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by nerdponx 2y ago
My question as well. My experience using notebooks with 3rd party Jupyter clients has been poor, eg Nteract and Pycharm. Whereas Jupyterlab Desktop just works. You would have to convince me to switch to anything else.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I might be mixing that up with Strongbox. Either way, solid app and worth paying for.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, stereotypical suburbia is actually pretty good for walking and biking around, hanging out at the park, etc. What's not so good is "rural" suburbia, where every road is either a stroad or a country through-road with no
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Endeavour (Arch based). Comes with a few more "batteries included" than base Arch, including a good graphical installer, sensible defaults, several nice desktop environment options, and a package manager wrapper thing that helps t
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by nerdponx 2y ago
OTP Auth supports iCloud sync in the paid version.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And like NPM or PyPI it's still at least marginally better than downloading compiled packages from opaque file servers. For example we avoided using the H3 ( https://h3geo.org ) extension for that reason. Safer (but slower) t
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is why I never fully embraced to the REPL-driven development style espoused by CL users. Even if I am using hot reloading during my development workflow, I never keep a long-running development image and I never expect to distribute or
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The hidden control panels aren't that special: the controls are just on the top of the door instead of the front of the door. Also they are only on higher-end dishwashers made by higher-end brands, which also tend to get the basics rig
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> The Maytag Centennial series of washers and driers sell themselves on being simple, robust designs that last forever. > freezers on the bottom but ice makers up top, dishwashers with hidden control panels, washing machines that can
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's what you find in a lot of domain specific libraries written by scientists, mathematicians, etc. Professional engineer-quality code written by people who aren't professional engineers is rare. Or it's some enormously po
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Thanks! It's nice validation to know that my approach to this kind of problem similar to that of a successful AI startup.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I'm very curious how you "bootstrap" a model like that. Do you start with a physics simulation? Make an educated guess and then get pilots to label when it's wrong in order to incrementally improve? Recruit pilots to man
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This just links to the Peerpad homepage for me.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's the same principle. Whatever credentials or system you are using to secure your cryptocurrency wallet, they probably can't stand up to you being physically intimidated or tortured until you grant access.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Google is still equivalent to the Web for a lot of laypeople.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Yeah but that tiny % of healthcare spending is enough to fund a lot of other stuff. Don't get thrown off by the orders of magnitude: a small fraction of a big number is still a big number. Imagine what $2.7B could do for transit or h
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Latex maybe is a typesetting system : a core engine + other stuff.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> I also still don't entirely understand why school focussed on trig so much given that very few of us are navigating by sextant. Trig is useful for practical problems involving angles, and ubiquitous in applications in engineering
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> screws Torx?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Hell even installing shelves in my closet had me doing trigonometry on a scrap of printer paper to figure out how close I could space together the shelves and still be able to get the boards through the door frame. Calculation is one of the
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's also just useful. If I and my coworkers had to constantly stop to pull out a calculator (or an equivalent app) to compute anything, we'd never get anything done.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I'm not saying it can't or shouldn't be done. It's that we don't have anything like a state military manufacturing industry currently, so it would be a new and significant undertaking to nationalize a company like B
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That sounds like a good idea until you realize that the military does is state owned anyway. The private sector supplies everything. But it's not like the military makes any of its own stuff. They buy all their trucks, guns, body armor
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And this is how executives escape responsibility when they are being paid specifically to be responsible. The case against the test pilot goes through court, and the test pilot is convicted and goes to prison, and now fewer people are willi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It would be less of a problem if the industry had not consolidated into literally two major companies in the entire world. You want incentives for a corporations to follow rules? Ensure that there is more than one or two of them.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Very possibly literal murder in this case.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Acute current events affect people differently. If a plane full of Americans falls out of the sky and kills everyone on board, and it turns out to be because of negligence at Boeing, and it happens close to an election, that will definitely
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There was never a rules-based order on the whole. Something like that has existed for various brief moments in time in various industries throughout the 20th century, but it has never been the norm. We as human society are fighting the same
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And importantly, when viewed with this understanding of "organizational ethylene", it's obvious that anyone who resists, obstruct, or disagrees with routine removal of bad apples is probably themselves a bad apple.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Is it regrettable, or preventable? The fact that the oil refinery fire was not in the news is an indictment of how the news handles industrial disasters in general.

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