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by bittumenEntity 3mo ago
Definitely opened this thinking it would be a story of handing the keys to AI. Refreshing, simple and to the point
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by bittumenEntity 3mo ago
Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API
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by bittumenEntity 3mo ago
Isn't this somewhat the point of python's override capability? You can exactly define what addition means here, just like you have to define what addition means for a matrix or another data structure. Separately you might find thi
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by bittumenEntity 3mo ago
And a side note, R actually includes a pipe operator (as in Unix `|`), and said if they'd know about it at the time, they would have never used the `+` operator
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by bittumenEntity 3mo ago
It is! And that's kinda the point. Like others mention, this is inspired by ggplot2, a Grammar of Graphics library. The whole idea is graphics are composed by adding "layers", not like layers on a canvas, but like pouring p
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by bittumenEntity 4mo ago
Seems hard to give an answer to this that isn't just anecdotal. Certainly some died during COVID, but some came back to life! Perhaps the lesson from seeing a group die is that often the old organisers don't have the capacity for
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by bittumenEntity 7mo ago
It's an unpopular opinion, but I swear that cable ties are a far more effective problem solver than Jesus/duct/gaffers tape. I always bring tie, and never tape
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by bittumenEntity 8mo ago
Like the author says: > Linux is the preferred platform for development Honestly I'm surprised he was using a non unix system this long, I guess it kinda proves his point that switching costs can seem huge
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by bittumenEntity 2y ago
As I understand it, it's somewhat the opposite for internal resistance. You need to have current limiting in place because the internal resistance of the cell is turning that current into heat, and heat is the enemy of batteries. (Prob
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by bittumenEntity 2y ago
At the bottom of the article they mention that this was discouraged because they hadn't covered strings in the course yet
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by bittumenEntity 2y ago
Well, at least it does happen. More than I can say for a patriotic 4th of July
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by bittumenEntity 2y ago
Nice list, the but point 2 is a bit ironic, Australians don't celebrate 4th of July at all
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
I first heard of memray last week when Anthony Sottile covered it https://youtu.be/bw5AHdZA7e4?si=HCP1JQKXpkFCh7ul
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
Have you considered moving to the other address? /s
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
Git GUIs are a crutch, perhaps that's what your pupil needs right now, but not forever. Windows novices may not realise that git can be a local program contained in a folder, so making a repo to test how a verb works costs you nothing.
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
Yeah this really doesn't give anything more than the headline.
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
In my poorer student days, I actually used one of these (stye) as my primary writing chair in my home. If it's the right size for your shoulders and arms, it works quite well
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by bittumenEntity 3y ago
The fact that in the opening hook the author mistook the state of South Australia for a province just me doubt even more how close to reality this is.
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by bittumenEntity 4y ago
> some common geographic mental misplacement for continental United States residents