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On prem beats the heck out of github post Microsoft though... At least you know how to get it working again when someone breaks it. These days with github you expect a weekly 500, …

"Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn't work becau…

As nice as it looks, I have a lot of trouble believing the "we have magic money, it's free because that's good for business" logic. PDFgear is free of charge, and we don’t generate…

Plans for language bindings? Should be trivial to whip up simpler ones like python or dotnet but I didn't see any official bindings yet.

> even a 1 minute compile time is dwarfed by the time it takes to write and reason about code, run tests, work with version control, etc. You are far from the embedded world if you…

I've used them as a quick way to get rootless configured base images. Not sure if official repos provide those now, but it used to be a big hassle to get things like postgres image…

If you really want the 80 col experience, I think that was the fortran 77 default. You'd even get compiler errors if you try to exceed it. Of course there were flags to increase th…

F# has been a third class citizen for a long time... Last I heard the entire f# team was ~10 people. Pretty sure "find references" still doesn't work across c# and f# (if you call …

Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use. https://github…

I wish setup.py was actually on the way out, but sadly, it's the only straightforward way to handle packages that use cython or interop. In these cases, libraries use setup.py to c…

I guess they abandoned the python superset idea? I followed them for a bit when they first publicly launched and they said "don't worry, we'll be a real python superset soon" and t…

Is this advice insane or am I missing something > to fix your busted drive, just nuke the boot sector and send it > bash > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc

That costs money to maintain, even if it's just a few bucks a month. I've seen plenty of Chinese companies using mega/gdrive/etc just because it's free. I used to think it was just…

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/khroma/vignettes/tol... The tol palettes are the best looking colorblind friendly palettes to me. Most of the others get complaints from non…

It sounds like you're trying to use these llms as oracles, which is going to cause you a lot of frustration. I've found almost all of them now excel at imitating a junior dev or a …

I'll just pitch in as someone who's worked with several 40+ year old codebases and 3+ year old perl, the perl code is significantly harder to maintain. The language lends itself to…

In the real world, for web things, people use django or fastapi. I'd suggest picking a project with lots of stackoverflow questions and poking around their docs to see which makes …

For papers sometimes you need to hit a page count to make your sponsor/advisor/conference happy. I've been told "this is a great paper but can you pad it out to 12pgs?", maybe that…

Nodejs/js runtimes in general get a lot of development effort to make the runtimes fast from Google et al. It's the default web language so there's a ton of effort put into optimiz…

I don't honestly think anyone can remember bash array syntax if they take a 2 week break. It's the kind of arcane nonsense that LLMs are perfect for. The only downside is if the fa…

Is there a difference between global setattr(object, v) and object.__setattr__(v)? I've seen setattr() in the wild all over but I've never encountered the dunder one.

Have you tried using chatgpt/etc as a starting point when you're unfamiliar with something? That's where it really excels for me, I can go crazy fast from 0 to ~30 (if we call 60 m…

Coil whine (or capacitor whine) from the gpu running at too high a refresh rate. Easiest thing would be to use nvidia control panel to add an fps cap to something like 2x your moni…

I think it just predicts 2 branches per cycle instead of 1. So it can evaluate the result of n+2 ahead of time instead of only n+1 (typical branch prediction). How this works witho…