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Re:Go 1.21 Released on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:05PM (#37054760)
Seems to be the smallest Go release yet (at least since 1.4). I wonder how the binary size was reduced in the recent two versions?

   1.21    63MB
   1.20    95MB
   1.19   142MB
   1.18   135MB
   1.17   129MB
   1.16   123MB
   1.15   116MB
   1.14   118MB
   1.13   114MB
   1.12   121MB
   1.11   121MB
   1.10   114MB
   1.9     98MB
   1.8     86MB
   1.7     78MB
   1.6     81MB
   1.5     74MB
(linux-amd64 archives from https://go.dev/dl/)
Re:Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:47AM (#34980166)
None of these improvements seem Mac-specific. Does Chrome on other OSs have these?
Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:01AM (#34817628)
> no longer need to perform the slow git fetch

Nice. Rust Cargo is also trialling out something similar.

Re:Efficient and Compact Spreadsheet Formula Graphs on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:39PM (#34815096)
> where every column just has a single formula

Sounds like tables in Excel?

Re:Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:16PM (#32915709)
Highlights for me:

  - tabs in File Explorer
  - faster and more accurate search
Still not sure why tabs in File Explorer took so long... but happy that its finally here.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2022) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @03:41PM (#31586942)

  Location: South Africa
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), some JS, Go
  Skills: finance, statistics, applied maths
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: [email protected]
I have more than four years of development experience in the quant-finance and insurance space. Have developed valuation and risk models, tools to speed up and automate analysis and reporting etc. Interested in opportunities inside and outside of finance. Current hobby project: a small 2D game using C++ (SFML).
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @04:29PM (#31240490)

  Location: South Africa
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: C#, Python (NumPy and friends), JS
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X-LFxgiO4Q62bsp0VDf0fHuD5tsW1N3x
  Email: [email protected]
I have four years of development experience in the quant-finance and insurance space. Interested in opportunities inside and outside of finance.
Re:Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:12PM (#30460351)
Most likely referring to "Reflections on Trusting Trust" [0]; i.e. when the compiler is itself the attack vector.

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

Zed seems to be the successor of Github/Atom's abandoned Xray project [0]. "Responsive", Rust, CRDTs.

[0] https://github.com/atom-archive/xray

Re:Why are German numbers backwards? on Sunday November 28, 2021 @01:03PM (#29371163)
Most likely because Arabs did not invent the numbering system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370553
Re:Judging Janet on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:37AM (#28997460)
> "self-modifying test"

I've also heard them referred to as "approval tests". https://approvaltests.com/

Re:NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @07:45AM (#25569211)
Is the random matrix generation section in here up to date? The official numpy docs [0] seem to indicate that `randn` is legacy, and that `randint` is deprecated.

[0] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html

Re:A Family of Better Random Number Generators on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:39AM (#24785545)
I believe numpy.random uses PCG by default. https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html
Re:Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:03AM (#23255605)
Download size and speed matters. Disk space matters especially if you're working with relatively expensive SSDs. Of course, how much of a problem this is depends on which country you're working in, company's laptop policy etc
Re:Windows Package Manager Preview on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:33PM (#23236855)
Azure (DevOps) Pipelines use YAML. Not sure if that counts?