el_oni

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by el_oni 5mo ago
I wouldn't even say they make it fun, they make it "rewarding" they make it feel like you did something, but I feel worse after scrolling, like some vital essence has been drained from me. I can't find the motivation to
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by el_oni 7mo ago
We started doing sourdough in lockdown for 1 reason. The shops nearby were out of yeast. kinda limits your options
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Ask HN: What electrical engineering textbooks would you recommend?
1 points by el_oni 7mo ago|0 comments
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by el_oni 10mo ago
Beautiful, I'm currently deep into getting our data into iceberg from firehose and I'm really curious what metadata is written, are bloomfilters being written for the columns i want? Has my compaction and sort jobs helped min-max
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by el_oni 1y ago
They also point south. If you changed which end of the needle was painted red it would be just as useful for orienting to the south as existing compasses are for facing north
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by el_oni 1y ago
My partner and i used to harvest medlars from a community garden. We made medlar jelly from them when they had bletted. It kinda tasted like tea. Must be the tannins. We ended up making a sweet chilli sauce from it when we still hasnt eaten
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by el_oni 1y ago
There is a difference between dark roasts from a specialty coffee roaster and a dark roast from Starbucks. The specialty dark roast will have notes of cookies, chocolate, nuts. Lots of brown roasty flavour. Starbucks tastes bitter. With ver
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by el_oni 2y ago
Rustler catches panics before they crash the VM and raises them on the elixir side as an exception. So your process might crash but the vm wont
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by el_oni 2y ago
It's sufficiently well known that as a British 30 something I understood what was being alleged just from the headline
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by el_oni 2y ago
Very cool, this should help me to be able to separate my different testing environments. Thanks for sharing!
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by el_oni 2y ago
The boring company released a flamethrower[0] presumably to raise some capital. [0] https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
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by el_oni 2y ago
I've been using d2 recently [0] It's similar enough to mermaid but with the CLI you can output svg and png and have some decent looking diagrams. [0] https://d2lang.com/
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by el_oni 2y ago
Yeah, this would at least cause me to email my boss and say "Can you just confirm, you want me to transfer $25 million to this account? I'll hold off until you give me confirmation in writing" hell i do this if our tester has
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by el_oni 2y ago
I said python doesn't scale well and you say "it does if you use an escape hatch to a faster language" Sure. Writing C++ that utilises your resources effectively then writing bindings so you can use that in python is great. B
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by el_oni 2y ago
I think we need to give it time. Python had a slow and steady growth from 1991 until today and it has eaten so much of the data analysis and ML world (backed by C++, C and more recently Rust). But python doesn't vertically scale very w
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by el_oni 2y ago
You can read the transcript. It's over training syndrome, caused by too much training without enough rest. The athletes that try to push through struggle to perform as well.
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by el_oni 3y ago
P.s. to make that function an actual generator you could use yield from Instead of return
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by el_oni 3y ago
It depends what you are doing with the value. If you are going to iterate through some of the resulting thing but not all of it then the generator means you aren't throwing away a bunch of the work that you've done. It can also be
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by el_oni 3y ago
What other books did you read that you would recommend?
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by el_oni 3y ago
Like instead of the "free software movement" the "software freedom movement"
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by el_oni 3y ago
they like it because # title this is the paragraph is more natural to write than: <html> <head>...<head/> <body> <h1> title </h1> <p>this is the paragraph</p> </body>
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by el_oni 3y ago
and data structures. Theres a book called Algorithms + Datastructures = programs which i've heard good things about. I've also heard good things about 7 programming languages in 7 weeks, as well as crafting interpreters. The latte
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by el_oni 3y ago
unless it paints a target on your back
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by el_oni 3y ago
I had a series of interviews at a big pharma company that was like this. Multiple stages, conversations with team members,tech tests, psychology and aptitude tests. The only reason I turned the offer down is because they took several months
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by el_oni 3y ago
it depends what speed is most important to you. When i was a scientist, speed was getting the code written during my break, and if it took all afternoon to run that's fine because i was in the lab anyway. Even as i moved more into the
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by el_oni 3y ago
I think the thing with python is that it's always been "fast enough" and if not you can always reach out to natively implemented modules. On the flipside javascript was the main language embedded in web browsers. There has be
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by el_oni 3y ago
There is a tsoding daily video with hot code reloading in C [0]. He dicusses techniques for this. one of which is a "migration" approach, similar to database migrations. Where, for example, you have a version number in your struct
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by el_oni 3y ago
the only apps that i have with notifcations are, as you mentioned, instant messaging apps and apps that i'm using to build a habit (language learning, meditation that sort of thing). everything else is turned off
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by el_oni 3y ago
The creator, gingerbill, uses it to build real time flame and smoke rendering [0]. AFAIK they have vectors and matrices built into the stdlib as well as various graphics apis[1]. So I'd say from what I know the niche is "batteries
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by el_oni 3y ago
They have really great pensions and mat/paternity leave and those sorts of benefits. You get some lifers that work there but they also get a lot of contractors and people that leave after a few years for a private sector job with more

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