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by peatmoss 4y ago
I ended up replying in a different thread on Python Performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272681#31275210
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Is it gauche to offer my own counterpoint? Another possibility is that the requirement to "drop to C" is a virtue by de-democratizing access to serious performance. In other words, let the commoners eat Python, while the anointed
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During Perl’s hegemony as The Glue Language, I feel like the folk wisdom was: “Performance is a virtue; if Perl ceases to be good enough, or you need to write ‘serious’ software rewrite in C.” And during Python’s ascension, the common narra
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Hy is cool because it allows people to explore some lisp concepts in context of libraries they may already be familiar with. And Python has an enviable set of batteries. But compared to CL or Racket, Python’s performance is a bitter pill t
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I think it was the year or so after Time Machine launched that a bunch of banners up in Moscone Center had us convinced of a grand Sun / Apple tech marriage. Re Scheme: It was the first choice of Javascript’s inventor, Brenden Eich, bu
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I remember the WWDC that seemed to have a very “solar” graphical motif and my friends and I were all freaking out with speculation that Solaris and OS X were going to merge in some meaningful way. That unfortunately happened in the good tim
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Different strokes for different folks. I run a pretty vanilla Ubuntu on a desktop at home, and macOS on an M1 laptop at work. The out of the box experience on Ubuntu / Gnome these days feels better to me for the things I do: web browse
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Even though technology has "moved on" from CRTs now and I can buy a ludicrously clear / light / thin / high-resolution display for pennies compared to a CRT, I pine for the giant 20" Trinitron monitor I had pic
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For hand-tool woodworking specifically there are a number of youtube content creators that are good: James Wright, Paul Sellers, Rex Kreuger, etc. I pay James Wright a token sum each month via patreon, because his pedagogy is so good and co
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Hand-made has given me a new perspective on opulence. Maybe it’s just the Ikea effect on overdrive, but making the things you want is so satisfying in terms of the process, and the one-of-a-kind results can be really prideful.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I’ve gotten into handtool woodworking somewhat deeply this year, and this is giving me serious desires to create a wooden chassis for something... retro.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
No amount of touch pad excellence erases the deficit of no tiling window manager and focus follows mouse in Linux. I recently upgraded to an M1 Macbook from an HP laptop running Ubuntu at work… and I’m having serious regrets.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
What is old is new again. I am running a query against a very large datalake since yesterday. Only thing is, with the elasticity of resources in the cloud, I have no plausible reason to not be doing other work :-/
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by peatmoss 5y ago
The pumpkin pie recipe made Thanksgiving for my wife and I the years we spent living in New Zealand (and since). I grew up with canned pumpkin in pies like many americans. This canned filling does not exist in New Zealand, however raw pumpk
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by peatmoss 5y ago
A few years ago I was using R on OpenBSD. OpenBSD somewhat aggressively removes deprecated features as compared to Linux and macOS. It was really eye-opening to see how bit-rotted some parts of the scientific / numeric ecosystem are. I
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I have two PCs at home, one with an AMD card and one with an NVidia card. I'd characterize the NVidia card on Linux as "Windows-level hassle" (i.e. small, but present) while I think about the AMD card about as often as I&#x27
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Interestingly, there appears to be an attempted reboot: https://lisp-stat.dev/ My first reaction, is "why not on a modern Scheme as opposed to Common Lisp" and in so thinking, I have demonstrated exactly why no li
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by peatmoss 5y ago
> best graphing calculator attached to an OK scheme. I discovered "How To Design Programs" somewhere late in my first year of using R. Like most beginning R coders with nominal experience in other languages, I wrote a lot of mo
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Ah, I missed the thread change. Oddly, motorcycles use the same front brake lever position as the bicycles in most non-US countries. It is indeed confusing when they are swapped as such.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Swerving and threshold braking are the two maneuvers in our arsenals to avoid crashes when things have gone badly. Every season I start off with some quality time in a parking lot practicing both swerving and braking (EDIT: on my motorcycle
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by peatmoss 5y ago
If the experience hasn't put you off motorcycling, I recommend taking a refresher riding course, or better yet, a traction course like Skidbike. You likely low-sided due to hitting that front brake rather than progressively squeezing i
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I think you and I are solidly in agreement on all points. When it’s good, it’s really good. But the bad is heartbreaking and does rather seem to have increased of late.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
It's probably not as bad as you hear. I think there are two fallacies one can draw: 1. Everything is rosy in the Emerald City 2. Everything is Mad Max in the Emerald City. The corner by McDonalds on 3rd has always been bad, and truly t
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. Having lived overseas really drives home the feeling that fixation on more vs. less is rather crude. In a lot of ways, it feels like the Ron Swanson schtick from Parks and Recreation: if you're anti-government
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So much of the history of computing is weird with little, brilliant dead ends like this. I wonder if we're past a point in computing where "I didn't know it was hard" is a valid reason to come up with something entirely
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I think it's the difference between being simple, and hiding complexity behind towers of abstraction. In my experience OpenBSD goes to great lengths to rethink systems and purge intrinsic complexity. By contrast, Linux tends to merge c
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by peatmoss 5y ago
My sister has gone deep with traditional techniques for spinning various fibers into yarn for knitting, and has recently started learning some Peruvian weaving techniques. This has me thinking about technoweaving collectives high in the And
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Your point is well taken, but there is some agency on the part of motorcyclists in not getting killed. I wear a white helmet, neon green onsie, and a high-viz airbag vest when I ride. I also won't ride impaired. I also make sure to tak
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by peatmoss 5y ago
This works for fit people with the wherewithal to approximate average speeds on the choked roadways. Bike lanes are towards the low end of what constitutes bicycle infrastructure, but they do give a great number of people the confidence to
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Outlier events like last summer will become more frequent, but I think you will be hard pressed to find a better climate refuge than the PNW. The problem with climate change is that it eventually becomes a problem in one way or another for

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