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by ollysb 4y ago
Wow, this makes a huge difference, to the point where I can type without even looking at the keyboard (tried with and without looking).
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by ollysb 4y ago
This is the reason most devs are contractors in London. You earn considerably more on a day rate than you generally do even as a CTO.
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by ollysb 4y ago
As a relative newcomer to python/data science I found it really surprising that Matplotlib seems favoured over Plotly. The Plotly API seems better designed and the output is far superior. Is matplotlib just favoured out of momentum or
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by ollysb 4y ago
Adopting Poetry as the official Python package manager seems like the fastest path out of this mess.
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by ollysb 4y ago
What's really interesting with 3d models is that you could give the classifier motor control within it's environment i.e. it could "step to the left" and see how the banana changes in it's visual field. This would a
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by ollysb 4y ago
This isn't a distinction customers are going to make...
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by ollysb 4y ago
It seems a little surprising that GIN indexes have never been improved to allow for efficient sorting. Is this just not in enough demand to receive any attention or is there a technical aspect that makes it particularly difficult?
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by ollysb 5y ago
This is the first time I'm targeting the Spanish market so I don't have experience with AWS from there. Paris is geographically close so I imagine that would have the best latency (sorry I can't give you anything concrete).
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by ollysb 5y ago
Where’s the new one? Loving render.com so far but latency in Spain is not great.
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by ollysb 5y ago
I used SwiftUI for a side project and after 6 months binned the whole thing and switched to flutter. I was finding that a huge portion of my time was spent trying to get the project to compile (it generally just needed many recompiles so pr
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by ollysb 5y ago
I spent good year using Duolingo, I made steady progress, but only in Duolingo. It hasn't had any impact on my ability to hear/speak the language.
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by ollysb 5y ago
Having spent about 6 months each with SwiftUI and Flutter I vastly prefer working with Flutter. Swift is a far more ambitious language but really doesn't live up to it's own marketing. Many of the features are half down (generics
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by ollysb 5y ago
It isn't about note taking, it's about supporting a brain that simply isn't capable of retaining the level of information that we have to deal with. The ultimate note taking device is actually an augmented human brain that ha
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by ollysb 5y ago
Your general point withstanding, in this case wouldn't the merge be a partially paid invoice?
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by ollysb 5y ago
Pinch zoom only works if you're over the canvas. If you for instance zoom out enough that the mouse cursor is outside of the canvas then the page itself starts zooming.
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by ollysb 5y ago
This article really got me back on track with my side project. I haven't managed to work on it regularly for a couple of months - always seemed a bit daunting on top of work. Now I turn up every day (think I've skipped one day sin
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by ollysb 5y ago
https://github.com/OvermindDL1/protocol_ex gives you protocols with full pattern matching.
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by ollysb 5y ago
I play chess online every day. When I started on statins I lost 200 rating points within a couple of days. To put this in context 200 points would be a decent improvement over a year of play. I had constant brain fog which showed up at work
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by ollysb 5y ago
Been building backend systems for nearly 20 years in Java/Ruby/Elixir. Elixir is by far the most productive language/ecosystem that I've used. I've built 4 systems in the last 5 years and they've all gone smoot
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by ollysb 5y ago
Also the moderation is often hidden. Last week I ran into one of my answers for a language I haven't used in a while. When I read the answer I thought it was odd because the english was very poor. Then I checked and found that a modera
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by ollysb 6y ago
This looks very interesting. I had real difficulty where I needed both a btree and gin(pg_trgm) index on the same column. When using `like` postgres would consistently choose the btree index which resulted in performance that was something
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by ollysb 6y ago
It appears to only work for files which have already been opened.
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by ollysb 6y ago
> A side effect of this is that the motions of objects would depend not just on their own mass, but all other masses in their neighborhood. As I understand gravity warps spacetime which seems to imply that the masses of all objects in th
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by ollysb 6y ago
Can't agree more with this. Coming from Elm/React to my first project in Swift choosing SwiftUI seemed like the obvious choice. It always felt like the type system wasn't quite powerful enough to express the API. Once you add
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by ollysb 6y ago
A new effort just popped up to have another crack at adding strong types https://elixirforum.com/t/typechecker-for-elixir/34474/7
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by ollysb 6y ago
Witness how hard it is to buy USB-C cables in an Apple store. Want a new iPhone cable to plug into your laptop, ah sorry we've only got usb-c but you can use adapter...
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by ollysb 6y ago
I started building a side project in Swift/SwiftUI for the first time a few months back. It has quite simply been the most painful development experience to date (I've been a professional developer 16 years - front/back/
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by ollysb 6y ago
This is somewhat though not entirely solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
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by ollysb 6y ago
Don't know if it's specific to LG monitors but the brightness controls on my keyboard modify the screen of whichever window has focus.
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by ollysb 6y ago
While I could get onboard with functional languages being more user friendly I didn't find the motivation to be compelling. > Ambiguous functions argument positions It just seems to be advocating for named arguments, something which

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