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by nnadams 1y ago
We have a service at work which categorizes internal documents and logs, then triggers some automation depending on the category. It processes maybe 100 per day. Previously we only used some combination of metadata, regex, and NLP to catego
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by nnadams 2y ago
Yeah this only worked with Firefox on my phone. All other browsers generated a screechy noise instead.
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by nnadams 2y ago
I used Btrfs for a few years but switched away a couple years ago. I also had one or two incidents with Btrfs where some weirdness happened, but I was able to recover everything in the end. Overall I liked the flexibility of Btrfs, but most
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by nnadams 2y ago
Kudos for one of the most relatable descriptions of C++ I've read. I did a couple years writing C/C++ professionally, and I hope to not go back to that. Too many hours debugging other people's code, suffering vague integratio
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by nnadams 3y ago
I have fond memories of reading this book as a teenager. I was watching an introduction to computer science course online. I think maybe from Yale or MIT, and the professor recommended Hacker's Delight. It was a beginner class teaching
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by nnadams 3y ago
I enjoyed this particular WebGPU tutorial last weekend. Nice introduction even if you've never programmed a GPU before. https://codelabs.developers.google.com/your-first-webgpu-app
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by nnadams 3y ago
I think it is completely worth it to learn the Vim editing commands. You can get a lot of the benefits from just turning on Vim-mode in VSCode or IntelliJ. Emacs with Evil mode is an improvement in my opinion as well. The quick line editing
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by nnadams 3y ago
Yes unfortunately. There are TikTok "challenges" go slap your teacher for example. Similar to the "challenges" where you should eat a spoon of cinnamon, eat a Tide pod, etc. There's an air of do this and film it fo
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by nnadams 3y ago
The side-by-side view in that article is the key user experience reason to leave. The Fandom wiki sites tend to be slow and covered in ads. I avoid them if possible. I'm glad to see more and more groups take their wikis back. The Runes
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by nnadams 3y ago
I like short articles in general, but this one is short and shallow, plus subjective without explanation as you mentioned. I spent too much time trying to guess at the author's reasons. Why are Python and JavaScript not extensible but
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by nnadams 4y ago
I agree with this method. In high school I tracked what I did every hour for 3 months. Probably over the top, but seeing the hours add up of watching TV--or just killing time--was what I needed. All these years later that exercise stays wit
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by nnadams 4y ago
When I was working at Ford a few years ago, many Ford engineers worked very closely with Argo engineers. Sharing code or data was common, they used our internal tools, and sometimes we would go in-person to troubleshoot with them. A lot of
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by nnadams 4y ago
I've been using Lisp for hobby projects for a few years. Yes the syntax takes some time, but > I feel like if I used it, it would atrophy my skills in other more traditional languages. was not the case for me at all. If you go into
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by nnadams 4y ago
I'm also interested in something like this. I've been considering writing one because I already start most projects with djangobuilder.io, which generates a project, models, and test skeleton. I've found that very useful when
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by nnadams 4y ago
I can second this one. Not necessarily your personal time but at least once your assigned work is on track or completed. Not rare to hear people say "this past weekend I was playing around..." though. If you have a good idea for a
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by nnadams 4y ago
My usual first steps are to read the title, the abstract, and the figures/tables, in that order. Pause there and mentally summarize what I just read. If there are terms I didn't know or I'm not familiar with the topic, then I
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by nnadams 4y ago
> Ultimately, we plan to find a nonprofit with a history of open source values to own this license (such as the Linux Foundation). I'm not sure if the Linux Foundation is just a relevant example here or an actual contender to be the
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by nnadams 4y ago
End to end tests mostly. Those were kept static throughout the process as a baseline and for benchmarking. That let us have simple metrics like "test 1 had a 100x speed up" and "test 3 took a way too long to finish before the
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by nnadams 4y ago
I have embraced this workflow completely. I used to be more concerned about which language, but now I find I much more useful to just start immediately in Python. I spend most of the time working out the kinks and edge cases, instead of mem
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by nnadams 4y ago
A group of researchers published a paper on this topic, "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages" [0]. They have tables listing the relative energy usage and memory consumption. It's just one paper of course, but the e
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by nnadams 4y ago
Nim [0] might be one similar example. Similar syntax as Python and trying to be just as extendable as Lisp. [0] https://nim-lang.org/
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by nnadams 4y ago
Is it possible for CDNs to cache per URL per user? I'm thinking of something like /favorites where one URL would list something different for everyone. When I've setup caching on backend it was keyed off the user. This was a
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by nnadams 4y ago
A great example of the confusing reality that the words "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the exact same thing.
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by nnadams 4y ago
I always recommend Make a Lisp [0]. It's a guided experience creating a Lisp in whatever language you already know. If you go through all the steps, you'll have created a self hosting Clojure-like Lisp. For me implementing a Lisp
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by nnadams 4y ago
I haven't read that book, but yes exactly! I wish I had the ability to remove "find your purpose" from our language. You can't find a purpose or passion lying around. You can't take someone else's. You have to
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by nnadams 4y ago
I was wondering the same. After some searching, I think it's a shortened version of this: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+a+wild+hair+up+some...
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by nnadams 4y ago
Personally I would suggest removing that kind of section entirely. The problem is those adjectives will never be consistent from one person to another. Focus on what you've done, the tools you used, and the impact it had. There may not
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by nnadams 4y ago
> Understand the ins and outs of the problem. Then go down the rabbit hole of getting hands dirty. Yes, I think this nuance is somewhat lacking from the article. Do not sign up for every on-call shift or only do QA work all day. That&#x2
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by nnadams 4y ago
> The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit. Agree with this. When it comes to succeeding at work, especially at a big corp, I've always said something similar: after resp
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by nnadams 4y ago
I've gotten into solo roleplaying the last few years. I still play games with a group, but solo play has become an analog activity I enjoy. You can play standard games like D&D solo, or use games designed to be played solo like Iro

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