vegabook

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by vegabook 7d ago
Infinite Loop seems to have missed somehow. The old Apple with multiple dodgy buildings all over the show was perhaps a bit more chaotically creative. Now it all seems very rehearsed, architected. Too perfect, just like the campus.
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by vegabook 2mo ago
Somewhat surprised that pcmag.com has not published an obituary. He was one of the load-bearing walls of the brand for what must’ve been two decades and certainly throughout the growth years.
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by vegabook 3mo ago
I ran two gens of Jetson board and I have zero confidence in this. NVDA is printing in the data centre and everything else has no staying power.
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by vegabook 4mo ago
>> years ago I launched "The Brutalist Report" proceeds to brutalise the reader with an 88-point headline font.
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by vegabook 5mo ago
more flawed[1] don't-have-kids "science" but then they complain about demographics. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986349
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by vegabook 5mo ago
How does typescript perform on arrays compared with BQN for example whose reference CBQN implementation extensively uses AVX / Neon?
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by vegabook 6mo ago
“seems” doesn’t need a source
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by vegabook 6mo ago
Increasingly flake.nix is present in good repos. Zillions of packages are available. But yes, you will need to learn and sometimes File System Hierarchy assumptions need to be worked around. The rewards however, dominate the (few) inconveni
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by vegabook 6mo ago
Nix and never looked back.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
“Yeah okay forget sense, show me how good you are at budget protecting overdesign”
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by vegabook 7mo ago
There’s now a gaping 500 dollar hole in the lineup between this and the macbook air.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
yeah but effective GPU RAM has ramped thanks to unified mem on apple. The 5y thing doesn't hold anymore.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
totally. In fact the current monopoly-coddling dispensation is antithetical to market economics, which clearly espouses real competition. It's kinda been coopted and hijacked.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
agentic crap from green usernames is getting tiresome.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
more market economics framing of life, as if numerous very smart people haven't already tried to make this paradigm work for society, and failed.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.
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by vegabook 7mo ago
With a new agentic-lashup tearing across the internet every week, pointing the way to "gradient descent" software development, any purchasing manager worth their salt is going to ask some serious questions about their enormous Saa
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by vegabook 8mo ago
you have map_elements in polars which does exactly this. https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/dev/reference/expressions/ap... You can also iter_rows into a lambda if you really want to. https:/&#x2
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by vegabook 8mo ago
because method chaining in Polars is much more composable and ergonomic than SQL once the pipeline gets complex which makes it superior in an exploratory "data wrangling" environment.
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by vegabook 8mo ago
"revolutionary"? It just copied and pasted the decades-old R (previous "S") dataframe into Python, including all the paradigms (with worse ergonomics since it's not baked into the language).
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by vegabook 8mo ago
cool, but doesn't sound that great when you close your eyes and just listen. Other synths beat this hands down especially at > $1000, and can easily bring in the physical world already, including live workflows. The issue is when we
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by vegabook 8mo ago
It's become what happens when others learn your simple card trick.
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by vegabook 8mo ago
basically it's a cliché
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by vegabook 8mo ago
Ultimately what's happening here is AI is undermining trust in remote contributions, and in new code. If you don't know somebody personally, and know how they work, the trust barrier is getting higher. I personally am already ultr
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by vegabook 8mo ago
there's also a Forth-meets-APL project called uiua [ https://www.uiua.org/ ]
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by vegabook 8mo ago
I don't understand why Apple doesn't offer a headless MacOS or at least a path to a minimal install. Those mac minis make a great little server box but losing 8GB to hundreds of processes, before you've done anything, just fe
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by vegabook 8mo ago
Willing to bet most columnar stores are used for time series.
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by vegabook 8mo ago
>> "The adversary has a limited ability to persuade users to trust the adversary’s agents - thus the number of social connections between the adversary’s agents and the rest of the network is limited." [1] This assumption se
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by vegabook 8mo ago
C++ features for complexity management are not ergonomic though, with multiple conflicting ideas from different eras competing with each other. Sometimes demolition and rebuild from foundations is paradoxically simpler.
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by vegabook 8mo ago
I moved from Windows about 10 years ago and it took 6 months to click. It was an enlightening experience, like the curtains had been drawn back. The only comparable experience was finally clicking with NixOS, about 18 months ago. Will never

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