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vegabook
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I ran two gens of Jetson board and I have zero confidence in this. NVDA is printing in the data centre and everything else has no staying power.
vegabook
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
>> years ago I launched "The Brutalist Report"

proceeds to brutalise the reader with an 88-point headline font.
vegabook
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
more flawed[1] don't-have-kids "science" but then they complain about demographics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986349
vegabook
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
How does typescript perform on arrays compared with BQN for example whose reference CBQN implementation extensively uses AVX / Neon?
vegabook
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
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vegabook
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
“seems” doesn’t need a source
vegabook
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Increasingly flake.nix is present in good repos. Zillions of packages are available. But yes, you will need to learn and sometimes File System Hierarchy assumptions need to be worked around. The rewards however, dominate the (few) inconveniences once you know your way around.
vegabook
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Nix and never looked back.
vegabook
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
“Yeah okay forget sense, show me how good you are at budget protecting overdesign”
vegabook
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There’s now a gaping 500 dollar hole in the lineup between this and the macbook air.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
yeah but effective GPU RAM has ramped thanks to unified mem on apple. The 5y thing doesn't hold anymore.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
totally. In fact the current monopoly-coddling dispensation is antithetical to market economics, which clearly espouses real competition. It's kinda been coopted and hijacked.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
agentic crap from green usernames is getting tiresome.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
more market economics framing of life, as if numerous very smart people haven't already tried to make this paradigm work for society, and failed.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
With a new agentic-lashup tearing across the internet every week, pointing the way to "gradient descent" software development, any purchasing manager worth their salt is going to ask some serious questions about their enormous SaaS bill before committing to another expensive long term contract. It follows that valuations must decline. Even if only because risks to moats have increased, but also because it makes sense to negotiate hard on pricing when there's fear in your counterparty.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
you have map_elements in polars which does exactly this.

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/dev/reference/expressions/ap...

You can also iter_rows into a lambda if you really want to.

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/a...

Personally I find it extremely rare that I need to do this given Polars expressions are so comprehensive, including when.then.otherwise when all else fails.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
because method chaining in Polars is much more composable and ergonomic than SQL once the pipeline gets complex which makes it superior in an exploratory "data wrangling" environment.
vegabook
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
"revolutionary"? It just copied and pasted the decades-old R (previous "S") dataframe into Python, including all the paradigms (with worse ergonomics since it's not baked into the language).
vegabook
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
cool, but doesn't sound that great when you close your eyes and just listen. Other synths beat this hands down especially at > $1000, and can easily bring in the physical world already, including live workflows. The issue is when we get into the physical analogue world, craftsmanship, materials, shape, often age, and of course the varied kinetic interactions with the sound solicitor, bring depth and richness which no little electrically-excited xylophone will ever get anywhere close to.