. The half life of your new plastic is 10 years due to UV degradation? Great you can use th
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
HCI = Human Computer Interaction[1] for the curious. This is the name for the older research discipline that UX (user experience) grew out of. I'm familiar with the term from reading "An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering&q
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
https://www.arcimoto.com/ Not nearly as cheap, but street legal in the US and looks like loads of fun.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I get sabatier and electrolysis but what is a CO2 concentrator? Or rather how does it work? I thought that was the expensive and relatively unknown part of the process. Aside: Sweet company website https://terraformindustries.com
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
I'm dying to know how "usbnøkkel" is pronounced.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Flash disc is my personal anachronism. Although if anyone out there is calling these things a floppy anything I see I've been outdone. I applaud you.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
That's a great point. Often the perceived agency is an illusion.
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
Mythbusters set up radio control for cars all the time. There's a GPS, compass, and accelerometer in your pocket. The FAA seems to be pretty good at directing airplanes through airports. USAF has pilots operating drones on the other si
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by intrepidhero 4y ago
It's not just that people are bad at statistics (we are though). It's also that we place value on individual agency. Getting into a self-driving car (or onto a train) means giving up some of my agency and because of that I have hi

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