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by notinventedhear 3y ago
One nice quality of life improvement for i3 is update the window names dynamically and use emojis for applications https://github.com/cboddy/i3-workspace-names-daemon
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We’ve discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it’s not for us(theguardian.com)
3 points by notinventedhear 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Can you recommend any resources for staff engineer starting management?
1 points by notinventedhear 4y ago|1 comments
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by notinventedhear 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! Just curious if you're interested in an incubator? We went through the Oxford Foundry[1] last year and would highly recommend it. [1] https://www.oxfordfoundry.ox.ac.uk/
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by notinventedhear 6y ago
> '''"""''';print("Hello, World!");"""'''""" This is still one line of code. It is a valid python program . This is because python will j
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by notinventedhear 6y ago
Also super bored in lockdown so I made this for our toddler, motivation here: https://boddy.im/song-and-spell.html
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Show HN: Song and Spell – play audio on a Raspberry-PI 400 without a screen(github.com)
1 points by notinventedhear 6y ago|1 comments
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by notinventedhear 6y ago
From 4 years in a large public quant house (not HFT): everything upstream of trade execution is Python with very heavy use of numpy, scipy and pandas. This has pros and cons, on balance I'd prefer a better type system, but that everyon
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
I was _so_ excited when Rocket League first came to Linux, but that was several years before Proton[1] was released. But according to [2] the game runs really well on Linux via Proton. Personally, I don't see any problem using Proton t
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We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers(theguardian.com)
227 points by notinventedhear 7y ago|255 comments
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
# 2GB linode instance ($10/month) nginx mailinabox (email, nextcloud) gogs 6 static websites 3 (dumb) little personal web-projects selfoss mumble openvpn # rpi-3 at home osmc (kodi) + 8TB of raided HDDs nginx
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
TimescaleDB looks really very promising but this is a red flag: "Hypertables support all standard PostgreSQL constraint types, with the exception of foreign key constraints on other tables that reference values in a hypertable"[1]
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
Very excited by the prospect of a modern terminal-mail client that is easier to use! After following the README: this is clearly not ready/designed for wide consumption - the recipe neglects to mention how to install a custom doc-tool
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
I see the same from London.
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
Yes that's true, rlwrap gives you command history on top of sqlplus which makes it much more usable. Actually, okcli started off as rlwrap with a complicated login file that queried the schema. But if you do that you can't use add
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by notinventedhear 7y ago
For a broad introduction to Bayesian analysis, MCMC and PyMC I'd suggest Bayesian Methods for Hackers[1] [1] http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...
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by notinventedhear 8y ago
+1 for NO_COLOR. For example, yellow text on a dull yellow background? No thanks. For years I've just wrapped commands on bash to strip the colour control-codes from stdout. function monochrome() { "$@" | sed -r "s&#x
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by notinventedhear 9y ago
Yeesh, there's so much involved. I've been running my own mail server with https://mailinabox.email for ~2 years and can heartily recommend it. Still, even with that there are gotchas if you want to be able to send mes
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by notinventedhear 9y ago
Probably since ctrl-a is a well-loved bash shortcut for goto start-of-line.
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by notinventedhear 9y ago
I've found keeping a software-engineering logbook very useful at work. Recommend the vim-wiki plugin for this https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki; in any vim-window the logbook for today is accessible via [leader-W
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Vim plugins and config walkthrough(boddy.im)
37 points by notinventedhear 9y ago|23 comments
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by notinventedhear 10y ago
Very cool, but why not use lynx?
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by notinventedhear 10y ago
This looks really useful, although it doesn't seem to have a dashboard for showing the aggregated results from multiple running daemons.
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by notinventedhear 11y ago
https://www.duckdns.org/ Duckdns took about 10 minutes to get an access token and setup a cron-job on my raspberry-pi. After ~ 12 months it's worked without issue. Also, FWIW British Telecom only seem to update my IP
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by notinventedhear 11y ago
Also agree with the combination of Play + Scala for flexibility and ease of use.
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by notinventedhear 11y ago
My best time-savers: alias ff="find . -iname" alias size="du -h --max-depth=1" alias latest="ls -lt |head" alias orly='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'