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by pen2l 3y ago
Culture in America goes hand-in-hand with socioeconomic status. A substantial portion of desis and Nigerians in America are of the highest economic class back in their respective homes, and they're coming from that culture. If that c
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by pen2l 3y ago
The average homo sapiens about a thousand generations ago faced greater adversity than what almost any of us has faced, particularly in raw nature where predators roamed. What were the cortisol levels like for that average homo sapiens? We
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by pen2l 3y ago
It seems pretty nifty. I played around with Tobii eye-tracking hardware half a decade ago and was pretty amazed by its precision. I understand now it also has Glasses (vs. the model I tried, a tracker you put below your monitor usually). Ma
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by pen2l 3y ago
This might be pedantic nit-picking, but: I think bed leveling/heating, nozzle temperature, choice of material, etc. are parameters that the printer manufacturer should have optimized (and, IME, good ones do). I think the end user'
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by pen2l 4y ago
When I see every new weekly imbroglio he's involved with, I'm reminded of the chat logs that were unveiled in court proceedings: https://jusgu.github.io/elon-musks-texts/ Something very telling was his affect
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by pen2l 4y ago
The more constraints there are (e.g. like your example) the better it should perform. So it disappoints me when copilot, knowing what libraries are available in the IDE it's running in, hallucinates up a method call that doesn't e
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by pen2l 4y ago
Why not just absorb DRF? Which as I understand is the leading choice for many, so I wonder if some effort should be dedicated to reducing fragmentation.
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by pen2l 4y ago
By the way when did Prusa become known for their printers? I was around when Ultimaker 2 was considered the best in a "Just Works" kind of way and Lulzbot was the choice for the more tinkerer/hacker-aligned user. I stepped aw
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by pen2l 4y ago
Indeed, a variety of open source models have been able to co-exist: There's the sqlite3 type of "it's all open source but you can't contribute to the code"; the conventional community-led copyleft GNU type of open
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by pen2l 4y ago
> Hopefully this is an April Fool's joke. I'm pretty sure it isn't but it is devilishly clever to drop news like this on a date like this. But as to their decision: It's tough -- obviously we all want to support Repra
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by pen2l 4y ago
When I was a young person, I used to deride writings like 1984 on the grounds that the scenarios and stories presented to carry the message were too far-fetched. Reading your comment has set off an epiphany, I think I get it now, there prob
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by pen2l 4y ago
Not quite on-topic, but I have to wonder: why go and develop these long-winded solutions when we can come up with obvious better ones? -- order on your phone (which is nice and easy because you can add to your grocery list with a smart home
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by pen2l 4y ago
Steve Jobs famously wanted to hire people that weren't just good programmers but people with serious and passionate side hobbies and pursuits (music, art, poetry etc.) Have a broader awareness of things, of other arts, of history, of o
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by pen2l 4y ago
Kenji does it when he's playing with his daughter, he polishes her nails and she polishes his -- I think this explanation would fly even in the most uptight and puritanical of the conservative crowd. I do wonder whether he'd bow t
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by pen2l 4y ago
Fascinating that you keep getting downvoted for stating completely obvious observations. I would have thought your reasonable explanations could convince this supposed 'rational' crowd but apparently not.
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by pen2l 4y ago
In addition to this, I think we should go back to doing things the hard way, the old-school way: adapt and adjust your lifestyle to temperature changes like our ancestors did. Let the temperature dictate your cooking: do the dishes that req
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by pen2l 4y ago
On the one hand, ok... sure... on the other: this just makes me think of the fact that this sort of thing would absolutely never fly at Apple. And I really, really want to say that is shouldn't fly at Google either. They're spen
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by pen2l 4y ago
Something being highlighted about Flutter is that it ultimately compiles to native code so unlike RN which transpiles to native widgets, its UI animations should technically be buttery smooth. But in watching the flutter announcement video
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by pen2l 4y ago
It dawns on me now that perhaps every market and every community is fated to suffer some variation of the Eternal September effect at some certain critical point of capturing majority market share. Every community that matures enough to hav
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by pen2l 4y ago
This is the kind of take that only exists on HN and is obviously wrong flat on its face if thought through for even a little bit. Someone can and does have the right to tell dead baby jokes to a father who has just lost a child but that doe
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by pen2l 4y ago
Previously there was a comment that was quite elucidative made by an HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34304824 In recent years I've come around to viewing the American ideal of absolute "free spe
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by pen2l 4y ago
How about Flemish then? It's one of the closest languages to English, so did you have an easier time with that?
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by pen2l 4y ago
While it's laudable that you sought those texts and profited from them, I worry about what others might take away from this. When I was young I knew some geniuses who highly spoke of Principia and how it gave them great insights. And t
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by pen2l 4y ago
The scrolling/transitions animations are jittery in the left in the video, it’s a readily identifiable artifact of RN apps in fact, whereas the native one is incredibly smooth in all refresh transitions and scrolls. I wonder how diffic
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The Key to Success in College Is So Simple, It’s Almost Never Mentioned(nytimes.com)
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Pyright: Static Type Checker for Python(github.com)
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Reversals in psychology: A list of exaggerated psychological phenomena(gleech.org)
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by pen2l 4y ago
Look into Apple silicon - lots of cache, great branch predictions, pointer-chasing prefetchers and more to subside just about all of your compiling worries.
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by pen2l 4y ago
This is baseless conjecture and completely without merit. Guido was intimately involved with this speed-up work. I've disagreed with Guido over things but the things you're saying are just weird. I recommend this interview to get
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by pen2l 4y ago
And there's yet more speed-ups coming in Python 3.12! It'll support Perf profiler to allow looking into Python call stacks and see python functions in perf output and have even more improved error messages. https://docs

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