vonseel

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by vonseel 3y ago
I bought my iPad 5th gen years ago pretty much for reading PDFs. Sadly, it's barely even usable for that, even after a fresh device reset it's laggy and so slow. I'm not sure if it was always that way; I don't think so.
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by vonseel 3y ago
I’ve been viewing the cached result constantly
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by vonseel 3y ago
I am no where near an expert on this subject, and this information is from a few months ago so maybe it's outdated, but people on Reddit[1] are claiming running the llama with 65B parameters would need like 20K+ of GPUs. A 40GB A100 lo
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by vonseel 3y ago
Doesn't everyone? I can't stand not using monospaced fonts when coding
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by vonseel 3y ago
I've seen it said that newsfeeds/ads/etc. feed you what they think you will engage with, so you may want to wonder why you're seeing that type of content. I've never seen anything of the sort on any large tech platf
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by vonseel 3y ago
For "Advanced" Web Programming, I don't really feel like you're hitting the mark by sticking with PHP. Sure, it works, and will probably get the job done for most web projects any of your students will ever work on, but
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by vonseel 3y ago
Exactly how I feel reading this thread, I had no idea PHP has changed so much.
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by vonseel 3y ago
I was curious what kind of range that might have, so I put what you said into chatgpt and asked what the range of a typical car or home stereo would be, and it gave me this (not sure if it's correct). FWIW, much less than 20 miles, hah
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by vonseel 3y ago
Epic/Cerner/SAP may be CRUD apps with clunky and outdated interfaces, but I wouldn't classify them as basic. Those applications are massive and have a ton of legacy code to connect different things. I'd suspect much of t
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by vonseel 3y ago
> ow my feed is like 10 percent science, 10 mildly racist / inflammatory content, 10 percent miscellaneous, So basically it's the new Facebook
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by vonseel 3y ago
As if CS is the only major in jeopardy of this? I predict the accountants and admin staff etc. will be replaced long before the people who build the systems that replace them.
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by vonseel 3y ago
I loveeee fd! About the only time I reach for find is if I need to do something with printf. I’ve noticed a bunch of CLI tools recently released written in rust that are along this same line of being snappy and well-written. Fclones, ripgre
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by vonseel 4y ago
Europe energy prices :/ Here in Texas it cost maybe $5/month to run a 45 watt little server (pc)…
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by vonseel 4y ago
On 1 - I've worked at startups using Django ORM and banking companies using MSSQL stored procs. I don't understand why anyone would ever go the stored proc/raw SQL way unless they absolutely needed the performance. And if you
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by vonseel 4y ago
Correct. And most people back then were just using `pip install -r requirements.txt`, including different files for dev/test/prod as needed. I worked at one company that used buildout back then, which seemed relatively rare, but b
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by vonseel 4y ago
So, the project you linked has a pyproject.toml file uses flit: requires = ["flit_core >=3.2,<4"] build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi" Python.org defaults to using hatchling in the docs[1]. PyPA has a
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by vonseel 4y ago
> Why can’t Python pick one tool? Sometimes I wonder if developers are just making new tools out of self-interest and they want their name on some well-known project, and that's why they don't just work with one of the existing
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by vonseel 4y ago
Today I was preparing a minimal project for something I needed to share with someone else. I wasn’t sure what tools they would already have installed, so I checked out Python’s official packaging docs and browsed around. One page defaulted
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by vonseel 4y ago
Can they prescribe non-stimulant ADHD medications? I imagine those are less-strictly regulated. My previous psychiatrist said he's had some luck with patients on stimulants lowering their stimulant doses and adding a non-stimulant trea
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by vonseel 4y ago
I don't know if I would call it an addiction, but I feel very similar in the sense that I spend a ton of hours on the internet and tinkering with technology. I did take a break. A long break. I joined the Army in 2021, after being la
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by vonseel 4y ago
What planet have you been living on? Bittorrent is widely used to distribute copyrighted material - movies, TV shows, games, programs, porn... I'd imagine a large majority of bittorrent traffic worldwide is pirated material, with a sma
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by vonseel 4y ago
That's cool, but if the 100 year old saw had been used regularly it would have required maintenance and sharpening to continue working well. Software also requires maintenance. I can't think of any 100-year old software that is be
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by vonseel 4y ago
It's rare, but I've run into packages that don't install easily with pip, due to not having binaries for a specific Python version + platform (something like this one where the combinations of Python+platform+MacOS version ar
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by vonseel 4y ago
I’ve almost finished reading through your entire original thread from a month ago, because I’m kind of in the same boat as you. Why do you decline nearly every piece of advice the community here offers? It seems like each time someone makes
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by vonseel 4y ago
This question reminds me of something I read in the below article. In short, overcoming fear of death is thought to be one of the steps taken on the mental journey towards suicide. Fearing death keeps us alive. https://blogs.scie
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by vonseel 4y ago
> For that sales report, that runs once a month, and takes 10 minutes, but could likely easily be optimised to run in 2 minutes, the trade off is less obvious. Keeping the report easy-to-maintain is a valuable long-term benefit. I did th
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by vonseel 4y ago
Man, a lot more goes into syncing the subtitles than I thought. I recently tried using bazarr to auto-sync subtitles, thinking that for some reason the autosync would improve things, even though I usually didn't have any problems. Well
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by vonseel 4y ago
Yea I don't understand all the recent hate over their new version. I installed the new version on my devices, and while the keyboard shortcuts seemed to change, once I looked them up it worked better than before. I just use the cmd+ sh
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by vonseel 4y ago
So, I just did this recently. This is an ok article for beginners. I’d hesitate to even mention l2arc or slog devices to someone that isn’t an experienced technical user, though, as they will probably go buy the wrong drives and may not eve
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by vonseel 4y ago
Idk. I’ve worked with tools like he mentioned. Recently I set up a media server and didn’t want to mess with Ansible to provision the VMs and containers or Kubernetes to manage the configs. I figured I’d be wasting time getting stuck on lit

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