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by otsaloma 4y ago
As a developer of a couple GTK apps, I look at the deprecations in GTK4 and GTK5 with horror. At least one app I'm going to stop maintaining latest with GTK5. GIMP still doesn't have stable release out with GTK3. Inkscape took a l
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by otsaloma 4y ago
There's already way too many people in the field who see these Stable Diffusion, GPT etc. in the news and want to do something like that. Stable Diffusion looks impressive, but I have no idea what the business use case for that is. Lik
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by otsaloma 4y ago
IndexedDB is probably what's meant, Local Storage (if taken literally) is a simpler and perhaps too limited a solution. There are some options that make IndexedDB easier to use, I've been using PouchDB, which works well. If syncin
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Bort does just that, uses browser's IndexedDB and syncs via Dropbox. But note though, that it's not similar to Pinboard etc. in the sense that it's not designed for a huge archive of rarely accessed bookmarks. Works well for
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Looks really nice, I've looking to migrate away from Gitter, whose development stopped already long ago. For open source project support channel use, I'd strongly recommend adding GitHub login. Most projects are hosted on GitHub a
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Agreed on the unsubscribe, I have two rules: (1) List-Unsubscribe header exists or (2) message body contains "unsubscribe".
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by otsaloma 4y ago
I used to use a Nitter redirect extension, but whatever Nitter instance I was using was unbearably slow. I've now been using https://github.com/MaySoMusician/breakthrough-twitter-login-... . It seems to work fine
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Not a big project, but just last week finished a visualization of electricity spot prices in Finland. Seems like a potentially difficult winter coming in Europe, using spot priced electricity and optimizing use would make sense. I didn&#x27
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Really interesting. I too had a bicycle accident four years ago and have been really sensitive to bad ergonomics and spending too long in one position since. Just understanding what makes things worse and what better has been a big challeng
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Debian unstable running here since about 7 years. I tend to reinstall when getting a new computer. Once I had X break and I had to set "GDK_BACKEND=x11" and "XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11" to fix it. Something related to Wayland
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by otsaloma 4y ago
> I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don't expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation? That sounds like a straw man. This probably varies, b
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by otsaloma 4y ago
By my experience engineers tend to way underestimate schedules and those are the two reasons. Best case scenario means no suprises come up during implementation, which is almost always false. Roughly double the best case estimate is usually
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by otsaloma 4y ago
The author complains he couldn't add a Reddit RSS feed. I once looked into this. It was already a few years ago, but I guess it hasn't changed. The problem is that updating all Reddit feeds of all Feedly users goes way above Reddi
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Same as "explanatory variable" in the old (statistical) lingo.
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Note that, unlike the title says, Albert is not open source. A while back the website claimed it was GPL, but there was no indication of that in the codebase. I filed an issue, which seems to now have been deleted, requesting to clarify the
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by otsaloma 4y ago
> Finally: some portion of the hate it gets is probably from engineers without a statistics background who aren't familiar with the huge dictionary of jargon and abbreviations its APIs use. Pandas' jargon isn't really even
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by otsaloma 4y ago
The examples presented are probably carefully selected, my experience is that if you actually use Pandas with method chaining, (1) you get ugly-looking code due to a mixture of method calls and various different kinds of bracket indexing an
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by otsaloma 4y ago
Here's another alternative. I wrote Dataiter specifically as I too was frustrated with Pandas. In my experience if you design a new API from scratch (and don't try to reimplement the Pandas API as many projects have done!) and hav
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by otsaloma 5y ago
I think typically people don't start out thinking they'll use Numba, they start out using Python (for a multitude of valid reasons). Then eventually they want to optimize a single bottleneck at which point Numba makes a lot more s
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by otsaloma 5y ago
How does JAX's JIT compare to Numba?
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by otsaloma 5y ago
The range of longitude is longer (-180 to 180, total 360), latitude (-90 to 90, total 180).
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Comparison of Basic Data Frame Operations in dplyr vs. dataiter vs. pandas(dataiter.readthedocs.io)
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by otsaloma 5y ago
I tried a couple of these command line tools recently, alass was the best of those. Really fast too. Still, it didn't work perfectly; I had subtitles for a different cut of a movie, it got two out of three segments right, but I had to
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by otsaloma 5y ago
If you use Pandas daily, maybe get used to it and can ignore the issues, but for anyone using Pandas occasionally, it's every time a huge pain trying to figure out how to use it. The API is not intuitive and the documentation is very v
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by otsaloma 5y ago
Agreed, dplyr is great. I built my own data frame implementation on top of NumPy specifically trying to accomplish a better API, similar to dplyr. It's not exactly the same naming or operations, but should feel familiar and much simple
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by otsaloma 5y ago
Thanks for this. I've been using Beekeeper Studio ( https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/ ) and I've been mostly happy with it, but glad to see alternatives. The only problem I have with Beekeeper is that scrolling the ta
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by otsaloma 6y ago
Because Pandas is built on top of NumPy and NumPy has never had a proper NA value. I would call that a serious design problem in NumPy, but it seems to be difficult to fix. There have been multiple NEPs (NumPy Enhancement Proposals) over th
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by otsaloma 6y ago
hnrss is great. This is what most news sites get wrong, they might have RSS, but it gives you every new article and that can be over a hundred per day. And then they eventually conclude that no uses it and thus RSS is bad, when it's ju
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by otsaloma 6y ago
Great to see this! I've been looking at alternatives for experiment tracking, but most of what I've come across have looked way too heavy (and expensive) for a small team. Is R support planned? Or might this just work already with
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by otsaloma 6y ago
Hi! Working in data science I spend most of my time downloading data, putting it together, cleaning or piping data somewhere. When working with R, I've learned to appreciate dplyr (and tidyverse) for their API consistency and the pipe

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