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by sireat 4y ago
I teach data structures and algorithms among other subjects. My assignments are similar to everyone else's (CLRS, JeffE, Leetcode) yet different enough that simply copy and pasting will not work. All I ask is that they comment their co
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I love the idea of GPD Micro PC - the ports the portability. Having bought one two years ago I have used it twice. I think I was clouded by rosy memories of Toshiba Libretto from a long time ago. GPD Micro PC is a lovely device but it is re
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Isn't it just pip install selenium then download the correct driver version for your browser (place it in a path or supply path when initializing client)? I use Selenium every few months so I have to update the drivers but otherwise it
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by sireat 4y ago
I live by command line history and timestamps. I wish there was even better way to preserve the context of what you were doing at the time (env variables, current path at the time etc).
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by sireat 4y ago
Long time ago I learned that some people will use CC chargeback as a license to steal. Circa 1999 I ran a small retail anime shop. I also had a mail order catalogue and was one of the first to do ecommerce for anime as well. After a pleasan
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by sireat 4y ago
Old pre MS Skype was pretty amazing for its day. In mid 2000s Skype was dominant. Pretty much all chat/talk flowed through Skype with corresponding interest in monitoring from pretty much any government. There is a plausible conspiracy
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I meant to say that lichess.org is a bit of an outlier for a great service based on FOSS principles and a donation model. There are many chessplayers who think lichess > chess because it is absolutely free. That is not a sufficient condi
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It averages about 10 games a day over 30 year. Takes roughly an hour on 3 0 controls. There are days when I play 20 and some days when I play none. Is there a corelation between games played and rating? Probably some but you hit diminishing
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Time enjoyed is not wasted :) Still it is a bit of addiction and I try to limit myself to 4 - 6 games in one sitting.
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Chess has always had this dichotomy over free/paid services. (a bit not unlike programming tools). I love lichess.org but make no mistake: without the dedication of one talented Scala programmer willing to underpay themselves that site
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Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations for complexity theory. His life in his own words: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-wi ... "I also discovered, during
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by sireat 4y ago
Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations for complexity theory. His life in his own words: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-wi... "I also discovered, during
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by sireat 4y ago
Indeed! The actual link is https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/quick-assist/9P7BP5V... That is about as easy for grandma as 0118 999 881 99 9119 7253 phone number..
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by sireat 4y ago
If the result is standard numpy 3d matrix then something like Pillow should be able to display the images. Something like from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.imshow(matrix) plt.show()
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by sireat 4y ago
Everone knows how to use a browser to some extent. Windows Store adds one extra step(either a complicated link or search in store) Yes it is a trivial step for most users but those needing the help most will struggle. https://app
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Sadly QuickAssist seems to be moving backwards.. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-admi... The big advantage TeamViewer and AnyDesk offers is the ease of installation for non-technical users.
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Supposedly AnyDesk was started by ex-TeamViewer employees. Personally I've been very happy with AnyDesk after migrating 3 years ago from Teamviewer. Seems a bit more performant too. I've had no commercial nagging from AnyDesk desp
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I was using MTurk for labeling about 10 years ago. To see the other side I also did a 1 Month stint as a MTurk worker, earning about $300. It is absolutely horrible work, and I used MTurk subreddit to find the "decent" jobs. I had
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Shades of the floating point truncation bug in Vancouver Stock Exchange Index in the early 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Round... The bug caused the index to creep up to twice the real i
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by sireat 4y ago
The hilarious thing is that this is the first time I am seeing DX in this context. Is DX meant to be Developer Experience or something different?
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Duolingo must have psychologists on staff who realized the insidious side of the "keeping the streak". One of the happiest days in my life was the day after losing the streak on 750words a few years ago. I had a 500+ day streak go
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Curious where do you experience slowness with Pandas? Usually slowness in Pandas will be if you start doing non vector things. Whenever you catch yourself writing a loop in Pandas you know you've gone the wrong way. I too use Python ex
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William Gibson 40 years ago: "M-G employees above a certain level were implanted with advanced microprocessors that monitored mutagen levels in the bloodstream. Gear like that would get you rolled in Night City, rolled straight into a
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You probably know that the ending to Ecclesiastes is a bit controversial in that it might not have been in the original treatise. It is possible that it was added by an later editor to make Ecclesiastes suitable for inclusion in the canon.
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I am a bit skeptical about this article. There are no technical details on language/framework/problem domain. No code examples. Surely those "Google" (or jiggle as another post said) programmers had some understanding of
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A fantastic anti thesis to the OP article is a recommendation I found here on HN: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Reading that book is just so calming - as Vonnegut said “I tell you, we are here on Earth
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by sireat 4y ago
Mercury looks rather neat for quick dashboards. For dynamic data I build my dashboards with Flask and Plotly. However that is certainly a more involved process to migrate Jupyter notebook Python plots to JS plots. For static data one can ju
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by sireat 4y ago
Pretty sure val/var in Kotlin comes from Scala. Syntax wise the languages are quite similar (before we get to type systems). At first I really hated how similar the keywords were (something like let/const seemed preferable). After
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I would be highly interested in finding a serious shop/commerce/ecommerc operation where Lighting Network is actually used. I check LN every 6 months or so and situation is not looking so great. As it was with Bitcoin itself in ea
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Quite impressive for a MVP and it has a large target market. I couldn't find what languages are supported at the moment?

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