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by porker 2y ago
Good luck! Having used JetBrains IDEs (PHPStorm mostly) for what a decade(?) using VS code based editors like Cursor and Windsurf feel a step backward in spite of the AI, because the intellisense isn't there. If you can get something t
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by porker 2y ago
Thank you, blind deconvolution and PSF sound like what I have been scratching around the edges of in my experiments, without knowing the right terms to search for to discover prior work. I shall dig into the literature!
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by porker 2y ago
Going to read this in depth. I have been on and off trying to find a way to distinguish between in focus, motion blur (camera shake) and out of focus. Motion blur is surprisingly tricky to distinguish using a computer from the others. I can
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by porker 2y ago
What made Pivotal Tracker so popular? It had story points front and center, was that it?
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by porker 2y ago
757 now. I used to bookmark everything into Diigo. Then their Firefox extension stopped working... and I haven't got a cross-platform, cross-browser process up and running again. Is there a tab session manager that does that, and lets
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by porker 2y ago
751 tabs open right now and growing. Firefox copes fine. Me? Not so much (:
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by porker 2y ago
Have you upstreamed the change to DuckDB?
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by porker 2y ago
> Speaking as the person who pops up to defend the Online Safety Act Do you defend the aims of the Act, the Act itself, or both? I'm having to figure out compliance for a volunteer run, donation funded forum, and I think the Act its
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by porker 2y ago
Note that the definition of "Services provided by persons providing education or childcare." is defined in law and narrow. I'm working with a charity providing online lessons for use in schools, where school children can post
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by porker 2y ago
> Mostly staffed by the intellectual trophy husbands and wives of the financial sector. Oh so true. Which helps to explain the number of levels of management in UK cultural institutions, because in London there are enough of these people
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by porker 2y ago
JLR Gaydon is not in the metro area of Birmingham. It's in nice countryside and near a motorway which helps, but it's a fair commute out of Birmingham at rush hour to there. The nice surrounding towns/villages are expensive,
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by porker 2y ago
Profit goes out of the country, reducing investment and rich UK people to invest in new UK companies. It's the same problem with many of our companies being sold to foreign investors: profits are taken outside the country (as we did to
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by porker 2y ago
(UK resident, born and bread) Yes this drives me absolutely mad. I'm a poor risk taker and can come up with all those reasons something's a bad idea, but when I've made up my mind to take the risk I want supportive people aro
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by porker 2y ago
For structured output from anywhere I'm finding https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml good. It's more accurate than gpt-04-mini will do on its own, and any of the other JSON schema approaches I've tried.
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by porker 2y ago
What did you script in XYPlorer? I've used Explorer for so long that's a feature I can't even imagine what I would use it for.
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by porker 2y ago
Normally pay monthly by Direct Debit, but because usage varies so much between summer and winter we assess and estimate usage annually.
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by porker 2y ago
I agree, however our 5kW solar roof in southern England has barely generated 1kWh/day since October. Apart from that still period in November we've got wind, generally 10-15mph at roof height. A feasible home wind turbine would be
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by porker 2y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285689
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by porker 2y ago
Agree with you. My only addition is to remember to read PECR ( https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr... ) alongside GDPR.
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by porker 2y ago
What is your preferred digital book publishing system?
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by porker 2y ago
In the USA is there any concept of prior art when considering trademark applications, like there is with patents? If "YCombinator hosting" had been commonly used by businesses, and YC decided to trademark that phrase, would the pr
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by porker 2y ago
> But that's the problem. Wordpress is used for much much more. You can use it as a CMS, LMS, news platform, saas platform, and much more. You can literally customize it to the bone. And that freedom is also its weakness. "When
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by porker 2y ago
Mirroring is not difficult, I've done it in order to perform code analysis on plugins at scale.
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by porker 2y ago
In a similar vein is https://pbeshai.github.io/tidy/ which I've used for 3+ years. It's a really nice lightweight transformer. I've also used https://github.com/uwdata/arquero once
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by porker 2y ago
Wrong tool for this - I'd recommend https://bpmn.io/ instead.
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by porker 2y ago
We did. I don't think we comprehended how others would use it for their own commercial gain.
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by porker 2y ago
> A typical deployment will have multiple replicas, with (hopefully) small replication lag. Those should be able to be promoted to be the new primary within a minute. What happens within that minute to database writes?
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by porker 2y ago
I'm curious, when do you want to add a new column type? It's not a situation I've been in.
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by porker 2y ago
> Versioned modifications ("time travel") - ArcticDB is bitemporal. > Timeseries indexes. That's a nice addition.
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by porker 2y ago
https://healthchecks.io ftw

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