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Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:37AM (#49373800)
Some examples are easier than others, like the mentioned 12/25. 12/12 is Saturday -> 25-12 is 13 more days -> same day as 1 before 12/12 -> Friday.
Re:Running local models is good now on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:26PM (#48557777)
If you wanted to do some research or learn about post training and agent harnesses, is that a good option with these local models? What hardware is recommended, or easiest to go with a Mac Studio with 64GB+ RAM?
That was interesting. I was hoping for him to dive deeper into specific cases but I suppose the essay was long enough. Any other recommendations (potentially from https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#Laws)?
just to be clear its a small piece like this https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Adaptor-Charger-Extender-Sams... which I feel like is much easier to bring around than another cable, but I can see how it's annoying to have another dongle
A friend showed me usb adapters from usb-c to lightning and I found that very helpful for usb-c -> micro as well to charge the kindle.
Re:Racket Language on Sunday April 21, 2024 @02:43AM (#40103649)
Any specific highlight from Bogdan? Nothing jumped out from a quick skim.
Re:Amazon Chronos: Learning the Language of Time Series on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:26AM (#39791064)
> Text is actually numbers

Text can be represented by numbers but they aren't the same datatype. They don't support the same operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc).

There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.
Re:Studying the effects of interruption on motivation on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:34PM (#21738113)
I was just reading about programmer's block / writer's block. This Quora answer https://www.quora.com/Do-programmers-suffer-from-Writers-Blo... gives a few helpful tips such as just write some functions to get you going and get the program to show output as quickly as possible (hello world, failing unit tests, whatever). Stopping when you've done the hard work of figuring out what to do next seems like a good technique as well. I don't think you should interrupt yourself mid-task though vs. pausing when you're ready for the next logical piece.
Re:The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:59AM (#21619051)
Wow that was a very interesting analogy and theory. Thanks for sharing! I've also never heard of SSC before. I saw the top 10 posts SSC lists in the about page, but do you have any other recommendations for articles relevant to the HN crowd?
Re:PatternFly – a web UI framework by RedHat on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:12PM (#17162784)
What’s wrong with Redhat Linux?
Re:GUI development is broken on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:38AM (#16874050)
I don't do any GUI programming but that doesn't sound like such a bad thing when the target platform (browser) is just about everywhere.
Re:GUI development is broken on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:36AM (#16874038)
What are other suggestions? (I haven't done any searching but it sounds like you had some in mind.)
Re:Python 3.7: Introducing Data Classes on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:05PM (#16869501)
After seeing the huge improvements that JavaScript has gone through over the years I'm all for language updates. Same with Java and C++ (although not as much for Java and I don't know C++ but I always hear C++11 is "new").
re: 1) any way to use a (named) pipe to replace a directory besides flattening out the dir?
For 1) how do other systems handle data being stored and passed between processes?
Re:Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way on Sunday March 27, 2016 @11:48AM (#11370343)
Except dictionary comprehensions don't leak their variables.
Re:Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @05:56PM (#8564766)
It's a library that you can integrate into your application rather than passing requests via an intermediary (so performance would improve). It's not necessarily a better solution unless you're optimizing for performance. It probably isn't if you're going for ease of development and maintainability.
Re:Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard on Saturday September 06, 2014 @05:37PM (#8279568)
Awesome, thanks for the share. How's the battery life?
Re:Useful Unix commands for exploring data on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:42PM (#8234624)
Similar ideas in Python with Generators and Co-routines:

http://www.dabeaz.com/generators-uk/

Maybe not wipe out, but potentially take your job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

Re:Reflecting back on one year of Kaggle contests on Friday August 08, 2014 @03:40AM (#8151864)
Awesome, thanks for sharing (your experiences and the book pointer). Definitely motivating to see your progression and I'll have to make some time to enter some competitions.

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