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I wouldn't even say they make it fun, they make it "rewarding" they make it feel like you did something, but I feel worse after scrolling, like some vital essence has been drained …

We started doing sourdough in lockdown for 1 reason. The shops nearby were out of yeast. kinda limits your options

I'm after undergraduate level books that have problems in them both practical and theoretical if possible. Ultimately i want to be able to send signals to components like sensors a…

Beautiful, I'm currently deep into getting our data into iceberg from firehose and I'm really curious what metadata is written, are bloomfilters being written for the columns i wan…

They also point south. If you changed which end of the needle was painted red it would be just as useful for orienting to the south as existing compasses are for facing north

My partner and i used to harvest medlars from a community garden. We made medlar jelly from them when they had bletted. It kinda tasted like tea. Must be the tannins. We ended up m…

There is a difference between dark roasts from a specialty coffee roaster and a dark roast from Starbucks. The specialty dark roast will have notes of cookies, chocolate, nuts. Lot…

Rustler catches panics before they crash the VM and raises them on the elixir side as an exception. So your process might crash but the vm wont

It's sufficiently well known that as a British 30 something I understood what was being alleged just from the headline

Very cool, this should help me to be able to separate my different testing environments. Thanks for sharing!

The boring company released a flamethrower[0] presumably to raise some capital. [0] https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower

I've been using d2 recently [0] It's similar enough to mermaid but with the CLI you can output svg and png and have some decent looking diagrams. [0] https://d2lang.com/

Yeah, this would at least cause me to email my boss and say "Can you just confirm, you want me to transfer $25 million to this account? I'll hold off until you give me confirmation…

I said python doesn't scale well and you say "it does if you use an escape hatch to a faster language" Sure. Writing C++ that utilises your resources effectively then writing bindi…

I think we need to give it time. Python had a slow and steady growth from 1991 until today and it has eaten so much of the data analysis and ML world (backed by C++, C and more rec…

You can read the transcript. It's over training syndrome, caused by too much training without enough rest. The athletes that try to push through struggle to perform as well.

P.s. to make that function an actual generator you could use yield from Instead of return

It depends what you are doing with the value. If you are going to iterate through some of the resulting thing but not all of it then the generator means you aren't throwing away a …

What other books did you read that you would recommend?

Like instead of the "free software movement" the "software freedom movement"

they like it because # title this is the paragraph is more natural to write than: ... title this is the paragraph when you're just jotting some thoughts down.

and data structures. Theres a book called Algorithms + Datastructures = programs which i've heard good things about. I've also heard good things about 7 programming languages in 7 …

unless it paints a target on your back

I had a series of interviews at a big pharma company that was like this. Multiple stages, conversations with team members,tech tests, psychology and aptitude tests. The only reason…

it depends what speed is most important to you. When i was a scientist, speed was getting the code written during my break, and if it took all afternoon to run that's fine because …