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Re:ML on Apple ][+ on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:09PM (#45416890)
What is ML if not interpolation and extrapolation?
I worked at a CRM/BPO company doing something like this for customer support inquiries, everything was pretty bespoke. We did all the productivity measurement off of, IIRC, Redshift tables fed by Kafka events (probably some airflow in there to ETL) published during task assignment.
Re:Why is Gradle so bad? on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:16PM (#38551275)
Stack overflow dev survey says docker is far and away more popular, but that doesn't absolve the need to build your binaries...I'm just surprised given kotlin's usage in android.

Why is Gradle so bad?

There's plenty of posts on the problems of Gradle [1][2 etc] - it's undiscoverable, undebuggable, and the documentation tells you everything except how to actually solve your problem. Why is it still the standard JVM build tool? Kotlin is a wonderful high-level server language, I just can't get past how hard it is to set up - and no, RTFM hasn't helped me in the slightest.Trying to understand...

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