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by vegabook 2y ago
I live between France and the UK. How do I move my iCloud account out of Britain?
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by vegabook 2y ago
Error JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data worked second try though. Classic non determinism meets deterministic expectations.
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by vegabook 2y ago
It doesn't have a REPL which is strange for a BEAM VM language.
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by vegabook 2y ago
See: intel / iphone
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by vegabook 2y ago
Configuration is a hard problem as evidenced by all continuous reinvention of configuration formats (YAML TOML XML etc). They're all "simplified" and that's why they fail at more advanced use cases. Once you get over a f
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by vegabook 2y ago
Like a mac?
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by vegabook 2y ago
It turns out, my bad and I apologise, that although 10e6 x 1e3 FP32 fits well within 96GB of RAM, during the np.random.rand initialization phase intermediate allocations mean we go to about 32GB of swap files. These only get cleared if more
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by vegabook 2y ago
Just tried usearch against ol’ faithful np.dot, and found the latter to be 8x faster than usearch on 10m brute force scan as described in their readme [1] for top 50 matches. Identical output result. 1.74 seconds for numpy and around 12 sec
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by vegabook 2y ago
> poetry: 0.99 seconds Good enough for me and sans VC risk.
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by vegabook 2y ago
You were anything but “randomly born in your country”. You are most likely the latest branch in a sedentary tree rooted both geographically and culturally for centuries, and without that tree you certainly wouldn’t exist. This doesn’t mean
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by vegabook 2y ago
Soon you’ll have to pay extra for that. “Introducing Faraday Cage Class…”
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by vegabook 2y ago
NixOS really makes Ubuntu (and all the other distros) feel old though. I mean I _love_ Ubuntu, and I’ve used it faithfully for 12 years, but once you get used to Nix, and granted, it’s tough, but it’s just an absolute revelation in terms of
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by vegabook 2y ago
Interchangeable cookie-cutter coder availability is Finance's number one priority. Definitely no room for critical pricers or infra written in languages that they can't frictionlessly slot someone else into as people leave. So pyt
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by vegabook 2y ago
looks like t-SNE projection
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by vegabook 2y ago
Indeed. But one possibility is that these are rate of change charts and that that crucial fact was omitted.
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by vegabook 2y ago
yeah but hang on. Why are these charts going down? Is it because questions and answers are actively being _removed_? Or is this a first-derivative of [answer/question] count ie the rate of change? In which case a) this should be clearl
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by vegabook 2y ago
What's the latest talk on the timing for the scheme-based scripting language?
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by vegabook 2y ago
A constrained environment forces developers to distill to the essence of the problem, thereby possibly understanding it better. It's the old "simple can be harder than complex" attributed to Steve Jobs.
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by vegabook 2y ago
The whole idea of the yield curve is that you (generally) get compensated for that risk with higher rates. That is why (outside of crises) the yield curve is upward sloping. It follows that if you buy shorter dated T-bills or bonds, the liq
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by vegabook 2y ago
Nix first class citizen via `nix-shell`. Nice.
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by vegabook 2y ago
Recently found Shazam is less accurate - somehow soundhound is giving me better results. On Shazam I'm getting a lot of results from Asian musical traditions which is great, if it wasn't the wrong song. Maybe they need to improve
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by vegabook 2y ago
Agreed. When writing the comment I returned seconds later and added the word "interactive".
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by vegabook 2y ago
Reductio ad absurdum: we should all just use an interactive assembler. Then you really are "in the context". There is a level of abstraction that makes sense. What level that is is dependent on your objectives.
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by vegabook 2y ago
Now all it needs is more memory bandwidth, because those two memory channels on the consumer AM5 socket are pathetic given the compute this will deliver, and especially in comparison with even the most basic ASi. I moved to an M2 Max from a
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by vegabook 2y ago
Clearly the Python 2 to 3 war was so traumatising (and so badly handled) that the core Python team is too scared to do the obvious thing, and call this Python 4. This is a big fundamental and (in many cases breaking) change, even if it&#x27
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by vegabook 2y ago
This is an indictment of Lisa Su's own ROCm strategy. An implicit admission of failure, without explicitly admitting it. I predict this acquisition will cause even more software schizophreny inside AMD as multiple conflicting teams pin
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by vegabook 2y ago
The PC was already ginormous in its own right way before the internet came along though. Not to say the internet didn't propel it again an order of magnitude but it didn't need the internet to become huge.
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by vegabook 2y ago
Base graphics are also _massively_ faster than ggplot when data sizes get larger. To the extent that ggplot essentially becomes unusable.
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by vegabook 2y ago
lol AMD flogged its floundering foundry waaay before Intel ran into any problems. in fact most of your points about AMD's lack of dough can be traced back to that disaster. The company wasn't hit by some meteorite. It screwed up a
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by vegabook 2y ago
Summary: AMD works if you spend 500m USD+ with them. Then they'll throw an army of their own software engineers into the contract who will hold your hand every step of the way, and remove all the jank for you. By contrast, since at lea

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