jdaw0

6 ms·

1.
by jdaw0 1y ago
my impetus for exploring it was that vim modal editing and keyboard navigation is just really clunky in the notebook integration. whether or not it's better for you depends on your use case for notebooks — i use them mostly for prototy
2.
by jdaw0 1y ago
i wanted to like marimo, but the best notebook interface i've tried so far is vscode's interactive window [0]. the important thing is that it's a python file first, but you can divide up the code into cells to run in the ju
3.
by jdaw0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/O9f3E
4.
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator(economist.com)
65 points by jdaw0 2y ago|72 comments
5.
by jdaw0 2y ago
just being left wing doesn't save a place from being a toxic cesspit [0] 0: https://bsky.app/profile/jdaw0.com/post/3ljyl6kbeys2a
6.
by jdaw0 2y ago
people stopped making these systems because they simply didn't work to solve the problem there's a trillion dollars in it for you if you can prove me wrong and make one that does the job better than modern transformer-based langua
7.
by jdaw0 3y ago
using discord for community and docs is a dead giveaway for whether a FOSS project is actually about FOSS principle or whether it's about chasing clout
8.
by jdaw0 3y ago
i'm really disappointed with the twitter alternatives. i thought one might feel like early twitter before the culture war takeover, but bsky and mastodon are just left wing hugbox versions of the same thing. threads is nothing but bran
9.
by jdaw0 3y ago
The main difference AFAIK is that it allows a custom site list, a feature the original version dropped at some point. I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean
10.
by jdaw0 3y ago
funny to me that this image has reached the level of mimetic saturation that you can infer exactly what the image is going to be without opening it. many such cases but i always think it's interesting.
11.
by jdaw0 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230716111757/https://www.ft.co...
12.
Thousands of Russian officials to give up iPhones over US spying fears(ft.com)
6 points by jdaw0 3y ago|2 comments
13.
by jdaw0 3y ago
I still hate this story. The difference is that the fisherman without a business empire is one bad week away from ruin and his entire family starving to death.
14.
Stanford Medical School Withdraws from U.S. News Ranking(wsj.com)
1 points by jdaw0 4y ago|0 comments
15.
by jdaw0 4y ago
>You would have thought that the people that most want to leave the site would welcome an alternative model that is specifically un-Twitter like. I don't think this part is right though. Most of the people looking for Twitter altern
16.
by jdaw0 4y ago
I think yours is a pretty common experience considering that Witcher 3 was a huge mass-market success and Witcher 1 was a niche product made both by and for insane people. I say this as a shameless Witcher 1 apologist.
17.
by jdaw0 4y ago
Here is the MIT Technology Review report the article is referencing but doesn't bother to actually link to: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/15/1059470/customer...
18.
by jdaw0 4y ago
Thanks. I spend a lot of time working around pretty thin data, so I'm always interested to hear how people think about extracting insights when you don't have the luxury of doing proper, robust experimental design or sophisticated
19.
by jdaw0 4y ago
I certainly don't think this is bad advice, but without some discussion of how to assess the strength of a signal or the appropriate reaction size, I'm not sure it's useful advice. Knowing not to overreact to weak signals