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Re:Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA on Sunday May 31, 2026 @06:28PM (#48350357)
Source? My understanding is that speeding cameras and flock cameras are different in the SF application at least.
for anyone curious about learning, i made an online port of UXN using emscripten that allows you to code and compile and emulate in a browser:

https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-uxn/

for anyone curious about learning, i made a tutorial and playground for orca:

https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-orca/

Re:Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore? on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:27AM (#33345186)
Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:11AM (#31282232)
Gilbert Strang is fantastic, both his videos and written material
Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021? on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:51PM (#29666316)
i've been using this for a few months now. super easy to get set up and run yourself!
I made an online environment for UXN programming, assembling, and emulating the CLI environment using emscripten

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-uxn/

check it out if you're learning uxn or just want to try loading a rom and seeing the source or modifying it to learn

glad others enjoy it! checkout https://orca.wtf as well, a similar, fun project that includes MULTIPLAYER
I made a livecoding site for playing around with Orca, alongside a tutorial of sorts. It's already patched to a synthesizer so it's ready to go, and has examples/tutorials you can load.

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-orca/

Re:Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:04AM (#28508279)
two resources i enjoyed:

"nim in action" by dom96 https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action

nim days by xmonader https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/

Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:12AM (#28434458)
matrix bridge and e2ee are listed in their roadmap, but there aren't a lot of details
Re:Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:17AM (#27540514)
nim-lang.org might interest you!
Re:Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:05PM (#26049931)
Feedly!
Re:C/C++ vs. Rust Performance on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:09PM (#24962084)
It's optional (so you can turn it off if you'd like) https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
Re:How to become a Bayesian (2016) on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:42AM (#23767796)
scihub!
Re:Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:06AM (#23388443)
I got interested in building one about 6 months ago after finding Devine Lu Linvega's memex: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html
Re:Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:15PM (#23120153)
I've been playing around with orca for a few months: its really exciting and fun to use.

Here are some videos of patches I think are cool:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH5GaVU0ed8&t=72s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ig84_4RF5E&t=50s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUQlmQvtjI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_flqHdfFitw

Re:Applying BERT models to Search on Friday October 25, 2019 @07:40PM (#21360311)
I appreciated this blog post: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/
Re:Sunsetting Python 2 on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:58AM (#20918197)
Granted I don't work at Splunk anymore, but did recently. They were definitely working hard on migrating everything to python3, and if I remember, they had a planned roll out where python2/python3 would co-exist.

However, if you've been using the python SDK for Splunk - its been supporting python3 for a few years already (https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/commit/4503db961...)

See this blog post: https://www.splunk.com/blog/2019/07/01/admins-and-developers...

And this helpful doc: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Python3Mi...

Re:Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:15PM (#20408568)
Have you considered putting art on your machine?
Re:Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:16PM (#18615361)
We recently switched to using poetry over pip and virtual envs. All the additional tooling poetry provides is amazing - actual dependency resolution, script entry point, building, version bumping, publishing. The author is awesome too. Also making python3 tooling possible on python 2/3 packages. I'd highly recommend trying it out.

Pipenv on the other hand was not only slower, but _failed_ to actually resolve our dependencies correctly. Additionally, it was slower. And looking up the issues, I can echo that the development team seems a bit defensive and dismissive.

Re:Valve discontinues the Steam Link on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:45AM (#18492396)
Eh, I bought one of these on sale during the last big sale and was sorely disappointed. It was barely usable despite my network streaming video fine. Your mileage may vary of course, but this review is a little, ahem, exaggerated.
I installed it a year or so ago on an old 2014 MBP. It's battery was bulging and bending the casing so I knew it was on its way out... I used elementary os for a few months, mostly just using it for spotify, occasional programing, surfing the web.

Worked fine, and in this case, added some life to some older hardware.

Re:Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:46AM (#18193931)
What does pseudo-immutable mean?
Looking through the TOC - It seems like most of this was in just as a "fairly robust steady state" as it was three years ago? Was there some part of this that struck you as having solidified in the last few years?
Re:Regex 101 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:14PM (#12962794)
I often teach people how to use regex w/in the context of my job and find this tool invaluable because it allows for PCRE in addition to the more common JS regex flavour.