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by mcdonje 1y ago
idk about impact, but here are a couple I liked: - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/25/what-writi... - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/04/assembling
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How the files sort seems kinda important. It gets at the core behavior of the program. It's not something superficial like a default icon, which the user probably can change.
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by mcdonje 1y ago
I'm a fan of the stats blog hosted by Columbia that Gelman is the main contributor to: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
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If you can't do four 8s, put four on the floor with an 808
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Huh. I didn't know they're no longer a South African company.
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Nah, it shows he's chill and has good humor.
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Specs change from time to time. It requires effort. Nothing new here. It's necessary sometimes. Dealing with annoyances and footguns also takes effort.
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by mcdonje 1y ago
IMO, JSON, YAML, and TOML should all interpret all keys as strings, and only enforce quotes when syntactically necessary. So, `key1` is a string and doesn't need to be quoted. `12345` as a key is interpreted as a string (because keys a
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by mcdonje 1y ago
It's because other config formats aren't as expressive.
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Is there a standard file format for vectors? I was thinking about how the comparison is to SQLite and not DuckDB, because DuckDB will just operate on parquet files. I don't know much about this space, but it seems in general like there
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by mcdonje 1y ago
I clicked
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Yes, debian. Although I had previously been using gnome on other distros, like ubuntu.
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Extensibility can be nice, but the experience has a lot of friction. If you want something that isn't bog standard, you need to get or make an extension. Making one is more work than what I can do from basic configuration settings in K
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Just switched over from gnome. Overall, I'm happy. Gnome is configurable, but in a way that isn't really well integrated. It seems buggy to me, but I think it's because my preferences aren't standard. For instance, I lik
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Google Glass looked unusual and was nerd-coded. Social norms are extremely strong. The only way something that looks like Google Glass would take off is if the tech is established with the well-to-do having elegant devices, and then somethi
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Except the timestamp is in the ULID for anyone to read. UUID47 hides that from external parties.
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Yes, like all tobacco products. These days a lot of marketing is targeted and subtle, especially for an industry used to dealing with advertising restrictions. https://tobaccoatlas.org/challenges/marketing/
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Society tends to normalize things that have ad budgets.
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>the whole thing by itself didn't replace in any way what social networks were already offering, e.g. your feed, or direct messaging. It didn't get to that point, but there's a lot that could be possible if the graph were
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Answered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195713
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They're essentially the same format. Same with PSV. They're all DSVs. Most arguments for or against one apply to all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter-separated_values
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by mcdonje 1y ago
>Excel hates CSV. It clearly means CSV must be doing something right. Use tabs as a delimiter and excel interops with the format as if natively.
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Congress has been ceding power to the executive branch to greater and greater degrees over time. The president can effectively declare a war, even if not technically. The founding fathers thought the different branches would want to keep th
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by mcdonje 1y ago
Are LCD screens driven on a pixel by pixel basis, or is the entire screen driven on each refresh? Because the article says they're only causing changed pixels to refresh. If so, you're probably still right when it comes to watchin
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Against DNSSEC (2015)(sockpuppet.org)
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by mcdonje 1y ago
So then it's a bad faith example.
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No, that's not how I would restate it. I said I addressed it in there, not that the entire paragraph addresses it. Reading comprehension.
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I know. I answered that in my second paragraph. They also asked how I'd approach writing the query after I already mentioned the issues and sent them the postgres doc page.
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I already said I don't have time to rewrite the query right now, but I'd definitely get rid of the correlated subqueries, which should be obvious from my comments. I may or may not use an intermediate representation, like a CTE, a
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by mcdonje 1y ago
You're not sure there's a better option than JSONifying a bunch of correlated subqueries individually?

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