sidmitra

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by sidmitra 4y ago
Are you also able to access/browse your Calibre library on your phone? And what about your annotations? Currently i'm resisting not using annotations, because while i manager books on my laptop, i read them on a e-ink android tabl
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by sidmitra 4y ago
There is calibre-web[1] which some might prefer. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
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by sidmitra 4y ago
Saw that best espresso machine example on the homepage was missing https://www.home-barista.com/ That's basically Mecca for us coffee geeks :-) so consider adding it.
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by sidmitra 4y ago
Having gone that route word -> latex -> html; i've converged to using an Open source desktop publishing app called Scribus [0]. You get WYSIWYG, but on an open format. There wasn't anything fancy to learn on the tool. The ap
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by sidmitra 4y ago
>and just deal with the fact it's not externally available Perhaps wireguard(or tailscale just for this bit). Not saying you have to, having local only as default is perfectly good and safer maybe!
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by sidmitra 4y ago
I've been interested in this topic lately, given the economic outlook, which in turn is pressing more and more companies to look at impact, productivity, "doing more with less" Here's some other related links i've l
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by sidmitra 4y ago
https://www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1#french is pretty good for starting out. Try and get out of Duolingo mode(law of diminishing returns!) and move to native audio(radio, podcasts, movies, songs) in your target l
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by sidmitra 4y ago
There is definitely a lot of benefits to this free form format. This was the promise of MS OneNote, which i adored back in uni. I only forced myself to move off, when i moved to Linux and well came to know the importance of open formats! Si
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by sidmitra 4y ago
Instead of Vue, have you considered htmx with django-rest-framework? See https://htmx.org/essays/spa-alternative/
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by sidmitra 4y ago
- The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook http://socraticmethod.org/ >a way to think more intelligently about questions large or small All Philosophy books are meta
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by sidmitra 4y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted, but your comment made me google some of the books to see if there's something to the recommendations. I don't know what the 1619 project is; but the first few google links are all adverts
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by sidmitra 4y ago
What OS(flavour) are you running? How do you do OS upgrades/patches?
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by sidmitra 4y ago
Some of the basic hot-loading features can probably be approximated in Python. Here's some from my bookmarks(i've not tried them personally) - https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged - https://github.
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by sidmitra 4y ago
@lexx, i think most of the things you put in your answer were very reasonable and non-controversial and probably what most good senior-ish engineers do. I think the parent comment is slightly in his "local minima" and he's ge
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by sidmitra 4y ago
Then shouldn't this greater-than-internet technological evolution happen under some public domain, licensing of sorts, instead of in a proprietary silo? Atleast the web had RFCs, and came from a "research" institution. Here t
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by sidmitra 4y ago
https://www.core-econ.org/
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by sidmitra 4y ago
>MeiliSearch (but their API triggered a panic response) Could you expand on that with examples? I only played around with it lightly but it seemed ok via the Python SDK. I've been recently leaning towards Meilisearch for some client
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by sidmitra 5y ago
We use Stitch[1] for this. You can selectively replicate some tables from any "source" to any selected destination[2]. I believe 1 destination is there on the free plan. You can point to any self hosted(or cloud) Postgres DBs. The
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by sidmitra 5y ago
This is the course the above comment mentions, since the original link redirects to a login page. https://www.udemy.com/course/writing-your-own-operating-syst...
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by sidmitra 5y ago
I've definitely enjoyed some of the videos which were part of a course on Valuations by Aswath Damodaran[1] - [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLvnJL8htRR1T9cbSccaoVw
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by sidmitra 5y ago
One possible solution for the ETL stuff might be to use Heroku Kafka for the Change Data Capture and then from that Kafka you can move it someplace else. See https://blog.heroku.com/streaming-data-connectors-beta Heroku&#x2
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by sidmitra 5y ago
Do you mean like Fermats Library? People can share annotated papers there. There aren't a lot of papers though, but i found some good ones outside of comp-sci recently. 1) https://fermatslibrary.com/s/why-stress-
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by sidmitra 5y ago
Not really for use with python, but still worth a look since it brings some interesting syntax along. http://coconut-lang.org/ > Coconut is a functional programming language that compiles to Python. Since all valid Pytho
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by sidmitra 5y ago
There's also https://deepnote.com/ which i've seen used in a few fintech startups.
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by sidmitra 5y ago
For first timers - Duolingo(don't do it for more than a few months) For beginners - https://www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1#french For all others , some sort of immersion approach is the only way if you do
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by sidmitra 5y ago
Type checking, compile-time errors won't check if the program you wrote is correct, only that it's internally consistent. That is an entirely different thing than checking for correctness. You do need a layer of tests that actual
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by sidmitra 5y ago
FYI their support actively asks you to move to the bash uploader from the Python one, and the Python one had other compatability issues. Here's a snippet from a support thead with them last year: >One thing I noticed is that you are
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by sidmitra 7y ago
> difference between intermediate and advanced is the ability to move from discussing only facts to making a coherent argument. This is a brilliant point and never thought about it this way. I've spoken spanish for 5 years but i&#x2
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by sidmitra 7y ago
I finished the audiobook a month ago. I had read up on the wikipedia page, but had conveniently skipped the controversy section. I assumed there are always naysayers! This time I took the time to read it. It definitely does put a different
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by sidmitra 7y ago
They don't do the same thing. pipenv allows you to create, manage virtual environments(using venv) apart from managing requirements file(Pipfile) and an npm like locking mechanism, dependency graphs, dev dependencies and more. I prefer

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