rla3rd

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by rla3rd 6mo ago
What a bunch of BS. The price of a commodore 64 from 1980's is over $4K in todays dollars. $4K buys a pretty decent workstation these days.
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by rla3rd 8mo ago
for spark
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by rla3rd 1y ago
Wagtail CMS, built on top of django. https://wagtail.org/
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by rla3rd 3y ago
yet another model using the stanford alpaca dataset, what a waste of time.
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by rla3rd 4y ago
if you want to subject yourself to a possible round worm parasite infection, sure, go ahead. Me,I’d rather not.
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by rla3rd 4y ago
You can pick up a Lenovo P1 Gen 2 with decent specs for about 1000 to 1500 on ebay. Max ram is 64MB and usually comes with an i7. The battery life isnt great if it has a built in Nvidia quadro card, I get about 4 hours. I bought it to be
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by rla3rd 4y ago
I did the opposite, collected a bunch of salaries for my experience level on levels.fyi, showed them to my boss, and asked for a raise. Got a 50K bump without having to do much. I'm only in the mid 200s TC mind you, but not bad for ju
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by rla3rd 5y ago
fiscal policy changed forever in 1971 when nixon took us off the gold standard
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by rla3rd 5y ago
idk, for me dask was more of a pain to set up than a single node spark cluster, and now that databricks has added a fully compatible pandas api to pyspark, there is even less reason for me to use dask locally.
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by rla3rd 5y ago
next up, a highly opinionated language called "Karen"!
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by rla3rd 5y ago
this!
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by rla3rd 6y ago
short interest is typically only disseminated by the exchanges once a month
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by rla3rd 6y ago
only if you are installing the packages simultaneously. it still does the wrong thing if it conflicts with a package already installed
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by rla3rd 6y ago
and yet the code is still in pypi for any developer to use...
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by rla3rd 6y ago
i'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Thinkpad P2 Gen 2 laptop, using the Budgie Desktop. I'd guess my entire workflow is 95% the same coming from my MBP.
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by rla3rd 7y ago
not hacking. having access to an audio feed over a video feed that requires buffering is hardly news. kudos to whoever realized that you could get the information faster over audio when the information was released at the same time across
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by rla3rd 7y ago
with online computing where is the line drawn for employee vs employer equipment? lets say i have a personal aws account and i ssh into an ec2 instance, but use my employers laptop to access it to have the information displayed. The same ca
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JPMorgan's Athena has 35M lines of Python 2 code, and won't be updated in time(techrepublic.com)
9 points by rla3rd 7y ago|3 comments
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by rla3rd 8y ago
I really would like to see something like Bloomberg's OpenFIGI take the place of cusips, but its not nearly as widely used. https://www.openfigi.com/ The api does allow you to convert from cusip though.
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by rla3rd 8y ago
In my neighborhood, 80% of the lawns are maintained by landscapers, we need battery powered lawn tools to be commercially viable in order to put a dent in the use of gas tools. I have a commercial grade gas landscaping mower myself. I tri
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by rla3rd 8y ago
I tried Evernote, One note and simple note, then settled on zim http://zim-wiki.org/ It even works on OSX but i had to build it via brew
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by rla3rd 8y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste... https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Elixir-1-3-Functional-Con... https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Python-Techniques-Pr..
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by rla3rd 9y ago
Am I the only one? or do some people just have way to much time on their hands for thinking shit like this up. I'd rather live my life than not exist.