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by quacker 4y ago
Pyenv has nothing to do with pipenv. Pyenv is mainly for installing versions of Python. It's useful if you work on multiple packages that each needs a different version of Python, or if you have one package that you test with multiple
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by quacker 4y ago
I'm wondering: is my storage fast enough to write at 25 Gb/s? SATA drives max at 6 Gb/s, and probably a bit worse than that in practice. M.2 NVMe SSDs can reach 25+ Gb/s on sequential writes. Maybe I could overclock thes
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by quacker 4y ago
> It's easy to be an armchair engineer and say "well, obviously, don't make this mistake in the future". It's sort of equally easy to say Github should do X or Y to improve the UX in this (rare?) case without act
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by quacker 5y ago
>Sorry to break it to you but Bluetooth also operates on the 2.4GHz ISM band. Right, but "2.4 GHz wireless audio" is what to search to find information and non-BT products. It is interesting to see your comments about Bluetooth
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by quacker 5y ago
Seems downvoted, but test roles are a legitimate alternative. It is not more/less work, but is a change of pace from dev/eng roles. Test positions vary. QA might mean tedious manual testing, or it might not. What you'd probab
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by quacker 5y ago
Another option is 2.4 GHz wireless, which is common in gaming headsets, at least, for low-latency / high-quality audio. The downside is it requires a dongle.
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by quacker 5y ago
My simple solution was: - Use a normal d5 and d6. - On a roll, if the sum on the dice face is >= 7, add 1 to the sum. If I roll 2+3, the result is 5. If I roll 3+4, the sum is 7, so add 1 to get the result of 8. The gives you this distri
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by quacker 5y ago
Completely agree on Gevent. The UX was outstanding. In general, I personally don't love the direction Python 3 has taken with asyncio, type hints, and more and more syntactic sugar. Meanwhile, no real improvements to packaging or to pe
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by quacker 5y ago
There's a community of external contributors that deserve (or would appreciate) some notification about it though.
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by quacker 5y ago
> Why must I be vaccinated if the vaccine doesn't prevent spread? "Why must I go the speed limit if it doesn't prevent an accident? Why wear a seat belt if it doesn't prevent injury? Why have airbags if they don'
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by quacker 5y ago
I guess I'm curious: What are you expecting minors who currently enjoy video games to do instead in their free time? If they pick up reading and decide they like those endless fantasy series, is that better than playing a video game fo
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by quacker 5y ago
I've been using a Haworth Zody for 7 years, and I like it pretty well. Nothing wrong with the Aeron, but I find the Zody is (1) a better price ($200 used for mine, or $650 new[1]), (2) more attractive, and (3) the adjustment mechanisms
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by quacker 5y ago
Interesting. I know nuclear power is far safer than it's general reputation. Is nuclear really safer than solar? This[1] has some data and estimations for death rates measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per teraw
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by quacker 5y ago
> The problem is more or less solved - see Nix. Sorry, but I'm really not sure what you mean by "solved". Nix is yet another (language agnostic) package manager with certain tradeoffs. But, if there is not an available Nix
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by quacker 5y ago
> I actually extremely dislike language specific package managers. I'm on Linux, the packages should be in my package manager. I don't want to maintain multiple package managers. nmp is actually the worst here. As a user of sof
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by quacker 6y ago
It worried me that they’re only at a couple hundred MM in a self-proclaimed 116B+ opportunity after 10 years. Yes. How do they grow further? DO will be compared to AWS and Azure in the market, and there's a good chance their stock wi
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by quacker 6y ago
That only solves a narrow range of disasters. Your disk could die or the file system becomes corrupted or your ec2 instance is accidentally destroyed or etc.
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by quacker 6y ago
Can you elaborate? I'm an outsider. I see that both have proven track records. What makes Hinton the significantly better choice?
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by quacker 6y ago
Agreed. I’m not super knowledgeable but AMD just caught up after years of Intel stumbling to get to 10nm. Intel’s 14nm chips are still very competitive with AMD, so it seems that Intel on 5nm should beat AMD on 5nm, for example. Intel will
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by quacker 6y ago
> But we've now done the experiment in a big way and the results seem overwhelmingly negative to me, to the point where they present a credible existential threat to civilization, on a par with climate change. Free speech is certain
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by quacker 6y ago
You are underestimating the power of misinformation.
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by quacker 6y ago
> Even here on HN any attempt at putting forth the wrong opinion on the election will result in a ban. Politics are off-topic on HN. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some inter
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by quacker 6y ago
> This sounds really interesting and like good engineering (tm), would you mind sharing which company this was for? Maintaining good blackbox e2e tests and the infrastructure is one thing, finding time (and space in the roadmap) to do th
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by quacker 6y ago
I actually just started drinking coffee this year or so. I never drank coffee because I hated the taste and always prioritized a good night’s sleep and regular exercise so just never felt I needed the boost. With a job change pre-COVID, and
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by quacker 6y ago
Yep, I like Locust but been a while since I’ve needed it again. It’s main advantage over simpler tools like ab or httperf is being able to simulate most any kind of user interaction. Whereas other tools tend to just spam static predefined H
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by quacker 6y ago
Yes. For example, a distributed system composed of various microservices, where the microservices can use different code styles, different programming languages, be maintained by different teams, etc.
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by quacker 6y ago
Weird phrasing, restating: For individuals that want it, it's likely much greater than $1/mo in value and they'd likely pay more for that tier. The question is how far past $12/yr are they willing to pay for email, consi
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by quacker 6y ago
Benchmarks: Ryzen 5 2600 + RTX 3070[1] 80 FPS - Ghost Recon: Breakpoint 1440p / Very High 78 FPS - Horizon Zero Dawn 1440p / Ultimate 72 FPS - Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p / High 115 FPS - Death Stranding 144
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by quacker 6y ago
A 2600 + RTX 3070 will outperform a 10600k + 5700XT in 1440p gaming. You're way overestimating how much a 2600 would bottleneck the GPU.
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by quacker 6y ago
I mean, you said I should waste my money on a CPU upgrade that would make no difference in 1440p gaming. That's money I can't spend on a better GPU, which would make a difference in 1440p gaming.

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