krmboya

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by krmboya 2y ago
From his past posts it seemed he had gotten involved in politics; that may have taken some of his attention away from pinboard.
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by krmboya 2y ago
At least with the open source models we do get something back..
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by krmboya 2y ago
From scratch is relative. To a python programmer, from scratch may mean starting with dictionaries but a non-programmer will have to learn what python dicts are first. To someone who already knows excel, from scratch with excel sheets inste
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by krmboya 2y ago
Maybe it's just different learning styles. Some people, me included, like to start getting some immediate real world results to keep it relevant and form some kind of intuition, then start peeling back the layers to understand the unde
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by krmboya 2y ago
It was interesting to see an outsider view to tech, especially his initial reaction to Python vs JS syntax, but sprinkling in the politics was unhelpful. It is quite a leap there to associate JavaScript's syntax with its inventor'
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by krmboya 2y ago
Mark Zuckerberg was attacked by the media when it suited their tech billionaire villain narrative. Now there's Elon Musk so Zuckerberg gets to be on the good side again
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by krmboya 2y ago
Someone could be going into farming for a low cost independent lifestyle, not necessarily as a profit maximization venture.
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by krmboya 2y ago
> Yep it's still the only currency that matters. That's what the US govt thought when it sanctioned Russia. It only resulted in Russia falling back to their local currency without any significant problems, while making the rest
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by krmboya 2y ago
Sad to learn that gum used to come from tree resin, but is now made from synthetic material. Are we really aware on the long term what changes like this do to the human body?
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by krmboya 2y ago
> developing nations Yet the population in developed economies will fall drastically in the next 50-100 yrs. Let developing nations have their chance at improving quality of life through cheap energy like developed nations did. Mass immi
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by krmboya 2y ago
Got started with the series "All watched over my machines of loving grace". I think more engineers and technologists who build systems that affects people's lives at a large scale need to watch those.
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by krmboya 2y ago
Many comments in the vein that pharo is weird and different from what they're used to. I'd say programming is such a young field programmers should dedicate time to try out the weird stuff that they aren't used to, opportunit
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by krmboya 3y ago
Tried your puzzle recently but was overwhelmed by the interface since I'm not used to programming in such an environment. But just as one is getting the hang of it time is ticking and test expires. Maybe allow a take 2 or recommend pra
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by krmboya 3y ago
The perpetual chase for quarterly growth means companies churn out products for consumers in developed economies who discard their older toys for the new shiny ones. So much waste is generated and a lot of it is shipped to poorer nations, i
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by krmboya 3y ago
Adding to this population growth in developed economies is projected to plateau then fall. This will reduce the pressure on natural resources needed to sustain the population. Humans are bad at predicting the future going by the record
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by krmboya 3y ago
> It seems like this idea relies on a long term low wage workforce willing to live on subsistence agriculture. There are some who are content with low wages and a simple life of living off the land. Shouldn't technology make this e
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by krmboya 3y ago
Can you expound a bit on sustainability of modern farming techniques? It has always been my understanding that modern farming is reliant on a large industrial outlay and global trade for things like fertiliser and pesticides. And that it al
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by krmboya 3y ago
Of course, pouring more dollars to forment more war and suffering by non-americans while the Americans are fully sheltered. These games played by global powers hurt a lot of the smaller countries. Lot's of Ukrainian civilians have need
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by krmboya 3y ago
I bet you can get pretty far with just ec2 and autoscaling, or comparable tech in other cloud platforms. With a managed database service.
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by krmboya 3y ago
Key term here: 'cloud native'. Which is supposedly the future
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by krmboya 3y ago
I like someone that direct and opinionated leading something as critical as the Linux kernel. That message wasn't just for Steven, but for everyone else who contributes to this critical piece of software we rely on. It's usually v
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by krmboya 3y ago
What an incredibly wasteful world we live in. A 16g ram core i7 laptop from 2017 is considered vintage? When it comes to cars, vintage is like a century ago. How has software qualitatively improved since 2017? Even since 2010? We are still
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by krmboya 3y ago
It may look like a waste to compile from scratch but it's great for reproducible builds. That can important in cases where you need to be sure you are running the source code that you can see
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by krmboya 3y ago
I also recommend fastai. It gets you hands on from the very beginning with links to extra resources like papers and articles you can read to improve your understanding. Doing fastai while solving comparative problems on your own in kaggle i
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by krmboya 3y ago
Muscle memory should be elevated to a first class concern when it comes to emacs.
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by krmboya 3y ago
I hope you don't write software that flags people by their name
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by krmboya 3y ago
I agree. For example, when going for a long hike, you have to stop and rest regularly. Still, you need to keep moving forward to make progress
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by krmboya 3y ago
I read in the article that it was possible to virtualize Medley/Interlisp on MS-DOS. If getting ahead means moving from Lisp Machines to MS-DOS then it's questionable what direction things were moving in. I get annoyed when I read
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by krmboya 3y ago
And the best thing about strength training using barbells is that you can keep increasing the weight on the bar till you approach your genetic limitations assuming optimal recovery, nutrition, proper form and good programming. Keeping the b
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by krmboya 3y ago
The pre-2010 google sounded like programmer-heaven. I wonder which places would match that now? Something that is neither startup grind nor a stifling bureaucracy, but you still get to work on innovative and influencial projects

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