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by simeonf 10mo ago
Easy - homeschooling may include but does not require "in the home" any more than "homework" is required to be done in your house. I was homeschooled and have homeschooled my three kids. Never has that meant "only a
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by simeonf 2y ago
Gandalf says this in the movies, not in the book. However the descriptive language is drawn from Frodo's dream in the barrow downs and his experience sailing into west at the end of LOTR. > And then it seemed to him that as in his d
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by simeonf 3y ago
I'm still at the "making tongs from rebar" stage of my blacksmith career but I can probably explain somewhat: The machine is probably a power hammer. The pointy tool is a punch, used for making holes in the workpiece and ofte
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by simeonf 3y ago
I built a two-story straw bale house with lime exterior stucco and clay plaster on the interior walls. Many details in the house use reclaimed/salvaged lumber (fake box beams on the ceiling, deep window sills in every window, wood pane
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by simeonf 4y ago
Just getting back on the latest open source Python ecosystem after a long stint of mostly writing Python in a corporate mono-repo context with bespoke tooling. So far I like: - black autoformats my code swiftly - ruff is fast and repl
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by simeonf 4y ago
>Isn't this partially what you pay your architect for? If you're willing to pay top dollar you should be able to find one that's very hands on and coordinates the whole building process as your representative. It is amazin
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by simeonf 4y ago
Agreed on AFCI circuit breakers! They are now mandatory for all 15-20 amp light and plug circuits on new construction where I live - although breakers for large appliances do not require them. But I have several portable tools (eg a carpet
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by simeonf 4y ago
For context I built a straw bale home with a lime exterior plaster (carbon neutral on the long term scale) and clay interior plaster. The claimed R-value of the exterior walls is R44 and there is no thermal bridging due to the 20 inch walls
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by simeonf 4y ago
It's called DuckDuckGoose - see https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/twitter-ex...
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by simeonf 7y ago
I'm going again. Peter Norvig is keynoting!
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by simeonf 8y ago
Good job OSS terns!
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by simeonf 8y ago
If you are local to the Bay Area and can afford to take a weekday off this is a chance to take half or full day classes from cool instructors (Raymond Hettinger, Paige Bailey, Wes Chun, etc) in a bunch of areas where Python is used - ML, Da
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PyBay2018 Talks and Tutorials are up(pybay.com)
3 points by simeonf 8y ago|1 comments
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by simeonf 9y ago
This will be my second year attending - personally looking forwards to Rachel Thomas' talk on speeding up linear algebra with randomized SVD.
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by simeonf 10y ago
Interestingly this happened to me and to my younger brother. There was no racial component to it although we do belong to a religious minority, come from low-income backgrounds and were homeschooled. I personally felt some prejudice at vari
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What I Learned from Talks Selection for PyBay(pybay.com)
4 points by simeonf 10y ago|0 comments
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by simeonf 10y ago
I'm not the submitter but I am helping organize the conference. I help organize SF Python Meetup and we've talked about trying to run a mini-con for several years. We've finally gotten brave enough to try it this year. The CF
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by simeonf 10y ago
> I would not adventure to say state-of-the-art schedulers would not have been possible without Go, but for sure Go fits the requirements pretty well. AFAIK Mesos is mostly written in C++. Aurora - a Mesos framework & scheduler from
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by simeonf 10y ago
From the response https://www.brave.com/blogpost_4.html > Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the publishers' own websites and mobile applications with Brave's own advertisin
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by simeonf 11y ago
I expect the performance/parallelism complaints. It's interesting that the tl;dr also includes "packaging and distributing an app is a reason go > python". Python needs a .war format and I'd like to see more peop
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by simeonf 11y ago
You could use pex which bundles up python requirements into an executable zip. I ran $ virtualenv PEX (PEX) $ pip install pex (PEX) $ pex mycli -e mycli.main:cli -o mycli.pex (PEX) $ deactivate $ chmod +x mycli.pex
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by simeonf 11y ago
Worst xkcd ever. http://sealedabstract.com/rants/re-xkcd-1357-free-speech/ is a decent reply if less pithy.
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by simeonf 11y ago
I loved dragonbox and so did my daughters. I just bought lightbot jr for my 4 year old and tweeted a pic. He's currently muttering to himself and it's cracking me up - "Oh this one is hard. All you have to do is put an arrow.
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by simeonf 11y ago
I'm in one of these. It costs a lot less than $15K per year - but I don't live in the Bay Area. Our kids are enrolled in a charter school which helps with the state testing/state standards part and we pool resources with othe
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by simeonf 12y ago
You are factually incorrect. In North American usage a "public school" is a school open to the public and run on public funds (tax monies) instead of funded by charging students for access. A charter school is just an independentl
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by simeonf 12y ago
Sentence two of the expert advice is propaganda. >The majority of these stories praise charters, while often demeaning public schools. Charter schools are public schools - they are just less regulated ones.
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by simeonf 13y ago
(I work at twitter but don't have anything to do with account security, etc) I think something is in the works...
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by simeonf 13y ago
>Nope. The writer sounds misinformed and is spreading FUD. >I have successfully used Python's threads to perform concurrent database fetches, http page getters, file uploads in parallel. Yes, there was almost linear speedup. It's no
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by simeonf 13y ago
I can't believe I'm saying this on HN (where I would like to see less political discussion, not more) but having a different cultural and political viewpoint does not make somebody a bigot. The constant assertion that it does is bullying -
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by simeonf 13y ago
You might try googling^H^H^H^H^H duckducking the phrase "If only Stalin knew!"

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