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by joshlk 2y ago
I now use GitHub pages to host websites and it works like a charm. Free hosting and you can edit the pages using the GitHube website
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by joshlk 2y ago
Is there an explanation of the acronyms/metrics used? E.g. COP
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by joshlk 3y ago
I’m sure it’s down to use case and circumstances but I frequently find it useful to be able to read and edit text based data formats (JSON/YAML/TOML). If you are concerned about data size you can easily use on-the-fly compression
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by joshlk 3y ago
Side question: when did XML start to loose favour to JSON? Did this happen because of something in particular or was it a gradual transition?
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Ask HN: Google workspace price increased to £6/user/month
3 points by joshlk 3y ago|3 comments
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Sorry I'm busy for the foreseeable future(github.com)
1 points by joshlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by joshlk 3y ago
Because it hurts EU customers by not applying the rules worldwide.
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by joshlk 3y ago
If Apple maintains that it will only support new web engines in the EU, the EU will step in and force Apple to allow it worldwide. So it's a losing battle for them.
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Ten simple rules for writing a technical book(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by joshlk 3y ago|0 comments
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Doom on IPU(github.com)
2 points by joshlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by joshlk 3y ago
What’s the website support of Firefox like? I tried switching to Safari last year and a small minority of websites didn’t work as expected. Even though it was small, it was a big enough problem that I switched back to Chrome.
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by joshlk 3y ago
In Rust it’s easier to leverage external crates/libraries that are more optimised than rolling your own. This can lead to performance increases (I don’t know if fish is doing this)
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ARM CPU JavaScript Instruction(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by joshlk 3y ago|0 comments
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by joshlk 3y ago
Graphcore have been doing some good research in the area: https://twitter.com/sergiopprz/status/1708827369031516169
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by joshlk 3y ago
There are many proposals to change the English spelling so it's more phonetical, unfortunately they don't get much attention. For example SoundSpell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSpel Here is an example
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by joshlk 3y ago
Nice article- I very much enjoyed it. As a side note: I don’t understand why Julia is compared to Python. It really is in the same realm as R - a language designed for scientific computing. Python is a general purpose language - you can do
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by joshlk 3y ago
I went to Japan last month and was surprised that there wasn’t much of Hokusai’s artwork available to see
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by joshlk 3y ago
> subtle incompatibility with TPUs that requires modifying the training/eval scripts Do you have any more details or links to articles expanding on this?
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by joshlk 4y ago
Shell has its place as a glue language between commands. I tried writing a good CLI in bash this week and yikes it was hard. The lack of a package manager and good libraries really hurt. If you could “pip” install bash libraries like an arg
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by joshlk 4y ago
> Write down everything I agree that there a massive benefit to this and asynchronous communication can be more productive. However from a personal point of view, I’m dyslexic and find verbal communication much more efficient for me. Rea
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by joshlk 4y ago
What’s the game demonstrated in the screenshots?
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by joshlk 4y ago
Electrifying tracks can be more difficult than it first seems. For example in the UK on certain lines you have to replace most road bridges that go over the track. The bridges are not high enough to fit electric lines underneath. Tunnels c
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by joshlk 4y ago
> I always gripe about Python not having built-in array type Python does have an array type. It’s existed from at least v2.6 (released 2008). https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/array.html
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by joshlk 4y ago
What are some practical applications for a SAT solver?
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by joshlk 4y ago
The argument is lead by a common misconception. Growth comes from only new resources but in reality it also comes from efficiency gains. And efficiency gains are not limited.
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by joshlk 4y ago
They should apply “conditional deciding” to programming code generation models. I don’t that’s been done before
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by joshlk 4y ago
The table of “Specializing Adaptive Interpreter” changes are interesting: https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#pep-659-spec...
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Ask HN: How to pick a software tool? (e.g. MySQL vs. Postgres)
3 points by joshlk 5y ago|4 comments
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by joshlk 5y ago
What changes have been made to get the speedups?
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by joshlk 5y ago
What’s up with the description of a Schwarzschild black hole?

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