squaresmile

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by squaresmile 7y ago
While I think one shouldn't read too much into PR statements like those, I don't think it's useless to call them out either, especially when they use very strong words like "extremely seriously" and "incredibly
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by squaresmile 7y ago
and BOJ https://www3.boj.or.jp/market/en/menu_etf.htm The scale of BOJ's ETF purchases is quite something.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I find the browser notifications useful for discourse forums. There are some stuffs that I would like to be notified but not by email.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I'm in the US and I'm seeing $240 on both the manufacturer's website and Amazon (Sold by EufyHome and Fulfilled by Amazon). Amazon even has a $15 coupon.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
This reminds me of a quite popular mobile game that sends master game data using messagepack which is then gzipped and then encrypted and then base64 encoded in a json response. Fun.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
There's also camelot in Python [1]. Discovered it on HN [2]. Still a decent amount of manual work afterwards though but it's probably unreasonable to expect otherwise. [1] https://camelot-py.readthedocs.io/en/
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Yep, it's a shame that they removed it and actively prevented me from using it even though I still have old Edge on my system. Now I need to import epubs into Calibre to have a reasonable epub reader.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I find pandas tutorials great https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started... https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/getting_started...
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by squaresmile 7y ago
convert_dtypes is pretty nice. I wonder how soon the new dtypes will be the defaults.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
If anyone else also wonders what does pandas.DataFrame.join do [1]: > on : str, list of str, or array-like, optional > Column or index level name(s) in the caller to join on the index in other, otherwise joins index-on-index. > Dat
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by squaresmile 7y ago
You can use "Int64" for nullable integer data type. https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/inte...
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I have the same experience with Fira Mono and Consolas. Interestingly, I quite enjoy Fira Sans, setting it as my phone's main font and Chrome's sans-serif font (had to change HN's CSS to change its comment font). The "sl
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by squaresmile 7y ago
It's still ffmpeg https://files.plexapp.com/elan/ffmpeg/plex-ffmpeg-2019-08-23... If you look at the transcoder in htop, you can see the ffmpeg commands it uses.
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Yep, just saw this [0] yesterday. A "powermod" posted a misleading title and nobody removed it. Yikes is definitely the correct response. I'm not saying it's better or worse than Google News but people should know the pl
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Blegh, now they remove the flags to show the full URL in the address bar. Took them a year [0] Whatever. I'm looking forward to what option they remove in the next release. Interestingly, there's still this extension by Google tha
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Unicode definitely has flaws but that doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and go back to "ASCII and other character sets." There's a reason we moved on from that world. However, I bet we will see
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Looks like it's actually downvoted now. Anyway, I think it's more correct to say "It speaks horribly of Hacker News readers _economics knowledge_." There are some topics here in which the quality of comments is quite poo
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by squaresmile 7y ago
> Still, he and other analysts emphasize that it's difficult to know exactly what has happened... For HN's standards, the article is disappointingly light on detail. It's not hard to imagine what they did but confirmations
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I feel like the original decision was so harsh and the optics of it was incredibly bad that this "meet in the middle" resolution still doesn't cut it. It's like when a post-mortem only contains: "In hindsight, our p
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by squaresmile 7y ago
You can use plt.style.use("seaborn") [0] to just use the style. Style sheets reference [1] [0] https://matplotlib.org/tutorials/introductory/customizing.ht... [1] https://matplotlib.org/g
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I suggest looking into matplotlib structures: figures and axes. I think this article [0] is pretty good at detailing how to work with them. They definitely can be confusing but I think most can grasp what to use after reading the article. [
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I think it's pretty disappointing that most of the top comments don't talk about the interview with Guido himself over the history of Python. Tangentially related discussion is one of the appeals of HN but I think it's a bit
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by squaresmile 7y ago
> inserting unblockable ads directly into the video stream. In a sense, it's already kinda happening with Twitch. A few months ago, they rolled out Server Side Ad Insertion [1] which broke ad blockers. Now, ublock origin and streaml
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by squaresmile 7y ago
As an absolute amateur, the fixed wing aircraft/relay helo probably can't carry the equipment (big? satellite dish? that have to be aimed accurately?) to send it to the satellite. The relay helo probably can't have LOS with t
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by squaresmile 7y ago
A short article about money creation in the modern economy by the Bank of England that will probably answer your questions https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I find the pandas documentation pretty good [0]. Actually, I find the documentation, official tutorials of pandas, numpy, matplotlib all pretty good. Each package has their own idiosyncrasies but I think the documentation and code examples
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by squaresmile 7y ago
I got it from a private tracker but it looks like you can find it on libgen fiction too [0]. The 1.7Mb epub one is the one I got. [0] http://gen.lib.rus.ec/fiction/?q=A+Fire+Upon+the+Deep
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by squaresmile 7y ago
Is this the version you have been searching for? It is "A Fire Upon the Deep" and it looks annotated. [0] https://i.imgur.com/260sH2V.png
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by squaresmile 7y ago
> Disk is cheap, internet is pretty fast Until it isn't [0]. I think it's fine to only develop/care for faster hardware but I'm not a fan of broad statement like this when it doesn't apply for so many people. [0]
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by squaresmile 7y ago
This is explained in the article. You can find it in the section "Payment for order flow" > If you could somehow make markets without informed traders—if you were guaranteed that Goldman could never trade with you—your risk (of

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