tronbabylove

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by tronbabylove 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. How do you handle historical backfill for new features? As in, some feature that can be updated in streaming fashion but whose initial value depends on data from the last X years, e.g., total # of courses co
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by tronbabylove 6y ago
I also don't have a strong opinion on Bitcoin, but the author's argument seems flawed. Yes, running power stations and manufacturing chips requires the protection of a government; yes, Bitcoin mining depends on the existence of po
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by tronbabylove 6y ago
I also find this shocking - 10% -> 30% seems like a massive change in ~100 years in the context of human evolution. Why does increased blood supply create such a large selection pressure? And what type of surgical procedure uses the medi
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by tronbabylove 6y ago
Someone tried to liberate Org from Emacs by writing a parser in Rust (see previous discussion on HN [1]), but it looks like the project died unfinished [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19660349 [2] https:&#x2F
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by tronbabylove 6y ago
I suspect a mandate to use Org could be counter-productive. One of Org's unique advantages is the pliability it has by virtue of running in Emacs. I doubt whether someone who was forced to use it would have the intrinsic motivation to
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by tronbabylove 6y ago
I was also there last night and agree with your friend. I didn't personally see anyone with a gun, no one asked me for ID, and no one tried to charge me an entrance fee. The vibe is a cross between a summer block-party and a music fest
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The history and future of Daylight Saving Time(andrewstahlman.com)
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by tronbabylove 8y ago
WebPerl looks cool. I wrote an interactive blog post [1] that guides the reader through an exercise in scraping log files using a series of Perl one-liners. I ended up delegating execution to a sandboxed Lambda function on the backend, but
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by tronbabylove 8y ago
And literate programming with org-babel! ( http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm... )
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by tronbabylove 9y ago
Great point - the benefits of automation can't always be reduced to time saved per operation. I wrote a blog post [1] about this in response to that xkcd. [1] https://andrewstahlman.com/posts/IsItWorthTheTime.html
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by tronbabylove 10y ago
How timely - I, too, got frustrated by the fact that org-babel src block evaluation is synchronous, so I built ob-async [1]. Rather than target a specific babel language, it aims to support any flavor of src block. It uses jwiegley's a