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by vforgione 6d ago
What led to that conclusion? Genuinely curious.
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by vforgione 19d ago
Use what you thinking is the best fit for the job. I’ve been using Python as my workhorse for 15+ years. I recently made a backend for a chat bot using C#, and I have to admit that I liked a lot of it. I’ve also made some non-trivial things
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by vforgione 3mo ago
I am not optimistic about the future. I am very worried about what kind of world my kids are inheriting. Their grandparents’ generation doesn’t seem to give a flying fuck so long as their standard of living continuously improves. My grandpa
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Anthropic digs in heels in dispute with Pentagon(reuters.com)
47 points by vforgione 7mo ago|2 comments
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by vforgione 7mo ago
When I read this article the other day I had the exact same thought. Is this simply correlation, or is it causation? Is teenage usage an indicator of a possible underlying condition that hasn’t fully manifest? Is it an early form of self me
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by vforgione 10mo ago
I’ve been using the django-tasks library in production for about a year. The database backend and simple interface have been great. It definitely isn’t intended to replace all of celery, but for a simple task queue that doesn’t require addi
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by vforgione 2y ago
While I don’t disagree, there are a number of additional stub libraries you can install that provide typing for libraries that don’t already have them. I personally find [django-types]( https://pypi.org/project/django-ty
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by vforgione 3y ago
Fabric may eat some of the descriptive analytics portion of Databricks’ lunch, but for core data engineering workflows there is nothing in the Fabric—or Synapse or Power BI—ecosystem that comes close. There are other fatal flaws to the Spar
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Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI(reuters.com)
914 points by vforgione 3y ago|1214 comments
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Ask HN: Backup and Restore Plans
2 points by vforgione 8y ago|0 comments
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by vforgione 8y ago
On iOS there’s an app called Exchange Blocker that does exactly this.
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by vforgione 8y ago
I was so excited when Quantum was released. I used it exclusively and was happy with the performance. Then Mozilla started back dooring ads and other promos and broke my trust. I’ve since gone back to Chrome. At least there Google has the d
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Try Naming Anger to Tame It(npr.org)
3 points by vforgione 8y ago|0 comments
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by vforgione 8y ago
Buon Natale!
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by vforgione 8y ago
The Array of Things is an experimental urban sensing project. Over the last few years we've been working on developing the hardware and software and this past year we've ramped up our data accessibility applications. We've re
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Array of Things Releases APIs for Chicago Data(medium.com)
3 points by vforgione 8y ago|1 comments
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by vforgione 8y ago
I find it useful for new projects. It allows me to define acceptance of core functionality and features. For established projects, not so much. This is especially true for people new to the project as they typically don’t yet know the full
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by vforgione 8y ago
I was a developer there, not a writer, but this kind of mentality was so basic to the entire company. It reinforces a great deal of humility -- not just in your work but as a person.
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by vforgione 8y ago
I worked at The Onion a few years ago. The content teams there were some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career. This is an upsetting story. Despite so much upheaval in print an
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by vforgione 9y ago
That’s not even close to what I was getting at. If you are interested in someone there are a million non threatening, non aggressive ways to signal it. If it’s purely sexual the same applies. If the other person wants the same they will mak
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by vforgione 9y ago
No. It wasn’t meant to come off like that. I was responding to the context of the story. It doesn’t matter who it is. If someone wants to be intimate they will clearly signal it.
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by vforgione 9y ago
If a woman wants to touch you, she will. End of story.
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Ask HN: Google Apps with Ad Blocking
2 points by vforgione 9y ago|1 comments
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by vforgione 9y ago
> proximity to large population centers The Chicago metro area has almost 9.5 million residents, 2.8 in the city proper. The larger Great Lakes Basin, depending on how you look at it, has anywhere from 35 to 60 million residents. > ch
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by vforgione 9y ago
Not really, no. Especially in cities and immediate suburbs, the Midwest has diversity and is welcoming of new people. Maybe you should come to Chicago or Cleveland or Columbus or Milwaukee sometime and see for yourself.
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by vforgione 9y ago
This is excellent! I appreciate how much detail you’ve put into this. Could you recommend any specific sources I or anyone else on the team could read about how best to work with and protect this kind of data?
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by vforgione 9y ago
Agreed. I was frowning at the editing error: NASA instead of NSA. Kind a massive miss on that one.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Branding my friend... it's all in the branding :) If you're interested in the project, feel free to contact me (info in profile).
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by vforgione 9y ago
AoT is still experimental and we don't have a wide array of nodes installed across the city. The majority of the consumers of the data thus far have been researchers at Argonne and UChicago. The City of Chicago is, obviously, our main
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by vforgione 9y ago
Right now there isn't any data being reported by our test nodes about traffic (people or vehicles) near a given node, but some ideas have been floated regarding how to get a read on pedestrian and vehicle density. We're not sure h

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