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Anyone went from software dev to GIS? How did you make the transition?
Where can I learn these techniques?
Re:Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway? on Saturday May 18, 2024 @02:59PM (#40401183)
Maybe Italy could but how many countries in the belt and road initiative can do that right now?

In fact they are not even incentivized to do so as Chinese money is providing them the chance to build up modern infrastructure.

Having the same instruction set available across mobile and desktop might present a shift back to native application.
Re:Apple introduces M4 chip on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @08:30AM (#40297278)
Are newer airs good enough for development?
The flat 2d animated diagrams?
Re:Yes, Python and Matplotlib can make pretty charts on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:39AM (#40051199)
Went down this road recently and I ended up deciding to work with holoviz instead: https://holoviz.org/

Having some level of abstraction on top of matplotlib is necessary if you don’t want to spend time tweaking every little thing.

Aren’t all of these ARM chips? Why is compatibility such a big issue?
Re:Programming Beyond Paradigms on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:13PM (#39890243)
A lisp that didn’t spam parentheses would probably be more palatable.
I will try this. I unfortunately don’t really know how to dial down since it makes me feel guilty.
What does this mean?

Ask HN: What do I do if a job is causing me to be depressed and demotivated?

It is a legacy application with lots of internal tech and proprietary software I’ve never heard of or am able to find online. The manager and team push the undesirable work onto me despite me asking to do something else. The job market is pretty awful now and I’m not sure if I could find something else if I quit. The code base is of poor quality and just opening it makes me demotivated. All of...

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Re:Go, Python, Rust, and production AI applications on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:01PM (#39681099)
Isn’t python the same? Most of the work is done by c++ or rust libs with python as glue.
Re:Go, Python, Rust, and production AI applications on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @11:00AM (#39680336)
Why not elixir then? Good c interop, functional, and good performance.