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Officially canceling our Anthropic plan, it's [too expensive](twitter.com)
8 points by jamesliudotcc 4mo ago|4 comments
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by jamesliudotcc 6mo ago
There is this free book, https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ , which is also available in print for O'Reilly. Manning has https://www.manning.com/books/unit-testing .
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by jamesliudotcc 6mo ago
The link is wrong. It should be https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1... @dang
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by jamesliudotcc 9mo ago
As for Calibri, even Microsoft has moved on. They designed a successor font family for even better readability, and that happened before the State Department changed to Calibri. It also has serif variants. https://microsoft.desig
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by jamesliudotcc 9mo ago
The worst is Times New Roman text with Calibri page numbers. A sure sign somebody never learned how to use Microsoft Word.
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by jamesliudotcc 9mo ago
The Warren Commission report was set in Century Schoolbook, the Supreme Court's typeface of choice. The appendices are photo reproductions of originals produced on typewriters, so they are in something monospaced. You can see for yours
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
It's worse than that. > After the earthquake Google's researchers changed the algorithm, and simulated the first earthquake again. > This time, the system generated 10 million Take Action alerts to those at most risk – and a
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
Not out of the question after a week of Cursor just absolutely torching goodwill
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
Nothing for certain, but yes. The IP payout is to give the investors something.
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
It's a local NYC news channel. They are subject to this effect: https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/view-of-the-world-... Except they don't even see that far, since not even neighboring New Jersey seems
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Announcing Think Linear Algebra(allendowney.com)
3 points by jamesliudotcc 1y ago|1 comments
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
Only a draft chapter for now, but this could be very interesting.
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
Or, consider that the causation could have been the other way around. The EPO could have made him more susceptible to cancer. There is a mountain of evidence that the drug cheating was systematic. You can read The Secret Race, or draw your
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
HtDP was written to address difficulties with learning from SICP https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-... I have gotten much farther (and accordingly learned more from HtDP). It is
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by jamesliudotcc 1y ago
In the Flatpak episode, he rolls his eyes and states, "I'm not taking advice from a cartoon dog!" The episode is mostly about how Bluey takes after the parents in a game where she's raising Bingo through adulthood while
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
Asus makes a gaming tablet with a 13 inch screen with a 128GB of unified RAM on the new AMD Strix Point. I agree that MacBook is not an option. I have a work MacBook and it has better silicon, ok, but I hate being on a Mac. Just not for me.
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
I feel what you're describing very viscerally. I have tried so many times as an adult to finally get linear algebra. Worked my way through Strang to eigenvalues and eigenvectors repeatedly. Still feel like I am failing to see something
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
Maybe your problem is Stewart? I used that textbook and was successful, but it's not for everyone. For example, beginning calculus with limits is another bit of misguided conventional wisdom. I still don't get limits, really. Serg
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Robotics 101 at UMich: Applied numerical linear algebra as intro linear algebra(robotics.umich.edu)
296 points by jamesliudotcc 2y ago|73 comments
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
No, of course not, but credentialism.
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
> According to a new Gallup poll, Americans are losing the thread with higher education. Confidence in college has taken a nosedive, with one out of three poll responders claiming they have “little or no confidence” in higher education.
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by jamesliudotcc 2y ago
And there is plenty of bad philosophy out there. At a first approximation, avoid anything to do with the continental side of the analytical/continental divide. I say this as someone with a BA in philosophy from an analytic institution
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
I've used it on Mac on my work machine for a year-plus now. Now the wait is finally over for personal. Thanks for all your hard work on this!
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
Fluent Python is superb. Definitely not the Intros for a desk reference.
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
You have to know yourself a little to decide between free Youtube university and bootcamp. I think of myself as a self-starter, but at some point, I had plateaued in my learning and needed some fresh momentum. Could I have kept learning on
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How to keep coding bootcamps relevant in 2024(james07.bearblog.dev)
1 points by jamesliudotcc 3y ago|0 comments
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
On par with US wages.
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
My company uses [Remotely]( https://www.remotely.works/ ). They source talent across Latin America (mostly Brazil, but other countries as well). Expect to pay well for the best talent (obviously). My coworkers sourced through
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
Yes. Five years ago, I tried to use an eink tablet with Android to consume the O'Reilly Android app. It tried to animate the page transitions, so it would refresh multiple times for a page flip, making it unusable. It would take most o
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by jamesliudotcc 3y ago
I've known two people who have suffered from actual carpal tunnel syndrome, as opposed to milder forms of RSI, and both were in food service--a chef and a barista. Picture flipping food on saute pans five hours a night or pulling porta

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