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Kunal Shah to head WhatsApp; Meta invests nearly $1B in Cred(moneycontrol.com)
2 points by satyanash 3mo ago|0 comments
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by satyanash 9mo ago
On Firefox, newlines in code blocks are broken for this website. This causes the page to scroll horizontally to accommodate all the code blocks. The code is all wrapped in a single line.
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by satyanash 1y ago
> "Please drink a verification can to continue"
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by satyanash 1y ago
> narrative only got picked up because people needed a reason to demonize evil corps Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant. Keeping a
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by satyanash 1y ago
> having positive branching first This is advice I've never seen or received. It's always been the latter, exit early, etc. Languages like Swift even encode this into a feature, a la if guards.
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by satyanash 1y ago
> MY ONBOARD WIFI STILL DOESN’T WORK, I had to buy an external USB WiFi adapter. Thanks for nothing DriverHub. All this, for literally nought
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by satyanash 1y ago
> Prepare to make final mean final missed opportunity to call it "final final"
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by satyanash 2y ago
While it has CSV download, the schema is quite unusable. Someone have a cleaner dataset?
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by satyanash 2y ago
Full title is " You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths " Omission of trailing part changes the meaning and makes it clickbaity.
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by satyanash 2y ago
> "Why did you decide to merge Keras into TensorFlow in 2019": I didn't! The decision was made in 2018 by the TF leads -- I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision. The TF team was huge at the time, 50+ people,
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by satyanash 2y ago
> Optimising for the wrong metric, and what do about it, is an important issue. All metrics are wrong, some metrics are useful. Finding the useful one and then recognising when it ceases to become useful is the hard problem.
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Snowflake removes Spark Pushdown support in favour of Snowpark(github.com)
3 points by satyanash 2y ago|1 comments
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by satyanash 2y ago
Spark's Advanced Query Pushdown feature automatically ensures that all possible filters and aggregations are performed on the underlying warehouse instead of being performed in-memory. In [PR#572]( https://github.com/sno
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by satyanash 2y ago
No talk of the license on the frontpage. Visiting the GitHub repo tells me it is 2-clause BSD license. It's high time we had a GPLv3 web browser, otherwise, this risks the same fate as the rest of the browsers with proprietary forks. T
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by satyanash 3y ago
Just because these hostnames point to FB IP addresses does not mean they're owned and operated by FB. > 0-1.fb.me > 0-7.fb.me > ... This lists a bunch of subdomains, ideally only the second-level domain names
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by satyanash 3y ago
You don't have to know Ruby for this to be useful to you. The tool converts markdown to roff files.
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by satyanash 3y ago
This is quite useful for training people quickly and understanding how certain parts of the python `typing` module work. Thanks for making this.
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by satyanash 3y ago
looks like the bible invented kubernetes/declarative definition before it was a thing
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by satyanash 3y ago
for emacs, there is obsidian.el - https://github.com/licht1stein/obsidian.el
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by satyanash 4y ago
> Consider git – it only ships the diffs, yet it produces whole and consistent repositories. IIRC git does _not_ ship diffs. It copies whole files even for the tiniest change. The compression layer handles the de-duping, which is a diffe
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by satyanash 4y ago
use git notes for attaching information to important commits, after the fact , without altering their SHA
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by satyanash 4y ago
> Allocate four digits for the year part of the date: a new millenium is coming -- David Martin, Norristown Pennsylvania 2038 is 15 years away right now; this article was published 15 years before 2000.
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by satyanash 4y ago
> I'm essentially a believer in You Aren't Gonna Need It — the principle that you should add features to your software — including generality and abstraction YAGNI is not a principle. It is a contextual thumb rule. A codificati
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by satyanash 5y ago
from TFA: > Perhaps the only language I've used which translates well both for terse REPLs and lengthier scripts is LISP. Why not just use a lisp then?
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by satyanash 5y ago
> Python is such a joy to write Try out Ruby: so many Python syntax decisions make no sense after you see the Ruby way.
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by satyanash 5y ago
This looks like a large scale domain modelling problem for the movie production process. This is the last place I was expecting an overlap between computer engineering and film-making. But it is not surprising given that large parts of film
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by satyanash 5y ago
> Signal and Telegram seem to be the popular alternatives taking your own argument into account, using "popular alternatives" is probably not the right criteria here. Telegram is not E2E by default, so the name shouldn't e
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by satyanash 5y ago
the transition from pulseaudio -> pipewire was pretty matter-of-fact. A great example of things done right.
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by satyanash 5y ago
> This person really just needs to lean into Emacs harder. hehe, +1 leaning into it harder means understanding it better, the internals, why it works and why it does things the way it does. Now only if our phones were lisp machines.
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by satyanash 5y ago
I think an important part is being able to understand the (non-intuitive) relation between fear and anxiety. Anxiety is the fear of things that are perceived as immediate existential threats, when they are in reality anything but. This is w

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