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by laingc 6y ago
I mean, no more so than having poetry or pyenv do some special magic to hopefully give me the right environment? Maybe it’s more brittle than I’m imagining, but I’ve been doing this for years and have never had it break.
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by laingc 6y ago
I don’t use this method. I set the path myself, and it works without anything else.
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by laingc 6y ago
The first thing I do (or rather, ansible does) on any new PC or server is install Miniconda to a location inside my home folder, and set it as the first item in my PATH. I’ve been down most of the python installation and packaging rabbit ho
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by laingc 6y ago
I want a platform that both I and my 72-year-old father can use without concern that he might be phished into downloading another App Store. Billions of iPhone sales show that people clearly want the same. If you want a top-end device with
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by laingc 6y ago
I hope Epic loses this. I do not want the App Store opened up in any way. One of the reasons I use iOS is so that I have very few worries about a device that I use every day. To me, and I suspect to almost everyone else, iPhones are not com
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by laingc 6y ago
This would have been PERFECT for when my wife and I were searching for nice German/English names. We finally settled on Lotte, which despite being German in its pronunciation is perfect for my daughter (who is also perfect, in case you
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by laingc 6y ago
One of my best friends is an academic economist working in this space, so while I won’t pretend to be an expert, I have spent a goodly amount of time discussing this with one. With no disrespect intended to you personally, this policy you p
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by laingc 6y ago
There is almost no competition to hire them, as far as I can see. Maybe top-flight CS PhDs from Stanford, I’d believe that. But your average biology or chemistry PhD? Every single one of them that I know struggled mightily in the job market
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by laingc 6y ago
As someone with a PhD who works in industry, that’s certainly not what I meant. There is a massive, massive oversupply of PhDs. We can argue about the magnitude of the oversupply, but the reasonable range of discussion is between “huge” and
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by laingc 6y ago
We graduate an order of magnitude more PhDs than anyone has a real use for. Even ignoring arts and humanities PhDs which are obvious cases, in fields like biology a newly minted average PhD has roughly zero people competing for them. They’l
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by laingc 6y ago
I agree entirely with your sentiment, but this > now word in the cloud kinda works! is the overstatement of the century. I am stuck with this horrendous product, with its unbelievably bad live collaboration which constantly overwrites wh
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by laingc 6y ago
Fair call. I love technology, but the way some parents use it as a babysitter really does astound me.
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by laingc 6y ago
I don’t live in the US, but I’m in the same boat. I vastly prefer my suburb to the central city. I have great neighbours, who I only have to see when I want to. I have everything I could need or want. What am I missing out on by not being i
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by laingc 6y ago
Interesting counterexample, and a good exemplar of the phenomenon that the nature of distributions is that occasionally one finds outliers such as this. I don't think it can reasonably be disputed though that in the average case it is
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by laingc 6y ago
I lived in Germany for years, and this is absolutely the case. Don’t mess with torrents in Germany without a VPN. Except for those Linux ISOs, of course.
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by laingc 6y ago
I would say that's portability rather than reproducibility. Docker increases the extent of, but doesn't guarantee, reproducibility.
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by laingc 6y ago
I love, love, love this. I was just talking to some younger colleagues, and they'd never even heard of important pieces of computer / internet lore, such as blinkenlights or even something as recent as bash.org. I miss this part
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by laingc 6y ago
No subdirectories for notes, everything is flat. I have three directories: zettel for the Zettel, Daten for the data, and Kasten for software/scripts. Zettel are named as follows: z{%Y%m%d%H%M%S}_{slugified title}.md Tags are formatted
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by laingc 6y ago
If I had been trying unsuccessfully to monetise my uninformed, poorly researched, and barely coherent opinions, I too would pivot to a strategy of blaming platforms that peddle similarly poor content for free and demand 10% of their adverti
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by laingc 6y ago
I don't have a writeup, but I posted the following in a sibling comment [0]. > The software I use is, at its most basic, a text editor. In my case, Sublime text. > Everything else is a Python package with a CLI, dockerised for po
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by laingc 6y ago
Everything in my intellectual life that I find interesting. I am an Applied Mathematician by education running an AI unit in industry, so there is a bit on that, but personally my intellectual life has always been defined by breadth, and my
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by laingc 6y ago
The software I use is, at its most basic, a text editor. In my case, Sublime text. Everything else is a Python package with a CLI, dockerised for portability, and written entirely by me to support my workflow. I am absolutely sympathetic to
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by laingc 6y ago
I completely agree with this. Let me add a non-US perspective that may surprise some people. I think a big part of what is holding back many companies from making effective, genuine, real-world use of AI is that a significant majority of th
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by laingc 6y ago
Firstly, thanks to the author for taking such time and care with the illustrations. However, by way of contrast to many of the other comments on here, I found this particular explanation quite unhelpful, both in terms of the presentation co
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by laingc 6y ago
I would generally recommend poetry over pipenv.
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by laingc 6y ago
Not to be flippant, but cosmology is essentially the science of dealing with these kinds of scales. It’s an entire field whose goal is to make questions like the above tractable.
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by laingc 6y ago
The anti-university sentiment on HN is absolutely alien to me. Not only did I get a lot out of my university education, but it was a totally transformative experience for me. It also enables me to do my job, and I’ve never seen anyone witho
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by laingc 6y ago
I read nothing but good intent in your comment, so this is not me throwing stones, but one comment I would make is that I think using the term "prior art" - coming as it does from patent law - carries an overtone of "I am imp
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by laingc 6y ago
Nice. If things really do go reliably in the direction of distributed-first, I'd love to move to Central Otago - where my heart has been since I was a child. I'd love to give my daughter the chance to grow up in Hawea, Bannockburn
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by laingc 6y ago
Wait until you read about the Roman Republic thousands of years before this time - you’re gonna love it.

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