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by tonto 4y ago
I think perhaps this (learngenomics.dev) resource is a little too shallow on some levels, but has interesting depth in odd places. I think there is a need to get users up to speed with things like the SAM format, which is very fundamental t
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by tonto 4y ago
Native Americans as well as others have used acorns for flour and such https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn
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by tonto 4y ago
mpeg-g to me is probably bad for the field. sam/bam/cram is the way of the present and mpeg-g offers little over these formats and is patent encumbered. xref samtools developer blog http://datageekdom.blogspot.com/
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by tonto 4y ago
it is a meme that bioinformatics is just about converting different file formats but it's a shallow take
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by tonto 4y ago
It's not something I built necessarily but my stack overflow account, which I've only posted on about 100-200 times, says my answers have been viewed by 5.4 million people. Anyone with a stackoverflow account can check this in th
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by tonto 4y ago
denial of service can exploit some memory leaks i imagine
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by tonto 4y ago
maybe interesting: the obj destructuring may be a bit faster than array destructuing (and not destructuring at all is sometimes a bit faster too). setup a small benchmark here https://jsbench.me/eolakmvsor/1 just stori
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by tonto 4y ago
I had a hard time learning react. I was a reasonably proficient developer but really struggled. Reading "learning react" (O'Reilley) really helped me. Not sure if it's what I'd recommend to others but reading it, of
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by tonto 4y ago
please don't use disgust to try to explain your opinion, it's gross and appeals to base emotions
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by tonto 4y ago
I remember calling goog411 with my dumb phone...good times
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by tonto 4y ago
this one hits home for me because I do work in academia where funding goes kaput frequently and I do have to agree on some level. Some of the most stable and popular tools in my field have few to zero dependencies and are written in c... bi
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by tonto 4y ago
>overload existing code with additional functions when feasible, rather than starting a new project from scratch. why? are you making a jab at small packages? ill just rant on that and say i think small packages are great. they are extre
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by tonto 4y ago
this repo keeps track of various benchmarks on a data grid type app https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark eventually you may need to create "virtualized scrolling" (e.g. only rendering a subset o
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by tonto 4y ago
lsp-zero is a good way to get a completion running without configuring many plugins...it installs several of the above.
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by tonto 4y ago
everyone has a choice in taking on those dependencies. as a solo dev you get to make those choices. In the context of work, it is harder because you have to balance many other needs from technical to just the human squishy feeling of makin
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by tonto 4y ago
That is a lua expression I believe (which only works in neovim, hence this plugin being neovim only), you can convert your vimrc to init.lua or make a lua block in your vimrc. The "lua<<EOF" method is common in vimrc xref h
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by tonto 4y ago
have you considered any search methods that are too big for memory or at least want to avoid making the user wait to download, but doesn't require a dynamic server backend?
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by tonto 4y ago
may have been related to Russia blocking GitHub in their country for hosting suicide pages https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-ge...
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by tonto 4y ago
for what it's worth, I think you summarized the situation fairly accurately, but it's unclear what feeling you intend to convey with your comment other than to inflame readers emotionally
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by tonto 4y ago
says the person posting in a fairly toxic manner
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by tonto 4y ago
Also fun: test your intuition on the speed of basic operations https://computers-are-fast.github.io/
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by tonto 4y ago
your premise is that it's not being sold right but maybe you just need more people to give their perspective. I might be considered a research software engineer in the US. In my job, I get paid (well) to develop open source software fo
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by tonto 4y ago
A very fun way to have this, tmux status bar weather! `set -g status-left '#(curl "wttr.in/YourTown?u&format=3")'`. This way you can always see the latest :)
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by tonto 4y ago
The comparison to desktop native is interesting because you could also just not style everything to hell with css and...there you are, you are native styled with the web
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by tonto 4y ago
had a similar experience (not with the webcam specifically but generally with their pre-installed Ubuntu 18). the system they shipped out with pre-installed Ubuntu 18 was really troublesome and would not sleep properly and would go 100% CPU
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by tonto 4y ago
why do you think after 36 years, its htmx that is changing things
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by tonto 4y ago
my personal worry, could be unjustified, but SSR seems to be much less secure compared to plain old client side stuff. sure, static client side is less seo friendly but...not going to compromise your servers! considering the fast moving and
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by tonto 5y ago
I think I donated to ya once :) nice work
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by tonto 5y ago
is there a blog part of the site? maybe I'm missing. like the minimalism
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by tonto 5y ago
recently ported old blog to github pages using nextjs ssg, plus has an rss feed https://cmdcolin.github.io/ (post on how I made it https://cmdcolin.github.io/posts/2021-12-26-nextjs )

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