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by sireat 5y ago
Hilariously I just got an invoice for $0.06 from Hetzner because I signed up for a service on 31st of October. Guys, I love you but couldn't you just give me a way to pay forward or roll it in the next one?
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by sireat 5y ago
I believe author of the resume was familiar with http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ I dare anyone to get 100% on the first try
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by sireat 5y ago
This is almost like a living will version of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby which at least had some crazy/funny provisions. This Munger monstrosity is positively distopian. What happened to Charl
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by sireat 5y ago
The amount of optimizations remind me of story of Mel: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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by sireat 5y ago
UPDATE: The above howlers were in IntelliJ... However in Visual Studio Code on a different computer, I got much better idiomatic suggestions. such as def is_palindrome(word): return word == word[::-1] Very puzzling.
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by sireat 5y ago
I also fear that Copilot will be teaching anti-patterns. Just tried something really simple: def is_palindrome Copilot suggestion was def is_palindrome(word): if word == word[::-1]: return True else: re
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by sireat 5y ago
I would say if you work in a narrow domain with a single language then yes, you might not need much searching. However if you routinely switch among 3-5 languages you will get confused by naming and idiomatic approaches. Ex: 1. Was it toUp
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by sireat 5y ago
I am a fan of Snow Crash and Diamond Age and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co... . So it was a bit shocking to learn the following: From the article: "From 1999 to 2006, Stephenson
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by sireat 5y ago
Again per Gibson: "“What’s in the case, Buschel?” Seersucker bunched in his fist, knuckles white and shaking. “Damn it, Turner,” the man jerking free, the handle of the case clutched in both hands now. “They weren’t damaged. Only some
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by sireat 5y ago
Kotlin feels like it could take over Scala at some point. Until recently I've been very happy with Scala support in IntelliJ. Stuff just works or at least works for Scala 2.12 and 2.13 I tried to kick tires with Scala 3 and well it is
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by sireat 5y ago
You are not alone. I have a decent amount of experience starting with plain HTML in 1995 and table based layouts in late 199xs. Modern CSS grid named areas are awesome! However, whenever I teach at bootcamps and at a university 90% of my st
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by sireat 5y ago
Good news as 4k has been long time coming to AMD. However there is a bit of a problem when configuring 4k screen and 5850U on P14 on lenovo site: *Ships in 4+ months* Supply issues considered that is just horrible for a tier 1 manufacturer.
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by sireat 5y ago
Really hard to tell if the $800 upgrade from 16GB RAM to 32GB RAM is worth it since you also get a mysterious 16GPU to 32GPU upgrade.. 10-Core CPU 16-Core GPU 16GB Unified Memory 1TB SSD Storage¹ 16-core Neural Engine 16-inch Liquid Retina
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by sireat 5y ago
What I really miss is the read only nature of CD, DVD based boots. It is so easy to make the perfect USB only to ruin it by sticking in a "dirty" machine. The write protect switches on a few select USB flash drives are more of a s
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by sireat 5y ago
I own a HP 4050N that I paid 5 euros at a bank bankrupcy in 2008. Still have not changed the cartridge (apparently it is good for 10k pages). I am starting to worry that all cartridge refill businesses will close before I need a refill..
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by sireat 5y ago
1500 net, so about 2200 brutto is not that bad for Latvia, although on the low side. It really depends on job quality as well. Considering how frugal you are, you have plenty of time to find a better gig. Pure local companies are not going
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by sireat 5y ago
So for those running Scala in production, which version do you use? I am still seeing a lot of projects on 8. New Scala projects are generally on Corretto 11.
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by sireat 5y ago
I am a pretty average Python programmer(5 years teaching, 15 years writing). I still wonder what was the reasoning for allowing creation of local objects with the same name as builtins. Okay it can be nice to redefine pprint as print I supp
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by sireat 5y ago
Turns out being No. 2 language for all domains leads to being No. 1 What is fascinating that Classic Visual Basic jumped from 19 to 11. TIOBE is like that I've been teaching Python for the last few years and there has been a marked inc
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by sireat 5y ago
A bit of a related question: What is the best option to offer crypto payments to customers who hold no crypto and are new to crypto? I have a side project in a domain where I pay about 15-20% for CC verification/foreign exchange/p
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by sireat 5y ago
OP should have had offers pouring in: "using and teaching Python for over 20 years, and designed its built-in set module, but nobody would hire me as a Python programmer when I was laid off by RStudio in February." If OP can'
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by sireat 5y ago
I sold/bought music CDs as well as anime model kits on the usenet (on the .marketplace ones) around the time of "Eternal September". It was pretty thrilling to get money order in the mail. There was little to no scamming goin
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by sireat 5y ago
Super cool! Curious does your implementation of DOT support embedding of images? Theoretically it should be possible: http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#d:image
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by sireat 5y ago
I am extremely uncomfortable with these less voting right shares that so many companies(FB, Google et al) favor these days. It perverts the open market and reminds me of shenanigans in Eastern European stock markets and Asian ones where it
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by sireat 5y ago
I've dreamt of redundant/automatic failover connections since mid 90s. Whatever solution I researched it boiled down to trading bandwith increase for latency increase. Speedify seems intriguing yet seems extremely country dependan
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by sireat 5y ago
Fantastic idea and it works quite well for short phrases that I tried. As expected I am getting a lot of early 2000s sites which is something that I miss on regular Google. Hilariously searching for "array data structure" got me o
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by sireat 5y ago
Making a sticky game is much harder that it seems. Many of us could code something like this technically but it would play horribly and look worse - and would be more than 14kb of WASM It is the little things, the lighting, the little sound
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by sireat 5y ago
As the article states the biggest problem is onramp (just like with most crypto). When using it for payments is that it is hard to make a case for a regular user (new to crypto) to use it. The onramp is too painful/expensive/convu
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by sireat 5y ago
Where is the option to create a new course in Pathbird? I registered but only get an option to join an existing course with a code. I write a lot of Jupyter notebooks at my main job and I also lecture at a university thus Pathbird seems rel
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by sireat 5y ago
Agreed on most counts. However the Rule 3: What you don’t disambiguate now, you debug later it is so hard to follow. I am guilty of using -1 so many times on numeric returns . The alternatives Null,None,nil types break the type signature

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