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by srvmshr 4y ago
I have read on occasion that pyenv seems to be woefully unmaintained. Is that true? Is it a good move to learn using poetry instead. Another observation I have is that although pip installs in environment are sanitized, they share a global
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Asking sincerely: With the various tools like pyenv, poetry, virtualenv, venv and the likes, what seems to be different? What seems to be the best practices today for maintaining projects? I would be grateful for insights. (Full disclosure:
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Unless the job involves making specialized computing infrastructure, like supercomputing applications etc., the sundry IT ops of university get a rather tiny part of budget. Majority of a typical CS department's amortized spending can
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Not sure how far the information is true but I am told many Middle eastern carriers do not get sufficiently mature pilots & have to make do with junior ones. Or it could be possible that they compensate for some of the luxurious offerin
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by srvmshr 4y ago
There was an article on New Yorker a few years ago. They illustrated that the US is usually at the kind of crossroads where Japan was two decades ago: Link: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-united
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> So far, he added, no new bears have come in with missing toes. Makes me feel happier. I work closely with animal conservation since last decade. Traps are seldom essential in E Asia. I can understand some are used in N America for game
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by srvmshr 4y ago
From the scant information, it is very likely this was one of the influencer gigs. People doing this should realize there is a very palpable network effect on everyone else not indulging. For the sake of own influencer livelihood, and just
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I have the same username as on Twitter. I admire your work and your journey. Thanks
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Talia, if this was all a misunderstanding from Jeff, then why was Timnit accusing Jeff for the longest possible time. I can understand Megan Kacholia was the main person in all this drama according to you, but the trolling/accusing tha
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I haven't kept track but the activism of the trio could be severe sometimes. (Anecdotally, I have faced a bite-sized brunt: When discussion surrounding this paper was going on in Twitter, I had mentioned in my timeline (in a neutral to
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That is sort of understood facts with even models like Copilot & ChatGPT. With the amount of information we are generally churning, all PII may not get scrubbbed. And these LLMs often could be running on unsanitized data - like a cache
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This is generally my feeling as well with the paper. You don't come out feeling "Voila! this tiny thing I learnt is something new", which does happen often with many good papers. Most of the paper just felt a bit anecdotal &a
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I am of the general understanding that this paper became less about the LLMs & more of a insinuating hit piece against Alphabet. At least, some of the controversial nuggets got Gebru (and later M Mitchell) fired. From a technical standp
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by srvmshr 4y ago
As someone who has collected stamps all my life (20,000+ & counting. Oldest being ~100 years), there is a wealth of wisdom and good examples in this article. Also I seem to have a few of these stamps, but the collection looks so great t
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by srvmshr 4y ago
In no particular order or preference: * Think Python 2nd Edition (or How to think like a computer scientist. More recently, "Learn python the right way" based on same book.) * Fluent Python 2nd Edition, Ramalho * Python Distilled,
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Then you're missing the contradiction. Average user won't pay for search, and paying tech-savvy user may not be convinced. I have nothing against their product - my critique is to improve their product showcase. I never knew point
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by srvmshr 4y ago
I never once mentioned the price point. My critique was about the accuracy of the results, and staleness of their showcase. If I would be a paying customer - be it $1 or $10/mo - I would expect it to be better than something I get for
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No offense again to the product. Please take this as positive criticism Please don't compare yourself to Google. Most people on HN are well aware that Google search has become a terrible baseline. DDG, appending Reddit to query etc., a
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Most of your arguments regarding resources are in general valid points, but when you are showcasing 3 results as selling points how hard is it to keep them updated. If you're not personally bothered by this showcase -- which is your pr
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It really bothers me that Kagi sample search is a canned response. If you would carefully look at "Best headphones" example, the reddit result card shows '2 days ago', whereas the link it points to is 7 months old. Simil
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Air India particularly has a terrible reputation in all my travel experience. It doesn't surprise me they were callous in responding to this horrible incident. I have had two incidents, albeit much lesser grievous, to share about their
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This is a privacy nightmare. Maybe its a cool project to think for OP, but these are real chats of people and the whole idea of E2E encryption & private nature of information is defeated the moment one indulges in such a webapp. There i
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by srvmshr 4y ago
Since you asked again: 1. https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/how-transistors-wo... 2. https://www.learnabout-electronics.org/Semiconductors/bjt_03... > The current suggestions include a full
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Good question: The proctor made me swivel my laptop webcam around the room to make sure I was alone. Even down & behind to check I wasn't holding anything in my lap. I was allowed one 10min break where cam & microphone were to
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" And who should you be to command me that, Mi'lord? " You are guilty of the very things you _presume_ I am doing: Gatekeeping . I have as much entitlement to expressing myself, as you, on this site if I am doing a construc
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2015. $120,000 in Verona, WI. Didn't take the offer when I was told I was going to be only writing M/UMPS. It felt like a career suicide path.
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> In other words, the DigiKey page fails to answer the question: How do transistors work, anyway? No, it is to first familiarize What is a transistor anyway? . If I had to teach Complex Analysis, I would start with a calculus refresher.
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> As far as I know, it's still some janky visualbasic UI with a M/UMPS backend (well w/ a modernization wrapper). You are correct. They haven't changed in last 20 years. Even in their coding tests, they write pseudo c
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> I think the Digikey page is a far worse introduction than the article. I started with a disclaimer: If you know nothing - absolute zero. If this was the first time you heard about it. And it does the thing its intended to do i.e. tel
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by srvmshr 4y ago
If I could think of anyone being Rick Sanchez (of Rick & Morty) in real life, it had to be Bob Widlar: Brash, extremely genius & mostly drunk.

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