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by jmcphers 1y ago
Positron Assistant will eventually support models other than BYOK, including connecting to models in Bedrock, local models, hosted models in Copilot, etc. Also note that Positron perma-unlocks the internal APIs that Microsoft Copilot Chat u
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by jmcphers 1y ago
FYI "Radian" is also the name of a very popular R console: https://github.com/randy3k/radian
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by jmcphers 1y ago
Positron, a data science IDE. Has roots in RStudio but it's built on VS Code and has robust support for both Python and R workflows. If you use VS Code and install a bunch of extensions to try to make it a competent R/Python data
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by jmcphers 2y ago
Pebble's display is also a backlit LCD. It is better than some backlit LCDs but the technology is not fundamentally different. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/3i6mje/epaper_tech_...
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by jmcphers 2y ago
Probably not if you care about accuracy. Really good sleep tracking requires more sensors than these devices have.
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by jmcphers 2y ago
My family has addressed this (partially) by using an Auto BCC rule, so that mail sent from the shared address gets BCC'ed to the other partner.
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by jmcphers 2y ago
I use Fastmail for this. Here's what we do: - My wife and I each have our own email addresses - We have a third email address that we share with the school (etc.); this email address is not a real inbox but a forwarding address that se
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by jmcphers 2y ago
I've read on my Voyage almost every day of the last 8 years. One of the best electronic devices I've ever owned. I knew it was too much to hope for it to be reintroduced, but I hoped anyway.
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by jmcphers 2y ago
I have a similar setup and love it! If you haven't already, check out Plex and Plexamp as a way to listen to your library on your phone & computer. Plexamp gives you lots of Spotify-like features including playlists, streaming &amp
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by jmcphers 2y ago
The Playdate has a Memory-in-Pixel display. https://www.sharpsde.com/technologies-for/memory-in-pixels/m...
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by jmcphers 2y ago
I still have one of these Amazfit smartwatches (the Bip S). Not only does it get easier to read as it gets brighter outside, the battery life is amazing (easily two weeks) and I can read the time from any angle. The Bip S is getting a littl
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by jmcphers 2y ago
Check out Rockwell razors. They come with a set of plates that let you choose the aggressiveness of the razor, which is very helpful, especially when you're first starting out.
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by jmcphers 2y ago
I switched from cartridges to DE razors a couple of years ago for many of the reasons listed in the article. The article unfairly doesn't list many of the advantages of cartridges, which drove adoption of them over the dominant DE razo
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by jmcphers 2y ago
+1 for the Playdate. The thing is incredibly friendly to developers and sideloaded games are first-class citizens. In addition to a really pleasant SDK there's also Pulp which is very easy for kids to use to make simple games (and has
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by jmcphers 2y ago
Positron isn't supposed to be a replacement for RStudio for all use cases (especially not this early in its lifecycle!). If you open your package folder in Positron (as opposed to the Rproj file itself) I think you'll find it has
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by jmcphers 2y ago
RStudio was based on QtWebKit, then migrated to QtWebEngine, then finally migrated to Electron (which is what it uses today). You'll find some vestigial Qt code in the repository but it isn't used for the shipping releases any mor
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by jmcphers 2y ago
We merge upstream from VS Code every month and we plan to keep up to date with it, so extensions will continue to work and we'll continue to inherit new features as they become available. It's a development burden for sure -- but
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by jmcphers 2y ago
A good question. The VS Code extension API is pretty powerful but extensions run separately from the main workbench process and they can't draw any meaningful UI on it. This was a great design decision IMHO as it is the core reason VS
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by jmcphers 2y ago
There's some thoughtful speculation on this here: "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture" - https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
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by jmcphers 2y ago
open-remote-ssh doesn't currently work with Positron because Positron does not currently build the bundles that need to be installed inside the remote host. We're definitely interested in making this work, though; stay tuned!
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by jmcphers 2y ago
There is a old system for making numbers pronounceable as words using a mapping from each number to a consonant value. It's typically used to help memorize numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_syst
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by jmcphers 2y ago
Are you saying that it applies ... universally?
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Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth(techcrunch.com)
156 points by jmcphers 2y ago|121 comments
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by jmcphers 3y ago
Can't make any promises -- our dev team is pretty small! -- but it's been flagged for triage.
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by jmcphers 3y ago
That pricing sheet is for Posit Workbench; RStudio Server[0] can host as many people as you have the compute for, and it's free and open source. It does only support one session per user, but might meet the needs of a small research gr
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by jmcphers 3y ago
I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but I would not recommend them on the basis of their spam filter. It's competent but makes at least a few mistakes a week. Google's was better for me.
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by jmcphers 3y ago
If you have Netflix, check out one of Kaufman's more recent films, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things". It's an (increasingly loose) adaptation of Ian Reid's book of the same name. The book is deliberately disorien
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by jmcphers 3y ago
I live in the Seattle area, which is struggling with public drug use just like Portland. Like Portland, we've lived for decades with very progressive politicians who have lead successful decriminalization efforts and spent huge sums of
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by jmcphers 3y ago
Having read a few accounts of what it takes to summit Everest, I would guess that the number of people who could achieve it is less than half of 80%. The excellent book Into Thin Air[0] has a lot more on this (and some thoughts on the incre
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by jmcphers 3y ago
There's a wonderful series of books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón with this as a plot device; in the series, the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" exists as place where forgotten books are treasured, adopted, and remembered. https:/

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