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by jquaint 2y ago
This is really cool. Plan to take some inspiration from your config!
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by jquaint 2y ago
Highly recommend the youtuber where this factoid came from: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage Such a treat getting someone with his experience just telling stories of the old days.
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by jquaint 3y ago
https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps/towards-reproducibilit...
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by jquaint 3y ago
Yeah! You click links similar as you would with a "fingers" style plugin. i.e. f (letter combo). I use Vimium C and haven't looked back.
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by jquaint 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Ollama. Really like how easy it makes local LLM + neovim https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
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by jquaint 3y ago
I like use fish + starship.rs. Which gives a pretty similar experience. Starship can actually share you prompt across different shells so I get the same experience in zsh and fish. I find I stick to fish more because: 1. has more features t
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by jquaint 3y ago
Long time plex user, Jellyfin has been on the upgrade list for a while. I think what keeps me on plex is the level of integration. i.e. home assistant, works on all my devices etc. As much as its a little older, I find it just kinda works a
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by jquaint 4y ago
I recently set up this: https://github.com/vsespb/mt-aws-glacier Found it a lot easier than rolling my own AWS Glacier solution.
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by jquaint 4y ago
Yeah I totally agree. It doesn't invalidate his work but it adds quite an ick factor for sure.
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by jquaint 4y ago
From the paper > Accordingly, and contrary to what is often suggested in popular books on the psychology of pornography (e.g. Zimbardo & Coulombe, Reference Zimbardo and Coulombe2015), men who face sexual problems and choose to termi
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by jquaint 4y ago
> In terms of attractiveness, the bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. This feels like an incel talking point. It reductive that "tinder Elo"
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by jquaint 4y ago
Visions of Chaos is amazing. Its great if you want to run more "classic" AI algorithms as well!
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by jquaint 4y ago
The placebo effect in relation to LSD is interesting. Similar to the placebo effect, your expectation alters the effect of LSD. So I don't think it having placebo effects necessarily negates the validity of micro-dosing. LSD doesn&#x27
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by jquaint 4y ago
> My mentor was the second to object. He said I shouldn't quit without another job lined up because I'd miss out on leveraging my high salary when negotiating my pay at the next job. I feel like this is objectively good advice
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by jquaint 5y ago
I'm biased because I'm Canadian. pros: > Healthcare is better and faster I disagree with that, public healthcare has its problems but you don't have to worry about ever paying. Healthcare in the US is very expensive, there
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by jquaint 5y ago
This is really cool, I wonder if there are efforts to represent different data sources with townscaper houses. i.e. Map data from your hometown
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by jquaint 5y ago
> Human rights cannot be rights for someone else to build or do something for you I disagree with this argument. Water access is a human right. There is an astounding amount of public water infrastructure and people operating this infras
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by jquaint 5y ago
This reminds me of this guy who thought he could "hack" chess with a very similar method and beat Magnus Carlsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFNv-FJFGTg (it does not go well) As much as I like computer chess y
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by jquaint 5y ago
Slightly off topic: I recently switched to Capture One for all of my photography needs. I would highly recommend it over Lightroom. Rather than subscribing to a service you can just buy it outright. It has all the features of Lightroom with
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by jquaint 5y ago
Some people are unable to be vaccinated (due to legitimate medical reasons) and need to rely on others.
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by jquaint 5y ago
100% agree. I pin the version we use because you never know if it will come with even more bugs.
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by jquaint 5y ago
> The vanguard of medicine is "patient centered" and tries to feed back statistics to help in decisions like "what pill do I prescribe this patient for high blood pressure?" -- the kind of 'reasoning with uncerta
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by jquaint 5y ago
Maybe consider framing it as Data Engineering? There is a lot of software work that involves getting the data to where it needs to go. https://www.dataquest.io/blog/what-is-a-data-engineer/
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by jquaint 5y ago
Question, what advantages does a pure python driver give you over the competition? Is it multi threading support? (psycopg2 does not support cursors over threads)
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by jquaint 5y ago
repeating my comment from the last times this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034782 This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpret
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by jquaint 5y ago
repeating my comment from the last times this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27034782 This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpret
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by jquaint 5y ago
repeating my comment from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039 This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents. For example it gives this
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by jquaint 5y ago
This post (whether intentionally or not) is misinterpreting some of the evidence it presents. For example it gives this example research grant as evidence for chimeric viruses being made in the Wuhan lab. https://reporter.nih.gov
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by jquaint 5y ago
I think that most Costco customers also use Amazon. I.e. I get my basic bulk items from Costco and my specific items from Amazon. Perhaps this is why amazon is trying to get these customer with "Subscribe and save" which offers di
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by jquaint 5y ago
I don't think they do. It's similar to a grocery store that sells other companies products. Costco is different in that they sell products wholesale/bulk.

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