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Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:15PM (#47853962)
What would it take you to ship to Norway?
Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:28AM (#46432200)
Do you think a non-python user would piece it together if the shebang line reveals what tool to use?
Re:Running Systemd-Nspawn Containers on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:04AM (#43125862)
Does breaking out of the container give you root?
Re:Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:32AM (#42500756)
TUI's have one thing going for them: Copy paste anything! IntelliJ doesn't let me copy any text it shows me.

Also, TUI's have their place. I haven't looked much at GUI alternatives, but k9s is really great.

Would also assume that interactive apps are simpler to implement if it's a TUI.

Love how well you articulate these notions. They are truly valid for most of us. It also means you're doing it right. The point then is to stay with the practice until you can stop fighting the notion of boredom and instead be "friends" with it. Just be fine with the boredom. Learn to relax in it. Hope you'll try it again.
Re:Self hosting in 2023 and why you should do that on Monday February 20, 2023 @04:20AM (#34866486)
While I like Proxmox and have used it in a startup, I wouldn't recommend it for enterprise simply due to how flaky the Terraform integration was the last time I checked. Probably a year or two ago. Regardless, the Terraform integration was done in the typical open source fashion of a single developer, where I'd question the amount of resources put into getting the software past 80% completion. The company behind Proxmox does not seem to prioritize the enterprise market segment.

We ended up using the REST API for automated provision management and there are certainly warts. It's a far cry from being a turn-key solution, which I'd argue is preferred by a large enterprise.

It's great for click-ops if that's your use case, but that also wouldn't qualify as an enterprise use case.

Re:Running systemd without systemd-journald on Sunday June 19, 2022 @06:40PM (#31804222)
It's quite annoying to not be able to use common tools for DNS queries like `dig`, when using `systemd-resolved` for DNS. I think you might have to sometimes flush the caching feature of `systemd-resolved` as well.

It's fine, I guess. But it did take a while to learn the new ways.

I think this is the main complaint from users with decades of experience. Their scripts and old knowledge stops working.

Re:Making pip installs a little less slow on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:38AM (#31548306)
This! Especially with pandas.

I did have a look at numpy and on my machine the tests did not bloat it as much as you made me believe. The `core/tests/` modules are 3MB and the `__pycache__` doubled it to 6MB. What do you refer to as "test case artifacts"? The modules, pycache, or both?

Also, wrt you statement on pandas; is it the debug symbols that account for the bloat, or the libs themselves?

Re:This site is now a “shinobi website” on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:39AM (#31386191)
You're consuming the content in a browser, when it's supposed to be consumed by an RSS reader.
Re:This site is now a “shinobi website” on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:38AM (#31386184)
You're consuming the content in a browser, when it's supposed to be consumed by an RSS reader.
Re:How to Learn Nix on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:24AM (#30682868)
Wrt to 1), how often do you reckon a beginner is faced with:

> By default, `args` is a set of derivation names denoting derivations in the active Nix expression. These are realised, and the resulting output paths are installed.

?? - I think the author really hits the nail on the head with this point.

Re:Testing the strength of different wood species on Sunday December 19, 2021 @04:20AM (#29612536)
From what I've heard from experienced carpenters and wood millers, growing conditions are a huge factor, as you want slow growing trees that have compact tree-rings. Also if you can get a wood piece with the core wood running through the entire length, you'll have a stronger work piece.
Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:20AM (#27958504)
Yes. I'm having a hard time finding a good selling point for rasterio.

> I think for the ease of installation alone rasterio is a blessing.

How does rasterio simplify installation, when you still have to deal with gdal's C extension dependencies?

Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:17AM (#27958485)
Yes. Sorry for the ambiguous comment.

Whenever I see a GIS application, I'm always curious to see how they solve the gdal problem.

The best is always no GDAL, but that gets pretty hard to do quite quickly as GDAL contains some really great algorithms for dealing with non-trivial raster processing.

Re:Terracotta: Serverless GeoTiff Tile Server on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:54AM (#27957543)
This is sorely missed in the GIS world: A well written and simple tool that isn't over engineered trying to cover all sorts of fringe use cases. Very clean code and good design at first glance.

I get why rasterio is preferred, its API is less annoying, but I'm not sure putting a leaking abstraction over gdal helps much. It just creates an aluring veneer over gdal, without really solving the main problems of gdal, being its monolithic monstrosity of hardly portable yet highly necessary GIS tool functionality.

Doesn't matter too much with gdal's warts, as this server should be deployed with ansible or in a container anyways, so portability is handled in a somewhat sane manner.

Thanks for open sourcing this!

Re:Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager on Saturday April 03, 2021 @05:24AM (#26679507)
With weights, you can have the user enter individual weight edges between root and task node, which would simplify the design, no?
Re:Show HN: Grit – a multitree-based personal task manager on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:39AM (#26679044)
Agree with your point on muscle memory, although I find a shell alias to be a sustainable workaround.
The thing that stopped me was synchronization, as you needed to run dedicated software for that. Has that changed?
I really like dgraph. Even amidst some rapid development for graphql integration, dev team has been quick to respond to issues. Was happy to see the continued Jepsen testing.

Now that the frontend devs have gotten their attention, I hope dgraph plans to give the python community some love as well by improving the client API and asyncio support and even full integration with networkx.

Hackers in standard CSGO games are rampant from what I understand.

Serious players pay extra to queue up in a dedicated service for high tickrate servers and anti-cheats which I believe are rootkits as well.. not sure about any of this though.

Re:Superfast Nike shoes are creating a problem on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:44AM (#21303157)
Today's MVP award goes to you! Thank you!
Most programming languages suffers from lack of enforcing idiomatic coding style, don't you think? Perhaps python more than others? Scientists having learned that OOP is the one true methodology make horrendous code if a language has classes. I've also seen FP coders being a bit too extreme in Python, inlining everything and not using comprehensions.
I wasn't impressed. Couldn't figure out how to do complex validation of a JSON object, based on the input of another JSON object.
Re:Hack – A typeface designed for source code on Friday September 15, 2017 @06:03AM (#15255887)
Pleasing to the eye, but too wide for my taste. I like to have divide a 1080p screen into three columns of 80 chars width, and most fonts are too wide for this.
I am surprised that your highres screen doesn't handle three buffers side by side. My 13" 720p laptop also has trouble with three buffers, but I was hoping that would be mitigated the day I got a highres 13" laptop.

Anyways, you can try a narrow width font: I love M+ 1mn, though the narrow width causes problems when it doesn't have a certain unicode point defined and falls back to a full width font..

Re:Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @02:10AM (#11071198)
This is not the case if you're using Postgres, which will signal/notify listening clients, instead of having the clients poll for changes.
Re:BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:00AM (#10777765)
Is it a data mining site? I'm just entering captcha's for days..
Re:Master Password on Saturday June 27, 2015 @07:21AM (#9789820)
Does EFF or other non-profit organizations act as security nets for open source products and ensure that the software they endorse remains available to everybody?

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