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by eveningtree 15d ago
The point of speed is to increase throughput. What the point of all this speed, if overall throughput is still so low? This doesn't work for my use case at all (code generation). These bursts of speed might work well for workflows that
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by eveningtree 3mo ago
Rather than answering directly, I'm thinking about this problem from the other end altogether ever since I saw the dbricks rt demo. Apologies for the rambling response, as I haven't yet finished thinking about this problem... We e
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Ask HN: Why isn't light/dark mode triggered based on ambient light sensor?
1 points by eveningtree 4y ago|6 comments
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by eveningtree 4y ago
You're welcome. Also, keep in mind that the first month could be incredibly frustrating. (it was for me). Once you understand the industry meta, until you learn the tools, it may turn into an exercise of frustration management. But it
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by eveningtree 4y ago
It's mostly personal bias and circumstances. Data engineering and systems design are incredibly close. After some time, they completely mesh together. And from personal experience, the knowledge-volume to become practically potent is a
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by eveningtree 4y ago
Beyond the theory, if you are having trouble getting your hands dirty, here is the path I had taken for data engineering: (It is pretty hands on.) After you are done with the initial learning, find an academic machine learning discord or so
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by eveningtree 4y ago
Allow me to give you an internal perspective: Web development is hard. The individual parts are manageable, but bringing them together is a mess. We web developers are aware of this. It's like an open secret. And it takes time getting
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by eveningtree 4y ago
https://poignant.guide/ "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby" All right, this one is not purely technical. It's technical, but mixed with comics, art and a lot of personality. It is an old classic in the comm
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by eveningtree 4y ago
Mindfulness is something that emerges as a side-effect from meditation. Not something that you actively aim for. I'm going to have a lot of trouble putting it into words, since this is something I got from culture, and not from specifi
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by eveningtree 4y ago
I have a broader answer for this: By the very nature of solutions: a new company cannot beat google at general search. Google was and is search. Like a tree that has grown up and shadows the entire land around it. There will be random small
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by eveningtree 5y ago
Another beautifully explained piece on bézier curves is: The beauty of bézier curves by Fréya Holmer https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw Found this via a contest by Grant Sanderson, and it absolutely blew me away(and most people I
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by eveningtree 5y ago
I ended up using Pulsar music player, only because we were camping and a friend send me the apk via bluetooth (I was a spotify person before I started heavily going out). It simply worked for my old folderwise-kept mp3s etc, and it also dis