wcrossbow

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by wcrossbow 3mo ago
Sorry but no! On my corner of the world it's not allowed but more importantly it's dangerous. When riding your bike you must have all your senses fully engaged. First day I got on my new ride my dad gave me a piece of biker wisdom
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by wcrossbow 5mo ago
Im not a big fan of Windows but copy pasting a file across 3 nested RDP sessions feels magical every time
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by wcrossbow 5mo ago
I would assume it's grating for anybody to hear their mother tongue butchered. More so when both sides know they could just switch English and have an adult conversation instead of struggling to buy a loaf of broad and a bottle of wate
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by wcrossbow 6mo ago
If it’s good enough it’s good enough, but just like there are many more options than going full blown LLM or just use a regex there are more options than transpile a massive Python stack to TS or give up.
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by wcrossbow 8mo ago
Kids will randomly run into the road. They might run behind a ball or a dog so that it doesn’t end up on the other side or runned over or are simply too excited to remember your stern road safety talk. The first thing I was taught when I pi
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by wcrossbow 9mo ago
The last and most important slide is missing. "Ignore all the advise above and do the right thing Subtext: This will take multiple lifetimes to accomplish" This is particularly important considering that some of the advice is at o
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by wcrossbow 10mo ago
That’s true! Sorry for not mentioning that.
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by wcrossbow 10mo ago
This is great. If you enjoyed it you should check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IEGmD_aV3w . Next to that it’s child’s play. That’s a whole trasatlantic’s engine room from scratch.
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by wcrossbow 10mo ago
They might have been using the fast multipole expansion method
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by wcrossbow 11mo ago
I'm not a go developer and this kind of thing is far from my area of expertise. Do you mind giving some examples? As far as I can tell skimming the code, and as I said, without knowledge of Go or the domain, the "shape" of th
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by wcrossbow 1y ago
This is the stuff nightmares are made of. We already live in a you have nothing to hide society. Now imagine one where mega corps and the government have access to every thought you have. No worries, you got nothing to hide right? What woul
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by wcrossbow 1y ago
Even better is to try to fetch all the env variables and then report on all of the missing ones.
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by wcrossbow 1y ago
Another good one is pgqueuer https://github.com/janbjorge/pgqueuer
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
I read this and of course couldn't believe it. Isn't 14.7B enough to be considered extremely rich these days[1]? In the the Forbes real-time billionaires list is quite easy to find _many_ such examples. [1] https://www.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
At my current employer, Kuva Space, I'm among other things responsible for the commisioning and in orbit calibration of the payload. The Moon is a major calibration target for us, and between waxing and waining crescents I spent a lot
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
The Moon also plays currently a very special role in my life and my work days are dictated to a large extent by the current Moon phase :) It's not discussed in the article but we have detailed models (ROLO[0] and LIME[1]) for how much
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
This is not what I meant. What is being proved is: a^2-b^2 - (a+b)(a-b) = 0. If you swap a and b you end up with a sign switch on the lhs which is inconsequential.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Just rename a to b and b to a.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
That's a gross underestimation. At current world population levels that comes out to be 8000 people. The QMK github repo alone has over 18k stars and almost 40k forks. So yeah very popular!
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
> is that you can swipe left and right on the space bar to quickly and accurately scroll left and right in a text field. I find this about as fast as tapping at a position in a text field, but much more accurate I recently learned about
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
You can flash your own firmware which you can inspect. QMK and ZMK are two very popular options.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Great example of a corporate blog! My immediate reaction is I want to work in this team.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Editors can highlight SQL queries embedded as strings. Neovim can do it, and I'm pretty confident it's not going to be alone in that respect. edit: Not the editor I use but thought it might be helpful. Here is an extension, which
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Here is one piece of knowledge earned the hard way. Do not use the official python GDAL bindings (`pip install GDAL`) unless you really must. Go with rasterio and don't look back.
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Famous guitarists mostly only play specific expensive brands because they are endorsed by them. Any professional musician can make the cheapest of instruments sound really good. Maybe a note is missed here or there and the sound is not as g
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
A guardian or a gordian knot [0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
I was taken by surprise too by the false dichotomy presented: > 1. Try breaking the data into chunks, and then using multi-processing (ugly in Python) to leverage a more powerful cloud virtual machine, sticking with matplotlib > 2. Wr
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Here is a much better blog post on the topic of optimizing geometrical operations with Rust. If I remember correctly some of the commenters of the HN thread even delivered better "pure" Python versions than the optimized Rust prop
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
Today I learned something new, but I found it very ironic that after looking up a11y, the first example, discovered it meant accessibility. edit: I do realize that I might be missing the joke entirely
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by wcrossbow 2y ago
> Math makes everything easier This can't be overstated enough. Understanding the math behind what you are doing has the capacity to turn mind boggling hard problems trivial.

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