lordgroff

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by lordgroff 4y ago
The SCIENTISTS have very disorganized R code and also on my experience even worse Python code where they learn inheritance and make some absolutely head scratching choices. It makes me weep from time to time. Here's the thing, programm
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by lordgroff 4y ago
I honestly don't understand why we all went this route of "port to Python". I mean we do it too (not my choice) but it really makes no sense to me.
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by lordgroff 4y ago
Data.table has got to be the most underrated library ever. If the problem is not big data, but other libraries struggle, fire up data.table and marvel at the sheer speed of it all. On rare tasks when everything was too slow, I'd drop d
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by lordgroff 4y ago
The language is obviously different, but if you miss the "get the GUI done" feature then Lazarus fits the bill.
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by lordgroff 4y ago
I went with Slim for a recent light project and then tore everything out and used the stdlib only, and then I realized I didn't even really need even a routing library in my case. It worked out great, but it's probably unusual. Fo
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by lordgroff 4y ago
Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. And PHP has VERY FEW breaking changes in general. Think about something like WordPress, it powers so much of the internet, they're not going to be doing massive rewrites so that PHP ca
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by lordgroff 4y ago
I didn't even know you could do that, this is why I come to this site.
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by lordgroff 4y ago
Interesting, I just switched from vs code BACK to (neo)vim. For me the killer feature of vscode was remote, but imagine my surprise to see that was one of many proprietary things in the platform. And then I discovered mutagen, and that open
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by lordgroff 4y ago
This comment terrifies me to the bone. Note: I'm a long term Eastern European immigrant (not Russian or Ukrainian). Unlike most of HN, I have been in a war, it's much worse than most civilians imagine it. Much. One of the things w
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Maybe (actually, very likely) I'm just an idiot, but I never could get lsp-mode to work with Tramp. With eglot, add the path and off to the races. That alone keeps me on eglot.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Yeah, this conversation seems a bit like people arguing past each other. But it's a result of the fact that the story on Linux was stuck for so long (e.g., sysvinit on Debian, Upstart with some sharp edged hacks on Ubuntu). Systemd as
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I've recently switched my home server to Freebsd after it was on Debian for who even knows how long (Debian still virtualized on bhyve for some tasks). My take: I love FreeBSD as a server os. It's really, really well designed. Spe
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by lordgroff 5y ago
There's a lot to unpack here. For example, there's certainly other ways to network jails and all three ways you've mentioned to maintain jails are not deprecated. Security modules do exist, they're different from Linux.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Sure (although 5-12 minutes is very odd no matter how you slice it), but that's a bit of a false choice. I have nothing against systemd personally, but I recognize more and more that a good part of the reason is because I never had to
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I love this project, not from McK. I mean I guess it's "opinionated" but having worked in this field for some time, ML code and pipelines are often laughably immature, stuck with spit, glue and sellotape. Kedro forces people
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by lordgroff 5y ago
One of the greatest works of all time (according to me) and also quite underrated among all his celebrated works, at least in North America.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
First year for me not on Linux desktop for my primary device since... 99? M1 Air was the culprit. I still don't particularly love Mac OS and remain somewhat puzzled by the overwhelming love people have for it but: 1. It's usable e
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by lordgroff 5y ago
My first Linux distribution, circa 97 I believe? Oh the fun of setting monitor with the warning that if I screw the timings I might fry it... I quickly decamped off to Debian as soon as apt came into the picture because "install everyt
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I mean value proposition specifically to the latest version? Some syntax improvements here and there, nothing big. The value proposition *is* the ecosystem. Do I prefer coding Python to PHP? Sure (although it's not night and day differ
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Here's a recent example from sqlalchemy. I'm using a type annotation. Update to new minor version. BAM, annotation no longer works, the classes have moved around and I'm staring at an ugly exception. To be clear: these were n
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Application is airgapped, so it's not as dangerous as it sounds.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
Yeah, semver is great, except nobody follows it. The amount of times I have updated minor or even patch releases of packages with things breaking--I have pretty much determined everything in a project stays the same unless there's some
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by lordgroff 5y ago
There is the asynchronous learning option, at least in our school board. The teachers don't like it because it's separate from the "main" program, so it's not particularly well considered (print these word sheets ta
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I resent this province more with each passing day. I'm debating whether to participate in this charade this time around, because I think it's in some ways worse than closing schools, at least for those very important early grades.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
This can work with something like nushell, but obviously breaks the entire current universe of coreutils. In the normal world we can solve this problem without breaking everything by adding --jsonout or similar to all the coreutils and then
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I'm left handed and use the right hand for the mouse. I can also use it just fine with the left hand but see no benefit. And yeah, writing is a different story entirely, although as another bizarre anecdote, I can write text on the cha
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by lordgroff 5y ago
While I'm thoroughly a Linux person, I agree. I understand why Docker and the Linux container won the day, but the fact that FreeBSD is one system helps a ton with the overall intelligibility of the system inside that container. Oh, th
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I've upgraded Debian based systems between versions for literally over two decades, and Fedora for half a decade. I can't recall one issue, excluding a few weird things that I managed to fix in Slink to Potato Debian, and that was
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by lordgroff 5y ago
You could be Canada. MM-DD-YYYY? DD-MM-YYYY? Unless you're in Quebec, you never have a clue. Government officially recommends YYYY-MM-DD due to this, but in the real world it's wild west.
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by lordgroff 5y ago
I submit R is easily the most misunderstood language among programmers. And it's not just under the hood where it's very lisp like. Heck you can write it with an almost lisp notation if you really wanted to, `+`(1, 2), and the syn

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