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I wrote: "we should all be buying a fully loaded Mac Studio (128GB of ram, 20 CPU cores, a lot of GPU and Neural cores.)" April, 2023 We are both late and early. https://news.ycomb…

With Apple devices you get very fast predictions once it gets going but it is inferior to nvidia precisely during prefetch (processing prompt/context) before it really gets going. …

I like Nix as well, you can use this one liner in OSX or Linux to try out arcan/durden/cat9, as it matures you can expect arcan applications to be made available the way html pages…

To add to lproven's point. An article called "A Spreadsheet and a Debugger walk into a Shell" [0] by Bjorn (letoram) is a good showcase of an alternative to cells in a Jupyter note…

The scipy/numpy to matlab is a good example. In my opinion it is on its way but in many places the timing is more like 2010-2013 where a lot of people knew python was the future bu…

I think the answer depends on the country: In places where the government uses QGIS it is like Blender. In places where ESRI has a stronghold it is like LibreOffice.

Mark Knol is a great generative coding artist: https://github.com/markknol/ Chris Randall is pretty awesome too: https://www.instagram.com/chris.randall.art/

Hey AJ, this is almost on topic, do you know of a more up to date version of the dataset you used on the blog post release for H3 v4.0.0 [1]? They stopped updating in Oct 2023. Tha…

It is a gui framework that allows you create terminals where you can detach any running process into another terminal. Since it is a complete toolkit, you can have detachable appli…

I did not believe you and just typed it on OSX, half a minute later the app was ready for me to use. nix run nixpkgs#pyspread [0/1 built, 3/113/132 copied (1311.8/1721.6 MiB), 280.…

I'll let Kyle chime in but I tested it a few months ago with millions of polygons on an M2 16GB of RAM laptop and it worked very well. There is a library by the same author called …

When you queried their 'Open Data' datasets and linked with your own it was absurdly cheap for some time. Granted we used our hacking skills to make sure the really big queries ran…

One way to wrap your head around it is apt/systemd in a pip-like config file.

Check out devenv.sh from the Cachix people, it allows you to list stuff like pip for any language, including services / postgresql extensions: { pkgs, ... }: { services.postgres = …

Imagine if we had said the same about Nginx. Let's evaluate things on technical merits, specially if they are using open source licenses we understand. In this case GPL v3.

I recently learnt about this: https://nlnet.nl/project/libnix/ A project funded by the EU to bring Nix to Windows. (edit: typo and clarity)

I went through a similar phase with a process that started with global OSM and Whosonfirst to process a pipeline. Google costs kept going up (7k a month with airflow + bigquery) an…

The use case was a client creating electrification plans based on structures from satellite data. We were able to get rid of gdal/pandas/networkx and several other dependencies and…

Thanks for updating the blog post too with the datasette screen recording, the speed difference is quite noticeable. Adding it here since a few people were wondering about it in th…

There are separate static builds for aarch64 and x86_64, those are put into a "fat binary" that runs on current generation hardware/software combos (osx with aarch64, win with x86_…

The reality is a bit different, the work on Python 3.6 was checked into the Cosmopolitan repo and I have been able to use it for production workloads that are in pure python. [0] A…

My interpretation: - Worst case: as good as 3.5 - Common case: way better than 3.5 - Best case: as good as 4.0