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by singhrac 4y ago
I have just used iCloud for everything, and it works great, even on Windows (note that you cannot use the Microsoft Store app, which is garbage). I guess I fit solidly inside the 5GB free tier and probably will for quite a while. I would us
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by singhrac 4y ago
I think I would appreciate it in both places! One more piece of drive by advice: I would reduce the font-weight of the hero text on the front page ("Meetsy takes two calendars..."). Unnecessarily bold text is a common pet peeve of
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This is a drive-by comment, but for free/open source software, it is really helpful to have a screenshot or two. The unfortunate truth is that a lot of open source software has mediocre design, and for a Calendly alternative (where I&#
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by singhrac 4y ago
I agree with this post, I didn't really understand it. Eventually I read the Shopify example, which helps a little bit: let Shopify's users create their own programmable storefronts. It reminds me a little bit of Stripe Connect. I
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by singhrac 4y ago
I had time to read through this, thank you for linking it to me. I like method chaining, and appreciate the terseness of the syntax. I don't think it addresses my main complaint (and other's complaints, below) about Pandas. I&#x27
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by singhrac 4y ago
While the fabs might have hit some missteps, Intel’s software group has still been very strong for a long time. MKL and icc are examples of Intel putting effort into software (I can’t remember whether they hobble it on AMD which would be a
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by singhrac 4y ago
I can't really share in any detail, I think, but the best part was that "Series" were immutable and had sorted keys (indexes). Essentially they were (math) functions, so "indexes" had unique elements. All the import
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by singhrac 4y ago
This is mildly off topic, but I am very unhappy with Pandas. Every single API feels bolted on without any consideration of composability or ergonomics. After spending 4 years with a much better proprietary library I cannot deal with arbitra
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by singhrac 4y ago
I don't have extremely high confidence in Qualcomm as a company either, but there are many different paths to Qualcomm becoming competitive, with the right management of the Nuvia team. They can (and should) manufacture on the Intel (T
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by singhrac 4y ago
Having been on the other side of that... quant funds absolutely want raw data wherever possible, but I suspect for the application you're talking about there's some room for derived data; the responses for e.g. credit card data ar
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by singhrac 5y ago
This is incredibly unethical and makes me disgusted. Uber engineers, please complain about this and ask for a review of the decisions that led to this policy, or you have no moral ground to stand on. Or, if there’s an explanation for this t
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by singhrac 5y ago
Mildly unrelated to the article at hand, but I wish Amtrak had better quality (faster and more consistent) wifi onboard for NE regional and other non-Acela trains. I think even the Acela doesn't have high speed wifi. If I could work du
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by singhrac 5y ago
I bought a 3-pack of Eero 6s for use in a Manhattan apartment where I had been struggling with interference of various kinds, and it works perfectly. Really a 15 minute setup and I haven’t thought about it again. The most convenient thing i
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by singhrac 5y ago
I will chime in that I program professionally and first learned in the 7th grade in Scratch. The most incredible moment for me was that for CS50 I found a game I had uploaded to scratch.mit.edu maybe 6 years earlier and submitted it (it was
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by singhrac 5y ago
Well, in the abstract it says: “[a coefficient] which is 0 if and only if the variables are independent and 1 if and only if one is a measurable function of the other”, the former property which is not true of general random variables (but
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by singhrac 5y ago
Sometimes I'm surprised by how shockingly unwalkable certain areas of Manhattan are. Why are the residential areas of Hudson Yards so terribly unfriendly to people who want to "hang out"? Because all of the third places [0] a
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by singhrac 5y ago
I love reading about rendering methods because it's so visual and interesting. Still neat to see a reproduction without exposition!
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by singhrac 5y ago
I buy refurbished too pretty much every time, and I've had no real problems. Keyboard in 2014 MBP gave out because I dropped a Clorox wipe on it, and they replaced the whole motherboard for free (in warranty). Typing this on a refurbis
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by singhrac 5y ago
I want to echo this because I strongly believe this to be true. Sharing a challenging experience together is one of the strongest factors in setting up friendships. I've made friends with a 70-year old because we were standing in line
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by singhrac 5y ago
Sorry, to be clear, I missed your point "regardless of if other work by the developer has sped up the interpreter". That's fair, though my personal opinion is that that seems like an incredibly high bar for any language.
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by singhrac 5y ago
From the article: > Gross has also put some significant work into improving the performance of the CPython interpreter in general. This was done to address the concern that has blocked GIL-removal work in the past: the performance impact
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by singhrac 5y ago
Notably the dev proposing this (Sam Gross aka colesbury) is/was a major PyTorch developer, so someone quite familiar with high performance Python and extensions.
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by singhrac 5y ago
Would be pretty wild to have a full Blender running on my M1 iPad Pro, though I imagine touch controls are somewhat tricky (maybe pen only?).
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My favorite thing about this is that the URL is "dude-where-is-my-stuff"; can't use apostrophes in banking anywhere.
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by singhrac 5y ago
I feel like this is going to be really great for people getting started with programming. A Big Fat Binary is really what early programmers need. Now imagine that it comes with Postgres.app as well (with a little glue to turn it on via a bu
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by singhrac 5y ago
Isn’t it? Vaguely I hear of Vimeo being used for art videos but I kind of got the sense that the network effect and technology at Youtube was very strong. Where else do people go to watch videos? Where else can you host a live stream?
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by singhrac 5y ago
And to clarify... that's 5.3% over last August, when (some) prices were depressed because of the pandemic. Inflation is already slowing down.
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by singhrac 5y ago
I see, good point. I’m not convinced by this summary of the benchmark; N is too small, and they ignore the fact that views are much slower in Blaze than the others. To be clear, I think it’s great to have multiple competitive C++ implementa
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by singhrac 5y ago
I’m confused by you posting this link. The conclusion at the end of the post is that Eigen is the fastest library? Did I miss something?
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I saw you edited your post, which is great. Happy to chime in from the Python side: people complain a lot about the GIL but in practice a lot of the truly parallel logic happens in C extensions, which are lately quite easy to write. This is

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