urschrei

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by urschrei 5mo ago
That hasn't really been the case for a while imo: Martin works at Google and is paid to work on jj (there are also other Google employees who contribute, not sure whether they're paid to). jj is in use (wide use? No idea) alongsid
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by urschrei 6mo ago
I resurrected the Rust Herbie lint (now using dylint) a while ago: https://github.com/urschrei/herbie-lint
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by urschrei 7mo ago
My partner is an artist and she absolutely loves this. For a start, it's a lottery. 2000 people who meet very broad but generally fair eligibility criteria ( https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communication
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by urschrei 7mo ago
Hexagons do tile the Euclidean plane perfectly. They are the largest of the three n-gons that do so.
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by urschrei 8mo ago
Another approach is to teach Claude Code how to use your Zotero library's full-text search: https://github.com/urschrei/zotero_search_skill .
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by urschrei 1y ago
> A side effect of the geometry simplication is that there are some very small gaps between states. Based on your use case, you'll need to handle the case of the point not being within any state borders. In these rare cases, you cou
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by urschrei 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's correct to say that GEOS isn't particularly sophisticated. A lot of (certainly not all) GEOS algorithms are now ported from JTS, the primary author of which is Martin Davis (aka Dr JTS), who works at Crunc
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by urschrei 2y ago
I'm not a regular Zed user, but this isn't true: I simultaneously ran the Ruff and Pyright LSPs when I used it last week.
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by urschrei 2y ago
You are confused or wrong, and you are making incorrect assertions about a system "lying" to you on that basis: you can see this for yourself by typing `jj git init` (or just `jj init`) in an empty directory, touching some files,
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The final BangBangCon conference takes place in August 2024(bangbangcon.com)
2 points by urschrei 2y ago|1 comments
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by urschrei 2y ago
!!Con (pronounced “bang bang con”) 2024 is the last ever !!Con event, featuring two days of talks to celebrate the joyous, exciting, and surprising moments in computing. It takes place on the weekend of August 24-25, in the courtyard of the
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by urschrei 2y ago
Agreed. As someone who often advocates for the use of Rust to speed up perf-sensitive Python functions (and in particular, in the GIS domain), this sounds like they haven't fully understood the problem or thought about how to solve it
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by urschrei 2y ago
I see two sibling comments with reports of patchy reliability, so I'll note that it's been rock-solid for me (multiple daily deploys every weekday) since I last commented on it (about a year ago?)
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by urschrei 3y ago
From the site: UPDATE: Previously, Apple announced plans to remove the Home Screen web apps capability in the EU as part of our efforts to comply with the DMA. The need to remove the capability was informed by the complex security and priva
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by urschrei 3y ago
These are the Mesa drivers linked from the blog post: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/asahi/mesa , so not Rust AFAICS
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by urschrei 3y ago
The one on Ireland’s Eye also has a rope btw
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by urschrei 3y ago
Being annoyed at articles that will have little or no impact on Rust's adoption in Linux are an unusual choice to spend your hard-earned credibility on. Why not simply let people enjoy things (speed, memory-safety, ergonomics)?
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by urschrei 3y ago
A statistically significant result without something like a Hedges G (or Cohens D if comparing means) measure would be called out by even a moderately attentive reviewer as a matter of course (especially if small sample sizes are involved),
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by urschrei 3y ago
(Fly customer for the past 12 months: small web app (three machines across two regions plus replicated Postgres across two regions, on a paid plan)). Fly has been extremely stable for us, with the sole exception of deploys: once a month or
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by urschrei 3y ago
crossbeam was created by Aaron Turon (who has – inevitably – also left the Rust project): https://aturon.github.io/blog/2015/08/27/epoch/
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by urschrei 3y ago
No, it isn’t risky in the least. The analysis makes no use of proprietary data and illustrates potential problems which arise from choices made in the algorithm’s design in an abstract way, using a different word list from the claimed propr
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by urschrei 3y ago
The problem is probably not cibuildwheel. That having been said, the maintainers are knowledgeable and responsive, so I would try to open an issue first. Speaking from personal experience, they were able to help me to solve my problem in a
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by urschrei 3y ago
GEOS will be available in WASM sooner or later (if it isn’t already, and if the licence works for you), rust-geo (under active development, I’m one of a few core contributors who work on it) is available compiled to WASM today (you can see
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by urschrei 3y ago
The best thing to read is Eden Medina’s “Cybernetic Revolutionaries” ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262525961/cybernetic-revolution... ). There’s also a good Tech Won’t Save Us episode featuring the author: https:/
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by urschrei 3y ago
The classic post about this phenomenon is James Hague's "The Silent Majority of Experts" from 2012: https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by urschrei 4y ago
QGIS isn’t bloated, it’s a big tool for a big problem space. You can’t use “simplified command line things” for a vast majority of GIS tasks, if only because they require visual interactivity. That having been said, why on earth would you w
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by urschrei 4y ago
cibuildwheel (which is an official, supported tool) has made this enormously easier. I test and generate wheels with a compiled (Rust! Because of course) extension using a Cython bridge for all supported Python versions for 32-bit and 64-bi
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by urschrei 4y ago
> an experienced dev honestly take to learn a mid-level amount about e.g. Kubernetes or Go or Rust? at least months and months of common usage, not something that is comparable with someone who already knows stuff and can get cracking on
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by urschrei 4y ago
In the context of Hacker News and the parent comment’s lack of interest in GUI-based tools, I’m pretty confident in my definition.
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by urschrei 4y ago
R and Python both have state of the art mapping tools and libraries that you can either script or use interactively in a notebook to accomplish literally any conceivable task using vector or raster data, from a simple choropleth map to geog

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