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by nerdponx 2y ago
I understand that packaging cross platform apps is hard. Just note that I was talking about the MacOS package, not Flatpak.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How is this different from what literally any other hosted services company does? If anything, Google is being comparatively honest and transparent.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I played around with Coconut many years ago and my impression was that the compiler was not smart enough to be useful. The generated code had a big pile of helper functions hardcoded at the top, and the program was much slower than the equi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
1. It supports the same set of features that python supports, which is pretty good when it comes to things like traditional step through and postmortem debugging. And CPython Supports a lot of internal hooks if you want to do really advance
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Nice! Unfortunately I got this error upon opening the Mac app: Uncaught Exception: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'setImage') at NativeTheme.<anonymous> (file:///Applications/C
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Is there not a decent contracts framework for R yet?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Because if you work on a team you need to use a language that the whole team can work with. If I'm the one R guy at a Python shop, it's not going to work out well. It depends a lot on org structure of course. But I think it's
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> In R the more likely situation is that you pass in the wrong typed thing and it silently continues with very unexpected values being passed, causing trouble or errors much later in the program. Which is very much a problem that typing
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I have some questions that are not answered by the homepage. 1) How does this work with function parameters that are intended to be captured unevaluated with substitute()? Do you type the input as "any" and document separately tha
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I don't have a PhD but I do have some background in economics, and economics is consistently one of the worst areas on HN. I think it's representative of society in general. There's something about economics that makes it f
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is about high-volume blog/news-spam created specifically to serve ads and affiliate links, not about occasional content marketing for legitimate companies.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Python itself doesn't follow that at all, ignore it.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's new to me! It certainly looks good, or at least like something that could be increasingly useful to an increasingly large group of people. But it's a whole book and I have only a few minutes' break to check HN, so I can&
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> We live with the dangerous aspects of cars as the utility they provide is so high. The same will prove true of AI. And along the way we have arranged our physical surroundings, legal system, and cultural mores in such a way that cars a
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Popular on HN: https://acoup.blog/tag/lord-of-the-rings/
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Probably, especially with the taller spherical-dished SA keycaps.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
IPython includes a whole lot of extra magic of various kinds, compared to the built-in Python console.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Don't forget Gauche: https://practical-scheme.net/gauche/man/gauche-refe/Finding-...
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The skill of the programmer is subordinate to getting stuff done at a reasonable velocity. Given unlimited time, a sufficiently skilled programmer can always refactor as needed, when needed, and not a moment before. Data formats can be migr
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by nerdponx 2y ago
A tree is a specific kind of graph.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I've definitely been bitten by designs that were too simple in critical areas. Interfaces can always be added to and code can always be deduplicated later. But an accretion of kludges around an insufficient set of core functionality
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, but again I think the emphasis on avoiding 3rd party libraries isn't really relevant to machine learning. The "from scratch" here is avoiding 3rd party implementations of the transformer model , building up from the m
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by nerdponx 2y ago
As I understand it, there is a shortage of decent working conditions for skilled trade jobs that don't involve writing code.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Drunk man searching for keys under street light
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Yes, but "what the thing is actually doing" is different depending on what your perspective is on what "the thing" and what "actually" consists of. If you are interested in how the model works conceptually, how
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that 1) it's all relative anyway, and 2) The notion of "ground" is completely different depending on which perspective you have. To a statistician or a practitioner approaching machin
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That always sounds nice until you see how it plays out in universities and other charities. The directed donations don't get sent to where they are most needed; they end up funding large vanity projects.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Low level by what standards? Is writing an IRC client in Python using only the socket API also not "from scratch"?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
(conts) infrastructure upkeep, managing various natural resources, emergency management, weather reporting/forecasting/research, economic reporting/research... There are so many valuable services provided by the US federal go
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This. AI itself might be here to stay, but how much revenue growth specifically is left?

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