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by sevensor 2y ago
If you’re not sure, you probably want UCRT64. At any rate I used it to pull a rabbit out of a hat at work by building some software with it that didn’t have an official windows build.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Its biggest advantage is how easy it is to convince corporate IT that you need Git for Windows, compared to msys2, Cygwin, or WSL.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I remember that one! Goodness that was a long time ago.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I got a Leuchtturm once out of curiosity. Could only use one side of each sheet. Sometimes it was so bad I had to leave a leaf entirely blank on both sides. Absolutely worthless paper. For a good a5 notebook we are spoiled for choice at tha
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by sevensor 2y ago
I started carrying notebook and pen in my breast pocket when my children were small. I would do a lot of thinking about my work while I was caring for them, and I wanted something to catch my thoughts. Something I could put away instantly w
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by sevensor 2y ago
> JSON data model: records (objects), arrays, booleans, numbers and strings Is this the JSON data model? There are places I’ve seen this fall apart: very large and very small numbers, nulls, empty objects / arrays. How confident are
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by sevensor 2y ago
The first time I read it, I disliked it. I read it again twelve years later and I hated it. Ignatius is an unpleasant person and I don’t enjoy reading about his misadventures. This is probably because I’m a philistine.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Which is short sighted, because if they’re on the other side of the interview table from me it takes about 60 seconds to find them out. Competence speaks a different language than fraud.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Funny, my world is full of the other kind of engineer. We all come with domain knowledge built in, and programming is the complex domain many people don’t want to learn.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Compute in memory is exciting, but it’s going to be hard to pull off. Transistors go underneath capacitors, which means they have to survive the subsequent fabrication of the capacitors without thermal processing disrupting their carefully
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by sevensor 2y ago
I mostly migrated to frozen dataclasses from namedtuples when dataclasses became available. I’m curious about your preference for the namedtuple. Is it the lighter weight, the strong immutability, the easy destructing? Or is it that most tu
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by sevensor 2y ago
Linearity has been a sticking point since the very beginning, with the famous exchange between Hotelling and Von Neumann. MILP solvers are amazing, and what they can solve feels like it should be impossible, but even so you get stuck someti
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by sevensor 2y ago
I meant that the obligation to finish is not externally imposed, so you don’t have to pursue completion out of a sense of duty. But I can see how you could read it the way you did, and it’s a fair point.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Without the "convenient excuse", the journey starts looking like pure procrastination; how do you enjoy it without the guilt about not doing more important work that leads to more important results? Procrastination is how I d
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by sevensor 2y ago
Agree completely. Reframe recreational programming as your favorite video game, and you’ll feel much more satisfied after a session that produces nothing, because that was never the point.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Or, you could stop beating yourself up about it and reframe the whole activity as a creative release. Nobody else cares if you finish it, why should you? My neighbor died with a project car parked in his driveway. It had been there for year
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by sevensor 2y ago
There was a sudden, sharp decline in quality about a decade ago, at the time when they started putting provocative and inaccurate headlines on the front cover. I think they actually tried harder than many other magazines to adapt to the Int
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by sevensor 2y ago
PyPy is great for loopy/branchy code with lots of function calls. Things that you haven’t done the mental gymnastics to vectorize. That being said, in my line of work, when Python is the bottleneck, a little bit of numpy goes a long wa
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by sevensor 2y ago
Building Python is so quick and easy I’ve built an interpreter per project in some circumstances. Sometimes more if I want to make sure it’s compatible with multiple Python versions.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Hello fellow dc user! What are the chances all four of us would find the same thread? It’s so fast, so reliable, so omnipresent. Between that and being able to turn multiplication into addition by working in powers of two, I get answer
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by sevensor 2y ago
> the standard way businesses are run filters out the most capable and most effective people from executive positions You say this like it’s not the intended outcome? If you have money, do you really want to invest in a high variance str
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by sevensor 2y ago
Regardless of how they messed up, they just successfully vaporized their credibility with me. It’s a big platform, and an obvious mistake that the editor should have caught. And if they care so little about my time that they’re not going to
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Or maybe you prefer to code with the classic old-school text editors, like vi (2012), Sublime Text (2008), or vim (1991) Huh, vi was introduced 15 years after I first used it. Must have been inspired by vim. Think I’ll stop reading h
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by sevensor 2y ago
Thanks for the link! One of the quite astounding things about gnuplot is that it continues to make steady progress, decade after decade, not stagnating or flaming out, without massive attention or lots of institutional support, and with gre
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by sevensor 2y ago
I hear a lot of complaints about edtech from the teacher I’m married to, and this is a common thread in how it fails: it tries to automate away the classroom experience rather than empower the instructor. Most teachers, good ones anyway, do
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by sevensor 2y ago
Also the novels of the era feel fresh in a way that can’t be reproduced on top of 150 years more novels. Not that there’s nothing new under the sun, but that the new things are harder to reach, both for the reader and for the writer.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This is Spinal Tap is burned into my brain, to the point where the jokes stop being jokes and start being basic parts of my cognition.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Learning gnuplot. Astonishingly powerful and versatile, criminally underhyped.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Are you looking at alignment too? Huge impact on the longevity of belt-drive systems.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Certainly (A) for me. The news that matters is local, but my local paper got purchased by McClatchey, shut down its press, cut staff to the bone, and started publishing ads that pretend to be editorial content. That last was the straw that

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