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by pletnes 2y ago
I’ve seen it used in backend systems processing lots of small events. Never noticed any python/pypy difference. I guess it can be used for many things but package selection is smaller and most people don’t know about it. I’ve also hear
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by pletnes 2y ago
There are official pypy docker images on docker hub, from what I recall.
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by pletnes 2y ago
Often it’s enough to compile in debug mode and maybe set an env var! This sounds like a horrible approach by all measures I think.
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by pletnes 2y ago
Absolutely, I’ve yet to see something that works offline (I’m sure it’s technically feasible). But «so what» - few modern day apps do much use when offline.
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by pletnes 2y ago
Valid points. I was also thinking about apt install-ing some C library, try to pip install a package, have it fail to build, look for headers/debug packages in apt, set LD_LIBRARY… you know. It hurts, a lot. And yet, python is a fantas
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by pletnes 2y ago
I work as a developer / consultant. Sometimes I show «install as desktop app» on Edge/chrome on windows and people are genuinely surprised, and don’t know about it. I’d bet the conscious usage is very low. Chrome(OS) and others mi
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by pletnes 2y ago
Pipx is great! Although, I always seem to have to set up PATH, at least on windows?
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by pletnes 2y ago
This is the truth right here. The issues are with people using (not officially) deprecated tools and workflows, plus various half baked scripts that solved some narrow use cases.
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by pletnes 2y ago
This is what we used to have and it was much worse. Source: lived that life 10-15 y ago.
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by pletnes 2y ago
My biggest gripe is that some Azure stuff seems to be available only through powershell, which is hard to install and configure (I think) in certain corporate policy-infested environments.
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by pletnes 2y ago
Exactly my experience.
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by pletnes 2y ago
Do you populate with test data, and if so, how?
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by pletnes 2y ago
Do you have any accessible references on state machines? I’ve just read about them a bit but never coded one in a project. Seems like a useful concept for testable, reliable code.
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by pletnes 2y ago
In a way - I use laptops that move around and go on/off, as well as VPNs which do the same, network-wise.
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by pletnes 2y ago
I had the same issue. I solved it real easy by keeping a python/sql script to create the db, which was VIEWs over parquet files, similar to the article although with local files. The sql syntax is stable so this works great. Creating a
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by pletnes 3y ago
Worth noting that both jq and duckdb can be used from python and from the command line. Both are very useful data tools!
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by pletnes 3y ago
Also people just like smaller chargers. Source: have a HP laptop with a brick-size power brick.
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by pletnes 3y ago
I sure hope noone claimed that. You’re doing potentially huge dimensionality reduction, uniqueness would be like saying you cannot have md5 collisions.
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by pletnes 3y ago
NaN doesn’t equal itself in any language I’m aware of, fwiw.
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by pletnes 3y ago
Indeed - a classic «upping the game» is to prove two bounds, then determine an exact value because you somehow get the bounds to intersect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem?wprov=sfti1
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by pletnes 3y ago
Also it’s not as snappy when you cross the 1GB limit, although it does work, mostly.
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by pletnes 3y ago
And this is why file io is not the bottleneck - all the data is in RAM/disk cache.
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by pletnes 3y ago
Take the bytes of the number, «-9.7», and interpret as an integer? That’s a 4-byte int -> array index. (Haven’t tried but…)
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by pletnes 3y ago
I’m sure you mean slow = high latency, but I do hope you’re «high throughput», like spark/…?
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by pletnes 3y ago
How does this compare with dask? (Polars was mentioned but isn’t distributed like dask is)
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by pletnes 3y ago
I started using manual folds with latex. Works fine esp if you have a hotkey/snip for inserting these. % {{{ and % }}} for begin/end for instance. Much faster!
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by pletnes 3y ago
Wrap in an SSH tunnel and you can do some fun stuff over the network, too.
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by pletnes 3y ago
Here’s my take: the simple reason this topic is coming up more and more, is that new monitors are brighter and sharper than old ones. It’s more (un)comfortable than ever with a bad theme.
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by pletnes 3y ago
I found xonsh to be configurable to be extremely similar to zsh. I don’t see that it’s «more typing».
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by pletnes 3y ago
I had the same timeline. Less instability, more that it had a few non-bash/zsh quirks so it was hard to adapt. Loved many things about it though.

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